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There it is. Trudeau and the Liberals have launched a culture war as a means to denigrating political opponents as its main strategy for reelection. This has probably in the works almost as soon as they were elected.

"Politics of fear" is one of those shallow come-backs from the Left - and especially our rudderless Liberal Party led by Captain Clarabell. Canadians are not "afraid". There is no "fear". There are only very real - and very immediate concerns about this government's uncaring and mismanaged refugee policies. Sorry to be so negative but Trudeau and his government have been such an utter disappointment to those who care about Canada that we're running out of descriptors.

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!?

There ARE: Trudeau, his top advisors and cabinet

We don't know if she belonged to any group, but even if she did, her question of financing was perfectly legitimate and definitely not racist but this is how Trudeau rolls. Anyone who questions his policies will be 'intolerant, racist, bigoted and of course hate speech' etc. etc. We also need to know if the guy who strong armed her was actually RCMP or just hired security goons. This from Andrew Scheer who is right on this. This is how you can tell when Liberals are losing. Concerned about illegal border crossers? You’re a racist. Worried about the cost? You’re un-Canadian. Don’t like the carbon tax? You’re a denier. Canadians are sick and tired of this. 3/5

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!

Access to natural resources is the lowest value add....Canada wants access to a much higher value add and 10X the market size. The two are not equivalent, and Canada hasn't been able to extract all the natural resources without foreign direct investment....doesn't have the domestic capital to do it, hence so much American and other foreign ownership. If just having natural resources was equivalent in economic power, Canada's First Nations would be rich instead of dirt poor and struggling to get access to potable water.

Well, if the Liberals criminalize political opposition/dissent like they want to do, it will effectively make conservative opinions 'hate speech' and subject to criminal justice. Case in point: woman getting called a racist for mentioning illegal immigrants jumping the border on the taxpayer's dime by Dear Leader.

To my knowledge Britain is very reluctant to accept white South-Africans moving there. Perhaps some historical reasons for that such as the Boer-wars.

I really enjoyed the picture you posted with your comment. Anyway, while watching Trudeau's angry attack in French on the woman in Quebec - which, unusually, the English news broadcast I watched played in full - I couldn't help but notice the level of anger in his voice. It made me wonder if internal party polling suggests that his immigration, refugee and cultural policies are undermining Lib support with not much more than a year to go until the 2019 election? I think he might be angry as well that aside from the predicable progressive cacophony, Maxime Bernier's recent remarks haven't been broadly denounced. Of course, Bernier is expressing concerns likely held by a majority in this country. Oddly, Trudeau's government yesterday announced an increase in immigration intake numbers for grannies and grandpas, which made me think he might be trying to inflame the immigration debate so he can more easily cast all his party's opponents as inherently racist. (Who doesn't like grannies and grandpas, even if they've never paid taxes here?) Based on his recent tone, it appears he's losing touch with mainstream public opinion. He blasts others for playing divisive and opportunistic politics while it appears to me that he's an enthusiastic practitioner of the art. Just don't respond in kind or you're a racist!

There was a fascinating column by Anthony Furey on Trudeau's behavior in yesterday's Toronto Sun: 'Trudeau's re-election strategy? Call everyone racist'. As Furey notes, "This constant referencing of “the politics of fear” is itself a form of fear-mongering, where Trudeau and his top advisers want you to believe that there are mean and nasty people lurking behind every corner that you must fear and that only he can protect you from." In fact, it's plain old-fashioned top-down paternalism on Trudeau's part. What gives this trust-fund fop the right to condescendingly lecture the rest of us who for the most part have worked and paid taxes since completing school while he flitted from one transitory experience to the next until he landed in daddy's old job? He got the PM role with the thinnest resume in modern Canadian history. He scarcely showed up for the audition, as his poor attendance record as young MP attests. Too bored, maybe? https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/furey-trudeaus-re-election-strategy-call-everyone-racist

As long as you don't ask him questions he cannot answer, or that which makes him uncomfortable. Anyone who asks such questions.....he labels as, racists. That's how he tries to shut you up. Then, his supporters who surround him will drown out your question with jeers, cheers and applause. If you still persist in asking....... ......you get apprehended by cops. That's our Canada now, under Justin Trudeau.

I'm just playing with his Chinese nickname, little potato, but I like your clever alternative interpretation as well. I have long found it difficult to take him seriously although he's now veering into territory that renders him plainly ridiculous.

Sorry, but the world is currently organized by countries, and Canada is overwhelmingly dependent on export trade with a single nation...the United States. Contrast that with U.S. diversification, even with NAFTA:

Strong is the word that doesn't work.

Just to say: why do people use that instead of who.

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/

Natives are thier own worst enemy now, not the rest of us.

And the conservatives have a huge book with all the insults trudeau has let fly against real canadians, and refugees that waited in line to come to this country. Trudeau's goose is cooked next yr.

You need a lesson in history of slaves. Blacks sold more blacks into slavery then whitey did. And the muslim slave trade was even worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#African_participation_in_the_slave_trade

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/cbc-pollsterliberal-adviser/article1367070/ Did Graves influence the Liberal campaign and governing style? Or did the Liberals come up with this strategy all by themselves? Graves subsequently apologized for his incendiary comments but too late, the ink was set. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/pollster-frank-graves-apologizes-denies-anti-tory-bias/article4352832/

The U.S. will value its access to our resources, as will many other countries. We have a small population and therefore, currently, there is little pressure on our resource base from Canadians. As for First Nations' participation in the economy, that's a far different yet very important issue that requires far more attention than a one-liner. I'm sure you could start multiple threads on that topic if you so choose. With regard to the premise that no discussion of trade should involve give and take, every country has vulnerabilities that it will want to safeguard. Otherwise it's the law of the jungle. I know paxamericana and BC2004 romanticize the Gilded Age before FDR when there were fewer workers' rights, much lower wages, scant environmental legislation, no Social Security, and so forth. You're welcome to take up the cause for those values with Americans at your elections. If you run the most vulnerable segments of your society further into the ground, they may end up uninformed enough to support you or fail to show up at the polling stations to oppose you due to poverty. Oh wait, doesn't that already happen sometimes?

Cynical politicians like Trudeau don't and won't acknowledge the link between immigration and declining public services even though I suspect most Canadians clearly understand it. I think the health care system is too far gone to be adequately reformed within the current model. Rather, I believe we should permit the sale of private health insurance and otherwise attach eligibility for health care services to objective eligibility criteria like length of residency in Canada in combination with the number of years people have filed and paid taxes, with a combination of say 25 to 35 required to establish eligibility for benefits for all of those older than 40.

You, and everyone else who uses this to excuse Islamic violence, are incorrect. Christians are taught that Jesus was "the end of the law". (Rom. 10:4) That is why there are no more daily/weekly/monthly/yearly animal sacrifices, women are not segregated during menstruation and no stonings and beheadings are performed any more. He then instituted the 2 main commands - 1. Love God. 2. Love your neighbour as yourself. "Those who use the sword will die by the sword". etc There was to be no more waging physical religious wars on other nations. That is what mainstream Christianity is taught. How well they individually follow those commands, is up for debate. But since the coming of Jesus there is no command in the Bible for Christians to wage any kind of physical religious war against non-believers, as there is in Islam. Christians are told to wait for Jesus to arrive again to deal with non-believers. The Koran is filled mostly with instructions on how to subjugate, dominate and terrorize non-believers until they conform. That is a very big difference. Do all Muslims follow th advice to subjugate, dominate and terrorize? No, thank goodness. But to deny that these instructions are written in the Koran and have never been updated or reformed and to claim that there are similar instructions to Christians is both incorrect and willfully ignorant.

Well Canada consumes energy at a higher rate to provide the same amenities we'd expect in any developed country, such as heat during winter. It takes more energy to service sparsely populated areas in the north, for example, in a harsh winter. Energy consumption is also higher in resource-based economies that do a lot of extraction, refining, etc. The issue in most western countries isn't overpopulation, but rather population density. We need to find the right ratios of people to land. In many respects a higher population density makes many efficiencies possible, such as cheaper public transit and utility infrastructure (due to cost sharing among a greater number of inhabitants, etc.). However, if the density is too high, pollutants in the water supply and air cannot be replenished quickly enough by the aquifers and carbon sinks (forests and underwater plants). In broad strokes, the answer, in developed countries at least, is environmentally sound urban planning and sustainable building technology. I don't think going to developing countries and trying to implement mass population control experiments would be well received, obviously. Improving health, including access to contraceptives, and providing economic opportunities does tend to shrink the size of families. We can do that kind of international development because the benefits are fairly universally understood. The point was astutely made that our expectations for how middle class and wealthy people should expect to live needs to change. The wealthy and middle classes cannot continue to consume and produce waste at current levels. Since most of us are not communists, fascists, or interested in some kind of extreme collectivist redistribution of wealth or resources, the way to fix these problems is largely through regulation (e.g. limits to emissions through measures such as cap and trade). The big challenge for countries that try to do this is that some countries refuse to do this, all the more reason for having universal international agreements. The bone of contention in laying out such agreements is the concessions that poorer developing countries seek as they try to grow their economies, but if we want to get anything done, we're going to have to accept a bit of this, just as we're going to have to accept that all the labour legislation in the world won't fully prevent some jurisdictions from having lower labour costs than others. Some offshoring of manufacturing will continue. One thing Canada can easily do as a measure to deal with the population density and goods/people distribution problem impacting the environment is incentivize moving to the north, so that small inefficient settlements that have to import most of their goods and services can become larger and more self-sustaining. Using measures such as easing immigration for newcomers who are willing to live a minimum of say, five years, in the north as a faster track to citizenship, would be one way of reducing the environmental footprint in our busiest cities, creating efficiencies in smaller communities, as well as providing well-needed economic opportunities in depressed northern communities. It would certainly go a long way to helping struggling indigenous communities.

Which is IRRELEVANT. No major Christian church accepts that Leviticus is literal or should be acted upon. Nor do the Jews. Both religions had a reformation period where such views were discarded. Islam has never had such a reformation period. So they continue to embrace the violent language of their religious text.

And it's not going to get any better until we start putting pressure on politicians to improve it. What has improved about our health care in the last decade? Nothing. As to immigration, the numbers just keep going up and up.

No one is saying that. Some of us are saying, "If you want to come here, leave your misogyny, hatreds and ethnic wars at the door."

Why would they even come to a society that says you are basically sub-human?

In the Middle East there is only one state where Muslims, Christins, gays, atheists etc are allowed access to all levels of education, medicare, can (and do) sit in the Knesset, and vote. That state is Israel. An Israeli PM once said, "if the Muslims put down their arms there will be peace. If the Jews put down their arms, there will be no Jews". Israel is far from perfect but as a non Jew it is the only state I would live in.

As a disabled retiree, I can assure you the health care system is a mess, at least here in the GTA. I've been hospitalized in the recent past, spending endless sleepness nights on an emergency room gurney as an "admitted" patient waiting for a bed to become available, and during the wait having to share an often filthy bathroom with dozens of other patients and their visitors. Try brushing your teeth at a sink covered in hair and vomit, as I have had to do. I won't return to hospital unless I'm in a coma. Otherwise, I'll simply decline at home until I reach a state where I can persuade somebody to approve an assisted death. It really is that bad. I sometimes wonder whether the approval of assisted suicide amounts to an admission that the health care system can't and won't be improved.

Here's a video of what happened to a Quebec elderly who's got the guts to ask Trudeau a question about illegal immigrants.

Not only that....I think he also told the woman who simply asked legitimate questions, that she doesn't belong in Quebec! Lol. In Trudeau's tupsy-turvy world, if you ask the wrong questions - you're excluded from what must be his stoned-inspired "utopia!" In other words, his "inclusive" world does not extend to the sensible people who's got the balls to ask! He couldn't answer her questions because he doesn't have any answers at all! There is no real plan! So instead, he launches on to attacking her! Pathetic!

There is nothing "harsh" about it....why should Canada get special consideration when it is the 10th largest economy in the world ? What's so special about Canadian industries and culture that deserve special carve outs to be respected by competitors ? I don't care why the R&D investment isn't happening, only that it isn't because Canada seemingly has other priorities, or its private sector and government can't do both at the same time. Canadians leave for the U.S. and other nations to have much greater opportunities in R&D. Yes, the "small population" excuse is heard often, even as Canada wants to run with the big dogs by selling out (i.e. FTA/NAFTA). Again, there is nothing special Canada's cultural sacred cows that require consideration by others at the negotiating table. Business is business, and the Americans have always been ruthless about such matters, long before Trump. If Canada wants a piece of the world's largest economy, then it should leave the cultural whining at the door.

I don't know what you're trying to advocate. The U.S. is free to put up however many barriers to Canada, Mexico, China. If you're justifying Trump's latest tariffs by pointing to the cultural and small time industries that Canada is protecting for the sake of its very survival, that's a pretty harsh stance. Trump and his supporters are free to take it, but Canadians aren't buying it. In terms of wondering where all the money goes for R & D, infrastructure, and defense spending, Canada does spend a lot on infrastructure and should spend more on R & D, but it's business that isn't investing, not government. We face some other costs related to health and our safety net, which Canadians value. Also, it's a massive country with a small population. Do you know the cost of maintaining postal, rail, medical, educational, and court services across such sparsely populated areas in the far north? I laugh at the bravado from some commentators about a U.S. takeover of Canada, thinking of the U.S. getting the pleasure of dealing with those challenges. Yet incredibly, whether in Nunavut, St. John's or Victoria, you know you're in Canada because of its institutions and infrastructure. It's an achievement to administer a nation across the second largest country by land mass with so few people. Canadians are keenly aware that the sparseness makes some of the our people/cultures very vulnerable. Any trade relationship has to recognize that Canadian reality. In some ways, the groaning I'm hearing about having to deal with Canada at the negotiating table reminds me of constitutional discussions involving Quebec's status within Confederation. It's always been contentious. Westerners in particular didn't like the idea of special status for Quebec, yet no one would deny that making Canada bilingual, forcing companies to produce labels in French and English, or granting Quebec certain rights around its legal system (based on French Code Civil) didn't play a role in protecting that culture. We may have moaned about cost, but most of us can't help admit that we sort of really like Quebec and the differences it brings to the table. It's fair to question concessions in a trade agreement, but understand that in any deal there will be some non-negotiables. On the other hand, there may be new bargains that bring greater rewards to both countries and make it worthwhile to let go of some sacred cows.

Yup, Trudeau's rant today was total nonsense. The issue it raises is whether he has any comprehension of the real world.

...and it is the "people" in each country who will support leadership that looks out for their economic interests (i.e. jobs). Under NAFTA, American corps have made far more investment in Canadian/Mexican industry and markets than vice-versa...exporting American jobs. Why is Canada so dependent on the U.S. economy ? Mexico is a NAFTA partner but Canada's exports there are around 2% ???? Still waiting for the first Canadian owned auto assembly plant to be built in the USA.

Justin Trudeau is just another cult of personality, "strong-man" type figure. Oh sorry I meant to say strong-person. Hmm, that doesn't work, does it

Things have always been done silly, ridiculous and stupid at Queen's Park. The liberals and socialists are now on the run with nowhere to hide. It is going to be sweet to watch Ford clean out the swamp of Queen's Park of the pro gay pro sick pathetic sex agenda of Toronto and Ontario sick liberal and socialist communist politics. it's time to get back to making Ontario great again. Go, Ford, Go. The moral and decent and patriotic people are with you.

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

The first refuge of a scoundrel is to label a perfectly legitimate question "racist" What is disgusting is Trudeau saying that the questioning of the cost Of Illegal Border Crossers Is "Hate Speech". As per N. Specter... QCois de souche came much later -- first question that Trudeau avoided answering and chose to inflame -- was perfectly legitimate and is the same question being asked by the Governments of Ontario, QC and Manitoba

Do you have a site to back up your statement?

I like this one, reminds me of that British series Life on mars...

As far as I know Scheer has not given an opinion at all as to where he stands on this immigration fiasco and crisis issue. I cannot see him losing people over commenting on our present day immigration problem where tens of thousands of criminal illegals are crossing our borders every day illegally. Canadians want to see and hear from their politicians who are not afraid to speak political incorrectness and stand up for Canada and Canadian values. Scheer should then be pointing out the amount of taxpayer's tax dollars that has and still is costing the Canadian taxpayer's every day because of all this illegal criminality going on. Be up front with we the people and say it as it is. That will get a politician votes. It is the liberals/socialists pro immigration special interest groups who are behind the push for more legal and illegal immigration. It is not something that the majority of Canadians want to see continue on. Scheer will never win if he just continues to sit in the corner like a coward and wimp and say nothing. Scheer needs to become another Trump and call it as we all see it. It's his choice. Do or die.

You do not make sense. Try English.

Yes, there are many here who would and do call out Israel for killing palestinian women and children, Palestinians for killing Israeli women and children, Saudis for persecuting Shiites at home and abroad, and the Yanks not for "shit treating" aboriginals, but for their acts of genocide in dealing with the "Indian problem" many years ago. Our PM is a frigging idiot child. His government can, will and did tweet about many things they have no moral high ground for or understanding of. None of those things fixes the human rights violations in KSA or Canada for that matter. Sadly, the Kingdom has chosen to punish all Canadians for our crime of electing a totally incompetent government - but fortunately, we can change that come next election. If KSA gets a bad ruler, they are simply stuck with him for life.

I would agree with you totally, But the point here is what was the cost of this tweet, now costed well over 4 bil, and what did we get for that 4 bil, we got nothing , except bitched slapped by the Saudis . Now if the liberals actually got off their balls and countered with some of the ideas you suggested I would be a happy Canadian, instead, we are left wanting more from our PM. in my Opinion I would have cut the oil off, declared the energy east pipe line a national security matter and drove that pipe through Quebec into NB, I would also look at the rest of the nations with interns in our medical system, so we are not looking at this in the future from other nations of say questionable human rights issues, perhaps starting up our own free medical training program funding Canadian citizens..as for the other students taking up spaces in our universities, perhaps we could look at other free education ideas in other problem areas... Stop selling them any wheat and barley, lentils…..it's not like the purchase a lot anyways.... Send a message that we are considering cancelling the LAV contract, put the ball back in our court...

So Justin has found out that his good looks and hair cut don't count for sweat F**** all, I mean where is the rest of the western world reactions on this issue.....we here murmurs in the back ground, nothing from the states our closest allied....why is that perhaps we have pissed off everyone, even Mexico don't like us.....So now we find ourselves alone in the world, because we some how think our shit does not stink, and when we get bored we send out retarded twits to stir things up.....and now we have lost bils in revenue because we want to be right, we have to be right it is the Canadian way...…….. I can't wait until the election.....Anything but Justin campaign...

"Black guy" ? President Obama is multi-racial....his mother (Ann Dunham) was quite "white"...from Kansas: