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China lied about the pandemic. China paid off WHO officials so they would shut up and comply with the regime's propaganda. The WHO even told the world there was no evidence that COVID-19 had a human-to-human transmission. China closed off its internal borders so the epidemic would stay inside Wuhan in continental China, but let international flights happen so other countries would be sick (If I fall, everyone falls too kind of machiavellian thought process). China still lies about its real numbers. 80k infected in the world's most populous country, in the most densely populated parts of the world. How should the West react to make China pay for what they've done?

FDA pushed through scores of inaccurate antibody tests without agency review Since the Trump administration was asleep at the wheel while the US was being infected with Covid19 they hastily tried to let anybody who wanted to make some quick fraudulent cash to put out an antibody test. The Trump administrations solution "everybody take two tests"! can't make this shit up. "guess i wasn't so bad after all" George W Bush

Not only are you anti-semitic, but you're also anti-semantics, that's a new low. But just so you know, Israel does not control everyone. And so don't I, even being part jewish myself. Please be best assured, because America wouldn't be in debt if Jews ran it, believe me.

So being a competent president doesn't matter, as long as Canada is watching. Interesting priorities.

Also the entire EU is worse when compared to the entire USA in terms of total infected, total deaths and per capita ratios. Example:

Canada spends $674 million per year on Tam's Public Health Agency, which was created in 2004 in response to SARS. So I would say WE have spent billions. What we got for it, however, is debatable.

Honestly, if we do more testing than California but they have less deaths, are we winning? "Hey sorry the rest of your family is dead, but we do a shitload of testing. Please leave a nice testimonial on our website."

Grrrrrrrreat ! I am sure all those dead Canadians and their families will be glad about that.

Have mentioned in the past that a cowboy boot and a moccasin both fit me very comfortably . . . in other words, I'm a 1/2 breed. Metis is the term. No big deal! Did you have your 'feelings' hurt at some time? Perhaps someone slighted you and in your ultra sensitive 'racial mode' and you took it as a racial issue? Word of advice . . . get over yourself and grow some thicker skin. This isn't a perfect world.

yeah, slaves were employed at high levels before as well. high employment doesn't always appear to mean that income inequality is not getting worse. and again, i don't hate Trump. he's just an idiot. i actually feel bad for the guy. he's in way over his head and he knows it.

True, but California (similar population) is doing better than Canada. Various factors determine infection and mortality rates between countries and even within countries.

Well, we do, sort of. Half our cases are in Quebec, with over 1500 deaths there. out of about 2500. About two thirds of those deaths are in Montreal. But even if you remove NYC from the equation you still get a US death rate that is 15.34 times Canada where their population is only 8 times Canada.

You're a drooling supporter of religious tyranny in the ME and you're calling out racism in Canada.

Should look at how they are classifying these deaths. It seems they are over blowing this and counting anything as a covid death.

Poverty has a lot to do with it, too. There's little of that in Switzerland. And to a degree, income inequality. Ie, lots and lots of poor people in a country doesn't cause as much violence as lots and lots of poor people and lots and lots of middle class and rich people. The US has lots of inner city slums. Thus more violence. Canada had nothing that really compared until we started to import third world people without skills or education. They established slums in our larger cities, and all our street gangs spring from that.

I rarely agree with Rosalie Abella on anything. But she's dead right on the antiquated, time-wasting, money-wasting legal system we have in Canada. It's a system which profits only lawyers. Every case, be it criminal, tort, family or civil, drags on for months if not years, draining funds along the way. And it hasn't changed in centuries. It is steeped in process, a process which seems to grow longer with each passing year, and it care very little about end results or cost. In a speech to the American Bar Association called The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice, Roscoe Pound criticized the civil justice system’s trials for being overly fixated on procedure, overly adversarial, too expensive, too long and too out of date. The year was 1906. And yet, with all these profound changes over the last 114 years in how we travel, live, govern and think, none of which would have been possible without fundamental experimentation and reform, we still conduct civil trials almost exactly the same way as we did in 1906. Any good litigator from 1906 could, with a few hours of coaching, feel perfectly at home in today’s courtrooms. Can we say that about any other profession? I think if we're going to start reforming the legal system we have to start with eliminating much of that process. That includes much of what lawyers do. We can start, with simple cases, with replacing juries and judges with mediators and justices of the peace. An arrested person on a minor charge should be before a judge or justice of the peace and have their case decided within a few days, not years. And the hearing should take minutes, not days. Family court cases should require mandatory mediation and rarely require actual courtroom time.

As you are no doubt aware, part of the problem is how long it takes police to investigate and gather evidence. I could not agree more that there is little reason for ANYTHING in justice to take two years, except, of course for jail terms. Also you are spot on that the whole system is there to serve the lawyers, police, courts, etc. I once had a good friend who did undercover criminal work for various agencies, and he told me one time he was having trouble telling the good guys from the bad guys - largely for the very reasons you cite.

Jacee I actually died by injecting bleach into my lungs. I want you to be the first to report it, ok?

So what was Justins motive to hide this power grab in other bills, why not just come out and tell everyone he needed it for our good. And what would this crises look like now if the conservatives had not caught them and they had unlimited power....with no one with any over sight, shit even with over sight they managed to screw up Lavalin scandal and the endless lies that went with that...Justin liberals can not be trusted, over sight is very much needed.... Justin is the man at the switch and deserves criticism where needed.

You want to say that government here is using the health crisis as an opportunity to steal liberties. I think my response addresses your paranoia.

Your title allows these leftists to use it to dismiss everything else you say. But never mind those kind of losers, the questions you have raised are still quite valid. If not conspiracy then surely complete stupidity. I'll go with the latter for now. What you see is the efforts of incompetent micro-managers who are doing things out of their perception of our best interests. They don't really know anything about viral transmission they make up rules as they go along in accordance with misguided notions of common sense. Or to put it simply, the road to hell is paved with "good intentions". Cheers.

It turns out that Joe Biden actually did grab somebody by the p*ssy. Great job on the nomination Democrats!

But only the slavery represented by the US slave trade, right? The far, longer and larger and more prevalent slave trade which has gone on for a thousand years in the middle east and still exists today is ignored.

And who criticizes the minorities here for their racism? Because in my experience there's a lot more of it and it's more blatant than among white Canadians. Two thirds of visible minorities are immigrants from third world countries where racism and homophobia are absolutely normal, accepted, unpunished, and routine in all aspects of society. You think they abandon that when they show up at our door? The media are like vultures, dropping on any sign of racism or homophibia they can find and screaming it to the world. What was the big story on the CBC the other day? A crazy man pushed another man to the ground after shouting at him and then walked away. Yup. That was it. Because the crazy man was white and the victim was Asian. The routine interplay of unsocialized or drunk or crazy people in a big city gets blown up to major importance whenever race is involved - but only if the guilty party is white. The media is extremely reluctant to ever mention non-white racism or homophobia or antisemitism.