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Take a trip to Afghanistan and take a look around as see what burnt to the ground looks like.....you don't know how good you got it, until it's gone....

You're the one who openly supports groups that commit terrorism and calls for genocide, not me. The Israelis and US have never talked about genocide as a solution. I wouldn't even care about islam or the atrocities of Mohammed if the muslims weren't so intent on blowing up random people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_January_2018 156 terrorist attacks in January 2018. It's just an average month. Check any month you want. I haven't even looked at that month, for all I know 10% of the attacks were by non-muslims.

Actually what you are saying is exactly what I've said. I see nothing to disagree with. What I said is they were initially perceived as being anti-progressives in principle, re-open old debates etc. but in fact what's happened is quite the opposite. Yes, they are drifting more towards the 'left' if we need to call it that. Therefore we now have Bernier. Depending on how he positions himself, he might just get some significant support. Well, that's based on what I'm hearing from people around me, who generally aren't the most political types. To put it simply, people are getting fed up with what we now have. Given the previous set of options, we could only go from horrible to terrible, to fucking scary. Now there'sa possible 4th option. Maybe we should be saying thank you, Maxime!

Trudeau is a faux humanitarian (protects islam tooth and nail but doesn’t care when hate rallies against Jews call for genocide) who doesn’t care about “Canada”, he cares about “getting elected”. Somehow fake virtue signalling seems to have replaced policy as the number one election issue, and opening our border & our vast welfare vault to anyone and everyone seems like a great idea to his mindless followers. So does calling Canadians racist and pandering to Hollywood elites who fly in on personal jets to lecture us about how bad oil is for the environment Trudeau’s first term will be remembered for unsustainable amounts of debt and the killing off of our energy sector. He couldn’t have done more damage to this country if he tried. Trump is a faux law and order president (loves cops, hates rules) who, like Bill Clinton, couldn’t keep it in his pants. He puts America first though, and he is far more pragmatic than politically correct. He also realizes that America has lots of willing, legal immigrants to choose from and that it’s better to give many, many people aid where they are then bring in far fewer people and provide them with food, medicine, shelter, health care, and dental care indefinitely. People who talk about how bad Trump’s wall is are some of the dumbest people on earth: they say they don’t need a wall because it is too expensive and they think that it’s cheaper to just hire more people to patrol the border. That saves money over the course if a year or two, but over the course of ten, twenty or fifty years the savings of a wall are massive. The wall is also more effective. Those same people who talk about hiring more ICE agents also want to abolish ICE lol.

I, too, would like to see a system more governed by public input than is currently the case. I categorize our current party system as "managed" democracy because in many instances the purpose of political parties seems to be to prohibit or limit debate on specific issues in order to impose an elitist agenda. It wouldn't be so bad perhaps if we had distinct choices among the parties on offer but that's not generally been the case in recent decades. I'd like to see more direct democracy. I'd like to see a political system more responsive to public opinion and less focused on catering to special interests and/or identity-focused communities. I'm waiting to see if Bernier's proposed party will offer a chance to move beyond the tri-party system that now runs official Ottawa.

The abortion debate is being handled and controlled by special interest minority groups or a political party's ideology only. It is not being asked of we the people as to whether Canadians want to allow abortions or abolish abortions. Exceptions can be made for incest or rape or if the mother's life is in danger. It is just like multiculturalism, metric, bilingualism, foreign aid, massive third world immigration, capital punishment and abortion itself. Political correctness is killing this country. Speaking political incorrectness can get one in trouble these days. I do not recall where Canadians were ever asked as to whether they wanted to give up their rights to freedom of speech or not or be constantly told as to what they can say or do? As far as I am concerned I do not believe that Scheer believes in freedom of speech himself. Scheer appears to be more like a politically correct puppet on a string politician just like our prime mistake appears also. Canadians were never asked their views or opinions as to whether those programs and agendas should have been implemented or not. And the majority of Canadians were never going to be allowed to have a say or a referendum on any of those I mentioned above. All those mentioned above were all creations of the liberal/socialist/red conservative governments of Canada that still are and have always been running Canada for umpteen decades now, and who still believe that the majority of Canadians should not have an opinion on anything or have a right to vote on anything that the government says that we must all have and adhere too. I would like to vote for a real conservative party who believe in majority rule and has the taxpayer's interest and concerns at heart. It is we the people that are suppose to be running this country and not politicians or special interest minority groups. When the minority is allowed to constantly rule over the majority that is not what one would call democracy but that is more like dictatorship. Politicians are getting away with forcing their liberal and socialist programs and agendas that in most cases have not done one thing good for Canada or Canadians. All we get from our dear leaders is more taxes, more government, and less freedom, and I do not see or hear Scheer talk about any of those concerns too we the people called Canadians. C'mon, face it. There is no real conservative party in Canada anymore. Conservatism in Canada was abolished decades ago. Sad but so true.

I've heard anecdotally that this is a problem in Canada as well. I believe Germany has a staged status system whereby approved refugee claimants don't automatically obtain permanent residency and perhaps some variation of this might be adopted by other refugee receiving countries in order to stem the tide of marginal asylum seekers. Also, I believe refugee claimants who arrive in Germany get processed relatively quickly but have to wait for a longer period to obtain citizenship than is the case in Canada. The notion that attainment of asylum is seen as conferring permanent status is in its own right quite bizarre. Most crises that generate refugee populations, like the civil war in Syria, aren't permanent. So, conditional asylum applicable to periods of conflict may be a more effective way to manage these situations than granting permanent status, which likely encourages a greater degree of economic migration.

that's consistently so. .....maybe, you're debating with an imam?

No, I am just mocking your biased perspective on the history of the "West". But really it has always been that way.....here a diddle...there a diddle...everywhere a diddle diddle.

It can last through a complete first term, including another campaign for a second term, wherein Trump will go to new levels of disruption, insult, conflict, turmoil, and shocking behaviour given his success the first time around. No American president has ever been removed from office for being erratic and combative. Trump's desperate critics will have to pray that he actually does shoot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue.

You don't have to like it....its reality, and it is not going to change anytime soon....

Is that not what has happen it todays Universities, where is the conservative teachers.....where do the students get their liberal ideas from...

You make it sound like collateral damage is a new thing, A thing I just made up.....it has been part of warfare, every where since man learned to pick up a stick and beat things with it.....It is a normal part of any conflict between to nations. Historically more civilians are killed in conflicts than soldiers....It is not going to change any time soon... In normal combat, civilian causalities are avoided where possible, NO WHERE in the Geneva Convention does it say YOU CAN NOT KILL CIVILIANS, IT does say that it should be avoided , wonder what the French civilians in Normandy said on D day when the allied carpet bombed everything they could, I wonder what was said to their families......... ...Unless your talking total war then every thing is free game, nobody was complaining when the US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan....or fire bombed Germany, how many Germans complained about London when it was bombed. Western cultures have this idea that combat is some sort of surgical operation, where bullets kill only soldiers, soldiers kill only soldiers, and there is some kind of honor on the battle field.. when reality their very few rules...and accidents are common place.....Hard to understand that fact when your life is not under constant danger when every second of the day your mind is on survival , and trying to get back to "YOUR" family .....There is no room for anything else, including the family that is killed by collateral damage, ya it's cold .....it's very tragic...But if there was a definition of Hell...it would be armed conflict...where death is normal and seen almost every day....War sucks, and very few good things are ever born from it.... But do not pin this statement on our soldiers....by saying they are the same as terrorists....Soldiers , regular Canadian citizens do not start wars, they fight and die in them , .....elected officials start wars, they decide who is bad and who is good....point the finger where it belongs....If you think for one second terrorist spill one tear for those poor bastards your mistaken, they thrive on it, pray for it, they use it to their advantage.....

Trump is a retarded idiot according to those around him. He knows nothing whatever about trade, economics or international relations, witness his own damned economic advisor having to snatch papers off his desk to keep him from ending a trade deal with South Korea, justifying his actions by saying "Got to protect the country". American has NEVER given unfettered access. It has never been among the world's free traders, not even on the top ten list. And if you think how you treat people doesn't come back to haunt you then, like Trump, you must have no friends and wonder why.

It's war and shit happens. The military can't even keep from accidentally targeting and killing its own people sometimes during wars. What do you expect?

I thinking you're deluding yourself here. I sometimes wonder whether the objective of the "progressive" left is to find a crisis that doesn't really exist and in the absence of being able to find such a thing at least agitate for one? How many Canadians have ever joined a supposedly hate-related organization or attended a rally held by such a group? The percentage, no doubt, is minuscule. Many Canadians on the other hand are reasonably concerned about high immigration levels for reasons no more nefarious than asserting their concrete and legitimate interests, including concerns about rising taxation funded costs, escalating housing costs and the increasing strain being exerted on limited public services like health care. Expressing none of these concerns in any reasonable scenario amounts to "racism," a term that's become so overused as to have become debased by those who use it to promote personal and/or political agendas.

We don't have democracy, we just think we do

Sorry, I did not intend my remark to be snide. Much as I disagree with you, I would never want you to not stand up for your views. as for Citizen Initiated referendums and the Right to Recall, I don't support referendums. Alberta's experiment with recall ended abruptly when Premier Aberhart was threatened by a recall petition in his own riding. Please keep up your posts. I always find them stimulating.

Hopefully most of these people can escape before South Africa's plans for genocide come to fruition. There's a certain point where the hatred in a country cannot be stopped or reasoned with and the only options are to flee or to die. For White South Africans, that point is now. We can only hope that some countries leave their doors open to fleeing South Africans, unlike what happened during the horrors of the early 20th century when people fleeing extermination were sent back to die.

With comments like that it’s clear that America needs Canada like never before. It’s getting very close to being too late to address serious, possibly extinction level climate change, but there are also shorter term domestic concerns such as gun violence and public safety. You have to raise up your disenfranchised, set policy that expands your middle class, and push the society towards sustainable lifestyles. This is beyond US Canada relations, though trade policy should be progressive for both countries. I realize some want to move backwards, clingy to institutionalized racism/sexism and irresponsible growth that enhances the interests of the rich at the expense of the masses. That’s not what the US, Canada or the world should be about.