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So the latest liberal legal games involves Trudeau's good friend and alcoholic Seamus O'Regan who he recently promoted from Veterans Affairs - where from all accounts he did a lousy job. Some old veteran wrote a column for the Hill Times complaining that new veterans would get a lot less money because of the changes to veterans pensions, especially for wounded veterans. The ministry decided his numbers were pretty much accurate. Despite that, O'Regan writes his own column saying the veteran is dishonest and his numbers are wrong. The veteran sues for defamation, and the government has, so far, spent about five times more in legal costs than the veteran was claiming in damages. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-spent-60000-to-fight-25000-defamation-case-against-oregan/

The same thing we see now. You're happy with that?

Lots of self flagellation goes on with whites and our interactions with non whites. It's silly and juvenile, IMO. The world is a brutal place, humans don't treat each other very well, that hasn't changed in all of human history. Crying over human history is a waste of time. One can feel remorse and recognize actions as everything from improper to inhumane without weeping about it. Where does the Self Flagellation stop, and is it only reserved for white peoples interaction with non whites ? Does anyone demand the Mongols weep and apologize for their conquest and genocide of Asia and the fringes of Eastern Europe? Where are the demands that African tribes who captured and sold other Africans into slavery be forced to make amends? Likewise First Nations peoples had wars, killed each other, committed rape, enslaved and tortured other First Nations people. Is this every addressed ? JT may legitimately buy into the self flagellation over first nations, or be that emotional over a person who has passed, he may be emotionally unstable, or he may just be a very good actor <shrugs> IMO, it's not the type of leadership I desire to emulate. Human cruelty is universal. When we single out one race as the bad actors of history we distort history and build an illusion that will not help us in our understanding of man or progress of humankind.

Trudeau is the safe bet. He's trailing in an election that will be held this year so I would say 10-1 Trudeau loses first.

It's actually kind of low to call attention to someone's past jobs and denigrate them. Andrew Scheer was a real estate agent and broker and became an MP at age 25. Is he a better example really ? Ronald Reagan was a b-movie actor and union executive. I think it's good to respect all kinds of work as leading to one's life vocation.

People tend to vote with their pocket book. Trump has improved the American economy, Trudeau has not performed as well in that area.

Why not just vote for a party that is going to outlaw corporate welfare, pandering to the large companies.....maybe it is time we shook the political parties up and try another party....

What should make you cry is we Canadians voted these pricks in to government in the first place, and in most cases more than once...

I don't know. I just wish there was a way to make people with your sneering contempt for apologizing pay more for the restitution that's also due. I'd get a real chuckle out of that.

I am a writer and received a warning for referring to my own scholarly work which is a bestseller on Amazon. This site sucks lol. Too much censorship...what is the point then if you make a polite comment????????? Crazy! Especially if you are the author....

Assuming those condescending passive aggressive comments were aimed at me. I rarely watch cable news. The position of American mainstream cable news is overwhelmingly the position the Trump is a criminal and should be removed from office immediately because he worked with Russia to subvert the US election process. Not my position at all. Trump is just another president, he will come and go. I don't understand why so many people seem to have an unhinged and irrational hatred for the man.

With the most rigorous robust institutions of accountability we can devise. I'd start with a process that involves audits of digital and written records to validate that specific points of legislation and policies can be traced directly to the discussions and negotiations that produced them. Penalties for trying to get around the system should be severe and swift. Near total accountability can be achieved and is being achieved as we speak by some of the most secretive people in the world.

Agreed, it is fact. The initial information for the Steele Dossier was compiled by Nellie Ohr, then she worked with Glen Simpson at Fusion GPS who took the info and funneled it to Chirstopher Steele. Steele added to it with information from Russian Intel agents then packaged it up. Nellie Ohr passed it on to her husband Bruce Ohr at the DOJ. Fusion GPS was paid by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton Campaign for the Steele Dossier as Opposition Research. The claims in the Steele Dossier were proven false. The DOJ and FBI used bad opposition research compiled by DOJ associates and foreign agents from at least 2 countries to get a FISA Warrant. This was a poorly planned and executed mission on the part of the Obama Admin, but was necessary to cover their tracks once Trump was elected because the Obama Admin had been investigating Trump and spying on him since the start of 2016.

I would not go so far as to be declaring "all Cons = good" nor " all Lib = bad", but there is a very great chasm between the level of influence and the sliminess used to express it between the two. That said: some of our best fun has resulted in putting Conservatives behind bars. You see: a Red Tory is NOT in any way a conservative, because they don't have any respect for the law. There are just not many conservatives in the "Conservative" parties of this country. I admire what Philpot and JWR have done because I believe their motive was one of ethics, not political ambition.

Kids don't talk to parents if they don't trust them; they do talk to parents they trust. Existence of a club doesn't change that basic fact. Parents who are "out of the loop" on their kids lives need to look at their relationship with their kids rather than assume other people have to keep them up to speed. Gay kids want to be accepted by their parents but when (some) Christian parents would respond with outright rejection or desperate and intrusive attempts to "fix" them, is it any wonder they would prefer to keep this facet of their life from parents who would try to bully them into being different? The problem isn't the schools "keeping things" from parents or clubs that make being gay desirable. Its the ancient religious doctrines that makes being gay a sin that is the problem.

I'm on the fence about this. I don't think these clubs are the same as the Chess Club, however the student has the right to pursue knowledge on their own outside the classroom. Clubs are quasi-educational as they are hosted at school facilities, presumably with a teacher-facilitator. But on the other side, there is nothing about a GSA that contradicts religion as far as I can see, ie. associating with gay people isn't a sin. It is really a shame when parents mistrust their children so much that we need a court case to enforce tattling on their children. I don't see such interactions working well for the families.

Kids can decide when they want to talk about such things with their parents on their own time. They don't need you or anybody else butting their noses into their personal business. MYOB.

Those of us who voted for Dougie Ford were not expecting miracles, we are aware that undoing the damage of the Wynnderps will require a reckoning, and that can't be done overnight, it's going to take decades to dig ourselves out of this hole, and the real digging cannot start, until the pain comes. The pain will come, but by then Dougie Ford will be gone. In the meantime, do what you can to stop the bleeding. And stick it to the lefties too. Slaughter their sacred cows, starting with the rule of the teachers unions. Take it one day at a time. Shoot a sacred cow, then move on to the next one. Green Energy Plan; Blam! OPSEU controlled cannabis revenues; Blam! "Intersectional" education curriculum; Blam!