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The format and moderators were awful, particularly Delacourt, not sure if she was sober... however. IMO Singh did very well, with Scheer a close second, he got a couple of good zingers in, particularly ' There is a vacancy for the Ontario leadership'. Good thing I didn't agree to have a drink every time Trudeau said Harper or Ford Trudeau straight up lied about the G & M report, and his Twitter account has been in non stop attack mode since the debate.

2 wrongs don't make a right. Giving someone ie: a job because of their skin colour or sex is discrimination, it's sexism and racism. Quotas are set up completely arbitrarily. The ends don't justify the means. When minorities are discriminated against we need to fight that and charge people with crimes.

I don't care much about the beard but I care that as a guy born in Canada he's spent much of his adult life working on behalf of Indian Sikh separatists and terrorists and working for Sikhs to somehow separate from India and establish their own country in the Punjab. Scheer might have American citizenship but it's Singh whose patriotism I question.

Please...the USSR was only about saving the world from the Nazis after the Nazis stabbed them in the back. Partners in crime before that...like two mobsters who saw mutual gain as more important than their obvious differences. All smiles as the mobsters sign the non-aggression pact.

They need to turn off the microphones of anybody speaking out of turn or too long.

What is most frustrating in these debates is the unwillingness to say anything of substance. I wanted to hear new ideas, but Trudeau is just more Trudeau and Scheer is just more Harper. Between the two, it’s Scheer, but there’s nothing new in either platform. May and Singh are predictably unrealistic and ideological. Bernier was the most low key and polite, with the most unique things to say and the least opportunity to say them. I may disagree with some of his views but I want to hear them. If Scheer wins he will be easily emasculated by the left, as Ford has been in Ontario. Basically nothing changed in Ontario and nothing will change in Canada.

What a crock of shit, perhaps you should visit Europe where the allied grave sites that number in the hundreds and contain thousands of troops that would suggest that Herr Stalin did not destroy Nazism by himself.... He had a lot of help.. Anything else would be a lie... Still wonder what the world would be like if Patton got his way and continued WWII right into mother Russia...Russia under Stalin's command managed to surpass the numbers killed by the Nazis by some est 8 million people , no wonder Patton was tossing around the idea to continue the war and invade mother Russia.... https://historyofrussia.org/stalin-killed-how-many-people/

It's pretty weird how many of our top 6 politicians have close-to-the-heart ties with terrorism. Trudeau lets islamic state terrorists walk around to "be powerful voices against radicalization", he paid Khadr, stopped bombing isis, let a convicted terrorist keep his citizenship even though he came here under false pretences, chums with J Boyle, refused to acknowledge that islamic state was committing genocide, won't say islamic state or ISIL or ISIS which is what they call themselves - he has to use a cute name that means nothing to Canadians, refused to call out anti-Semitism at the al quds day hate rally.... May shreiks "Omar Khadr you have more class than the whole fucking cabinet!" Singh chums with everyone from India who has dreams of blowing people up for Khalistan. I honestly thought that Sikh extremism wasn't really a thing, aside from one attack in the '80s, up until a few weeks ago. A full 50% of our 6 gov't leaders are very terrorist-friendly. I never though that I'd say those words.

I agree , I think he conducted himself as he should have like a leader, he was clear, concise and confident...And while we both know he will not be PM , I think his good performance hurts liberals and benefits Cons....

The people that are starting to destroy the earth are the people who are living in the non-western countries of the world. They are the reason why the population of the earth is exploding, and who may be causing this climate change. They all are breeding like flies. When they can immigrate to any western country that they can get into, they start having many children in those countries also. Why do you think that the population of Canada has reason in over two years from 35 million to 37 million? Massive immigration and more children being born to these new non-western immigrants. The population of all of the western nations in the world is approx. 800,000 compared to the non-western countries where the population is over 6 billion and climbing. So who is really causing global warming/climate change? There is not one politician in Canada that will put the blame on where it belongs. They instead want to blame Canadians for climate change, and not blame the people who are causing climate change. These socialists and wacko environmentalist politicians like May are full of it. Politicians like May are able to get plenty of Canadian fools out to demonstrate, like we have seen happen in Canada over the weekend, by demonstrating and blocking traffic on bridges. Blocking bridges will not get them any extra votes or support when they try and upset other people's lives, and who are just trying to get by, and go where they need to go. Those fools only hurt their cause instead of helping it. Most of them are made up of welfare recipients, old men and women on pension, and hippie drug users. Those people have nothing to offer the world anything anymore but more bs, and only now enjoy creating more chaos and mayhem. I do not want to have anything to do with these environmentalist fools because they all appear to have fallen out of a tree that they were trying to save and hurt and did some damage to their heads. They offer nothing but job losses and to try and end our way of life as we know it today. Anybody in their right mind should ignore and not bother listening to those fools at all.They all are panic mongers with no real proof of anything serious going on here on planet earth. A few degrees more by 2050 will not make any big changes to the earth. Matter of fact it might even benefit earth even more. Hey, you never know, eh?

Jacee’s judgments are dangerous because such accusations destroy careers and reputations. Instead of discussing a particular argument or weighing facts, he is resorting to alarmist insult. It reminds me of the Salem witch trials or the local community spies who reported on counterrevolutionaries in Stalin’s Soviet Union. It’s another Spanish Inquisition, another McCarthyism. The victims are truth and democracy.

It's because you don't know what a White Supremacist is, and you simply think anyone who disagrees with you is a White Supremacist. That's why we don't admit to your bullsh*t accusations, you're so off the mark it's comical. I've seen lots of video of Antifa doing far worse than the supposed "White Supremacists" you claim to be fighting. Acting like you are on the side of the angels is laughable, you might be able to fool yourself, but you don't fool me. You're the real fascists Antifa.

You can't make me leave Cantifa, I ain't scared of you and your counter-productive band of soyboys who are too scared to even show their faces. Calling old lady's Nazi's and shoving little Asian girls doesn't make you tough, nor does it give you any moral high ground because you see White Supremacists under every rock.

He could if he was PM. And if he thinks wanting to cut down immigration is racist and xenophobic when Bernier proposes it let him show the balls to say the same thing to Quebec's government and people. Otherwise he's just a sanctimonious virtue-signalling hypocrite.

I'll come and go as I please. Not a republic. You ain't the boss o' me.

That’s probably your weakest, most racist post. Are you saying that Indigenous people or homosexuals are mentally or physically defective and can’t compete in the marketplace of business and ideas? Let me guess, you also think that unsustainable impoverished communities should be preserved by the state like artifacts in museums, so you can tell yourself how you saved and preserved them like Pygmies in National Geographic or endangered animals in a zoo. It’s good to be culturally sensitive, which is why I find your post offensive. You want to strip away personal responsibility and accountability because you don’t really believe that these groups can handle it. Criminal law shouldn’t apply to Indigenous because? Indigenous shouldn’t have to work and pay taxes because? The answer is that you think that they’re incapable of managing with the same rules as everyone else. You think they need to be taken care of. That’s the heart of systemic racism.

I view it as HIM not being woke yet. I don't mind Singh or his beard and turban except for: I have a bit of an issue with someone as young as he is and apparently well-educated and he believes a sky daddy is intently life-or-death interested in the length of his hair. When you believe absurdities......as they say. I feel like our choices are the Christian extremist, the Sikh extremist or the Islamic extremist.

Okay. I disagree She also thinks Sheer will never be PM. But she will? Is it her style also to apologize for her Christian beliefs? Because she just did that recently in an interview. I guess I don't like May's folksy charm and style.

Wow you like beards do you......me I think Elizabeth May was hot. Wow. Did you see her wave when she came in?

You don't know my opinion of Obama's foreign policy. The Kurd's are an example of Muslims that are actually progressive in gender equality and the things we in the West should embrace.

And Republican would criticize him for abandoning an ally. Like they did to Trump yesterday. This move in Syria shows that no American ally should feel that Trump has their back.

Khrushchev was a Commissar with the NKVD in Ukrainia (as the West called it) and Stalingrad regions if you recall your history. Bob Hoskins played him in Enemy At The Gates.

During the Cold War, the Soviets had "political officers" (commissars) embarked with crews on ships and submarines for indoctrination and spying on their own people, so large was the mistrust. This obviously stemmed from Stalin's days...just ask Leon Trotsky !

Stalin made the whole Soviet Union paranoid. It will happen again...just like the Germans...only this time Americans. Things improved slightly upon his death. But ol' Nikki had to produce or face a coup...things weren't very secure at the top after Stalin for anybody. Always a pistol behind a curtain...waiting. It is no coincidence that the Iranian Army coup (with CIA help) happened shortly after his death. Ol' Mossadeq wanted to cozy up to the Soviets forgetting that most of the Iranian Army officers had done a tour through Stalin's POW camps. Not big fans of the Russians...oddly.

The Soviets/Russians did not help their post WW2 charm at all with Warsaw Pact and Eastern Bloc. It was like....seriously ?...after all that crap during the war. Germany is about the size of Montana !

It was a world war...so many different theatres and combatants. Will likely never happen again on such a scale. Too expensive....nukes are cheaper !

See those small rotors...we called them "M rotors" on U.S. subs. They were worth more than gold. Most of the crew never even knew they still existed and were being used for naval message traffic.

General Heinz Guderian leading from the front as per-usual. Clearly visible in his personal command half-track is his Enigma coding machine.

This also helped them transition into NATO partners after the war. No more Nazi nonsense, just professional soldering. Hell, the Hessian mercenaries in America were Germans !

Even before that, the soviets had different doctrines and internal competition left over from the Revolution and WW1. It was like herding cats.

Right...this command structure persisted through the Cold War as well, with company level commanders and NCOs unable to make such decisions on the fly. It really bit them in the ass in Afghanistan. The Soviets had to fight the enemy...and themselves.

Indeed....most of these were made for Lend-Lease export....over 200,000. The Ruskies loved them...and copied them !

OMFG, 9 minutes in Lisa LaFlamme just tries to completely skewer Max Bernier over some tweets. Tweets. I sure hope that she throws some of Trudeau's actual laundry list of scandals back in his face later in the debate. Actual scandals. That the CTV always manages to diminish.

The thing the Soviets couldn't live without (besides US steel & chemicals...that includes gasoline) was the ubiquitous 6x6 truck of various makes and models. That heavy artillery didn't haul itself. They had a few good (smaller) truck models themselves but there were never enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor

The moderation was the shits . . . . Doesn't matter what May says . . . . she has no concept of how to run the business that is Canada. Scheer is a Liberal. This country's fucked.

Concern trolling is what it is. Ain't nothing wrong with Trump rocking the boat, that's a feature, not a bug.

If you say so....but the USSR was much more than Russia...Belarus and Ukraine suffered more than Russia as a percentage of population.

Well yeah but after Pearl Harbor I can't say they didn't deserve some payback. Maybe a bit too far, but it did give the world an actual sight of what weapons of mass destruction can do.

From "The Role of Lend-Lease in Soviet Military".....the Americans gave much to the Soviets: Efforts, 1941-1945" by BORIS V. SOKOLOV, which clearly states that the USSR was all but done for without Lend Lease. Quoting General Zhukov: "Speaking about our readiness for war from the point of view of the economy and economics, one cannot be silent about such a factor as the subsequent help fromthe Allies. First of all, certainly, from the American side, because in that respect the English helped us minimally. In an analysis of all facets of thewar, one must not leave this out of one's reckoning. We would have been in a serious condition without American gunpowder, and could not have turned out thequantity of ammunition which we needed. Without American `Studebekkers' [sic], we could have dragged our artillery nowhere. Yes, in general, to a considerabledegree they provided ourfront transport. The output of special steel, necessary for the most diverse necessities of war, were also connected to a series ofAmerican deliveries." Moreover, Zhukov underscored that `we entered war while still continuing to be a backward country in an industrial sense in comparison with Germany. Simonov's tuthful recounting of these meetings with Zhukov, which took place in 1965 and 1966, are corraborated by the utterances of G. Zhukov, recorded as a result of eavesdropping by security organs in 1963: "It is now said that the Allies never helped us . . . However, one cannot deny that the Americans gave us so much material, without which we could not have formed our reserves and ***could not have continued the war*** . . . we had no explosives and powder. There was none to equip rifle bullets. The Americans actually came to our assistance with powder and explosives. And how much sheet steel did they give us. We really could not have quickly put right our production of tanks if the Americans had not helped with steel. And today it seems as though we had all this ourselves in abundance" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13518049408430160

By rights and if the lacklustre support for Conservatives around here is anything to judge by shouldn't Andrew Scheer be asked the same thing about splitting the right wing vote? Lead, follow or get out of the way.

Accelerationism ftw. Better to let it burn than to hand it back over to the Harpercucks. Chaos is a ladder.

The issue isn’t survival of the planet. Earth as a life supporting planet will probably outlast humanity. What matters is an Earth that can support human life. That’s the world we must protect. Public policy that protects air/water/ecosystems and improves quality of life are the best climate change policies because the rewards are tangible: Planning communities where everything we need and everything that makes life pleasurable are nearby is a no-lose proposition. We reduce commute times, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions, yet we also feel our lives improving. Building more rapid transit gets more cars off the roads and reduces commute times. Having raw nature and farmland nearby provides a local food supply, hunting grounds, and recreational escape at the same time it provides a carbon sink that reduces CO2 levels. These are no-brainer policies that add value. We become more efficient and productive, not having to travel as much or as expensively. I’m all for these climate change policies because they kill many birds with one stone. Even if you’re a climate change denier, even if climate change is an overblown fabrication, the policies I described will improve quality of life and living standards. Green tech such as geothermal heating, deep water cooling, solar, wind, and even nuclear can reduce pollution while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Such tech should be widely implemented where it is profitable. The only argument for subsidizing green tech at a loss is to create the mass production economy of scale that makes units affordable to consumers, and ultimately profitable. High carbon taxes and other heavy handed approaches that impact cost of living for most people will always be a hard sell. Ultimately you’re buying into fear. It’s ecofascist propaganda. Make no mistake, far right anti-immigration sentiment and ecofascism could get along swimmingly, as they do in Italy. It’s in line with the kind of totalitarian central planning that brought us China’s one-child policy. The Environment has to be a desirable product in the marketplace at a price people are willing to pay. Sensible green policies are desirable and good for the economy. They always were. I’m against militant environmentalism for the same reason I’m against any movements that use oppression to make change: They impose a reality that is unnatural and less desirable. They need radical force because the ideas don’t inspire or sell themselves. The ends are used to justify the means, and of course, the lousy means employed prevent a better world from arriving: utopian promise to justify a dystopian present.

I want to reaffirm the importance of equality. MLK had it right: no discrimination based on colour, race, religion, or creed. Keep it simple. No special privileges for any groups. No Bill 21. No Indian Act. No endlessly debatable and questionable funding for equity. Everyone equal under the law. Everyone with access to healthcare and a strong education. Support for the disabled and vulnerable people such as poor elderly and children. Beyond that it’s whatever individuals can achieve. Legislation that is an attempt to engineer behaviour much beyond that should always be suspect.

I support Doug Ford because he is active and improving Ontario and he is a psychopathy who will cutthroat his way threw corruption. Mafia style politics help every now and then.