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Harper did. In fact, Harper increased immigration. Why wouldn't Scheer? The rest of what you say is correct. Scheer would be a huge improvement over Trudeau. But if you think he's going to cut back on immigration, as opposed to tightening up the rules, perhaps, you're engaging in wishful thinking. Remember that it was the Mulroney Tories who tripled immigration in the 1980s, not the Liberals. As far as the border goes, there's a lot that can be done to discourage the illegal migrants. I don't know that Scheer will have the balls to do it, though. They have thus far refused to say what they would do other than try to negotiate with Trump and get him to keep his third world migrants there. Fat chance of that succeeding.

....and that sums-up things these days in a nutshell. We think we have free speech...but in reality, it has been disabled. Your content has been disabled. Now I know CBC comments section is a nest of brigading left wing types...but...you know. That's pretty crazy...

So the police launched a media campaign to warn women out drinking not to get too drink and wander out into the darkness alone, and to encourage their friends not to abandon them while they're drunk, and social media and indignant feminist groups are outraged at 'victim blaming'. Only the rapist is at fault, they say. Well, yes. On the other hand, do none of us have any responsibility to try and act responsibly in order to minimize the likelihood of being victims of violence? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-45232993

If you are born while your parents are visiting France you do not get French citizenship. If a French baby is born while his/her parents are visiting Canada, or even flying over it, they get the full rights of a Canadian citizen along with all the privileges, including health care, voting and residency rights. The only other developed country which gives citizenship based on birthplace is the US. All the others go by the citizenship of the parents. An unknown number of people, including Americans (just in case free health care is needed) and third world people from India and China, among others, take advantage of this by flying to Canada to have their baby, then flying home. Since the forms filled out by hospitals don't have a place for the citizenship of the parents, we don't actually know how many do this. But there are estimated to be 26 'birthing houses' in Richmond alone, where foreign women come just before they're ready to give birth. The conservatives voted at their recent conference to consider ending this policy. The Liberals and NDP have attacked this as 'hate and division' on the part of the NDP leader, and were accused of wanting to 'strip away people's citizenship' by behind the scenes Liberal leader Gerald Butts. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-does-canada-automatically-give-citizenship-to-people-born-here

True...Canada has quietly tightened down on the Chinese transshipments now that it has been busted by Trump. Game over, cheaters.

Not according to current trade progress by the EU and mexico, if anything its indicative of the trade cheat like China and Canada

And things will only get worse as we keep bringing in many different races and with them their cultures where eventually there will be numerous tribal ghettoes being set up every where in Canada. It is just a matter of time. Sadly, no one is listening nor are able to see the writing on the wall. We already see that Mexicans and blacks do not like each other and do not get along in America. In Canada I know that Chinese people do not like East Indians and Koreans do not like Chinese and East Indians do no like people from India and Muslims do not like anybody and all those groups mentioned are getting bigger and bigger in population in Canada. Multiculturalism is a recipe for disaster for any country to implement but yet our politicians seem to feel that it is a wonderful game to be playing. A big mistake especially for the British/European people of Canada. They will slowly but surely become a minority if our present day immigration policy is allowed to carry on. My opinion.

Something Canada will never, ever experience. Today, Canada is barely a weakling "middle power", even outfoxed by Mexico.

Hey, how dare you insult all hammers. LOL. You pizzed off my hammer. At least hammers are useful and are good for something where Trudeau is good for nothing. Our low Canadian peso proves and shows us all that our politically correct puppet on a string politicians are responsible for the low Canadian peso. Trump has lowered the American debt from 900 billion to 500 billion while our Canadian debt always keeps going up. Trump must be doing something right for his people and his country. Trudeau? Well, that is another sob and sad story.

...and you're obsessed with Trump, ignoring a much longer time horizon with ebb and flow in American "influence". Others said similar things about Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. depending on what the crisis of the day may have been. Speaking of rambling, how did this topic about Team Trudeau's trade failure pivot to the death of American influence anyway ? Some Canadians like to play this game, going back to America's "fake" moon landings and the Vietnam War (even though Canada profited from both). The same schizo crowd who wanted a break on tariffs as a Normandy Beach "ally" have also crowed about burning down the White House in the War of 1812. Go find another superpower to complain about if the USA is done.

Do Canadian politicians really know how to run a country? So far it would appear as though they all are pretty much clueless when it comes to running a country. They appear to be always running this country on empty. Indeed, Trump will do more for Canada then these bunch of misfits that are running Canada now. The only way Canada can ever be great again is for Canadians to demand that we get rid of everything that the Trudeau duo has put their signature too.

There is always talk about white flight but there is also black flight going on in many LA-suburbs because Mexicans are chasing them away. Those two groups can't live anywhere near each other.

I was thinking your posts show either a poor grasp of English or some kind of cognitive difficulty.

No, you can't.

Maybe you and Trump would like to consider that US immigrants have a lower unemployment rate and higher earnings than American born people. Canadian immigrants, meanwhile, have a higher unemployment rate and lower earnings than Canadian born people.

All the media organs are utterly terrified that someone will post an offensive comment that will outrage the so-easily outraged progressive set. If you mention any identity group in an even mildly negative way, even if true, even if proven true, your comment will likely be deleted. You can be critical of immigration, broadly speaking, but never associate it with any ills. For example, if commenting on a crime story involving people who appear to be (or are) foreign or immigrants any comment related to their supposed ethnicity or immigration status will be deleted. Any comments deemed sexist will be deleted. Comments decrying white Canadians' ancestors as ignorant racist killers are fine. But contrary comments pointing out how violent and uncivilized natives were at the time will likely be deleted.

When CBC says "let us know what you think....." and you see all these comments they show - lol, they're all left-wing! Once in a while, they let in a right-wing comment, for appearance's sake. Harper made a big mistake in not dismantling this left-wing propaganda mouthpiece that we subsidize!

In elementary school, feminist student BC2004 is helping teacher to grab the ears of a couple of male rabbits and pin the poor things on the dissect tables. BC2004: Look! This is the proof that females always overpower males in the world. Teacher: My dear, you win because you are human which size 30-50 times bigger than any rabbit, not because they have balls and you haven't....

Not much has changed since the good old days of the now defunct CBC Forums, where we had to spell "Joos" to fool the censor bot. It's pretty pathetic when they are even afraid of words.

Compared to what ? Post WW2 ? Post Cold War ? Do you long for the good old days when Canada could rest easy behind the USA's skirt and "trust" the American economy for salvation ? The world is changing, just as it always has. Trump is right to criticize Canadian and Euro deadbeat NATO members. Others note that Canada and Europe have nothing else to run to....they still need the Americans, led by the Ugliest American, Donald Trump. Senator McCain is dead, and so is the old Republican guard that Donald Trump destroyed in 2016. Even President Obama criticized Europe/Canada and pivoted away to China/Pacific Rim. America doesn't exist to fulfill your old hegemon expectations for the USA in Canada.

Were we stupid enough to allow the US bank/finance world free access to Canadians, we would have been cleaned out by the hundreds of billions in the mortgage scam business. Damn good thing we are protecting our banking from reckless, unregulated orgy of greed. Your banks can't play by the rules. Come talk to us when you can. What was challenged in Quebec was delivery of service by private providers - not universal sick care. ANYONE can buy supplementary insurance, as sick care universal coverage is for necessary medical only, not electives, dental, vision, etc. I have Blue Cross, as do most people I work with - as we travel extensively in the US and around the world. It IS all bare faced protectionism as we suffer from sharing a marketplace with a giant that has even greater levels of trade distorting protectionism in tariffs, subsidies and non-trade barriers. And, one that does not follow the rules.

You can get MAGA lookalike hats that say "Make Trudeau a drama teacher again". I have one lol.

I would definitely say that the US is more protective than Canada, since to have same impact, one must realize 1/10 measure of US protection = one full measure of Canadian. Any country that pays direct ag subsidies of about 3/4 the total Canadian Gross Domestic ag productiion is playing it dirty and dumb. As long as there are more than 1,000 people living INSIDE of the Beltway who receive direct ag subsidy cheques greater than $1mm (that EACH !!) that is one issue that will not be dealt with. The veracity of clause 19 is that EVERY time the ultra-protectionist forces within the US try to slap duties on Canadian softwood, when it goes for arbitration, they are proven to be wrong in every way. What is VERY different between Canada and the US in trade (and so many other things) is that we actually play by the rules. Remember BSE ("Mad Cow" disease)?? CFIA actually looked for it, found it, documented and announced it - costing us some extremely valuable beef export customers. The reason it did not surface in the USA (our problem CAME from US sourced feed) was because nobody was looking for it, and when it popped up it was conveniently ignored. That is bare faced protectionism at its best - and we simply don't do that.

So even with this, Canada is depending on a foreign government to save its bacon on NAFTA after Team Trudeau has screwed things up royally.

Everything Trudeau does is a failure.

That Star article is as usual, shilling for the Liberals - giving Trudeau cover if our gong show government walks away. The MSM has been loathe to admit the incredible mess Trudeau has made of international relations, including trade.

This trade initiative has been an epic disaster on the part of Justin and co. Not surprising since from day one the Liberals and their operatives have failed to properly read Trump and his moods. This failed required first diplomatic step has impeded Canada's budding relationship with Trump. Trudeau stepped in it when he held a press conference immediately following the G7 in Charlevoix and criticized Trump's stance on NAFTA when he had lead Trump to believe they had reached an agreement in principle. So now Canada will probably pay the price and forced accept the crumbs that Trump will throw our way. Nice going Chairman Trudeau.

Yes, Trudeau's strategy has failed, but for very different reasons. NAFTA was never about the Americans being "trustworthy", as this is a very naive approach to international trade agreements. It was comical to read the naive outrage in Canadian media that an ally who fought "side by side" at Normandy in 1944 would be so dastardly as to actually impose tariffs on steel and aluminum after threatening to do so for many months. The Trudeau and Freeland Sunshine Band failed from the outset by focusing on a "feminist agenda" instead of the specific issues that the Americans cited as reasons that NAFTA must be re-negotiated or abandoned. Trudeau also stood by a supply management political strategy that Canada had already relented on for the TPP, telegraphing weakness and vulnerability. Lastly, Trudeau foolishly schemed with Mexico thinking that the Mexicans would put their own national interests second behind "trust" with Canada, which gets us right back to point #1...a naive, inexperienced team that brought a knife to a gun fight.

Unfortunately it's not as simple as that. Social safety nets can buckle under a mass of new recipients, and wages can be suppressed under a mass of new labour. So simplistic notions like that are irresponsible.

I’m not anti American, never have been but at times arrogant boors such as yourself make it a real chore not to be. You seem to work very hard at it. As an American who has no attachment to or real knowledge of a country called Canada, that is something you are not capable of understanding. Not wanting to be an American is not being anti American.

Yes. It was ludicrous in the first place - and it's ludicrous to keep doing it. If the parents want the baby to be Canadian, they can immigrate to Canada and apply for citizenship for themselves and their child.

I would end birthright tourism, for sure. The issue is now being confused in the MSM with the refugee issue, noting how banning birthright citizenship could generate stateless citizens where children born here to refugee claimants are concerned. While this is a legitimate consideration to take into account, a law ending automatic birthright citizenship should focus on those, including tourists and temporary residents and visa holders, who have children here while not holding and not formally seeking status in Canada. It should be fairly easy to write such a law.

Customs needs to send them packing before they are allowed in, same as the u.s does

It looks like nobody really gives a crap about that incident except for you and one other here. I wonder why?

No...I DID NOT cross the border. Deport all illegals...and their sob stories.

The work he has done is going to make NATO stronger, not weaker. Allies have agreed to meet the commitments they signed onto. Don't forget 2% of the GDP can be either a small amount or a large amount depending on the GDP, and the USA has the largest GDP of the group AND contributes the highest percentage. I heard some of the points Donald Trump made to the NATO allies, he exposed the hypocrisy of an alliance that is outwardly highly critical of Russia, yet at the same time is making them rich. The most serious problem is they are compromising their energy security, and there is a lot more focus on energy security these days. The criticism that Germany has foolishly and rapidly shut down its thermal and nuclear power generators in lieu of buying Russian gas is bang-on. Russia has used their gas pipelines in the past as a weapon, shut down the lines feeding European countries in a form of punishment a number of times already. These Europeans leaders are either extremely naive, or liars. I'll go with the latter. Russia Cuts Gas, and Europe Shivers Russia–Ukraine gas disputes Britain ‘four meals from anarchy’ if Russia cuts off fuel and power over spy poisoning row, experts warn The point is, now that he has a renewed commitment he can meet with Putin on stronger ground. This news is a message to the Russians. It would have been better to get an even greater commitment up to 4%, that would then present a threat to Putin/ Russia, and we need to do this. Russia has to be kept under pressure economically and militarily as much as possible, which appears to be what Trump wants to do here. Next he's going to Russia to have a meeting with his "friend" Putin. Keep friends close, keep enemies closer...

I've posted about the angry, explosive tweets "triggered" by Pratt's praying for someone to get well. Now, I just finished posting on Abortion at the other section talking about the foggy mindset of society when I came across this. I mean, c'mon.... https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/04/16/woman-calls-cops-on-man-playing-with-his-kids-at-park-because-she-was-afraid-of-his-pro-gun-shirt Reminds me of a woman who wrote a complaint letter in a local newspaper........upset about the pictures of abortion by pro-life activists, and yet, not upset about the actual abortions! I'm telling you.....something is going on inside those liberal heads.

Ah yes, the old slippery slope. Like with gay marriage, when we were all going to be marrying our dogs by now.

Some might consider being confined to a bed in pain with people changing your diapers as a life without dignity that is not worth living. They should have the privilege of deciding their own fate for themselves. You should not have the privilege of deciding it for them.

What a bunch of ridiculous nonsense.