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They're projecting their power with money. They're buying up ports and airports, and roping developing world government's into loans they have no ability to pay back (with the help of hefty bribes) and then using the harsh rules of the contract to take control of those countries facilities. They're using their monetary power in western academic institutes to force them into silence and acquiescence with China''s government lest they lose all their Chinese foreign students. They're forcing western companies to obey them, to hand over their intellectual property, to lobby their home government's on China's behalf. They're exerting cultural influence akin to censorship on Western media companies, who now will not approve any TV show or movie, or anything said in any TV show or movie which might offend China lest China take revenge by banning all their movies and TV shows from their internet and airwaves. And they're bribing politicians throughout the west. China is exerting far, far more power around the world than any other country right now, and that influence is growing. They're also rapidly modernizing their military, and starting to launch large aircraft carriers to exert their military power abroad.

I'm sure a lot of Conservatives are thinking of what will happen at the next leadership review after Andrew Scheer loses the upcoming election. I"m hoping he resigns before that happens, and that the Conservatives get someone further to the right, not left who will make it an actual conservative party, rather than the liberal light party it has become.

Canada should recognize Taiwan (The Republic of China) as a country and pursue closer ties and free trade with Taiwan. The Republic of China is a wonderful freedom loving country where gay people are even allowed to get married. Better yet, kick gay-killing Brunei out of the TPP and replace it with Taiwan. Tsai Ing-Wen is a wonderful president and it's a shame that we continue the Trudeau-Senior policy of ignoring the Republic of China and pretend they don't exist.

Let me suggest a more rightward platform which would not turn off most centrist Canadians. 1) On immigration. We would be cutting immigration in half (63% of Canadians want lower immigration) but also holding a study, done by unbiased experts, to determine what exactly immigration is capable of doing for us, what it is presently doing for us, and how to best adjust our immigrant mix and level for best results. This would include wide input from average Canadians (as opposed to biased interest groups), demographics experts and economists 2) On Health Care. We would be eliminating the Canada Health Act. We will instead adopt the best of European health care systems. This will include talks with the provinces to centralize health care financing so that there is just one health insurance payment system for all Canadians, and centralizing the purchase of drugs. We will be working with the provinces to increase the number of doctors and the number of senior care facilities 3) On Taxation. We will be reorganizing the tax system into a graduated flat tax, and increasing the GST, which would play a larger role in taxation as income tax drops. 4) On The military. The world is getting more dangerous and alliances have become shaky. We would immediately buy 100 F-35s, new APCs for the army, and would pressure shipbuilders to speed up construction of new warships. 5) We would work to remove agents of China's United Front, close down Confucius institutes, and work towards lowering the number of Chinese students in Canada. We would also put tariffs on Chinese imports and begin to restrict those imports unless China stops targeting Canadian imports, releases Canadians held unjustly in prison, and acts to restrict fentanyl exports to Canada. Chinese companies would not be permitted to buy out Canadian companies. 6) On natives. We would work to eliminate the Indian Act, and start working on relocating natives (voluntarily) who live on uneconomical reserves towards urban centres where they can find work. This might involve buying up land closer in towards urban centres, and possibly creating more 'urban reserves'. We would redirect money now paid to band offices to individual band members, who could then be taxed by their bands. Their homes would become their property, along with the land under them. 7) We would use federal powers to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers, which are estimated to cost the economy $130 billion per year. 8) End all marketing boards 9 lower corporate taxes but also eliminate dividend deduction and capital gains deduction for dividends or capital gains from equities over $250k per year. 10) Require evaluations of resource projects to be completed within a maximum of two years. 11) On guns. Minimum 2 year sentence (no parole) for anyone smuggling weapons into Canada or selling weapons illegally. Second offense raise that to 5 years. Third offense to 10 years.

Not all aspects of the Third Reich were running death camps. None-the-less.... You can't put lipstick on a pig and make it a princess. There is nothing redeeming about Islam in terms of Western Civilization as Islam was created to be its enemy. Not it's interfaith friend. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzREuchzOqiawpEpvEM0Tyg As for Trump, this Syria pull-out isn't motivated by Kurds being Islamic. It's simply that the USA does not belong there and the problems it creates by being there are far greater than Kurds wanting to hack out their own country out of several already existing ones. More power to them if the can...much like the Sikhs.

No one should ever believe our Canadian leftist paid off liberal Canadian media anymore and what the liberal polls have to say. Who took the polls and where were the polls taken? The Canadian leftist liberal Canadian media will be trying to make it appear as though Blackface will win the election. The polls that said that Hillary would be the the next President turned out to be totally wrong. Only after the election is over is the poll that I will look at and believe. I am not impressed with Scheer but he has to be a lot better than what we have right now. No one can be that stupid to want to see Blackface win the next election, but sadly, there are many who still want him as their next dictator PM of Canada. A majority or minority Blackface government will make no difference because Blackface will have the backing of May and Singh, and he will be allowed to continue on his road to the destruction of Canada, and hand Canada over to the globalist United Nations, and Marxist globalist G. Soros. Canada cannot survive another four more years of globalist Marxist Blackface. I am truly sad to see Maxine Bernier in last place in those polls taken. Hopefully that is not the case. Bernier has to be higher in the polls than what the Canadian paid off media show him to be. Just saying.

I think your right DOP, this horse race is to close , and I don't think I can handle another 4 more years of Justin, the recover would be to painful, although I am sure Andrew is not going to be much better, I'll be switching my vote to conservative... my fears are this is PCC might not get a seat, and collapse, and all their platform will disappear..but 4 more years would allow them to take their time and get better quality candidates and continue to develop a stronger platform... ..next fears is this, Scheer might swing his power for 2 terms...

Polls and seat projections are total BS imo. I think that they are more of a tool to influence voters than an indicator of voter preferences. CBC and CTV wouldn't even show polling results that didn't favour their darling. I just looked at the polls for 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2011_Canadian_federal_election#/media/File:ElectionPollingGraphCanada2011.png CPC was trending around 36%, some had them lower than 35%, they got 40% (39.6%). Nanos, who were fairly accurate with the CPC early on, had the Libs way up over 30% until a couple of weeks before the election. General consensus had them at about 27 or 28% over the same span. They got 19%. So Nanos was off by 12% less than two weeks before the election. NDP, on avg, were pegged at about 20% two weeks before the election, they finished at over 30%. It seems as though the pollsters picked up their accuracy in the closing days of the election, but in the lead-up stages, where we ware now, they were way off. On Apr 17th they were about 10% too low on the NDP and 9% too high on the Liberals. If they're still off by 10% fifteen days before the election they're completely useless IMO. It seems to me that in 2011 they could say what they wanted while people were in the decision-making process. They just tried to look good near the end.

It was wild downtown....the Antifa types were outnumbered by MAGA hats. Cops (who also support Trump), did their best to keep groups separated, but some people just have to get some blood spilled for the cameras. Trump spoke for 90+ minutes to a packed venue with spill over outside, like a Raptors game in Toronto. Trump told the crowd, "Isn't it better when I go off script". " Biden was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass."

Because Canadian media has reported the fear for years now. Boo !

Maybe markets was not quite the right word. Industries? For example when they threaten to ban imports of canola oil from us. Whole industries can be shut down because of political disagreement. Another reason why I say screw globalism. We need more sovereignty, more independence. Punish them the way they try to punish us. Mike Pompeo gave out a pretty clear warning today. Doing business with these people is not unlike doing business with criminals. What more do you expect.

He'll have China charmed with his 'yellow face' song and dance routine . . . . Early polls open tomorrow . . .

??? Even the Canadian players insist on being paid in U.S. dollars, not Canadian pesos.

Those examples are very disgusting. I can see if the companies themselves choose not to be criticizing their trading partner, but punishing customers is disgusting and is censorship. We should not be extending China's state-censorship to our own people. China has a growing subverted grip on this country and it needs to be stopped, from media & political control to foreign investment.

Our trading with China enriches them and gives them access to more technology. They've used that wealth and that technology not only to improve their weapons systems but to improve their ability to control their people. Western companies like google work with them to censor all content for their people, while other companies help them enhance facial recognition systems and expand their video monitoring. This contact also poisons us by making companies beholden to China. And not just companies. Our academic community are whores, and eagerly assist China in technological development while keeping mum on anything which they fear might insult China.The so called 'china experts' in our universities never dare say anything bad or critical about China lest they lose their access to China. Universities restrict statements about China lest they lose those profitable Chinese foreign students. Everywhere China is active in the west, through sponsorship agreements, advertising or contracts you see Canadians frantically apologizing for them and trying to crush any criticism. See the reaction of Blizzard the other day, or even what happened last summer at an Ottawa dragonboat festival. Not to mention we have a CSIS report that almost all Chinese language media in Canada are now controlled by pro-China businessmen, as evidenced by what happened this week. Meanwhile China uses their free access to our markets to bribe politicians. Every Chinese controlled company in Canada and every company, large or small, which does a lot of business with China becomes complicit with them in helping to downplay human rights abuses while donating money to politicians so they can push the same message into their ears.

Our markets are not dependent on China. We are not dependent on China. But Trudeau seems desperate to make us more and more dependent. I guess he just admires the basic efficiency of fascist governments too much.