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Dear Charles, uou locked the "social assistance/odsp" thread saying: "This thread is locked due to irredeemable derailment from the topic. " First of all, there was 1. no warnings. and 2. there was discussions about welfare etc on the last page, the same page you wrote on before locking the thread. This is just lazy modding i'm sorry. And it's pissing everyone off when threads are constantly locked. Who cares if threads get a bit off topic when there's good discussions to be had. Please stop.

This is not discussed at all in the public debate. But in Canada, we have way too many Ministries, which in turn creates a really fat government with a lot of Ministers, who cost a lot of money in turn, plus their teams and executives that drives the cost of government through the roof. I'll list the stupidest Ministries first, then I'll list those who are basically useless since another Ministry should already cover their field. List of the most stupid ministries; Ministry of Seniors, Ministry for La Francophonie, Ministry for Canada Post Corporation, Ministry for Canadian Dairy Commission, Ministry of Status of Women, Ministry of Canadian Heritage. Each one of those should not have to exist, and/or to have a Ministry to regulate those. I'm sorry Frenchies (I am French from Québec), but a Ministry just for the French Language is incredibly stupid. A Ministry for old people (Seniors)? A Ministry for Canada Post? A Ministry for the Dairy lobby? Those ministries are totally unjustifiable, a waste of money, and sheer indirect corruption. Next for me are the 'double Ministries' which are petty to say the least. Very petty. They sometimes are even a triple ministry. Demonstration here; Ministry of Science ===== Ministry of Science AND Sports ===== Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Ministry of intergovernmental Affairs and Youths ===== Ministry of intergovernmental Affairs, Northern Affairs and International Trade Ministry of Canadian Heritage ==== Ministry of Culture (Ministry of Culture does not exist, my bad) Ministry of International Trade ===== Ministry of International Trade Diversification Ministry of Small Business and Export promotion ===== Ministry of Small Business and Tourism Does anyone agree we have some serious fat to cut with a chainsaw? It's not even a surgery with a scalpel that we need. It's a straight up psycho from Texas that we need to cut the fat. Discuss, and correct me.

Ministry of Silly Walks . . . . . Monty Python nailed it.

Was loading an off-road logging truck . . . driver jumped out of the cab waving his arms and we listened on his radio . . . . I liked her because she didn't fit in with the lizards.

Humans have emotions. We react to tragedy. We react to violence. It isn't all some vast conspiracy of people trying to provoke those reactions. And that I might react with disgust and contempt towards something like, say Nazi death camps, does not suggest I should then ignore it and uncritically refuse to challenge Nazism.

It doesn't cover most attacks in other countries. Period. There are so many of them, after all. Now according to another site you won't like which keeps track of such things there have been over 1600 Islamic inspired attacks this year alone in 52 countries. It's kind of hard to put all that into the western media, so only a small tithe gets noticed. On the other hand, a Christian terrorist attack is something like a 'man bites dog' story and would tend to get more, not less overage than it deserves. Besides, it plays into the 'woke' narrative of western media that all religions are the same. That's crap. Everyone knows the terrorism is coming from the religion founded by a violent warrior prince who cut people's heads off for refusing to embrace him as prophet. https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=2019

And yet you consider those liberal sites I mention as being credible. The opinions and attitudes on a site like Jihadwatch are known and taken into account. What they are useful for is in compiling incidents which largely escape notice of the world media. Mainstream media has a decidedly liberal agenda in lauding multiculturalism, inclusiveness, equality and immigration, and it deliberately downplays a lot of stuff which does not fit with that agenda.

you've taken a $10 cake and created a $100 cake welcome to socialism 101, hyperinflation and starvation

So we should jail boxers and martial artists? Watching sports is somehow immoral? You seem to have no concept of healthy competition and healthy struggle... You are a living embodiment of the "everyone should have a trophy and we should have no roughhousing in case anybody gets hurt or anyone's feelings get hurt" mentality.... This is a cultural malady.

Sport is supposed to be fun. It is just a game. Attempting to hurt an opponant is cheating in its worst form. A coach's first responsiblity is to ensure his/her players are enjoying playing the game while teaching the skills neccessary to enhance the game. Fighting is assault and should result in jail time, on or off the ice. I find it disturbing that we would rather pay to watch a sport than actually go out and play. I live for skiing but I would never pay to watch it. Avery Brundage had many disgusting faults but time has proven him right on one thing, money ruins sport.

"So what do you understand from the word 'money' ? " . . . . . . . good socialist rhetoric in your above post. How about 'taxpayers dollars' to pay all the un-necessary 'deadwood' in the traitors new cabinet ? Ministry of Middle Income . . . . wtf

The government has an incentive to create as many ministers as possible, in order to increase the salaries of their friends.

It's not ethical to destroy the rainforest and millions of years of evolutionary processes for the short-term advantage of a handful of human generations.

I'm not going to dig into all of that, but I do know that Freeland does the deputy pm and intergovernmental. https://www.canada.ca/en/intergovernmental-affairs.html