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Some of the most horrible things said about China and the CPC are quite true. You either toe the line our you are out on you rear. Long before Xi, a fellow I know was the largest computer manufacturer in China. He stood beside his employees in Tiananmen Square in Deng's China of 1989. Believe it or not, there were actually private companies then (thanks to Deng) but if you did as he did and stood up for human rights in public, you were in for a nasty ride. They took his company, imprisoned him until his family could negotiate his exile and he ended up in Vancouver for some time. Xi seems to have embraced the four pillars of modern reform, but what is said and what is written is far, far away from what is reality. If you (GM, VW, etc.) want to be in business in the largest car market in the world, you give up all of your technology and business knowledge to the a 50% partner with some obscure Chinese company and your board will be made up of hand picked party faithful. If you are minding your own business in let's say South Africa, doing something as obscure as making coffins from wood you import from Canada, you could wake up one morning and find you have a competitor who is making coffins from other woods at far, far lower prices than your offerings, and that company is buying up your legacy competitors as they go tits up one by one. Today, that obscure Chinese company owns the market that charges top dollar for a coffin in RSA. And on it goes. ChIna is not here to be your/our friend, they are here to WIN at whatever they are doing. That means military, civil, trade, business, economic, strategic....whatever. They are PREDATORY in business, backed not only by the CPC, but also the wealth of 1/4 of the world's population who have been given the opportunity, encouragement, funding, stolen technology and whatever else it takes to WIN. I have tremendous respect for the CPC and China and what they have accomplished in 3 short decades, but I also have great fear as I am fully aware of their objectives and abilities to carry out the unwritten policies.

C'mon MAAAANNNN! It's time to congratulate Joe Biden, Lance Armstrong, Marion Jones, and Ben Johnson on their victories.

Correct. It's not like they actually looked at the evidence...at all.

Because they didn't. There was no opportunity to present evidence in anything like an evidentiary hearing. If you're saying there was you're lying or choosing to remain ignorant. The cases were all denied or dismissed primarily on procedural grounds. Filed too early. Filed too late. Lack of standing etc.

Oh why won't the Trumpers rollover and die? We stole the election fair & square.

I liked how he tried to get them to stop rioting by reminding them several times that the election was "stolen" from them.

You misquoted me...more book burning.

They won't have kids because urban Canadians don't want the expense, especially educated ones. Here's the reality of the Canadian economy today: Housing construction and development in general have been driving our economy for years. Our government relies on immigration both for workers and to continuously stoke housing demand. It's somewhat counter-productive because it drives up the cost of housing and government services, but if on the most part the tax base is growing, government will call that success. The bigger cost is in terms of quality of life, as we create overburdened infrastructure, crowding , and pollution, and create ghettos that are so large there's little incentive to learn an official language or engage with Canadian culture. 7 out of 10 immigrants move to the GTA. Another 2 out of 10 move to Montreal and Vancouver, cities that cannot build infrastructure or housing fast enough to meet demand. Let's at least spread the wealth. We're paving over the best farmland in the country and creating pandemic traps. We'll never make the most out of our resources without the local workforces to tap them. Freedom of movement for citizens; territorial work visas for non-citizens except in high demand areas.

Probably no less than most congressmen. Or sorry, congress persons. I did not mean to trigger nor offend

Your creating the same problem you are coping with already, restriction of movement, more government control, and then end your post with Can't make it work OH well. I think it is kind of hypocritical don't you think. Instead of shipping people off to the far north, why don't we just tweak our current immigration policies, and work the problem from new angles, like pay young Canadians to have more children, tens of billions are spent on immigration and refugees, every year. Increase family allowance until it is affordable for couples to have more children, Canadians will do anything for money, or should i say the socialist left. Perhaps Invest in a national child care system. Or some other incentive to have Canadians have more children. I'm sure all these Brainiac's could figure out a system that is workable.

You toss the word 'seditious' around like the rest of the left wingers toss 'racist' around. Even your beloved CBC is on track . . . . .

Do you let everyone into your house just because they knocked on your door? Canada's immigration policy does not work in its present left wing form. In fact, there's not much of anything left wing that works in this country.

I think whom ever is doing all this planning to find balances is doing a real shitty job, look at most of our large cities their infra structure is lagging way behind the amount of people moving to these city centers. Yes they do entice immigrants through incentives to try other parts of the country like the Maritimes, but once they have fulfilled their commitments it is off to the big city they go, to be around people of their own kind. The great Canadian myth that we are a country of diverse cultures and that it makes us stronger, is false, our immigrants come here to enjoy their culture in our country, and we promote that liberal myth every chance we get. and it is a huge political lie . All one has to do is look a china town in any large city, or parts of Ont where the population is mostly Muslim, there are thousands of examples. Here in NB we are seeing those results of Muslim immigrants from Syria who the government forced upon the Maritimes like some failed science experiment are now fleeing to the big cities... I mean how could anyone not love the Maritimes. we're friendly , love the outdoors, love to shoot shit, go for a rip on your wheeler, the hunting and fishing are great. Relying on immigration for our economic growth is wrong, for several reasons, we already have a major infra structure deficit across the country, and by pouring in massive amounts of immigrants is only going to increase that, and with the country in it's current state where do we get the funding... What we should be doing is cutting all the red tape the government has thrown in front of our resource sector, and other sectors that are actually shrinking our economy.. instead of selling them to the Chinese. Invest in our own country, rather than all the liberal programs around the world. Relying on one method for our economical future is not the best way to go. Anyone will tell you don't put all your eggs into one basket. and Immigration is not the end all be all to increase our economical future, it is but one method.

So, you expect me to sacrifice the lives of my friends and families so you can gloat over the virtue signaling of some poor person in another country having greater income. My reply to you would be in two words totally seven letters and quite rude (but appropriate). BTW: there are just over 4,000 hospitalizations right now, with about 900 in ICUs. You assume the 1,200 hospitals in Canada have 1,200 ICUs and that is far from the case. Canada has under 5,000 ICU beds, so right now, 20% are tied up with Covid patients. Load on medical staff is another and greater problem, as is supply of PPE.

I just gave you one. Here is another. https://globalnews.ca/video/7581404/coronavirus-critically-ill-patients-flown-to-other-regions-due-to-icu-bed-shortage/

Americans do have the right attitude. Donald Trump has been hard on China, unlike Sleepy Joe who's said China is America's allie. Trudeau's been soft on China - we need a government that takes a hard stand on countries like China that have horrible human rights issues and whose agenda is to wreak havoc on the world's ecomonies. China has been working to dominate the world economy and has accomplished exactly that by unleashing the CCP virus and then concealing its existence from the world, although temporarily, then blaming the USA for its incarnation. Yet, it's been reported that the Canada Pension Plan is still pouring our federal pension funds into the Chinese market, largely controlled by the CCP. Furthermore, the are doing so with the full knowledge that Chinese law prohibits foreign oversight of the reporting by the Chinese companies. What does that mean? These Chinese companies can report whatever looks favourable to the CCP and they don't have to be transparent whatsoever. A lot of people hate Donald Trump, however he has been the only President of the USA that's been hard on China, realizing that they are the greatest threat to world economies and national security. Under his leadership, the US has passed the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act in December 2020 which forces Chinese companies listed on US stock exchanges (ie Alibaba) to open their audit books to US regulators or be delisted from these exchanges. In contrast, our current Liberal government doesn't appear to recognize the existing and future threats to our economy and national security by the Communist Chinese regime. I woudn't put it past the Biden administration to overturn the new Act passed in December 2020 but that's another story. I encourage all Canadians to stand up and contact their federal MPs to put a halt to the practise of investing our future retirement CCP funds in the Chinese economy. The Canada Pension Plan has so far invested over $15 billion with plans to increase those investments by 20%. If the USA can have a tough stance when it comes to dealing with China, our elected Prime Minister should be taking just a hard a stand in its dealings with them. China is the biggest threat to the world. The CCP has millions of its membership infiltrating government agencies and public corporations in its efforts to steal our technology and intellectual property. Yet our government seems to be reactive instead of being proactive. We need a leader who stands tough against Communism, not invest in it.