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The epic failure here is on the part of government...provincial and federal. Clueless...leaderless...gutless.

The ongoing protests in BC, Ontario and elsewhere show the depths of ignorance, stupidity and vapid self-indulgence we've come to expect from much of the activist and progressive populations, along with the sheer bloody cowardice of our governments. Recall, the pipeline being protested was signed off on by the elected chiefs and band councils of the tribes in the area. The 'hereditary' chiefs tried to get elected in opposition to the pipeline, and failed. From which we can determine the natives in the area didn't care what they had to say and wanted the pipeline and the money and jobs that would bring. No matter. A chance to protest pipelines?! Progressives aren't gonna miss that if they have the slightest excuse! Watch them standing their, chins elevated, filled with the sense of righteous self-granted nobility and arrogance you only see from those with an enormous regard for themselves. They're 'standing with the natives'! Well, not the actual natives, just the 'hereditary chiefs', who should be in charge, you know! This democracy stuff was imposed by colonialism (yes, they say this. The bunch sitting on the rail tracks are much the same. Some of them are Mohawks, Many aren't. The Mohawk chief says he didn't authorize any protest and neither did the band council. No matter. The OPP is standing around shaking in terror at the thought of having to say "Boo' to a native. Meanwhile in Vancouver, the police arrested angry people trying to pull down the barricades natives and their far left allies erected in the middle of the road. Arrest the protestors? Oh no! The horror! The horror! Run away! Run away! (that seems to be the motto of both Canada's governments and its police departments whenever native protesters show up). I'm reminded of a movie called Soylent Green, a cult hit. In one of the scenes, these huge garbage trucks with their scoopers on the ground in front of them move into protesting crowds, scoop them up and dump them into the back of their trucks, to be carted out and processed as food. Excellent idea! I'm sure they'd all be delighted at being recycled into dog food. They're all environmentalists, after all. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/stephen-ledrew-canada-should-enforce-the-law-with-wetsuweten-anti-pipeline-protests?video_autoplay=true

I like The Rebel's question to the protesters: "What is being carried in the gas pipeline?" Responses were... Bitumen! Crude oil! Black death! Think of the environment if there's a spill! Doh!

1) You're conflating "developmentally delayed" with "severely crippling mental and physical disabilities" 2) Regardless of what decision you make, you're making a decision to essentially kill someone, or maybe more than one person. The medicare system isn't a bottomless well of money, medical equipment and human resources. Resources spent in one place aren't available in another. So when you tie up doctors and nurses and medical equipment on one person for forty years it forces you to make tough decisions in other places. Less research money for MS or Cystic Fibrosis. Less beds available at the sick children's hospital so healthy kids with a chance at life are sent home a bit earlier than they should have been. Less money is available for people suffering mental health issues. Longer wait times for surgeries or in emergency rooms. Less staff working in trauma units, etc. It may come as a shock to you that people in the medical profession have to make tough decisions all the time. Watch MASH one day. Their sad version of triage included letting some people go, or amputating a leg that they could have saved under better circumstances, if their treatment would require so much medical attention that it would jeopardize the lives of other people who they knew for sure they could save. Unfortunately we have no choice but to take the amount of resources available and manage them in the best way possible to do the greatest amount of good possible. We can't just do every single thing that every single person in the country really wants.

I could not agree with you more, bush_cheney 2004. Our virtue-signalling sickening excuse for a PM hasn't the guts to stand up for the rule of law. He can mouth all the platitudes he wants but when Canada really needs a strong leader this puke is missing in action.

All the while leaving mountains of filth and garbage in their wake for other clean up. Yeah they really care about the land. Sheesh.

And after they removed all the thugs and outside interlopers, they had to spend thousands of dollars cleaning up the toxic mess left by the so-called 'defenders of the land and water'. Same bullshit that goes on with any protest here in Canada - the worst polluters are always those that say they are there to 'defend' something.

Standing beside the tracks? FFS, where do you get your news from? They are BLOCKADING the tracks. They have effectively shut down our rail lines preventing goods from being transported to communities in need. So get off your silly little soap box and start looking at the situation as it is. Thugs and mobs are holding our country to ransom.

It does, jacee. What is not nor ever will be a right is the blockading of our rail lines and the thugs and wanna-be significant types doing so need to be removed immediately and thrown in a jail cell.

They approved a pair of cement factories, one in Quebec, one in Ontario, which will employ, at best, a few hundred people. They swept aside all the regulations and environmental rules to ease the way. Those two cement factories will emit about 75% as much CO2 as the Tech Frontier project. And nobody gives a damn. CO2 is only a problem when it comes from the oil and gas industry. And even then only when it's out west.

Just says how pathetic the choices are for Dems. They are scrambling to get anyone, please. But there is no answer. They simply played the wrong game, trying to attack his character, then countering it by looking for people with impeccable character. What fools. The Trump supporters don't care about his (obvious) character flaws, the world has serious problems to solve and no time for empty liberal platitudes. Liberalism has steered us too far in the wrong direction and the ship risks going over the edge. Only a fool thinks you can keep going, and come back again.

Ye olde Panama Sole. Remember when Jungle Boots were high speed ? I had Danner's too, Acadia's, but I sent them into Danner because they had a lifetime guarantee back then, and they refurbished them.

Clearly you do not understand me. Nor, apparently, do you understand the difference between genocide, eugenics, and a woman who has to decide whether or not to birth a child that will either die almost immediately after birth or require years of care to live a severely compromised life. Also, you did not answer my question: are you as outraged by government policies that allow people to die because their life-saving medication is too expensive as you are about women who might have an abortion rather than birth a severely damaged baby.

I'm asserting that unless you are the one prepared, financially and emotionally, to support that life, then you do not have the right to judge those upon who the responsibility falls. We're not talking about executing healthy people here so your attempt to paint me as some monster fails. As a society we regularly condemn people to death because it would cost too much to treat them; we regularly see news stories about children and adults who will die if our medical system doesn't pay 100s of thousands or even a million+ dollars for the medication that will either cure them or at least keep them alive a little longer. Are you outraged by that? Or is it just women who are forced into a "Sophie's Choice" decision who outrage you?

Quebec leaving is an inevitable evolution, trying to prevent them from leaving by bribery, that being the essence of Canadian governance, is the source of most of the corruption and dysfunction.

True, but just guess how long such protesters would last on U.S. railroad tracks ? During the Dakota Access Pipeline protest, the "government" used bulldozers, pepper spray, police dogs, and national guard troops to evict all the happy protesters. ...because that's how we roll down here with "British common law"...American style. The pipeline was completed in April 2017.

Thanks for the link....I watched the launch. Some idiot was laughing into a hot mic, and then there was a dead end phone call to voice mail ! The Antares program has recovered nicely from the mission failure....now 11 out of 12. President Trump knows a winner with the space program, as it dovetails perfectly into his MAGA ideology, echoing the glory days of the past. A manned launch this year would be perfect for an election commercial.

The Americans ended up making more money off of Hollywood movies about ruthless Russian gangsters, which reflected the economic reality.

So you'd take on the care of a severely disabled baby, rather than see it aborted? Or do you expect other people do do that, or perhaps the taxpayer through institutionalized care? BTW, there aren't enough foster homes in Canada for all the kids that go into care and the numbers continue to decline. Foster care isn't actually a viable option.

Then why did you post this ? America already paid the highest price in blood and treasure to bring down the Soviet Union, and now you want to blame America for not transforming Russian politics and society ? What were other nations doing ? What was Canada doing ?

Welcome back. I actually only got called Eskimo commie once. If martial law is necessary, declare it. Rex has it with eloquence on this: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-climate-zealots-have-taken-canada-hostage-and-our-pm-is-missing-in-action

All countries at some time or another have been taken over by others , we cannot go back in time nor are we going to leave. |We cannot, nor should we have to continue paying people based on race, to live on unsustainable reservations in perpetuity. It’s time to end the Indian Act now, as Chretien and Trudeau Sr. wanted. ( see Chretien’s White Paper on Aboriginals). Is time to end race based preferential treatment. The days of roaming buffalo are over, Natives need to have a vision for life as it exists today and within the system that exists today. There are avenues they can take but many choose the path of total and complete dependency on remote, unsustainable reservations. There are some reserves that can only be reached by plane. Those living in remote, desolate areas have little chance of overcoming this dependency as long as they choose to stay. IMO we should be paying to move them to another location with counseling, skills training or whatever it takes to help them be successful. Diane Francis has a good article https://business.financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-rail-blockades-could-turn-into-a-full-blown-secession-crisis-and-trudeaus-government-is-to-blame Five years of pandering and subsidizing 632 First Nations leaders has led to this catastrophe, which is being spearheaded by five unelected hereditary chiefs in British Columbia who claim their nation — the Wet’suwet’en — is exempt from Canadian laws and regulations. They claim sovereignty over a 22,000-square-kilometre swath of land, an area the size of Israel, and have successfully invoked nationwide solidarity protests that have crippled portions of the country’s rail system. Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders and their accomplices have defied court orders and ignored agreements signed by 20 band councils, including their own. The issue at hand is the building of a 670-kilometre gas pipeline to a $40-billion LNG plant on the coast, but at stake is the future of Canada itself.

I did just that LOL, Wet’suwet’en Nation member Shirley Wilson supports #CoastalGasLink If you cut through the doublespeak and media obfuscation, all the protests and blockades are based on the opposition of five people - 5, Five unelected Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Vs the rights of 37 million Cdns. Canada is a joke, Trudeau is a joke. Meanwhile The President of Senegal announced that Justin Trudeau is helping Senegal develop its industries “du pétrole, du gaz ... “

Canada is a noble idea if the different regions and sub-nations can see the value in making some sacrifices for the greater good of the country and national unity. The problems have always been that some are willing to make much greater sacrifices than others and what works for one segment of the country runs counter to the interests of another segment. We see it with trying to be the Boy Scout on climate change and currying favour with the UN versus natural resource extraction, which disproportionately impacts Alberta. We also see it in balancing our relationship with the Yanks on security and American tech hegemony with acting in the best interests of technology (5G development for example with Chinese Huawei). Human rights are important to everyone and also need to be taken into account in national trade and regulatory policy. So many considerations for such a small country. I hope we can navigate the waters and keep the Canadian boat afloat. The radicals who are shutting down business and infrastructure need to be tactfully but thoroughly removed. Protests and preventing a society and businesses from functioning are not the same thing. Trudeau needs to get real on this.

What planet are you on? Over 45,000 travelers’ train tickets are cancelled. National freight and passenger railways are closed, held hostage by unelected radicals that the 20 bands don’t support. When I hear such tolerance of injustice it makes me wonder what other abuses you’d accept. People’s health, safety, and livelihoods are on the line. This wouldn’t fly in the US. Makes you wonder.

The right to peaceful dissent. There is no right to interfere in other people’s lives. Especially related to private property.

Atrocities? Please cite. Also, my ancestors came here in the 20th century. Please be specific about which ancestors did these things. Also, I'd like to know what kind of conversation you'd expect to have with someone barricading the entrance to your street standing with a rifle and a burning garbage can for the last week.

Mobocracy is not democracy, upholding the rule of law that Trudeau likes to bang on about is in the best interests of Canadians. bit that apparently doesn't apply to some where race based preferential treatment is the order of the day. There were consultations, 20 elected Chiefs agree with it, they want jobs and prosperity for their people , those protesting are only one band the Unist'ot'en who I suppose, don't want prosperity and jobs. the real views of the nation are not often reported by the MSM https://www.spencerfernando.com/2020/02/10/watch-wetsuweten-nation-member-supports-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-says-many-protesters-are-from-outside-community-from-united-states/?fbclid=IwAR29Zq9fbRvXqpRtM4bAYdecSL6e3ro3QvnzVX4SIcgu4toQ5lmSUUCY0-4https://www.spencerfernando.com/2020/02/10/watch-wetsuweten-nation-member-supports-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-says-many-protesters-are-from-outside-community-from-united-states/?fbclid=IwAR29Zq9fbRvXqpRtM4bAYdecSL6e3ro3QvnzVX4SIcgu4toQ5lmSUUCY0-4

No, it means people are all the same. We all have the same virtues and vices. The solution is to not repeat the same atrocities our ancestors committed. Patience, respect and conversation works.

While I generally understand and respect First nations, I would like to ask this tiny minority where are their protests in support of the Kootenai first nation who have never ceeded their traditional homeland in South-Western Alberta they were forcibly removed from by the Blackfeet? What about the Sinixt nation who were enslaved and forced from their traditional lands in the northern west Kootenay by the Shushwap, or the genocide of the first nation in the eastern arctic at the hands of the Inuit? Slavery, colonialism, and genocide are not activities confined to Europeans.

DO you think it is really that easy, once arrested they confine you , until you agree to pay a bond or someone else agrees to pay the bond, if not and they can't ID you, or your not paying well there is your bunk have a nice stay...if you do pay the bond but don't show up to court they place an arrest warrant out for you, where once rearrested you go to jail until the court decides what to do with you....in the mean time they are locked up , no more protesting for you....problem solved have you meet bubba your new roommates.

To have wages, they would have to have a job. If they had a job, they could not be hanging around smoking dope and 'protesting".

Because I'm basically an anarchist whose convinced we have nothing to lose because we're going over a cliff otherwise. Besides I have grandkids so... No feel free to scoop those fucking assholes. And yes I do drive my car to the climate change rally - by myself in the HOV lane if I feel like it.

No, not at all. Finger print or facial recognition technology can easily identify people. Regardless, why are you defending lawlessness? Would you feel the same about people doing something similar to an abortion clinic?

You think any of these bums work for a living?

It's entirely feasible. Jam them into cages and leave them there. None of them are worth anything anyway.

The rape of Nanking, the enslavement of large numbers of Sinixt by the Shushwap, the forced removal of the Kootenai from Southern Alberta by the Blackfeet, the genocide of the original first nations in the eastern arctic by the Inuit, the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem by the European allies in the First Crusade, the Rwandan genocide, the mass execution of 4500 Saxon prisoners by Charlemagne at Verden, the Cultural Revolution in China, the Holocaust, the murder of tens of millions by Stalin. There are many more examples. My point was that the protesters in this instance, should be aware that the actions they accuse others of doing have also been done by some First Nations to others.