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The Constitution, which subsumes the Royal Proclamation of 1763, precludes cutting off support. What I'm talking about is figuring out a framework that will permit solutions to be developed moving forward. The British-imposed reserve and welfare system is the only model within which many indigenous activists and their supporters (including some politicians) seem capable of understanding reform. It's a counterproductive mindset, in my opinion. Pouring more money into a segregationist victim-based model simply won't resolve indigenous concerns in any constructive context. All subsidy-based economic models generate financial and psychological dependency. So, all sides need to think outside the box of the the 1763 solution, on which indigenous claims are currently based, if true progress is to be achieved.

No more than the snowflakes who freak out and jump on the table when "waycist" things are said.

A story that hit the headlines in NL last week: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hollohan-drug-arrest-1.3783772 This is the same clinic as that used by Dr. Sean Buckingham, an extraordinary coincidence? What strikes me is that the local medical board (CPSNL) has not been involved in disciplining many doctors for prescribing offences. In both these cases, it was left to the police to make the bust and, in Buckingham's case, the whole story was widely known long before anything happened. Canada has a very serious problem with opioid abuse and some doctors must be crossing the line but our regulators down here don't seem to be very pro-active.

I am a retired Peace Officer. The uniform I wore for 25 years was an abomination in the eyes of the Lord according to the Bible. According to the Bible, when I eat bacon, shrimp cocktail or a ham and cheese sandwich, I am just as much a pervert as a homosexual. Why are Taxme and Betsy not asking why the Conservative Party resisting these perversions?

Appreciated.. In fact I commend your civility in all seriousness on these boards.

I think our economic and political elites are very happy to see ethno-racial-cultural-religious divisions develop as these conflicts detract from any kind of cohesive reaction to the wrenching economic and social changes that are being imposed by the agenda of corporate globalism. These conflicts provide those in charge with a rationale to impose "solutions" that reinforce their broader agenda. The Western middle class is being eviscerated without much more than a whimper on the part of those being displaced, although we are seeing some pushback in places like France and America's rust belt. Perhaps my perspective, grounded in Marxian analytical logic, is old-fashioned in the context of today's progressives, who've sold out to post-intellectual neo-Marxian identitarianism. But I think it's the self-styled progressives who are being duped and transformed into useful idiots in support of an agenda they don't fully recognize or understand.

Does anybody know of an electric car currently on the market that can be charged in the same time as it takes to fill up the average gasoline powered car?Still quite a hefty price for electric cars as far as I'm concerned.One thing I think most people aren't aware of is the huge cost of replacing these batteries when they fail. I still have doubts about wind and solar power,even with advances in storage capacity.We can go for many days or weeks without much sun or wind and how long will the stored energy get used up?I think it's clear we will still need some kind of back up energy source. There is enormous hypocrisy from so-called "green"governments like in BC.Care to take a guess what happens to all the coal that BC exports?

This is where I have to get off the Ford train. He screwed up an important Ontario Power Generation acquisition through political interference that will cost Ontarians over $100,000,000. He is letting GM pull up stakes in Oshawa without a fight. Now he's messing with transit and land use planning (taking over the Toronto Transit Commission, weakening the Greenbelt). He could kill the golden goose if he isn't careful. Yes Wynne and the Liberals were too activist, but they were careful planners, adding higher learning infrastructure, scrapping coal generation, preparing Ontario for the new high tech green economy by building a cap and trade partnership with Quebec and California. Ford is being ham fisted. It seems like we've got too many dinosaurs in charge. I'd include Trump in that with his steel and aluminum tariffs that are hurting the auto industry. Trudeau is also wasting what's left of his political capital by grandstanding about leftist values and funding his pet projects on the backs of Canadians. We need smart managers in charge. There's nothing wrong with controlled immigration. I'm not sure Trudeau has thought through the costs or impacts of his policies on immigration. The problem for Canada, as always, is that it's hard for us to maintain progressive policies on climate, refugees, or much else if our southern neighbor isn't willing to pay the same price. The US is accepting far fewer refugees than Canada and it is pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. When Canada has to bare these costs on its own, the playing field is no longer balanced.

Sage caution from Joe Oliver: "Trudeau should not sign this attempt at international social engineering without extensive public consultation and a debate in Parliament." I don't think people realize how radical the globalist agenda that Trudeau supports has become. When I discuss the issue with others I often notice that eyes glaze over. Few can believe that politicians are transforming the country into a gigantic social laboratory. A lot simply can't comprehend the extent of the sunny ruse to which we/they are being subjected. The social support system ordinary Canadians fought to establish in the post-WWII era simply won't withstand the stress of an open border, particularly because the subsidy class will explode in size. Trying to support this system under the current model will result in a reaction that will make the 'yellow vests' protest by lower-income taxpaying workers in France look like child's play. Those of us living in the most apparent Canadian laboratories for this experiment, the Toronto and Vancouver regions, are already experiencing many of the emerging problems. Populations in these regions are, according to polling, the most unhappy in the country. This won't end well.

The high rate of incarceration of aboriginals reflect minor crimes. Argus your thesis fails to consider that the vast majority of their arrests are for alcohol related disturbances and in fact they are arrested often to sleep it off and not freeze to death. Your stats don't reflect where their crimes take place and their severity. If they did they would t show the vast majority of serious crimes are not done by aboriginals and do not result in arrests and that the crimes are are arrested for do not cause the wide spread damage to society as the crimes committed by organized crime and violent criminals. Their crimes impact negatively on their local communities and so their approaches to alcoholism which deal with it as a community crime make sense. The problem is the federal government is now trying to use that approach on non aboriginal child murderers something it was never intended for. The high rate of incarceration iof aboriginals s directly related to alcohol and drug abuse which is multi-generational and a collective social illness that harms aboriginal communities far more than our non aboriginal ones. If it concerns you, you might want to ask this current phony government to scrap the "Indian" Ministry. It's a total failure. It assumes there are "Indians" and that the solution to their problems is to throw payments at specific tribal leaders not demanding accounting for how the money is spent. The Nations of nations which is the aboriginal world has literally hundreds of tribal (nation) leaders some elected and accountable and doing a good job and others appointed and stealing the money. It's inconsistent and a recipe for chaos and conflicting standards to say the least. Next, since many aboriginals live in isolated communities, they will continue to suffer from mental illness associated with lack of social facilities and their disconnection from their own cultural values connected to living in rural areas in harmony with the surroundings. We should not patronize aboriginals.They have choices. One is to embrace their own cultural values and not reject them, so they can learn to reconnect to the environment they have become dettached from and the other is to assist them build self sustaining models of lifestyle, specifically, hydro-electricity and water delivery systems, solar and wind technology, recycling of organic waste and garbage and a system with Skype to connect communities to each other and medical and government services using models first used by Australia with its aboriginals where it used radio to connect isolated communities with medical support. It is a situation that will require aboriginals, stepping up and taking leadership roles. If our federal government wants to help it should be funding recreational facilities, water, hydro and education projects and it should control how the money is spent and not ignore when its not used for what it was intended which is what often happens now. Two solutions which work are to engage aboriginals in tourism and art related industries. The second is recruiting them into the military and in particular we could set up a much larger Northern Rangers militiato patrol our Northern waters with aboriginals who know those waters better than any Russian or American submarine. The problem is most Canadians who are not aboriginal do not want to live up North and there are not enough aboriginals in many isolated communities to sustain sufficient self sustaining logistical support such as stores, roads, hospitals, schools, even housing. Its a challenge. I think though simply looking at the fact that aboriginals consist of 80% of people in jail, which is true, in itself is not going to properly address the issue. By the way, the stats clearly indicate the person most likely to be arrested and accept a plea bargain for time served are black males not aboriginals. All that said, the failures of our governments to deal with the aboriginal issues is bi-partisan. No government federally has been able to deal directly with the problem because all fear doing unpopular things that will be required to bring in change. The current Prime Minister who sheds tears and brags what an aboriginal leader he is had a snit attack when in a meeting with him the leaders wanted to talk. He had a tantrum and said he thought they would only give brief fluff speeches. Caught on tape, he high tailed it out of the conference. Ass. Harper actually was a tough guy. He basically told the leader of the aboriginal nations he was sick of the corruption and get back to him if they could agree on anything. It was not appreciated at one level but it was on another as he's the only one to have had the balls to say phack off to useless meetings and conferences. There are some talented leaders in the aboriginal communities. The problem is they have a system of some leaders of nations being elected and others appointed either by threatening the community or claiming family inheritance or bribery. So its a tough situation of inconsistent rulers all brought together in a lose network headed by a council and a council head who does not have that much real power-he has certainly power to represent and use his authority with the feds, but the problem is he has little internal support. There is a lot of back stabbing between nations. Its not unified by any means. So in one sense its a recipe of anarchy. All I know is there is mass collective suicide going on with aboriginals under the age of 18. Very wide spread and its not in the media as it would make Trudeau look less than Saintly. Trudeau appointed two not one Minister and now the two disagree over what to do. Hey typical Trudeau. When you have a problem that you keep screwing up, double the amount of screw up.

Smith, Keynes, Friedman and Hayek didn't do much better - they failed to teach the difference between wealth being created vs. wealth merely redistributed.

Yanks are hated for reasons of envy. That, and their vocal support of their version of freedom, foreign policy, economic management and government. BUT, we have missed the really big reason: the largest export of the USA is entertainment, so the ability of Hollywood to communicate rubs the nose of the rest of the world in US pop culture and overall wealth. As has been mentioned, everyone hates. I love the US for most reasons, but hate it for being the home of the most egregious of human activities - speculative finance. That and giving the authority of the de facto central bank to private interests. Similarly, I love Canada for most reasons, but hate it for its wimpy deferral to the left and lack of entrepreneurial spirit and infrastructure.

This is a treaty which binds nobody but please sign it as we are told. This is exactly the treaty after which we have signed we can wave goodbye to any national sovereignty. I bet that in all countries which sign this treaty there will a lot of yellow vests in the future.

Right on. We're certainly not the only country, or the first, to do the imperialist colonialist materialist thingy. The Arabs boycotted Coke (the six day war fallout) but only because they could still drink Pepsi.

So far as attempting to develop clean coal tech, what is the point when solar and wind are already clean? It seems to me that is simply beating a dead horse. I think if you read my post you will note that I did not mention that electric power will replace aircraft, although it is a possibility if batteries continue to improve. In fact there are multiple designs for electric aircraft already in the works. All that is need is improved batteries to deliver the power. https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/the-electric-aircraft-is-taking-off/ As for trucks the latest electric powered designs blow away conventional diesel powered vehicles. https://electrek.co/guides/tesla-semi/ https://nikolamotor.com/one I agree that population is a problem. Humanity simply takes up too much space, but currently birth rates in most of the developed world are lower than the replacement rate. This is eventually going to result in a population crash in many nations unless they do what the US and Canada have done and allow large scale immigration. And I really fail to see what politics has to do with any of this except for the fact that large coal and oil interests have lobbied extensively to pressure politicians to oppose green energy. I see a direct historical parallel in early opposition to railroads and the internal combustion engine. Of course, we all know how successful that was.

We take part in bombing the middle east with is helping create the crisis and then saying we need to do something and take these people in. We can start by not bombing the shit out of the M.E and then engineering 'arab spring' uprisings causing 'civil wars' which creates more destruction and migration. All of this was predicted.

Oh! Oh! Oh! I know... Cuz they're a bunch of homos?

Indeed, it is only taxpayer's tax dollars so who cares. If king trudeau and his princess needs more tax dollars to blow than no problem at all we can find the money needed to kiss goodbye somewhere at taxpayer's expense. When are we ever going to see the day when taxpayer's start to really give a chit about how their tax dollars are being wasted. The taxpayers are the ones tat have to go to work everyday to make ends meet and pay taxes for the enjoyment of working for a living while our stupid and irresponsible dear leaders take their tax dollars and blow them on the rest of the world and now on this useless leftist liberal media that will always be the enemy and fight against the we the taxpayer. Bloody sad indeed. Now they want to steal and blow more tax dollars on their pet project called global climate nonsense. The earth needs carbon in the air to survive and our politicians and the media and the environ"mental"ists want to stop that carbon. How stupid can they be? A stupid question to ask I know.

We are now learning that Trudeau’s Liberal regime had awarded the Toronto Star a sole source contract to pay the Star journo’s to “cover” Parliamentary Committee meetings. Cos you know – only the Star is capable of reporting on Trudeau. (read spreading propaganda) Thank goodness this source contract was blocked by the ombudsman. https://www.blacklocks.ca/ombudsman-kills-contract/? A federal agency yesterday cancelled a $355,950 sole-sourced contract to pay Torstar Corporation reporters to attend public meetings. Authorities claimed only the Toronto Star was “capable”. The cancellation followed a formal complaint by Blacklock’s to Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions in an October 25 notice Subscription-Based Parliamentary Monitoring Services said it hired a digital news website iPolitics to attend two committees, Commons finance and Senate banking. Torstar Corporation bought iPolitics a month before the notice for $1.4 million, then laid off five iPolitics staff including reporters.

The problem extends to pharmacists too. Hard to believe some of this stuff: https://globalnews.ca/news/4458136/ontario-pharmacists-trafficking-fentanyl-opioid-crisis/

1) Speak up and say what ? You don't like it ? Why should anyone care ? Or do you have some evidence or case to make that non-trans people should care about ? I for one am fine with you speaking out, but given that people were actually beaten and jailed for being who they are, don't expect your message to be received reasonably even. There are still people alive who were discriminated against in a way that most see as unfair. Maybe if you had opinions against the Welsh or something fringe but irrelevant you'd be in safer territory. 2) And yet it seems you'd be happy with a law prohibiting people from kissing in public ? 3) Once again - YOU are the extremist here. I also don't see how this is not bigotry but maybe if you have some reasons then you can convince me.

I have a few questions: - Why do you assume they are 'afraid' ? - Doesn't government intervention into peoples' lives go against conservative tradition ? - What is LGBT indoctrination ? Do you feel like if you read a pamphlet you might be more inclined to engage in certain acts ?

You think the reserves are a Cadillac? They look more like a broken down Ford sitting up on blocks with a nest of skunks under the hood.

What is the native community? I think the problem there is that the representatives of 'the native community' are generally the ones who profit most from the current system, namely the chiefs. Their main interest is often their own power and wealth, not that of the reserve they're in charge of. I think that if people have no purpose in life they fall apart as a society. So why have they no purpose in their lives? Because there are no jobs there, and the money comes from government regardless of what they do or don't do. The homes they live in don't belong to them. The land doesn't belong to them either. Ambition drives human progress. What do you have ambition for if you're a young man living on a reserve? How do you improve your lot in life other than leave?