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We paid a man to fight and kill Canadian and American soldiers. That's how stupid this all is.

Yep, any day now. Real soon, real soon.

It has little to do with race. Otherwise dislike of immigrants wouldn't be greater in third world countries where the immigrants are the same race. The antipathy to foreigners which helped push BREXIT over the top was largely about eastern Europeans. It's not skin colour that makes you an outsider in most western societies. It's language, dress, culture and behavior. People are much more comfortable with Sikhs than Muslims. Why? Generally speaking Sikhs are more 'brown' than most of our Muslims. They are also distinct in how they dress - or at least the men are.

Considering you have no idea what my stance is, or even if I am American, then yes you better end it right there.

Purposefully misrepresenting my statement is nothing but trolling.

I have an objection with your attempt to make it about race. One can buy land without moving there while you just proved my point about reciprocity.

China does not represent peace OR legitimate trade relations. Canada does not get the same reciprocity from China, they can buy land, but we cannot. That kind of thing. China is a huge threat via cyber threats and they are a huge thief of intellectual property on a global scale.

Are you really Canadian? I guess you don’t enjoy those transfer payments to your province. You think that the wealthier states will transfer money to you? Ask Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi...The US doesn’t have equalization. What about unemployment insurance for seasonal workers?

Without a doubt the most stupid post I have ever read on this forum and that says a lot. Reality check? What a selective revisionist take on history with no reference to Hitler, Korea, the invasion of Canada by the US. You are a classic example of a pimple face historian. Go look that up. Before you pose as an expert on Canadian military history and tlk down to others clear up your pimples and learn about Canadian military history. Start with who Hitler was. Good God do you even read books? Of course not. Life is a ten second fractured message on the cell phone followed by infinite universal wisdom and awareness. Someone get me my tranquilizer gun. I need two shots to his left buttocks. Its clearly out of control.

I'm surprised so few have weighed in on this topic. It was the basis of the lead editorial in Sunday's Toronto Star, 'Don't undercut strong message', which noted that we cannot at present deal with China on a business-as-usual basis. The Star editorial questions the purpose of the parliamentary delegation being in China: "So what on earth is a delegation of Canadian parliamentarians doing jetting off to China prepared to deliver a softly-softly message about how relations between the two countries are really just fine?" These are not normal times and the current dispute with China should prompt the Trudeau government to review its approach to dealing with that country. When the generally pro-Lib Toronto Star has jumped on the issue, you have to wonder why so many Canadians seem blase about the situation. If I were one of the Canadians arbitrarily detained in China I think I'd wish that I held a different passport.

Canadians are very proud of their country, which was never a melting pot. That’s the point. I’ll explain it at a more grass roots level. There’s an American way of doing things and there are more social pressures to be the American way, which in a way is limiting. The US is more about its sports teams, which is at the centre of its education system; and more about its military, because there’s usually some foreign war and there’s an associated super power mentality that expounds assertions of power. There’s a relationship between these activities that relates to empire and its circuses. Canada has a proud military heritage, but it’s more related to peacekeeping and protecting allies and people. Immigrants are freer to be themselves, and make no mistake, multiculturalism can impact national cohesion if people stay in cultural ghettos, but that isn’t actually what happens. By the second generation immigrants’ kids are playing hockey, hanging out with people from all different backgrounds, sharing music, etc. That doesn’t make Canadians commie snowflakes or whatever derogatory term you want to call us. Don’t get me wrong, the differences from Americans aren’t dramatic and we all enjoy much of the same music, films, professional sports, etc. Just stop characterizing us as lesser or weak because we’re not exactly like you and don’t have identical views. Do I know Canadians who would fit in with Republicans? Yes. Do I know Americans who would be at home with the Liberals or NDP? Yes. Everyone just relax.

Most of the fodder for knee jerk Canadian America bashers is coming from your own domestic self hating America bashers, the Hollywood Liberal Panty Waists et al, the Canadian Liberal media is just the farm team for the American liberal media, they're all looking to get a job down there, every Canadian media hack aspires to be the next Peter Jennings It's like, I've spent hours on American dominated web forums defending America against ceaseless and vicious rhetorical assaults from American lefties, exact same sort of sneering contempt you see round here, and far worse, because the America bashers on this forum are pretty pedestrian and totally unoriginal, the American lefties are much more aggressive in their trolling of other Americans, and they're constantly updating their material. Blue State liberals have essentially been Canadianized, they want America to be Giant Canada, and they lash out at it for not being so.

Even when it does display such allegiance, it is often based on the usual pathetic anti comparisons to the United States. Here is a perfect example of a typical Canadian media (state funded CBC) mindset that "trolls" America while heralding and defining Viola Desmond as Canada's "Rosa Parks", an American civil rights icon. Poor, poor Americans...their antiquated dollars with dead presidents only dominate the entire world (dollar hegemon)...unlike the Canadian peso. Canadian currency evolves while the U.S. is stuck in the 1700s

Socialism is the opposite of social responsibility, social responsibility is an individual trait, as in; you feel responsible for your immediate land owning neighbors for example, whereas within the collectivist paradigm of socialism, nobody is responsible for anything, as in; you live in a public housing project where nobody does anything about anything because nobody owns it so nobody cares.

Argus, I don't see it as a big problem here. By your own admission, trolling is prevalent on the internet. All discussion forums suffer from trolling. The comments sections on news web sites are even worse. Perhaps the problem is that people actually LIKE reading and responding to trolls. In fact I cant think of a member here who doesn't at least occasionally commit "trolling". By that I mean write a provocative post directed towards forum members. Trolling is part of what almost every member does, thus some minor trolling is being allowed. The decision to clamp down and delete posts, or suspend a poster is thus a judgement call. Personally I think our moderator does alright, considering what he's got to work with.

U.S. jobs up BIGGLY in December...my phone keeps ringing !