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Trudeau also created a day of remembrance, truth and reconciliation, Sept. 30, for residential school children in particular, and then flew off on a vacation to Long beach by Tofino when if anyone in Canada should have been at the ceremonies, it was him. He is not fit to be PM, but this was known for many years. The ignorance of those who voted for him is astounding.

If he can flip flop looking for popularity, then what is stopping him from doing it again, And what he did flop on are important issues, gun control for one, canceling Justins carbon control plan...Conservatives don't mind center, this is left of center...

Several years ago, I was travelling in Asia. In a cafe (Cambodia? Phnom Penh?), I saw older women talking lively at a nearby table. Curious, as I paid my bill, I managed the courage to ask them - in English and in sign language, pointing at my passport - who they were, where they were from. In accented English, one of the older women answered that they were Korean. The other older women watched as she answered. First point: Koreans are the Maritimers/Newfoundlanders of Asia. Second point: Singapore is Toronto and Hongkong is Montreal (or they used to be). Main point of the OP: The older Korean woman, the sole sort-of English-speaking woman, was privileged. As she explained in broken English, they were friends on vacation abroad. Her unilingual friends watched as she explained their story. I wondered how difficult/frightening it would be to travel without knowledge of English. Heck, I know this only too well. ====== In this world, "privilege" is having the ability to speak English.

I have a friend who worked for a bank for over two decades. She quit to go work for Amazon, cause it pays more even at a starting salary.

Or I could pay for the beer and food (and taxes maybe?) where I like them, and their prices? Who said there's only one choice, or two? This isn't 16th or 18th but 21st century.

No, I don't agree. O'Toole moving toward the left makes him look more like a liberal lite. He lost some seats and didn't do well in ridings where he should have done better. Trying to become more liberal just doesn't gain many votes for conservatives in the Toronto 905 ridings and in Quebec. People just don't see him or the Conservative Party as being much different than the Liberals. He adopted carbon taxes against the wishes of the majority of the party in the convention. That was a fatal mistake. Just claiming he wants the party to be a big tent party just doesn't cut it or convince anyone of anything. He is not a true conservative. He is too much of an appeaser. Keeping him on would mean losing the next election. I don't see any reason at all why he would do much better. The way it looks is if O'Toole leads into another election, Trudeau will win another minority government and we will be no better off.

Its tunnel vision to work your a.. off just to buy more and more expensive and at that, bland and mediocre stuff (like Canadian beer) while some of us enjoy automatic annual % on % raises, just because they can endow them upon themselves, and for little other reason while there are places where one could just enjoy life and have good value for one's work. The world is a large place no need to get stuck. I mean one always can but that would be a choice.

The thing to keep in perspective is, the most precious commodity we have is time. You can always get more money but you cannot get more time. Trades people are starting to retire and there are not enough new people going into the trades. I presume Myata you are competent to fix your own roof but if you have an electrical problem I recommend you get a certified electrician. If you go to something like BCIT, take plumbing, the course takes about 4-6 months and cuts your apprenticeship down to 18 months. Then you are a journeyman. If you get into a union shop, you will be making over $30 an hour. If you can't live on that, you have other problems. If you open your own shop, you will probably have the biggest boat on the lake. I have 7 years of university with a double degree in military history and psychology. That got me a job as a Peace Officer making about 60% of what the electricians and plumbers were making. Housing is so expensive because we all want to live in downtown Vancouver or Toronto. Move to a place like Trail BC and you can buy a $1.5 million house for under $300K, but if you are a journeyman plumber, you can afford more. And bonus, Red Mountain is a 10 minute drive up the hill. I agree, the transit system in Western Europe is superior to Canada. If you don't like the cost of beer, make your own. Same with burgers.

Not at all. The decision to allow travel from foreign countries and not to screen incoming travellers at the airport was entirely a federal decision. The provinces don't control international transportation. Our government also advised Canadians not to wear masks, gave away tons of PPE to China and got back nothing, and it was our federal government that decided to opt for Chinese vaccines instead of American ones. Our PM also chose to promote BLM protests ahead of public safety, which completely undermined efforts to get people to take covid seriously, and he broke his own interprovincial travel guidelines, again undermining the seriousness of the outbreak. Oh, and he was also exposed for doing fake "social distancing" at press conferences, because the media gallery was all huddled under a single tent and none of them were wearing masks. Again, he treated covid like a prank on Canadians and he got busted. So we're right back to what I said: You completely failed to call out the federal gov't, which is entirely to blame for the majority of our covid deaths, and you're cherry picking individual provinces and acting like they're absolute villains. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds. It's pathetic.

1. Socially, the 'left' has moved what the centre is significantly. Economically, every party has bought in to neoliberalism, capitalism and free trade. Environmentalism used to be far less of a political topic, but in the late 1990s became politicized and is now owned by the left. 2. Sort of but also remember that Preston Manning and Paul Martin (and more recently Quebec's CAQ) have scored popularity by being more austere with budgets. Even Trudeau, prior to 2019, was more prudent so I don't think Canadian voters are as in love with deficits as Americans are. 3. This will end ... hopefully soon and not badly.

Whole world has moved on already... living life with Covid not life for glorious war of Covid. Not here, no how could we? We slept through two decades of warnings, woke up to travel from Wuhan but now there's the Purpose! No money (taxpayers whose else?) spared, no restriction (however pointless or meaningless) forgotten march, march Canada to the bright new dawn right over the horizon just believe me. A poster as a snapshot not even allegory, year ten: mask on the face, stickers from vaccines on all arms and bums, feathers, tin hat let's defeat it once and for all are you in?

That's true too, in that politicians that don't take it seriously inevitably lose.

I'm telling you moral standards were different back then, and nobody considered the tribes here as 'nations' or worried overmuch about setting up shop on empty land. According to anyone who knows even the slightest bit about history. I know how it distresses you whenever anyone tries to introduce reality into your bizarroworld views.

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Oh, I agree. Misinformation is everywhere. The most common misinformation I see amongst pro-covid vaxxers is that you can catch covid from unvaxxed people. Totally false. You catch covid from people who have covid. Which can be from either vaxed or unvaxxed. More so from vaxxed people now. Still don't see any information on why with 80% of the population vaxxed, cases are still "skyrocketing". Or why so many people who are vaxxed are dying from covid. Or why it's okay for schools in Ontario to vax children without parental consent. You'll fight for toilet paper, but not your rights.

I think Trudeau should resign. I don't imagine you do because you have indicated there is no limit to the corruption you will tolerate.

He was Socialist Credit, a party of bolsheviks. (BC Electric.) They talked the free enterprise line but governed like marxists.