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Ive been noticing more and more polarized, à la American politics taking a stronghold in Canada, and this worries me. Here we are rarely separated on a right left basis, but in fact the gross majority of conflict we have in Canada centers around regional autonomy and the overreaching grasp of centralized gov't. Allow me to illustrate this. Federally we have a "conservative" party that supports socialized healthcare and is not interested in reopening the abortion issue, and a supposed "lefty" Trudeau led government that would be best described as "Neo"liberal, not exactly polar opposites. Provincially we just need to look at the NDP in Alberta and compare them to the newly formed Npdq, other than a name they share very little similarities, again in my opinion showing that the left/right debate differs depending on where in the country you are. Blindly voting for a party based on the colour of their political signage, will do nothing to adress the alienation felt by, the west, quebec or the Maritimes. In the states there are only two sides, with us or against us, one side says Trump is a Nazi, the other Bernie is a communist(neither of course being true) and no room for middle ground. In Canada(for the most part) the reality is we actually understand compromise, partisan grandstanding is reserved for campaigns, and the real work is done in things like parliamentary committees, when juxtaposed to America wherein the day they get elected their only "want/job/desire/role/purpose(pick the one you like best) is reelection, the difference is glaring. In conclusion, please help in protecting our borders from this influx of intellectual ignorance flooding in from our southern neighbor. We're better educated, lets keep it that way This is my first attempt at starting a thread, and I admittedly to not posses the command of the written language that others here do, therefore apologizes if this lacked clarity, but I'd be most interested in the opinions of fellow interlocutors. Thanks

What people fail to understand about bad, bad oil is that exports are more important than GDP. GDP is basically a useless stat that includes the work of nail technicians, baristas, plastic surgeons, etc which don't bring any foreign money back into the country. That's just money recycling around there that doesn't help us get other countries to give us TVs, cars, computers, cel phones and everything else that we buy, including oil from Saudi Arabia. Without the trillion dollars per decade that we export in oil (and that's at 50% of what it's worth now) we wouldn't be able to bring shiny new toys into the country. Our trade deficits would be astronomical.

Should a convicted terrorist be allowed on commercial airlines in Canada? This article is from 2015: https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/is-omar-khadr-allowed-to-board-an-airplane/ Turns out - Yes. He can travel freely in Canada on any airline. Even though another passenger was outraged to see Khadr on this same flight and videotaped the experience, it was reported by Ezra Levant/Rebel so I'm sure will be discounted as fake news.

I'm surprised Bernier didn't hightail it back to the cpc fold and try to take another shot at the leadership. I'm pretty sure he now knows he's going nowhere with a bunch of nazi wannabes.

Not only was FDR kept in power, but news media were forced to hide the fact that he had polio and used a wheel chair. American voters were easily kept in the dark, because it was the radio age. If you are going to worship another country's politics, try to get it right. You only seem to like history when it is 1953.

Trump is a New York Liberal who hijacked the Republican Party. He's not far-right at all, Democrats and their media sycophants are just easily triggered and would react in a crazy manner if he claimed the sky was blue. He does not only appeal to his base, he won the 2016 election by winning over Obama voters in the Rust Belt, the far-right base only president thing is a myth created by haters.

Holy paranoid blather Batman. If you believe that you need to do a fake news detox. Fox doesn't operate any differently from CNN in terms of how they present the News, the only difference is that they just present the News, instead of presenting their opinion of what's going to happen like "OMFG THE SKY IS FALLING DOWN TOMORROW! I KNOW IT BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE LIES WE TOLD YOU YESTERDAY!" CBC is driven by hyper-partisan Lib flunkies with half the brains of a zombie-killed seagull. It's basically worthless as a news source. It's not actually "evil" all the time, it's usually just astonishingly stupid. They jump on every PC bandwagon like it's the second coming of Christ. If the Nazi party was just starting out now and their followers knelt during the anthem to protest the evils of Judaism evil the CBC would denounce Jews and praise the Nazis for their courage. The left is idiotic. Period. "YAY, women can kill healthy 9 month old fetuses! Everyone has to learn new pronouns! Everyone who protests is always 100% right! 100% of scientists who wish to remain anonymous believe that climate change is real! Women always have to be believed! Trump colluded with Russia! Biden said he's innocent so he's obviously innocent! Benghazi was cool!" Honestly a leftist, at the very best, is a lemming who can recite drivel and scream platitudes.

Who would pay your welfare cheques then?

As it turns out Omar is not a popular man in the US, US civil courts will not force military courts to hear Omar's appeal....go figure it has nothing to do with justice for a terrorist, but more about the politics around it, the US is not going to admit they were wrong and give Omar nothing for his troubles... But mean while in Canadian courts, they have made a decision to force Omar to answer the widows questions, she wants to know of all the statements he has made which ones were false as he claims.... our courts suggest she has the right to know, what is true or false.. This is just going to pour more fuel on the fire....and I hope it does...

Yes, Trudeau was sadly democratically elected but that does not mean that he is a great leader. On the contrary, we all know by now that he is not what one would call a great leader. Trudeau is corrupt and has scandals and lies on his crooked hands. Canada was once a great nation until both Trudeau's got their filthy grubby hands on this country, and thanks to those two misfits, they have pretty much bankrupted this country. They blow taxpayer's tax dollars like there will be no tomorrow. They both despise/d all things British in this country, and both have worked very hard to try and destroy Canada's Brtishness. He is even trying to destroy it's European culture by flooding Canada with millions of new immigrants every year from non-British/European countries as once was the policy. Trudeau is trying to destroy the color makeup of this country. And you think that this guy is great? Get real, will you. Trudeau is the one insulting all Canadians of British/European ancestry. As far as I am concerned, I think that the fool hates the color of his own European skin. Trudeau will not need a coup to stay in power. All he has to do is keep bringing in millions of new immigrants every year who he is hoping will vote for him in every election after they have been living in Canada for three years. After three years those new immigrants will be able to become Canadian citizen's. Anyway, who cares what North Korea or Zimbabwe say or do? They are both bankrupt corrupt communist countries. Maybe the one reason why Trudeau is growing a beard is to maybe look more like is buddies in the Muslim Brotherhood. All the Muslim men mostly wear beards, don't they? Hey, you never know, eh?