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Well, our little potato(head) is apparently at it again, essentially appearing to call all Canadians who are critical of his refugee policies racists. As polling suggests a majority disagree with his government's approach on refugees, isn't he really saying that most of us are racists? And in other news today, his government is increasing the number of foreign grandparents it will permit to immigrate to this country, who no doubt will add an additional burden to an already pathetically threadbare health care system. Is Trudeau for real here? Has he lost it and is he trying to force his party to replace him before the next election? The guy has got to be replaced. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-defends-his-reaction-to-heckler-pledges-to-call-out-hate/

And how many times has Trudeau been publicly canoodling with known terrorists and their supporters? (The guy he took to India, Joshua Boyle, Omar Khadr, the fake hijabi girl and her Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson......) He should have answered the question no matter who it came from.

"Canada is in crisis!" Justin Trudeau said today in Ottawa. "Our hospitals lack patients! Tumbleweeds roll down empty corridors! The employees in Canadian nursing homes weep from loneliness because of the lack of elderly Canadians available to fill their beds! We foresaw this problem, which is why we DOUBLED the number of seniors allowed to immigrate to Canada only two years ago! But it's not enough! We must DOUBLE it again! The more elderly citizens we have the better our economy is!" No, this has nothing to do with next year being an election year! Why would you even think that! Our immigration policies are set with Canada's needs in mind, not the venal, short term election interests of self-serving politicians eager to get immigrant votes! http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lottery-immigration-reunification-1.4791705

Exactly! Liberals are desperately trying to spin her as being part of some 'far right group', but we have no confirmation. Even if she was, all she did was ask him about his financial responsibility on this issue, but all she got for that was a dressing down about being racist. So even questioning liberal financial responsibility is now racist, Trudeau: "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian!" Quebecois woman who has lived here all her life: "I'm not happy with the $146M you've spent on the illegal migrant crisis you created" Trudeau: "YOU HAVE NO PLACE IN CANADA!" Sure, anyone disagreeing with Trudeau has no place in Canada...

Anyone who questions the wisdom of allowing in tens of thousands of third world types who have no education and job skills is clearly a racist! I'm astonished you don't understand that! Clearly you need to spend more time watching the CBC! Hopefully this is his Gordon Brown moment in Quebec. Gordon Brown was the British Labour leader who was confronted by a Labour supporter complaining about all the foreigners (mostly white) coming in and causing trouble in her neighborhood. He put her off but then the microphone heard him calling her a bigoted woman, and that infuriated all of those who were likewise concerned. It helped cause his loss in he election.

paxamericana shows his true colours. He isn’t about free trade or free anything, just about American hegemony and domination, as well as full of his own Cool Aid. All Americans my ass, blatant racism hasn’t been as alive and well in decades as it is under this president. This president and congress are making a mockery of their vaunted Constitution and its supposed checks and balances. The Scots had a term for it. Toom Tabard. If you don’t care about what others think about you, why do you hang out on their forums so you can tell them you don’t care about what they think of you?

Inflation to hit 1,000,000% in Venezuela this year. Another socialist paradise going down the toilet like they all do. And with one roll of toilet paper costing 2.4 million Bolivars that's a problem!

Lol. This coming from someone who places transparent propaganda on the board. This coming from someone who won't state openly on this board he supports political terrorism engaged in by Hamas. This coming from someone who won't acknowledge Gaza was created by Egypt not Israel and that Hamas is in an open state of war against Israel with a charter demanding all its Jews be killed, all of Jordan and the West Bank be "returned" to a Hamas Caliphate state as a first stage to a world caliphate. This coming from someone who deliberately omits any references to the terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah, Assad, Iran, on this board. This coming from someone who will not acknowledge terrorism and anti-Semitism in the Middle East. This coming from someone who won't admit his actual religious beliefs of Islam that are a version that believes violence and terror are acceptabl tools of the Jihad. Speaking about double standards, you know where to find me. Regards, Rue, friend of the Omars

My concern is your fabrication. Provide the evidence that the US gave Israel $4,000,000,000 let alone it was used to purchase bombs let alone then used to "bomb" Palestinians. Its statements like yours that simply show you have no clue what you state and make it up. How would anyone spend $4,000,000,000.00 on bombs, let alone be able to purchase them, store them, drop them, and not have wipied out "Palestinians" given that amount. Do explain. Oh hey why bother. This is a thread about Israel we can just invent rhetorical statements on this forum right? Who cares about being factual as long as it pisses on Israel for existing as a Jewish state right?

I'm going to take a guess you don't actually pay any income tax.

Trudeau and his ilk live in a closed bubble where their enthusiastic progressive beliefs gets echoed back and forth to each other. He has no idea what ordinary people think because he never hears it. He presumes that if you don't share his earnest open armed feeling towards migrants and immigrants you must be an evil person. And imagine thinking about cost! What kind of a person puts any thought into what anything costs anyway!?

Don't worry. It will only mean an extra few billion a year in health costs. Well worthwhile if it helps the Liberals get ethnic votes!

So why did he promise it? As I said - to win over NDP voters. Modest deficits with balanced budgets to woo Centrist Conservatives. Get rid of Harper's "embarrassing" emission targets to win Green voters. Promise First Nations everything to win their vote. All lies. Suckers all.

It was just a matter of time before this matter was reported outside Canada. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45250920 Asking the PM about costs related to illegal migrants is not "politics of fear and intolerance". The more I see Trudeau in action, the more I think he lives in an alternate universe.

That Kool Aid really tastes great. So far I haven't called you anything but only a clueless Kool Aid drinking isolationist would call the rest of the world a shit hole. There are quite a few other countries I would chose to live in before the US.

If you're admitting that Trudeau's comments re: Canada having no core identity etc etc went full retard then we can at least agree on one thing. Part 2 though...wow, you must be such a great person because you call other people "racist". Just kidding, that comment you made was entirely ignorant and inflammatory. FYI racism isn't even a part of the discussion, the discussion is about cultural/religious differences. I'll just assume you meant xenophobia and massacre your idiotic argument from that perspective. More info for you - "diversity" isn't strength. Unity is strength. If people come here with the intention of being "Canadians with some ethnic flavour" or whatever you want to call it that's one thing, if people want to come here to still be __________s who just happen to live in this part of the world that's going to create the kinds of problems that Bernier was talking about. Trudeau is appealing to the balkanization of our country by his choice of rhetoric. It's fair to say that.

Agreed...and this was very much debated during the first rounds of FTA/NAFTA negotiations. Several Canadian authors sounded the alarm in many books and op-ed pieces (e.g. Maude Barlow - "Too Close For Comfort") , but the countervailing (pun intended) argument was that Canada had not pursued any other trading partnerships to compete with potential American export trade and foreign direct investment. Canadian leadership was very short on better options. J. L. Granatstein's "Yankee Go Home?" describes the long history of CanAm relations, specifically with respect to trade and conflicts that pale in comparison to current headlines. I began reading these Canadian authors for a history lesson in anti-Americanism, as their well written books were readily available on the cheap at, ironically, America's Amazon.com. Trump is just the latest version of what has always been concerning trade, and once again, objective Canadians are pointing it out all over again.

A drive-by slur, I suppose?

Looks like Trudeau's Liberals are getting ready to spin up fro the next election. They've committed a couple of hundred million to making our national welfare program - otherwise known as 'seasonal employment insurance - more generous. This is being done to ensure everyone in Atlantic Canada continues to vote Liberal. Hey, why not? Work a couple of months and take the rest of the year off on us! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-announces-189-million-to-extend-employment-insurance-for/

Drivel. ISIS represent themselves as holy warriors fighting on behalf of God and Gods will. Their actions are done according to the writings of Islam, and I believe at one point a poll showed 98% of Saudis, as an example, found that what they were doing was entirely in keeping with Islam. The IRA didn't even have the approval of the Catholic church, and it's members were often excommunicated. This was a purely secular fight between Irish and English invaders and colonists, who happened to be of different religions. Yes, back in the day, centuries ago, there was a more religious element to it, but that faded away by the time the 20th century rolled around.

The problem I have with this is that your examinination of Bernier's comments require that I attach some level of seriousness to Trudeau's. In any case, it's this sort of intellectual dissection of minutia one needs to absorb to give right wing racism the respectability it desperately craves.

Palestinians are not a race any more than Israelis are. They are a self proclaimed nationality. In fact people born on the West Bank, in Gaza or around the world claiming to be "Palestinian" proclaim it as a collective national identity. The problem with leftist self appointed experts, is they wouldn't know a nationalist identity from a religious one from a gender one. Its precisely because they are racist and lump Palestinians in a face category because to them anyone with brown skin, a big nose, black hair snd speaks Arabic is a race. We are well past the point where the early 20th century definition of "race" was proven absurd by science. In fact Jews and certain Muslims not all Muslims can trace their ancestors to where Israel, Jordan and the West Bank are located today. They would be if anything Semites which is not a race but a people originally defined by their geographic proximity to the areas I stated but more importantly and originally by language group Race. Yah.

I think people are inconsistent in how they view such ideas, as evidenced by the response. They are abhorred by the idea that Muslims would do that but scant comment on Christians. The laws have declared that we have a national morality, that makes it illegal to deny people the right to associate based on different grounds. It has worked fine, and encourages fraternization so let's keep them.

Not sure why you are in denial, but in one link I provided it stated: "In the houses, kitchens were fitted with powerful fans because most of the community likes to cook aromatic food. And given that Ahmadiyya Muslims are conservative about sex roles, houses were built with two living rooms — one for men, the other for women. Most home buyers in Peace Village have come from a Toronto community of about 30,000 Ahmadiyyas." It is a village built for Muslims. The development in Montreal I provided a link for was for Muslims only including Sharia mortgages and residents must adhere to Muslim values (modest dress etc.) but was turned down because it was not inclusive.

A couple cycled the globe. "Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own … .." Suddenly, they came face to face with ISIS. They're now dead. A Dream Ended on a Mountain Road: The Cyclists and the ISIS Militants https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/world/asia/islamic-state-tajikistan-bike-attack.html If you don't think evil exists - then you're either in la-la land, or.....just plain <deleted>.

Generally, fascism can be described as 'forcible suppression of opposition'. Examining the history of the Catholic Church and the present-day Islamic empire, one finds forcible suppression of opposition. Examine the Sharia anti-blasphemy laws of Islam and motion M-103 in Canada. These are examples of silencing opposition.

Great news...buh-bye NAFTA...hello Canadian peso.

Good luck with that attitude. You just revealed the ignorance and belligerence of your approach. Pseudo groups, huh? I can't believe your vulgarity. I'll tell you that there will be no such "trade agreement" supporting such conditions, ever.

I think your analysis of fascism and its causes is a bit spurious. Fascist countries may or may not have a religious component. The Soviet Union was atheist totalitarian, a form of fascism. Hitler was an atheist, but he liked the Catholic idea of confession as a psychological salve and to use as a virtuous front, especially since some Nazi propaganda portrayed him as a crusader. Certainly theocracies tend towards fascism. Iran fits that category. The Middle East has multiple forms of it, from Saudi Arabia to Syria and as far west as Turkey. There seems to be a grey area as countries transition into fascism. The U.S. is arguably in that grey area right now. The pattern? Discrediting of journalists; scapegoating of one or more minority groups; supremacist language identifying one group (race, culture, country) as qualitatively better than others; cult of personality: supreme or inordinate power/authority and/or political credit is ascribed to one individual or party; use of propaganda (fake news); erosion of democratic institutions, including the politicization/influence peddling of the judicial branch and government departments; elimination of opposition parties or the disempowerment of opposition parties through measures such as jerry-mandering or media manipulation (including using government funds/resources to do this). This isn't an exhaustive list, just some key components.

We all have different perspectives to add on such issues...and there are even more to be found in cultures around the world. I find it ironic that a monolithic view would be presented in the context of diversity and multiculturalism®. For instance, I am not offended by Canadian, Union, or Confederate flags/pennants because I understand their history and context....others seize upon them as symbols of hate and bigotry for political purposes. Others members have a point of view with which you may disagree, but that doesn't make them invalid.

No, I used America's Google and Wikipedia platforms....just like Canadians do. There are more perspectives on such things than just your own.

It's ironic that the "Pakistani leader" you are talking about was the founder of Pakistan, the man who decided that Muslims could not live together in the same nation as Hindus, and who then campaigned, along with his party, the Muslim league, for a separate nation for Muslims. Enormous violence and millions of deaths followed. And yet you find nothing wrong with naming a park after him in praise of the man while denouncing Sir John A Macdonald! So in your thrilling defense of diversity you are decrying the vandalism against a man who loathed diversity and killed millions to avoid it! Ah progressives! The ultimate in hypocrites.

It's so sad you try to back up your unfounded and unsupported accusation against Bernier with a similar accusation against me. I ask you again to respond to my question. If you cannot, then have the integrity to retract it. Here is Bernier's comment. Tell me what was racist about it. Or shut up and slink away with your weaselly tail between your legs. “Canada has always been a diverse country and this is part of who we are. I love this Canada,” read one of the tweets. “But there is a difference between recognizing diversity and pushing for ever more of it. Something infinitely diverse has no core identity and ceases to exist.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/04/13/vaughan-council-unanimously-approves-controversial-thornhill-muslim-community-development.html https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/couillard-pours-criticized-plan-to-build-a-muslim-suburb -- counter to Quebec Values The Muslim only village in Maple, Ontario has been up and running for a while https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/realestate/18nati.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-1VWHayEgI ETA: Is Sharia part of Canadian values – should it be even if women are treated as second class citizens? https://www.nsnews.com/news/call-to-prayer-1.370682 "Learning takes place here, problems are solved here, conflicts are resolved in this place, people are getting married here, people will be divorced here if they have to according to Islamic law, I mean the Shariah," Abdus-Salaam says.

Which version of Islam is the peaceful one?

No offence taken, just note that your attempt to conflate all flavours of Islam with terrorism and fundamentalism has been done before and it's generally done as a propaganda play not as a genuine personally held belief. Coming to the forum with Qu'ran quotes all loaded up and ready to go doesn't help - this appears to be an inauthentic opinion, IMO.

He doesn't have the intellect to understand the issues enough to say yes or no. He simply says what he's told to say. He is completely devoid of any leadership traits - which should not be surprising because he's never really led anything. That's not a partisan judgement - just an obvious and ugly fact that has played out over his term.