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After Harper lost this was portrayed as an indictment of his government, his style, and his foreign policy by Liberals, including Jean Chretien, Paul Martin and Michael Ignatieff, as well as the NDP, of course, and much of the media. Trudeau made it the central plank of his foreign policy, so much so that he bragged "Canada's Back" to an adoring crowd of Foreign Affairs bureaucrats and to the UN, as if the 'bad' days of Harper not doing our traditional role of always avoiding taking a stand on anything was now over and the world would love us again. Unfortunately for him he then went on to mismanage almost every important file through his endless virtue signalling. He made a fool of himself in India, and then blamed the Indians. He was all-but booted out of China when he tried to lecture them on womens and labour rights. The US government treats him with barely concealed contempt. The Russians laugh at him. The Saudis hate him. He pissed off everyone from Vietnam to Australia and Japan with the stunt he pulled at the TPP signing. What a joke this guy is.

No one today should ever believe or trust the Canadian or the American leftist liberal lying MSM ever again. They will lie or put forward disinformation to suit their own leftist liberal narrative agenda. The lying MSM and our dear comrade leaders now both appear to be working together to keep us all uninformed with just about everything, and they should be considered nothing more than a bunch of thieves, cheats and liars. I have never seen so much lying and false reporting in the media and coming from our so called political leaders like I am seeing today. Just my personal opinion of course. Works for me.

I saw the cops defense lawyer being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on FOX News last night. The lawyer looked like he might have a good case to get the cop free from all charges. If his partner is found out by his other cop brothers as a liar than his ass is in trouble. He will never be trusted by any of the other cops again. Aw well.

and here's the problem with recent western policy-making. Deficit spending can be good for stabilizing the economy in the short to medium term, but when you allow them to perpetuate and get structural they can become a huge problem. Trudeau's deficits in themselves were perfectly manageable and he was right to say that as a share of GDP they weren't growing, but this thinking assumes the economy will expand faster than deficit spending and these theories got us in trouble in the late 70's and 80's. It works...until something bad happens and then it doesn't. Moving forward now, we're piling on massive amounts of debt on to top of the debt that we didn't need to be accumulating, and the Bank of Canada is going to have to print money to get us out of it. Look forward to inflation problems in 2025 and beyond.

Except you're wrong. I understand what you're saying, and in the most basic sense you sort of have a point, but the idea that "stuff" is the only useful part of the economy is completely false. Mining and natural resource extraction counts for 8.21% of GDP, and agriculture less than 2%. It's not that they're not important, but they're a very small portion of our mostly service-based economy. An example that may make more sense to you is something like iPhones. These are not built in the USA. They're built in China and then imported to North America, and the assembly of Iphones is not part of American GDP. Apple does, however, employ a lot of people in research and development, and Apple's capital appreciation and dividends have made a lot of Americans rich. They proceed to spent their money in the economy and employ nail technicians and teachers, and that effect is multiplicative. In the simplest sense, a Canadian lumber jack could chop ONE tree down and sell abroad for $100. If he spends that money quick enough, and the subsequent trades and exchanges of money can happen quickly enough, that $100 tree-chopping could lead to $100,000 of economic activity. While my figures are not realistic, the point is that one of the main factors of economic prosperity and growth is the turnover of the money supply. The faster and more often money exchanges hands, the more money everyone will make (unless, as Argus says, it's fueled by over-borrowing). As an alternative, consider that lumber jack taking his $100 and burying it in his back yard as savings for his daughter's wedding 20 years from now. In that case, it's just a $100 sale and that money actually leaves the economy, thus contributing no value at all to anyone. Actually, it's worse, because now we're down a tree.

No it's not...Trump just wanted to force Congress to act on the illegal immigration fiasco, and was quite willing to deal DACA in return. Successive U.S. presidents from both parties have had to deal with this issue because the Congress refuses to act.

Lol Bush his black face may have gone over in Holland. They have that character every Christmas with Santa who helps him carry presents and he puts coal in your sock if you were bad. On a more serious note, the UN as a moral authority is a bankrupt notion. Its been compromised fatally by human rights violating nations, corruption, and powerlessness. I never will have a thing to do with it. Had it not been for Elenor Roosevelt standing up to the entire UN turning its back on Jewish refugees and single handedly defending hundreds of thousands of displaced Jews they would have never been able to find refuge back in our ancient homeland. How the hell would I take the UN seriously abandoning Jews? It abandon innocent civilians slaughtered in Rwanda, Burundi. It paid scant lip service to massacres of southern Sudanese being slaughtered, Yazidis, Kurds, Tibetans. It allowed its UN Refugee Organization to be used by terrorist organizations as a cover to store weapons, transfer weapons and terrorists, and be used as launch zones. By so doing it not only took sides in a conflict but it endangered the very refugees it was claiming to serve and exposed them to death and attacks instead of removing terrorists out of their camps or their UN facility buildings. I know for a fact having worked on some international work investigating sex crime movement internationally its corrupt. You can not do a damn thing with it. You run into some individual paid a damn good salary sitting in a New York apartment far removed from their country of origin lapping it up ignoring their fellow citizens. It needs to replaced by an apolitical organization but the problem is the moment any organization is funded by a government, the political partisan corruption sets in. Trudeau is a sphincter muscle for trying to get a seat. Norway and Ireland had been campaigning for 10 years before Canada entered into the competition. Why even compete? Why? Why not wait for the round after that? Why even bother? Canada gains sweet phack all sitting on the Security Council.

It shouldn’t be. But that was a result of the behaviour of the perpetrator. If you act normal, or even close to normal, there’s never an issue. When are people going to start taking responsibility for their actions? We’ve got a lot of domestic chicken hawks in this thread as well. You know what? Go apply to be a police officer, and show us all how it’s done. I’m sure you’ll do great. Until then, STFU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street This is probably a safe prediction for what will happen with these protests, ie. what happened with Occupy.

Fascinating.....PM Stephen Harper got Canada more votes, and deeper into the voting rounds while spending far less money begging for a UN seat. I suppose Trudeau's blackface photos didn't help.

I don’t run into people who are that keen on any politician and I’m surrounded by Liberals. Nobody notices Canada. It’s been that way for many’s the year and it’s not a bad thing either. People have a vague notion that we’re nice which is enough.

But liberal across the country love him for some reason.....just goes to show you if you got good hair , whacky socks and like the works uhhhmmm and aaahhhh, lets not forget a constant lying, loves to deceive people about anything and everything, loves to sign agreements and then tell the world we are not going to do that ….and somehow he will find a reason to blame all of this on Harper....it's not Justin it is all of his followers....that are the problem....

Better Trump's grifters than the 50+ years of Biden and Democrats direct political control of the status quo for urban cities.

So it seems that from the point of view of the NDP, anyone who denies systemic racism, which they can't even describe or locate, is a racist themselves. Witness Jagmeet Singh getting all sanctimonious and outraged in the House of Commons today and hurling the epithet at a BQ member who denied a majority in the voice vote to condemn Canada's systemic racism.

There can be no doubt about it that this plandemic is all just an exercise hoax, and a good excuse for the billionaires to make billions more and buy up everything they can to be able to control everything they can and send us all down the globalist communist road to tyranny, and despotism. And what do we see which is even much sadder is the fact that our now dear comrade leader politicians, the controlled fake and lying media, and our so called health brainwashing officials are all in cahoots with those billionaire criminals against humanity. Our now new normal comrade politicians have sold us out for a few pieces of gold by allowing those criminal billionaires to have been allowed to pull off one of the biggest heists and stunts on we the people. Our comrade politicians have now shown us all as to just how much contempt that they have always had for we the people. Sad thing is that most of we the people are just to stunned and too stupid to see what is being done to them. They will believe their dear comrade leaders, their lying media, and the lying so called health officials without question. While those criminals are getting richer, we the people are getting poorer, and we are being forced into becoming good little communist trained seals with snitches thrown in for good measure. As long as social distancing is allowed to continue on, none of us will ever see or get our freedoms of speech and assembly back. Those traitors to we the people are just throwing little crumbs here and there at us all to try and appease the fools who will still believe their lies and bull shit. Wake up people, for gawd's sake. Your freedom is at risk. What the hell is wrong with you anyway? Are you that stunned and stupid? Just saying.

Oil and gas 5.6 of our total GDP in 2018, , it employs 0.9 % of Canadas work force.... https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-data/data-analysis/energy-data-analysis/energy-and-economy/20062 Tech industry which covers a vast area, 4.5 % of total GDP, But it does employ 3.5 % of Canada's work force https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ict-tic.nsf/eng/h_it07229.html As of 2018 the oil and gas sector contributed more to our GDP than the large tech sector, how ever the tech sector employed almost 4 times the people. I could not find any updated data for 2020 or 2019, one could only guess that the percentage of GDP has shrunk in both cases, and you could make a case that the tech sector has over taken the oil and gas sector with the condition of todays market, but i'd also like to note that oil and gas market are being on flooded on purpose to drive the price down by several countries OPEC for one, and Russia the next, and this can not last forever, they are after all losing money in this war of oil as well...prices will bounce back, how far is anyone s guess.... We have already established that the provinces are largely reasonable for the tech industry gains. One would think the feds could have done more or even matched the provinces contributions , but that is not the case. What is the case is Justin has passed bills and policies that wraps the oil and gas sector in a ball of red tape, how ever the largest contributor for this slow down is special interest groups first nations, and climate change folks. why would we want to cut off this source of revenue when it is going to take 20 to 30 years to find a replacement for fossil fuels...we are not talking a few bil dollars here we are talking hundreds of bils. that alone would rate a second glance....would it not. Sorry Argus , I did not know you had already answered

1. They promote false idols 2. There is no heaven

Jesus has been mythologized. Also there is no God, however Christian Atheists like myself are helping to perpetuate the message of humanism that was at the core of his teachings. Most Christians today are, to me, deluded and misled.