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No political party supports the Indian Act. Support for the Indian Act comes from vested interests within Indigenous communities. Another dirty secret is that residential schools were not some great targeting of Indigenous in an intentionally negative way. All schools were run by a mix of religious denominations and state funding. Education was valued, even if today our idea of quality education has changed. Many students were abused in schools, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Even today, if you come from a small distant community, you will have to move far from home to attend high school. Now there are Indigenous run high schools for such students, and guess what? There are still suicides and there is still substance abuse at such schools. It’s a contentious discussion because despite status Indigenous not having to pay taxes and having access to free higher education, there are indeed reserves and lands where there are water advisories and poor infrastructure, but at least some of this problem relates to the fact that these communities didn’t pay for much of what they have. It was provided by the state in what many would call unsustainable communities. Most people would move away from such places, but those who cling to the Indian Act or the idea that protecting the location of a community trumps all economic considerations perpetuate this bad situation. This is the problem with throwing more money at it. Sir John A. Macdonald is called a genocidal racist for saying that the government shouldn’t feed Indigenous people, but it’s a moral hazard for any government to create such dependency by feeding or housing people. It’s why nobody wants to live near public housing projects in places like Jane and Finch in Toronto. Government has become too interventionist and has created additional problems. Yet some political parties want more intervention. We see this in identity politics. There are more women than men in higher education institutions, yet affirmative action continues to emphasize recruiting more women than men. The state also has to stop using tax dollars and public policy to force feed a narrative that minorities and people with multiple minority identities (intersectionalities) require special treatment, extra funding, and additional job opportunities. These kinds of initiatives are unfair, unaffordable, and sow seeds of social discord. It relates to immigration insofar as charity starts at home. If we cannot afford to address our problems at home, why unnecessarily import new ones? I know so many well qualified Canadians who can’t find work. We don’t have a skills shortage as much as we have an unwillingness to trust the workforce that we already have. Some immigration is necessary to fill skills gaps and meet labour market needs, but what is happening now with immigration is far outside those lines. Many immigrants are arriving with little English, straining public services, heightening demand for housing in cities that is already unaffordable, and bringing worldviews that are very outside of mainstream Canada. Government needs to get back to basics.

This is an interesting read from a woman who married a Muslim man and spent years in a harem in Afghanistan. Her take on life in religious theocracies contrasts with her contempt for western feminists who excuse it even as they praise Margarate Atwood's Handmaids Tail. As Muslim women are being tortured, honor-murdered by their families, or stoned to death, sometimes for refusing to wear the veil, many Western multiculturally and politically correct post-colonial feminists are deconstructing and wearing the face veil and the head scarf as symbols of anti-racism and as a form of respect when they visit Muslim countries. Such feminists are also silencing and demonizing all other views in academic journals, in the media, and on feminist internet groups. https://quillette.com/2019/10/02/gilead-resembles-an-islamic-theocracy-not-trumps-america/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-gas-tycoon-and-the-vice-presidents-son-the-story-of-hunter-bidens-foray-in-ukraine/2019/09/28/1aadff70-dfd9-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html LMAO at WashPo. These guys are just massive liars.They have no qualms about saying something that is 100% the opposite of the truth: Is this what "unsubstantiated" looks like nowadays? LMAO! Ignore the text at the beginning, I don't know how accurate that is and it's not important. What's important is that WashPo is saying that there is no evidence that Biden pressured the Ukraine Gov't into firing their top prosecutor. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE KNOWN THAT THE EXACT OPPOSITE WAS TRUE! They can quibble over what the motives were and when the investigation actually ended, but the topic of why, and what Biden's involvement in that process was, seriously needs to be investigated. Can we be led to believe that Biden didn't want the investigation ended (or wasn't aware of it?) but he was suddenly so irate with that investigator that he held $1B in aid ransom until he was sacked? Did he say to himself "I'll stay out of the process of ending the investigation but once it's over, I'll make sure that the prosecutor is fired". Why was his son hired there, and who else was on the board? If you google that you get sidetracked every which way, but everything points to Biden's purity. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukraine.html BUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLcraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap. The hiring process isn't instantaneous and it doesn't happen out of the blue. Hunter B wasn't picking weeds from his garden and suddenly found out that he was hired to the board of a large gas company in a foreign country despite never having applied for it. They would have talked for weeks before he even got the job, and in that time we're supposed to believe that he never mentioned it to his dad? And when he got hired he never said "Hey dad I just got a job making $50K a week"? Does that kind of thing just always happen to him? Was he embarrassed by that paltry sum or something? The people who are saying that Trump is guilty and there's absolutely no need to investigate the Bidens because they're as pure as snow are just plain liars or morons. "I found out that my son got a $50,000 per month job in the country that I just visited 12 times in the last year when I watched Hannity. And then I never discussed things with him." WashPo is 100% pure garbage (their motto is "Democracy Dies in the Darkness" lol. Do they call their paper "the Darkness"?) It's worse than the National Enquirer. Anyone who would quote WashPo and diss Fox News is just a bona fide 1,000% idiot.

Trudeau tweets out $50 million to Trevor Noah to help third world education. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-criticized-for-tweet-to-trevor-noah-pledging-50-million-to/ Trudeau pledges $600 million to help pay for abortions for third world women. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-announces-billions-in-foreign-aid-for-maternal-and-child/ Trudeau pledges $2.65 Billion dollars to help poor countries fight climate change https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-pledges-2-65b-to-help-poor-countries-fight-climate-change And then progressives sneer at us for only caring about the rich.

To the fallen , may you not be forgotten.

It's not just the feminists silencing other view points, it's the BBC and it's Anti-Sikh, Pro-Islam Bigotry The Times reported that Indarjit Singh, 87, blasted the Beeb for “prejudice and intolerance” after he was told the broadcast may have offended Muslims. The BBC is not alone is shutting down opinions and discussion for fear of offending Islam, how about not offending other people for a change. However, this is another example of preferential treatment given to Islam. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/cogito-ergo-sum/the-anti-sikh-pro-islam-bigotry-of-the-bbc/?fbclid=IwAR0hC4ohp8mRRs80-Te1hQgSRsEbpgil_sOTzB3iZu_zmAcF2F_6aFiSqmo Sikhs are nothing if not a race of people who stood up to defy the brutality and intolerance of Islam. Now 21 st century political correctness and the Liberal desperation to appease Muslims attempts to deprive the Sikhs of their truth and their identity. Indarjit Singh, Lord Singh of Wimbledon, recently left the BBC Radio’s Today program’s Thought of the Day feature after 35 years. He claimed that the BBC had tried to prevent him from broadcasting an item about commemorating Guru Tegh Bahadur ji, who was tortured and executed by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb for opposing the forced conversion of Kashmiri Pandits to Islam and refusing to convert to Islam himself. The BBC objected on the grounds that it would offend Muslims. It was not the first time that Lord Singh had been prevented by the BBC from expressing Sikh beliefs in order to prevent offence to Muslims. This craven anti-Sikh bigotry must not go unchallenged.

Elizabeth May (and Singh) raise the classic question about dogs who chase cars...what are they going to do when they catch it ? If May formed a government, Canada would shrink even lower internationally, lower than with Justin Trudeau.

Maybe, but American speakers were shut down in Canada as well (e.g. Ann Coulter). It is too easy to blame the current situation in Canada on what Canadians see happening in the United States by gobbling up so much American media. Frankly, that is a very weak cop out from taking responsibility for domestic unrest and discord....by Canadians (some of whom crossed the border to protest Trump's inauguration in January 2017).

I served the free world, against the enemies of freedom, I needed to get paid so I could do the job, but I honestly would have done it for free when push came to shove.

Police say criminals get their guns illegally most often, coming from the US. They aren't going to get drugs illegally through the US and then not get guns LOL.

Army Guy, I'm surprised at your naivety. Do you really think the Liberals don't know such a policy would be a waste of time and money? Of course they do! The point of the policy is not to deter crime and violence but to win votes! Liberal support is mainly in urban areas where people know very little about firearms. Those are the people whose votes he's going for. They hear 'assault weapon' and they think "Well sure that should be banned!'. Not one in a hundred will have any clue about what constitutes an 'assault weapon'. They just know it sounds, well, violent! Trudeau proposes spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy back rifles which are called 'assault weapons' because they're mostly made to look sort of military for marketing purposes. But the actual function of these rifles is virtually identical to other rifles not on the list. So we will spend half a billion buying and junking these weapons, and their former owners will then buy identical rifles which don't look so sexy. And urban liberals will champion their guy for doing the sensible thing and addressing gun violence! The Liberals are the style over substance party because with left wing voters, that's what works.

The last budget was a few hundred pages long. Most of those pages were dedicated to aboriginal and gender issues. Only 3 pages were dedicated to veterans funding and issues. That shows you the priorities of the Trudeau government.