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Agreed...the climate change alarmists are desperate to link the two, when there are many factors in play. GM already lost its ass once on the EV1...made more money with Hummers.

because france? ....https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46460445

That's another load of BS. Just like saying that "white, right wing males are committing more terrorist acts than jihadis". Believe it or not that's a comment that is making it's rounds too. Antifa and BLM are responsible for all but 1 notable incident in the US over the last 3 years. There were dozens if not hundreds of riots all across the US in that time, even on the Berkeley campus. Just 1 right-wing mob in Charlottesville.

Finally someone who is in favor of capitalism and i thank you for that analogy which i could' not agree more. The educational system is definitely corrupting our youth and all the while the nanny state is dictating a curriculum of deceit to the point youth are losing their identity as a people and as a country with no Canadian cultural values left. We have such rooted corruption to the highest levels that it is going to take a purge to bring this society back on its feet. This is not only happening here in this country but around the world. Kids today are discouraged and do not have the confidence to step up and make a difference instead they prefer to be mothered by government who will enslave them in the end and it is sad. I think we need to stop these immigration policies of granting exceptional rights and privileges. This will be the only way to encourage real contributing citizens into the country instead of a socialistic population of liberal voters, and deliberate liberal ploy to buy votes and keep wages down. I dont see the government creating jobs for these new comers instead they are driving companies away. The prime mover of millions of Canadians into the socialist column has been the near complete dysfunctionality of contemporary Canadian capitalism. Where once the regulated, unionized and semi-socialized capitalism of the mid-20th century produced a vibrant middle class majority, the deregulated, deunionized and financialized capitalism of the past 35 years has produced record levels of inequality, a shrinking middle class, and scant economic opportunities along with record economic burdens for the young. Socialism is a alluring when you give up your freedoms for security but in the end you lose both. Dont be fooled

Schools and Universities don't teach the proven, historical (and current) failures of socialism - and the death and misery that comes from its policies. Socialism inevitably leads to a police state, because people who don't play along or compete with the state system must be stopped - one way or another. Socialism is like a giant monopoly, with barriers to entry "licenses", special permits, grants, subsidization, trade restrictions, quotas, tariffs. Even technology and innovation become the enemy. Socialism - even in its milder "transitional" form, blunts the natural human tendencies to explore - to be the best that one can be - to be more than people expect you to be. Most millennials can't relate to the significance of the Berlin Wall. Germans - one of History's most industrious, proud people - could not make Socialism work and became nothing short of an enslaved state with its people locked in by force. The Leftist "Humanities" professors who have infested and infected Universities continue to "normalize" a romantic version of Socialist Utopia. Instead, they should be teaching the realities of Socialism's history - and the need to feed the human soul with aspirations.

I may have a headache with my cell phone or my computer once in a while, but in the meantime, I can pick either one up and speak with my counterparts in UK, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America for next to no cost (avoiding what I once had to do in the "good old days" of having multi-thousands a month in telephone costs and the much greater financial cost, time waste and multiple risks of flying all over the world to do what these "headaches" allow me to clear up from my couch at home. The cell phone also allows us to run companies with highly skilled and experienced people all over North America who encounter technical issues trying to do our job (literally keeping the lights on in heavy industry and utilities) and solve them in seconds or minutes by being able to call those within the organization who can best solve such problems - 90% of the time in a single, brief call. Those damned computers are what allow me to pull my diesel truck up to a pump and fill it with a fuel that in the good old days would smoke you off of the planet. Instead, the air going into my car or truck is now dirtier (in large cities) than what is coming out the tailpipe. And on it goes.

I will always come back to the same argument regarding this subject. "Globalism" is just a phrase that people have grasped onto because they know SOMETHING is drastically wrong, but they don't bother to understand what it is. Globalism, corporatism, crony capitalism and my own choice of descriptive phrase, Casino Capitalism are all something we as the ignorant electorate enable by empowering our respective governments to grant the privilege for some to increase the money supply causing massive pent up inflationary forces, inequitable redistribution of wealth all without adding a single penny of value or creating any wealth. The world watched the global economy crash in 1929 when speculative trading/"investing" took the orgy of greed to the extreme, and passed legislation to limit the power of financial institutions to be so abusive of their very special privileges to do so. Once those protections were stripped away, it has once again returned to being the status quo. When it got so far out of hand (it is at least 1,000 orders of magnitude greater today than in 1929 - even corrected for inflation) instead of paying the rational price for their treachery (i.e. going bankrupt and having legislation put BACK in place to limit their power/privilege) finance had identified the weak spot (the US government) and bought control locks, stock and barrel - resulting in "too big to fail" bailouts to the tune of TRILLION$$$$ of impact on the US and by extension all other taxpayers within the "global" economy. 2009 should have been a crash that correct these excesses. The 1% rallies once again KNEW something was wrong, but did not bother to try to understand WHY there was such a problem. Easy solution: tax speculative gain. I mean TAX it. My version would be 99% of first month, 95% first year, tapering down 5% per year until matching the nominal tax rate.

My first post. I looked for an introductions section but could not find one. In any case here is an addition to this topic. Apparently part of GM's reason for closing so many plants is that it has decided that in the long run electric vehicles are the future. Here is an analysis of that position. GM May Finally Be Serious About Electric Vehicles https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/27/gm-may-finally-be-serious-about-electric-vehicles/

Sure....but Dick Cheney will have his Hollywood day like all the rest. After 9/11, America needed the biggest prick it could find to do the dirty work....and VP Dick Cheney was more than happy to oblige.

Its not a science no. It can be quite subjective depending on who is explaining it yes. I guess its akin to a social science with lots of math? Some theories can be objectively proven others can not. No I would not call Marxist economic theory science nor would I call supply and demand theories infallible, no of course not. I do think we all need to improve our understanding of economics though to understand how its used to manipulate us especially as consumers.

Economics fails virtually every test as a "science". It has become a tool for the banksters to train people to nod their heads mindlessly and calculate shit that is NOT part of the actual economy (i.e. speculative activity). The only thing more intellectually dishonest than an economist would be a civil engineer dumb enough to put steel in concrete. Helped how? Do you mean just throw money at the problem? The real issue is how much housing costs have increased - mostly be cause we give a free ride on the tax system to the speculative gains of real estate activity. Tax the shit out of such gains, and all of a sudden real estate costs will subside into reality that people might be able to afford.

So a man who has trans'd into a 'woman' is a problem in sports. If that 'woman' was a large football player, that 'woman' will beat every single woman out there. A woman transitioning to a man cannot even fathom entering into mens sports, even the strongest woman will only beat 80% of the men, while a trans'd man to woman can beat ALL the women in that sport. If people want to accept the transgenders into sports (a woman in a mans sport) then they will accept the winnings of those people without protest. That would change as soon as some deaths are involved or at the least severe injuries resulting in being partially or completely disabled. Biology does not seem to matter anymore to some of them. Which goes against the complete evolutionary chain of the human species over the past hundred, thousand, and millions of years. For the overwhelming majority of the human race, we are binary. Male and Female. Sure there are anomolies, but again for the overwhelming majority of humans, we are binary. Without being binary we are no longer human and have gone into an era post-humanism perpetuated by social justice ideologies that goes against science.

I could, but why bother talking to someone who is so detached from reality to think that climate change is a joke?

It's due to the fact that the president cannot "dissolve" Congress before the election (or a governor cannot dissolve the state legislature). The legislative branch does not go out of existence just because there's an election. If it did, it would give too much power to the presidency (or governorship of a state). The flaw of course is that it leaves a "lame duck" legislature/Congress in power. Some states have done things to their constitution to prevent this, some haven't. At the federal level, the President can only call the lame duck Congress back into session if there's an important matter to attend to. (But he cannot actually tell them what to do once they're sitting). As for the states, I guess it varies from one state to another. Nonetheless, he could possibly abuse the privilege.

The pipeline is a short term solution to a problem. JT is right that we are going to have to stop burning fossil fuels in the near future and transition into non-carbon sources of energy. Nuclear is the best alternative. We should have done that 40 years ago, but we just kicked the can down the road. The real mistake governments have made is the lack of political will to explain what is actually looming in the near future. We will always need oil, but to use it for energy is criminal.

Cry me a river....more GM plants have been closed in the U.S. than in Canada. Production costs in Ontario are higher no matter how much you protest. My solution is to stop whining about this and move on with the realities of economic factors that need to be changed for more favourable conditions/outcomes. Hint: Trudeau's carbon tax is not helping.

We don’t need to hear more anti-labour alt right script. Production costs are no higher in Canada when you factor in the exchange rates, lower health care costs, and higher productivity of operations. If you don’t have solutions to protect good jobs and families, your comments have zero value. You fuel anti-American sentiment then complain about anti-Americanism.

I hope Ontario enjoys more tanking automotive employment because of high labour costs, high energy costs, taxes, and regulation. https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/201553E

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/11/20/female-genital-mutilation-michigan/1991712002/ I had been following this case and am very disappointed in this ruling. Really, really disappointing to see democracy and Western values used against us in this way. Kudos to Islam and their idiotic Western progressive supporters. They got what they wanted - women's and children's rights are going down the outhouse hole and we can't make laws fast enough to stop it. They are actually saying that this practice needs to be "debated". And that the only reason for the law is because some might possibly find the practice cruel and repulsive. I'm in shock and scared for women.

Most people, whether Americans or not, get the 2nd Amendment wrong. Within the United States, both sides of the spectrum also get it wrong. This is because we have allowed the NRA to set the debate, so all positions both for and against the second amendment tend to follow their preferred language. (The opponents in this country and abroad simply add "what a horrible idea" to it, but they're still following the wrong reasoning.) The NRA argument is thus: the founding fathers wrote the 2nd amendment so that, if the U.S. government were to become tyrannical, the people--using their privately-owned firearms--could overthrow the government and establish a new one that would re-assert their rights and liberties. If we take away all privately-owned firearms, or even some of them, they say, it will gradually turn the U.S. government into a dictatorship. What the members of the first Congress REALLY intended was this. They believed putting a large, standing army into the hands of the federal government was a bad idea. It was antithetical to liberty, they reasoned, to have a centralized army like that. Instead, maintain and arm the state militias. Should there be an emergency that requires the army to assemble, the bulk of its manpower will come from the state militias. Congress at any time can call the units of the state militias (today called the national guard) into the service of the United States. The only way to have state militias was to allow the people to stay armed, so when it was called up, they'd have their own arms. (Other arms like field artillery would of course be government-funded, I'll go out on a limb and assume that few Americans at the time owned their own cannon.) The federal and state governments at the time were more minimalist; taxation was much lower (there was no payroll "income tax" at all) so they didn't want to have to pay for everyone's musket or rifle. It made sense to have armed private citizens if you were going to place the bulk of America's manpower in the hands of the states. The founding fathers did not, however, assume that "just in case the government becomes tyrannical, we'll need to overthrow it so let the people have arms." That's complete b.s. No government has ever planted within its founding document the seeds of its own eventual destruction. That's a ridiculous idea. Rather than the NRA's assumed "just in case", the founders came up with a way to make sure that didn't happen to begin with: keep the manpower out of the hands of the feds, period. That way, it can't GET tyrannical in the first place! Up to the second world war, this model of placing most of the manpower in the states was used. It was the necessities of the second world war and the cold war which followed, that required a standing armed forces in a way that would have startled the founders. The second amendment was a great idea. It's just a pity that most peoples' interpretation of the second amendment is so incredibly off the target.

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment. Chrétien navigated a very difficult recession, kept Canada out of Iraq, and set up important structural budget changes that reduced Canada’s debt. He had a pretty successful run. As for USMCA, I don’t think Trudeau should’ve signed it or that Parliament should ratify it, but I don’t think it was an easy call to make. It bothers me that Trump can use completing an agreement to his political advantage.

I work in Project Management and a big part of it is anticipating risks and mitigating them. But in this "system", every time you mention a risk, the dictator puts you on the ignore list.