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Won't it be too late then? We already have laws regarding immigration that we are ignoring and refusing to enforce. That tells me that this government agrees with the Pact - that all countries should be required to open their borders to anyone at any time for any reason and the existing population must provide for all their needs/wants/desires. Once it becomes law that anyone, from any part of the world can walk into any country at any time and expect to be given housing, healthcare and social assistance for life, it will be too late to challenge. From the Pact, it appears that this is the goal - open borders across the world, the rights of economic migrants coming before all else, with the native populations only having the right to STFU and pay for it all.

A panel of federal judges just dismissed ALL 83 ethics complaints leveled against Justice Kavanaugh The Dem hit job against an honourable man has failed

I'm not what one would call a Trump supporter to be fair. I do believe that Trump,like any other American, does deserve due process. If you watch CNN or MSNBC you would think that he is without a doubt,guilty. I'm of the impression that what he's accused of doing or has done isn't clearly defined as a crime. So he praises Putin, Kim and supports Saudi Arabia,how is that different from Canada's Justin Trudeau who openly expresses admiration for Fidel Castro and the Chinese dictatorship to name but two? You seem to be unaware of Hillary Clinton's ties to Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html Politicians lie? Wow that's news to me! It's fair to criticize Trump of course,but only someone that is willfully blind believes his 2016 opponent wasn't deeply flawed to put it mildly.Enough with the drama queen routine.

Are you sure you are from Vancouver? Tommy Douglas was leader of the New Democratic Party and Premier of Saskatchewan. Social Credit was lead by W.A.C. (Cece) Bennett in BC. Bennett expropriated a profitable B.C. Electric Corporation that provided good service at low cost and he paid the share holders pennies on the dollar. He called the new corporation BC Hydro, a government owned utility that was and is drowning in debt, providing poor service at high cost to the consumer. How can you live in Vancouver and never have heard of the Bennetts. They even sang a song about their corruption. Remember Rolf Harris..."There were two wild Kelowna boys and Bennett was their name..." It is probably on You tube.

Poverty, famine and wars have been going on for 100's of thousands of years. They are an integral part of the human condition. We have famine due to climatic conditions, poverty due to population constanly outstripping resources, and war because young men are stupid and old men are greedy. I did not praise them. I praise the banks in Canada because without them, you could not own a home, or a car and you would not have a job. Where would you keep your money? How would you have a pension fund or insurance? Some posters whine about paying interest to the banks but for tha last decade, interest rates have been very low. If you don't want to pay interest, don't borrow other people's money. I don't know what your issue with globalism is. It makes international trade easier. It increases wealth around the world. It is the main source of income for the people of Vancouver...you know where that is.

Get real will you. If all were such great men then why is there still poverty, famine and wars in the world, and all still going today as we speak, and that has been going on ever since those mentioned above were in power? It is not we the people that create famine, poverty and wars but it is our crooked and lying puppet on a string politicians that have all been behind such atrocities. It is the internationalist globalists money changers that have been behind the push for more control, and more power, and all for the money that has been the problem for centuries. There are even young 12 year old children that are aware of this. Most grownups today are quite ignorant and stupid about politics to say the least. Your belief and faith in those men above has not solved the worlds problems but on the contrary have made things worse. Stop trying to praise men who could care less or give a dam about the world or you or me or thee. When will people ever learn that it is not we the people who are causing the problem, it is our leaders and our governments that are causing the problems. They can never be trusted anymore along with the lying corporate media. The Trump revolution has begun.

Children from an early age need to be taught economics in school, and how the system works, and not learn only about gender/sex and diversity, and the sky is falling in environmentalism which is what they all get from our liberal/socialist/communist education system now. They are being conditioned and brainwashed as to how to be good little politically correct zombies. Schools today do not teach common sense and logic anymore but more of emotionalism and foolish silly ass talk. It's no wonder that most Canadians today are ignorant as to how the real world works from all their years of being brainwashed in school. But hey.

Yes. I imagine that's what a lot of Germans said until the Jews were actually being loaded into cattle cars. But by then it was too late.

And what, exactly, do you know about any of this? Why have several countries, including quite a few democracies, refused to sign the pact on grounds of its potential impact on their laws and sovereignty? I suspect they employ well-educated lawyers who've warned them of the pacts implications. I think that apologists for this pact, who defend it on grounds that it's non-binding, don't actually understand the practical meaning of the term. As I noted in response to another post, all international law, with the possible exception of the Geneva Conventions, is theoretically non-binding. Under the Westphalian sovereignty model that's governed the relationships between countries since the 17th century, international law is non-binding except to the extent that the sovereign states voluntarily agree to comply with the stipulations of the pacts, treaties and agreements into which they enter. In other words, sovereign states cannot be bound or compelled to enter into or comply with international pacts, which are thus voluntary and non-binding, but by entering into such pacts signatory states essentially agree to in good faith comply with their provisions.

1.) And you know this how? 2.) What, exactly, is your point? 3.) My point is that such pacts become part of the body of international law, which is defined as "a body of rules established by custom or treaty and recognized by nations as binding in their relations with one another." Under the Westphalian sovereignty model, which has governed the relations between states since the 17th century, all international law, except perhaps the Geneva Conventions, is theoretically non-binding except to the extent that sovereign nations voluntarily agree to in act in accordance with the multilateral agreements into which they enter. In other words, sovereign states cannot be bound to comply with international pacts, which are thus non-binding, but by entering into such pacts essentially agree to in good faith comply with their provisions.

Yes - Ha ha is noted. Here's @Scriblett talking about the threat of another gun registry. "After some reading I now believe that the actual threat is in fact another ‘Gun Registry’ as this treaty wants signatories to track all information including value and destination of all imported and exported guns." Yes that was five years ago, folks... Let's make sure to keep these non-binding UN statement threats organized...

Now again I agree in theory but we have not had statespersons, you know larger than life figures with visions like that since Churchill, FDR, Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, Disraeli, Woodrow Wilson, Konrad Adenauer, Dag Hammarskjold, John F. Kennedy, for so many years now. I think that is part of the problem. Our leadership is not made up of people of forward thinking visions anymore. Our educational system are producing institutional mandarins, people used to following not initiating and brought up to see themselves as preserving an existing structure not creating new ones. Now I may be a depressed old man, but I see a drastic change from creative to preservative leadership styles that do not promote the kind of things you say. I wish I was wrong but the leaders coming out of China, the US, Europe, Russia, not anything to be inspired by. In the corporate world I just don't see anyone...just blandness status qup stuff. The weird thing is what you suggest is probably a lot easier than what we have now with all the duplication from distrusting competitors.

I don't disagree, but you know, given the current situation, where Trudeau looks so over his head, and world leaders are batting him around like a piñata, I bet Canadians would be interested in the idea of a strong leader who can be a mean SOB. And I don't see that in Scheer.

The problem, of course, lies in generalizing risks as being applicable to entire populations, however delineated. We know, for instance, that most rapists are men but that doesn't render all men rapists. I think that many people get upset when Muslims don't appear to vociferously repudiate religiously-motivated terrorism. But would we expect any other group to assume this kind of collective responsibility? We should consider how upset people got when political adherents to the SJW perspective put this kind of collective group-blaming philosophy into practice with M-103 in the aftermath of the Quebec City mosque murders. It's neither fair nor productive, whatever the foot on which the shoe ostensibly fits.

Sure wish the Conservatives had done that.

I strongly support creation of shelters and assistance for abused women as no woman should be subjected to such abuse. Calgary population is about 3% Muslim but in 2016-17 Alberta shelters turned away 22,000. Research found up to 40% of women seeking help were visible Muslims” This is alarmingly disproportionate https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/muslim-domestic-violence-shelter-calgary-1.4948416

I haven't seen anything from the Rebel posted on here, the Sun recognizes realityand speaks for a large no. of people who don't buy into the liberal horse-sh.t. Those with purple faces are the ones trying to justify and push something that on the face seems to be a benign document but it is not. Ask Australia and the other countries who have not signed on why they see it as a threat to their own sovereignty and policies. Maybe they didn't because while couching it in beneign terms, it's intent is to see global mass migration become a legal 'human right', along with seeking to see criticism of such policies become "hate speech". It ‘s intention, again while seeming benign and non binding, (see the Paris Accords) has the intent and aim of allowing open borders along with the intent to shut down the media and anyone else who questions these policies by categorizing criticism as 'hate speech', via propaganda. While it gives a nod to free speech a Dutch politician has issued a warning which we should listen to: Though the pact is said to be non-binding, it is meant to establish the groundwork for an Orwellian campaign to cement mass migration as a human right legally above any and all criticism. This is how authoritarian, totalitarian gov’t start to oppress the people, by making it illegal to criticize anyone who speaks out against them, this is a supposedly benign document eventually becomes law.

This guy gets it...Trudeau and his Sunshine Band do not...when it comes to such matters. Blindly trusting "good faith" and naive inexperience have led Canada to this "botched affair". Just...plain...dumb.....

I've said this from the beginning. Buying Trans Mountain was simply a way for Trudeau to be able to control and derail the only pipeline project that had any hope of possibly being constructed. In his mind it was a great way to play both sides of the fence by saying on one hand that he was doing something to champion the pipeline, and at the same time ensure an indefinite delay in the project. Plus there was an added bonus that he got to waste another 5 billion hard-earned Canadian taxpayer dollars, something he excels at and is very anxious to do. With Francois Legault declaring that there is no way a pipeline will be passing through Quebec, and Trudeau supporting and backing this declaration up on the weekend, it is clear that Energy East is dead as long as we have a Government intent on driving wedges between provinces and killing Western Canadian energy development. It's no wonder that Western Canadians find the hypocrisy infuriating... one province...Quebec, is more than happy to accept 66 percent of all equalization payments (a boost of 1.4 billion for next year), derived in no small part from oil revenues generated in the west, yet slam the door on infrastructure intended to support said resource development. The arrogant shortsightedness of this Quebec Premier and the overt divisiveness and incompetence of our PM is difficult to comprehend.

Yeah and 2/3 of those deaths are suicide so I'm guessing us evil republicans are responsible for that too? Stop buying what the fake news is trying to tell you. And second, just because someone is capable of doing evil through the misuse of a tool doesn't mean I'm responsible for it nor does it trump might right to own said tool. Telling people to give up their gun because someone is misusing it is like saying since some men are capable of raping people lets remove all male appendages capable of said use.