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He's trying hard to make things worse. He really is! The problem is that many of the cost burdens he's willing to foist on the shoulders of Canadian taxpayers, including with his refugee and sponsored immigrant policies, actually impact provincial budgets. So he can take the credit for playing Santa Claus while provincial governments scramble to reallocate resources to pay for these policies.

Trudeau discussed economic policy before the last election. He promised a $30 Billion dollar deficit and he managed to hit that target in only 7 minutes. He's a drastic overachiever in some respects.

quantity far too high, quality far too low.

My post was intentionally facetious, at least in part. I have no use for Saudi fundamentalism, nor for any other manifestation of religious extremism, either in Canada or abroad. I was simply addressing Trudeau's hypocrisy in standing on principle for "our (Western) values" where it suits him and otherwise castigating those who reference Western values where it's politically expedient for him to do so. The Western alliance with the Saudis is, of course, predicated mainly on oil and money, although there's a dollop of strategic value in it for some, including the Americans, in that the Saudis help keep the Iranians and Russians in check in the ME. But Canada can't claim strategic virtue here.

What has that got to do with my statement? It seems like just more cock waving, like that moron BC does to make his miserable life feel meaningful. Are you that desperate, too?

Fact of the matter is this, Canada has been left out to dry in the sun. The fact that they keep insisting on NAFTA as a three way deal shows the level of desperation. We're not the one desparate to trade with Canadians.

A larger population growth? When I look at the world's larger population countries I see poverty. Nor do I see efficient urban infrastructure. We HAD efficient urban infrastructure at one point in time, but we no longer do. They used to call Toronto "New York, run by the Swiss". NO ONE calls it that any more unless it's the punchline of a joke. Our cities are crowded and have many problems with traffic and infrastructure. It is not just social assistance anyway. If your flood of immigrants aren't highly skilled they'll wind up in low paying jobs which, due to our enlightened taxation system, results in them being a net drain on the tax base. We have to supply their kids with education they will not pay for after all, and their families with health care they cannot afford. Not to mention they aren't contributing to roads and infrastructure. Already, most of our taxes are paid by a small percentage of the citizenry. Unrestrained immigration of unskilled workers, however enthusiastic those workers are, would make that much worse.

In fact, his economic promise said he'd have a surplus next year. Now it's a balanced budget in 30 years - maybe.

Couple his deficit spending & long-term economic drain with his ability to drive away investment & kill off major sectors of the economy and you have a recipe for north Venezuela.

I think you're confusing cosmetic surgery with elective surgery. Within the health care system in this country elective surgery generally means having to live with an often debilitating medical condition while one waits for a surgery spot to open up. Some of those waiting are immobile and wait for hip or knee replacements. Others, like me, suffer significant eye diseases and have to wait for surgery because, well, being nearly blind won't kill you, right? Others are put on heavy duty medications to allow them to endure and/or survive waiting periods, often suffering debilitating side effects. To trivialize the waits for elective surgeries effectively trivializes the plight of tens of thousands with serious and/or chronic debilitating conditions who are simply abandoned by the health care bureaucracy for months or in many cases years.

There was no real need for you to create this thread. I know you like a book now and I know as to where you are always coming from. You do always appear to enjoy bashing white people just like the CBC always enjoys doing. Geez, do you work for the CBC? Just curious. I never see you bashing any non-white people though and we both know that you would never call a non-white person a POS, right. I know that you would never call those Muslim terrorists that shoot and kill innocent Canadians with a van POS. Why did you not call them a POS? Frightened that you may be called a racist, uhmm? Just wondering.

I found this article to be a good synopsis of Canada's immigration and why the Asylum mess is causing Canadians to lose patience. Here's a few snippets - it's a nicely written non-partisan article that is worth reading in its entirety:

It's never been about 'racism', that's the narrative the Liberals put forward to deflect from their own incompetence and ineptitude.

I read the article when it appeared on the CBC site a while back. Interestingly, it contains information about the average cost of providing health care to seniors in this country, which is pegged at $12K per capita annually. Extrapolating the health care burden associated with Trudeau's immigrant grannies and grandpas isn't that difficult. An immigrant who enters Canada at 65 and lives to 85 will on average cost taxpayers almost a quarter million dollars, not adjusting for inflation of course. Not a bad deal if you haven't paid a cent in taxes into the system during your working years, right? Assuming 20 years of longevity in this country per senior immigrant, Trudeau's yearly influx of 20,000 seniors will generate an additional unfunded liability of $5 billion for each annual cohort, again, not adjusting for inflation, and if this level is sustained for a decade will generate a $50 billion unfunded liability, not adjusting for inflation. As our health care system has deteriorated significantly over the past couple decades, we have to wonder whether this is sustainable. Can we afford Trudeaunomics (i.e. unlimited taxpayer money for Lib votes) or will it drive us collectively to the poorhouse?

So why are the Saudi's on the Human Rights council at the UN?? Are these the 'friends' we want to keep? https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/female-saudi-activist-may-face-beheading-rights-groups-warn-1.4064645

Probably because he got arrested and now his life is ruined. Everyone is therefore satisfied. Now - what did you learn ?