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Growing numbers of Canadians love paying their taxes. Because they don't pay any, and get fat refunds. On average, two of every five Canadian households do not pay anything towards federally and provincially funded expenses such as health care, education, community and social services, national defence, public safety and even the good old Canada Revenue Agency. One household of every five pays much more than 70 per cent of all of those costs. It didn’t used to be this way, but it is now. The implications of this around election time are difficult to enumerate. But think of it like this. There is a lovely club that 100 people belong to. 40 of them pay nothing towards its upkeep. 20 of them pay most of the bills. Every few years there's a big meeting where many of the member eagerly propose new spending on bigger TVs, more comfortable chairs, perhaps a swimming pool or another tennis court. But they're unabashedly proposing all this stuff knowing they're not paying for it. And when those 20 members who DO pay for most things complain they get angry and call them greedy and fume that they have lots of money so they can afford it. Financial Post

Does this mean the Little tur...er...I mean TRUdeau is swearing off his ideological allegiance to the left? https://globalnews.ca/news/4916850/lima-group-canada-venezuela/ Now, his Daddy was a card carrying Communist, and he grew up admiring and befriending such luminaries as Fidel Castro, so how could he possibly turn his back on the Bolivarian Revolution and his fellow traveller Maduro???? Do you think there might be an election in Venezuela this year? How about Canada?

The rank and file don't want to admit it, but it is very much like a game of Sid Meier's Civilization...with winners and losers. There will be ONLY be one world government if one culture dominates all the others. And which would they prefer??? Which culture other than that of Mozart and Einstein? Kaiser Bill had a point...it seems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

Bingo. Give this man a cigar, beer, or whatever he likes! Things were moving in the right direction under George W Bush. "I looked into his eyes, I saw that he has a soul." Possibly the most hopeful statement to bridge US- Russia relations in decades. The administration that followed was far less kind, far less interested in thawing barriers.

The comparison you are trying to make is ridiculous. Let me ask you a question, what is it that helps Mr. Putin? Would it help him if we made more nuclear weapons, and he did not? Again, I cannot help it if you refuse to understand, and are simply trying to be difficult. If that is the case you'll receive no answers from me. Only my sincere, heartfelt sympathy.

In the future, Russia would make a far better ally than opponent...or outright enemy. I would support any move that further thawed remaining barriers between Russia and the West...Canada and the USA in particular. Want to know why? (see below) Hockey...that could be somewhere in Manitoba with different lyrics. That's Pelageya...beloved Russian singing star...could be somebody from my town... Together, we could set this planet right.

Agreed....if Canada is better motivated to diversify trade because of Trump's policies, then Trump has done Canada an enormous favour.

Now, which end of the rocket do you hold the match to, again?

No less than Canada.....another shipment of LAVs is heading to the KSA from London, Ontario.

I think it has been scrubbed, the links on here to the documentary no longer exist. https://barthsnotes.com/2011/02/15/channel-4-documentary-on-extremism-in-muslim-school-and-violence-in-madrassa/ Meanwhile AN ILLEGAL immigrant, 30, has received life imprisonment for killing his 17-year-old German girlfriend “because she refused to convert to Islam”.Identified as Ahmad S. due to privacy reasons, the Afghan was found guilty of murder by the district court of Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At least he was caught and sentenced. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8368632/illegal-immigrant-killed-girlfriend-refused-convert-islam/

So let me get this straight....the countervailing tariffs that Canada imposed on itself for American exports from GOP states is causing so much more additional pain in Ontario and Quebec, Trudeau and Freeland are begging Trump to remove the U.S. Commerce Dept tariffs on steel and aluminum so they can remove their own, self imposed tariffs. Can't make this stuff up.... https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/ontario-quebec-urge-feds-to-do-more-on-u-s-tariffs

You really should learn more about Black culture...

Again, the irony lies in your attempt to admonish another member's opinion on CanAm trade by referring to what is clearly an American novel published in 1852.

Love the irony here...even your analogies use American culture.

Kimmel/Fallon next up for blackface hell...leftists eating their own. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kimmel-fallon-avoid-ralph-northam-controversy-in-monologues-both-have-histories-using-blackface-in-skits

Nothing to do with nationalism... it was good American helped in ww2 ,but bone spurs and his crowd of cowards had nothing to do with it. We know what he is.

History proved him right.

Deflection wouldn’t be considered a goal ,it woukd be considered a defection, but i did notice that since macron schooled trump he hasn’t repeated his nationalism claim again,

I don't live by Einstein's leave, but I do note that he wrote the letter to FDR which made the Manhattan Project, so didn't have the courage of his anti-Nationalist convictions apparently.

I think the main reasons for the greater number of gun deaths in the US are more guns, more semi and fully automatic weapons, more handguns (as opposed to hunting rifles), more socio-economic polarization, and a more militaristic, violent social history. The US suffers from “the poverty of the commons”, which means that when I leave my gated community or more privileged area, I enter more dangerous and less predictable territory. I’m privately wealthy but at risk outside my hood. I can’t walk anywhere I want, especially at night. That represents a limit on freedom. If I get out of my dented Mercedes in old Merrakesh, I have to deal with the social conditions around me, the desperation and blight in the street. This is the problem in much of Africa, India, South America, and to a lesser extent, Russia. The health and welfare of the wider society impacts every individual, including the rich. It’s not that we want a “nanny state” to take care of us, it’s that my success is linked to the successes of others, at least to a minimum standard. The every man for himself law of the jungle sets people at odds with each other. It breeds alienation and exploitation. I’m not sure socialism solves the violence problem, but many socialist policies can help. Bernie and Cortez understand this.

Yes, and anyone else who has the keen ability to discern a bullshitter. Intelligent people in politics would have a plan, develop relationships. Then in the event of a problem they calmly consult with those who know things. Only a child lives day to day without a plan. A child, and a boy king.

Got distracted by Pelosi, sitting behind Trump. What's up with her mouth? She seemed to be sucking through her dentures, or what! And you could tell when she doesn't agree with Trump - her lips seemed to work overtime!

It's not possible for Mr. Trudeau to take that position and be taken seriously. It is too late for him to establish himself has politically credible, let alone normal. He and his government have made enough mistakes already re: the Chinese debacle. They've stumbled a number of times, illustrating they are out of their depth on foreign relations. Perhaps the only person who understood the Chinese was McCallum, who tried to use a press event to say the right words that would make the Chinese back off a little. His statements were nothing but empty Chinese-style rhetoric, lots of nice words, reassurance that all will be well and that we are all friends, while making no firm commitments. McCallum's speech followed the three golden rules to doing business with this country: never impose your own values; never interpret acknowledgment as agreement; and don’t assume the people you are talking to have any authority to strike a deal. Chinese understand what rhetoric is. For this however, he was shit-canned, and in a rather inglorious way. This too sent a message to China. Mr. Trudeau could have done a lot more. He could have reached out personally to his contacts in China, if he had a useful relationship there but he doesn't. Instead, he has taken an adversarial approach by his constant virtue signalling that has alienated him from having a useful personal relationship. There is not a damn thing he can do to remedy the situation, but he can avoid making the situation worse, by keeping his festering clapper shut.

On the other hand, my suggestion is that he simply SHUT HIS LIBERAL TRASH-MOUTH YAPPER.

No, that's an example of you using hyperbole and exaggeration. Why don't you watch? Then you can decide for yourself. Oh! That's right, you don't actually want to know, you just want to indulge in your usual verbal fart fest.

Then you obviously haven't watched any question period. If you had you'd know that Scheer has a first rate team who regularly run rings around the Liberals and decimate them.

Same shit different pile...Lots of promises no meat.....want to impress me tell me how your going to mange all of this.......did you discover the magic pill, or maybe the magic weed.....How are you suppose to deliver on something that has eluded the liberals for their entire reign of terror, thats what Canadians want to know....Because no one including the libs or cons have been smart enough to fix all these messes....

It seems they want to do better by being even more involved in their vision of micro-managing the economy taking the "best" from the New Democrats and nationalizing industries and the "best" from the Liberals of soft on crime. The are a jumble of left and further left that they seem to crave, with a smattering of the right they really don't understand. They should be natural Trudeau fans.

Are you saying the "accommodation" push only emerged after the Quebec mosque shooting and the politically opportunistic M-103 (which was clearly a progressive dog-whistle)? If so, surely you jest. But your post is so poorly written that I can't figure out the actual point you're trying to make.

The systemic problems of modern capitalism are certainly worth discussing. That some governments, including our own, have become so enamored of a form of globalism that seeks the marginalize the ability of nation states to protect their own citizens should cause those who actually believe in democracy to shudder. One of the big concerns about modern capitalism is the decline of actual competition. Monopoly and oligopoly have become its goals. This trend is now being acknowledged by economic analysts in the developed world. Further, the rise of state-sponsored competition from the developing world is exacerbating the situation. I tend to apply Marxian methodology to my analyses of these issues and think it would be helpful were more academics to put aside their prejudices and do so as well. Understanding Marx's views on monopoly capitalism might lead us to find practical solutions to it as it did in the post WWII era when we adopted the mixed-market capitalist model. An incoherent neo-Marxian academic perspective, which I'm sure Marx would abhor, has emerged in the vacuum that since developed. We need to honestly, rationally and intellectually analyze the current economic model before it leads to its logical objective, which is to neutralize democracy.

Let's set the record straight a bit: First of all, there is no such thing as a functioning economy or society that does NOT have some social policies that one could easily consider "socialistic". Sick care and social welfare being at the very top of those lists. I would really like to hear/read the official Canadian public education position on the FSU. I don't doubt they teach THAT it failed, I would just like to know if and what they teach about WHY it failed. Similarly for China. Yes, the CPC currently rules there, but one's history knowledge would be very inaccurate if it did not specifically teach that the Great Leap Forward was a failure in policy and administration that resulted in the death of as many as one hundred million Chinese - I believe the greatest single human tragedy in the history of the world - conveniently ignored by the CPC and left of the West. If there was any such thing as accurate portrayal of the facts, Current Events classes would point out that the suffering and economic collapse of Venezuela is 100% the result of prosecution of a Bolivarian socialist strategy and policy for that country. Also worth noting that anything that even vaguely close to the reasons that China is doing so well is the fact that it's Communist government has seized (and manipulated mercilessly) the capitalistic policies of the developed world and has been permitted to exploit the open markets of said capitalist economies. How does that related to Islam in Hogtown? I think you need to distinguish very clearly between Liberal thought and liberal thought. The latter is pretty much middle of the road Canadian. Liberal thought seems to require complete disregard for anything that resembles the truth or reason. Accommodating Islam is one thing, but putting on some kind of pedestal as a thing beyond criticism by mere mortal infidels is the kind of idiocy that comes from the immigration policies that invite ideologies that are in no way compatible with what WAS once Canada's tolerance and drives otherwise reasonable people into a polarized opposition to what THEY (i.e. WE) can clearly see is a HUGE mistake for our country.

Ironically, I find that individuals who mention George Soros are the best example of education systems in collapse. They tend to eschew mainstream media sources (which itself is fine) but replace them with rumour-mongering and conspiracy sites (which reflects a lack of critical thinking). Soros mentions in particular are a marker of someone who reads bullshit fake news sites. This list shows the top spenders and I believe Soros isn't in the top 10. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaires-are-top-political-spenders/ Let's see if you can be as critical of your own habits are you are of the 'education system'.

It is very easy to blame the ultimate demise of Western democracies on socialistic policies and parties, but reality is the giant elephant in the room comes from what is assumed to be the political "right". Remember the 1% movement that got squashed in the US due to lack of anybody knowing or caring WTF was wrong? The incredible inequity of wealth distribution is a symptom of where capitalism has split into two components of use of money - actual capitalism whereby money is used to add value to resources, CREATING wealth from productive endeavour and Casino Capitalism doing nothing more than re-distributing wealth in an endless volley of speculative transactions that sees debt instruments, equities, synthetic instruments and entire companies traded in an upward inflationary spiral. The latter is the playground of the globalist community (and others in finance) where investment is handled by institutions that end up with massive blocks of stock without actually earning it, and who then appoint boards of their own ilk who in turn hire finance friendly management that they corrupt with unbelievable compensation packages. CEOs in sane times might have earned 10x other employees, but in today's business world, they are give each other massive blocks of stock from nothing more than showing up for work. When you see execs in the tens and hundreds of millions a year, and occasionally BILLION$$!! you SHOULD know that something is really, really wrong. The 1% movement could sense it, but not understand it. THIS is what fuels the socialist agenda: you can no longer get your share by working, so just tax the rich and give it to them from government - many of whom today actually DID simply rob their shareholders of the bux. Until we understand this fundamental problem, we are doomed to keep running around in the same circle while the banksters continue to rob the world blind.