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It makes you cringe, doesn't it? Unless his lines are written for him and studiously practiced in advance, Trudeau tends to babble incomprehensibly. I think the critique in the last election that Trudeau was "just not ready" was entirely too generous. He never will be. How can we endure this for another year?

Finally, Trudeau is showing some intelligence. He might not be as vacuous as his critics portray. Here's a clip that shows that we're in good hands on how the steel trade/tariffs work. Link:

It's Jamaican drug gangs.

I've listened to Gergen's views. However, the existence of the caravans is a separate matter from denying that uncontrolled migration is a crisis. In Canada, for instance, we also have a problem with self-selected migration. The Libs deny it's a crisis, but in places most acutely facing its impacts, like in Toronto and Montreal where there is no available shelter space, and in Toronto's case inadequate affordable housing to meet the ordinary needs of the existing population, it surely is.

I mean really - REALLY! Can we really expect anything of substance from this government when our Prime Minister - LEADER of our country is so challenged to explain the basics of Trade. It's difficult NOT to speak ill of him - but this short clip encapsulates why we're going downhill...... Link:

Trudeau's main objective is to paper over the enormous problems generated by corporate globalism and the associated and precipitous decline, at least in this country, of the middle class. The problem is that you can't draw blood from a stone and what's left of the middle class is increasingly tapped out. Corporations and the truly wealthy use all the mechanisms available to them, including their influence and connections in government, to avoid taxation and, meanwhile, working, taxpaying Canadians are increasingly squeezed by incremental demands by governments at all levels that they contribute 'a little bit more' to help the subsidy class as well as by escalating living and particularly housing costs. The income base upon which government (i.e. taxpayer) 'generosity' is based is simply shrinking. And yet callow politicians like Trudeau yelp about the fallout (i.e. 'Racism!' and 'Xenophobia!'), as if the reaction, which if truth be told is grounded in economic conditions, wasn't entirely predictable. There's in interesting piece in today's Toronto Star ('Election door knocking reveals a darkness in the burbs') by a recent municipal election candidate in one of the GTA's previously contented and secure middle class suburban communities, who was startled by the extent of struggle and pessimism she confronted while campaigning. The article's author worries that people will seek a "scapegoat" and points to immigration as one particular focus of anxiety. But isn't this a problem government, including feckless politicians like Trudeau, who touts job-shedding globalism at the same time as promoting increased immigration, has created? I believe the heart of darkness in this country lies not in its declining middle and wage-earning taxpaying classes but in those who have designed and implemented policies that have undermined once-broad middle class security and prosperity. The consequences have not been accidental. A solution will only emerge after we abandon reflexive progressive sloganeering and name-calling and start to objectively analyze the situation.

Right. Making the existing University of Crime into a five star resort is going to be a hell of a deterrent. You seem to forget that Norway is a different country in so many ways. You are cherry picking statistics to prove a supposition that suits your ideology. Go spend some time with violent criminals and tell me you still think the same way. Economically preventing crime in the first place is a hell of a lot more cost effective than cheaper incarceration costs. BTW: we already have a precedent for the mollycoddling model - healing lodges. Seems the miracle of Norse gaols does not transfer well to that part of Canada.

Harjitt: "The next Canadian federal election will be targeted by Russia for meddling." Press reporter: "Is that so?" Harjitt: "Yes. As well as by India, China, Pakistan, France, Great Britain, USA..."

You think he faked that recording...sounds like Alexa

Watching first season of Law and Order (1990?) - lol.....the name Donald Trump came up twice already!

The caravan has reached the border by bus and the people of Tijuana aren't happy, https://ca.news.yahoo.com/migrants-streaming-tijuana-now-face-long-stay-050505086.html https://hienalouca.com/co/2018/11/16/residents-in-an-upscale-tijuana-neighborhood-throw-rocks-at-the-migrant-caravan/

Article today on bad forest management in BC. They have been cutting down broadleaf trees, birch and aspen, to make room for more commercially valuable pines. Result? Massive forest fires that spread rapidly, as pine resin is a highly combustible material. Link The results of which you see happening now in California.

As far as I know they don't have one. Like Canadian liberals they probably figure the more they let in, the more Democrat votes.

It's startling that they haven't yet figured this out. The most ardent critic of Islamism I've ever encountered was a highly-educated woman with whom I did volunteer work several years ago who'd fled Revolutionary Iran. A Muslim herself, she was utterly and equally disdainful both of Muslims who bought into fundamentalist beliefs and practices and of progressives in the West who in her view naively preached for accommodation of these beliefs and practices.