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I keep hearing about companies and rich people hiding money off shore. Thing is, if they can do it, so can you. If Canada is so bad, why do so many foreigners invest in Canada? To the point we are looking at legislation to curtail it? In every election since I could vote (a long time LOL) every single party and politician has said they were going to cut taxes. Be it federal, provincial or municipal, none have ever kept that promise so, I think and so do politicians, we can pay more tax.

Total number of MP's in Canada : 443 Total MP payroll as per your $200K/MP estimate: $88.6 million Total government revenue in Canada in 2018/19 was $332.2 billion. If all of it came from taxes (which it is not), this means that for every $10,000 of tax money you pay out of your pocket to CRA, you have $2.67 / year go into the MP's pockets. Conversely, if you want them all to work for free, this would have saved you $2.67 / year. So you have gone to the point of insanity for buying one cup of coffee a year to those who are supposed to make your life better?

If men were the ones who got pregnant you’d be able to get an abortion at a drive-thru window and people would think nothing of it. Popping out for a quick abortion would just be considered personal hygiene appointment like getting your hair cut. This is totally about controlling women. And while we’re at it, if men were the ones who got pregnant , Americans who give birth would be treated like military veterans and get at least years parental leave full pay or government benefits, not the current US system for women which is “you have 12 unpaid weeks to push that baby out, sew up your crotch and get back in your seat or you’re fired”

Just what problems are you wanting to solve? We live in one of the most affluent societies in history. The difficulty with many citizens having a say on legislation is not many of us have the time and resources to run things. The average citizen is capable but we delegate these duties to MP's. The Crown delegates running the executive to MP's and Senators. The politicians receive advice from professional civil servants. An example is the Covid crisis. It was an event for which a speedy response was required. The public health professionals gave the government their best advice and we have had a better outcome than most countries so far.

So are you...

what hot water did you get into? lost a job and the roof over your head for your ideals? Let me know what you do exactly and how it is changing anything globally, other than putting you in hot water. My conscience is equally clean.

It's just pure definition stripped of all context. He's not stupid he's just stubborn. Maybe he has no choice but to be the way he is.

If someone had a gun to your daughter's head and said "give me your wallet", and you gave them your wallet, would it be accurate to say that you just chose to give them your wallet? You could have chosen to keep your wallet. You had a choice, right?

Dude, it's not my fault if you don't understand the definition of the word force. I already posted it for you. I understand it, you don't. Move on. Threatening to take someone's job away if they don't comply with your demands is called "forcing them to do something". If someone had a gun to your daughter's head and said "give me your wallet" would it be accurate to say that you just chose to give them your wallet? Stop playing stupid.

Ending a pregnancy isn’t “killing offspring.” An egg and a chicken are not the same thing There’s nothing more anti-freedom than forcing a woman to sacrifice her life or future by carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term against her will. You might as well openly admit that you consider women to he nothing more than breeding livestock.

Then you must have missed this one by myata: I think it can take a Nobel prize. But there's a problem still. .............the system is ........... incapable of understanding and managing a complex modern society;................ And that is a problem. ...............it can be a big problem without easy solutions. So just believing it and repeating same old over and over doesn't really solve problems.....

So she should kill her offspring over money?

Prove the calculation is wrong! This one is easy, based on numbers. You do not even buy 1 cup of coffee/year out of your $10,000K in tax, that you pay, if you paid that much at all. Why? Because much of the 332 billion comes from other sources, like selling land and selling rights over this land. And this is what you should be concerned with - where the revenues are coming from and what happens with 332 billion once collected; not the measly 82 million that your brain can still not swallow years and years later. If you cant prove my calculation wrong, I suggest you STFU. I must have given you the wrong impression. Can't speak about Mike, for whom the above may be true, but I despise the current system! The thing is, other than complain about it like Myata, I realize there is nothing meaningful I can do, even if I decide to put my job and roof over my head at risk, like the truck convoy folks. I support them all ! The old growth tree logging protesters too, the anti-pipeline folks too.

You’re way out of your depth. HSR has been studied and determined viable in the Quebec-Windsor corridor. At the very least, a core network between Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, with an extension to K-W is essential. Right now planning is underway way for High Frequency Rail between these cities, which will eventually be upgraded to HSR. Canada is a laggard in HSR. China, Europe, and even parts of the U.S. are far ahead on this. A corridor has also been proposed between Edmonton and Calgary. I’m curious as to how you think greenhouse gases should be reduced. Taxing drivers into the ground without providing a realistic commute alternative is a disaster.

But top-down management, which is an ancient methodology, ensures that they will never be successful. The way they work is as important as the intentions.

And you keep chiming in with your male misogynist bullshit. Women deserve everything they get in spite of how men treat them.

My experience is that the machinery is constantly being "tuned "to what the public wants, that is why the Supply Manual alone is tens of thousands of pages and other process manuals for other departments are also voluminous. The constant 'fixing" created ominous and often unworkable processes.

I too have worked in government, and although the criticisms of it are often misguided or simple - the basic fact is that the machinery of government is not always attuned to what "the" public wants. That needs to be fixed IMO.

I certainly agree with this. I have worked in and around the government departmental bureaucracy. What I learned it is often not the actual politician bit his staff of green meanies. The ones they surround themselves with. These minions are often young staffers that believe they have "the power'. Unfortunately, the public servants are beholding to them for whatever they ask because they ask on behalf ot h e employer which is that politician.. The mudpuddle is more a tar pit because the rules and regulations they workers have to abide by in the chase of transparency gets bigger and bigger daily. There are lots of complaints about procurement and wastes of money. Look up Supply Manual in Canada and try to get your head around the thousands of pages of rules, and that is even before negotiators get to make more stipulations in the actual procurement contract. Point is the poor worker is bound by intense and idiotic rules to satisfy transparency and political will in all areas (of all parties because every newly elected party pisses on procedures like a dog on a hydrant to mark their territory)

Like everything, it's a matter of definition. Like how many buttons you need to push, with a $17 juice in the hand, courtesy of your taxpayer, to begin working "real hard"? And they get to decide what "working hard" means, for them. And how much "working hard" should fetch them, what, you don't get to decide your salary noooo? Of course it could mean something else, quite different for a $30K median citizen, "most affluent" now have to believe it. Then, everything works out finely. For them. No change is necessary and why would you (them) even think of that?!

The calculation is wrong on many levels. But aside from calculation there are two important issues: 1. Yes I like to decide who I give my coffee money to, how much of it and for what. 2. The MP ratio is now above 5 (past the third world mark) and will grow further to who know what, because there's no limits. Who, how can limit a bureaucrat who decides what they should be paid, with a ladle in front of the public vault? And this a problem. And this is no democracy because governments without limits aren't compatible with democracy however decorated. And I don't want that because I read and think and I know what follows, sooner or later.

Conservatives are also opposed to any kind of “welfare” or financial supports that might help the single mother and her child. They also publicly funded childcare that would help the mother seek gainful employment. Recently Republicans in Tennessee rejected federal funding for pre-k early learning childcare in the basis that it would encourage women to leave the home and work, which they said was a bad thing Conservatives are obsessed with the righs of the so-called unborn but don’t give a shit about them once they’re actually born. They see a child living in squalor, sent to a dysfunctional crumbling school, live on the margins of society, criminalized and fast-tracked through the criminal justice system, tried as an adult and sent away to years in prison and say “meh not my problem” Anti-Abortion Sen. Ron Johnson Opposes Funding Child Care: 'People Decide to Have Families' "People decide to have families and become parents," Johnson said in a Wednesday interview with WKBT. "That's something they need to consider when they make that choice. I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children." https://www.newsweek.com/anti-abortion-sen-ron-johnson-opposes-funding-child-care-people-decide-have-families-1673414?amp=1 Idaho rejects $6 million in child care funding, sparking protests from women One representative criticized “any bill that makes it easier or more convenient for mothers to come out of the home,” a comment he later apologized for. https://19thnews.org/2021/03/idaho-child-care-funding-protest/?amp Outlawing Abortion Will Increase Child Poverty. Republicans Couldn’t Care Less. Jordan WeissmannDec 02, 20217:40 PM The old Democratic line about Republicans is that they care deeply about human life right up until the moment a child is actually born, and then they’re on their own. The party has spent decades fighting to abolish abortion and preaching the sancticty of life, all while supporting the death penalty and opposing social spending programs aimed at helping struggling parents and their kids. …As for the Republicans’ own anti-poverty platform? It’s been a joke for years, mostly consisting of vague bromides about encouraging marriage, and warmed over ideas borrowed from 90s-era welfare reform that flop whenever someone tries to adapt them to today (see the debaclous efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid). Some conservatives, such as Justice Amy Coney Barrett, ghoulishly seem to think that the answer is for more women to simply put their unwanted children up for adoption, a view that basically treats poor mothers as surrogate wombs for richer families, and ignores how emotionally scarring it can be for women to part with a baby once they’ve actually given birth. … https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/dobbs-roe-abortion-poverty-statistics-republicans.html

You have not once given a constitution violation or breach. Not one constitutional right has been breached. No one has been able to take it to court. You have though, repeated a bunch of BS notions.

Like the progressive Wilson before, this Biden Administration is opening old European scars. ==== And living with various animals under one roof, I understand now the Slavic tradition of bread and salt. It's true: when a dog and cat manage to eat side by side, they learn to live together.

Very wise advice

Huh? All things considered, this country works. Various people work together.

So the poor baby deserves to die because his dads a deadbeat? Too bad so sad?

You've never once provided a case of anyone physically forcing a vaccination needle into anyone who made the choice to remain unvaccinated despite your stupid direct implication that's what's actually happening. Who wouldn't given the leaden weight you assign to the word force compared to the ephemeral lightness you assign to the word choice. Your hyperbole on one hand is only underscored by your understatement on the other.

What a cop out. I didn't ask what you would do personally. What a chauvinist. The fact is, rich American women will be able to travel anywhere they want for abortions and poor American women will just be poorer. Why do you have such little respect for women?

Bullshit, you are just paying it lip service. How are you going to ensure that happens? Just saying it means nothing when you can just walk away with no repercussions. You would saddle the woman with everything while obligating the man to nothing.

What about the obligations of the father? You guys are completely silent when it comes to men's responsibilities.

So your answer is to continue to let it mutate until it comes back with a 40% death rate. In 1350, one day, Sevastopol had a population over 200,000. A week later, there were 7 people left alive. Covid may disappear on its own or it may come back more legal than ever. That is what happens when you give it a large enough pool.

1. The unborn have rights? 2. I agree that the federal government should be restricted.

Hilarious. Where to start with your falsehoods and false comparisons and Putin-loving treasonous disgraced ex-general . Speaking of lies and frivolous lawsuits how are the Big Lie and Krakken working out foe you? But….stick to the topic of this thread

The funny thing is that these people were saying the same thing about Canada a year or two ago - exactly the same thing - when there was no inflation. Now they say inflation is the major reason. The other odd thing is that they don't have the organization skills or attention span to put together a proper platform to oppose the things they don't like. They just say "I want I want I want" and ... well, this is what we get. Anybody who doesn't think that our system doesn't result from what the various factions in society demand doesn't understand something.

Texas law bans abortions after 6 weeks. A woman could be six weeks and have no other indication than her period was two weeks late. By the time she found out she was pregnant and got an appointment for an abortion she would be well over six weeks. The Texas law effectively bans abortions.

What is it you don't understand about her future. It's her future and you should have no say in it. That's the thing, you want to absolve the man of all responsibility for the pregnancy but still be able to dictate what happens to her body and how she has to lead her future life. You are the one who wants to put her future in guy's hands while they have no responsibility. There sure are a lot of misogynists around these days. So you have to be a poor single mom. Not my problem, I'm free to knock someone else up.

Try sitting in the waiting room of a walk-in clinic and look around. Almost everyone will be looking done at one of the most remarkable devices in world history. With that little smart phone, you can sit waiting to see a doctor paid for by the government, and communicate instantaneously with anyone in the world. In addition, you can tap into an almost unlimited library of information. My phone cost $2200 and it was money well spent. There are those who slip between the cracks due to untreated illness, but that is not due to government. You can blame taxpayers who will not pay for the services required. Inflation is global and a direct result of Covid and the war. Taxes are also a result of covid and over population. Rising real estate is due to over population.

The 3 issues you mention are underfunded because taxpayers do not want to pay for those issues and government can only do so much. The treasury took a huge hit with the covid crisis and coming on the back of that is the war in Europe and then the really big one which is the battle against climate change. I cannot imagine how we are going to pay for that except by borrowing from many future generations, and ironically, they are the ones who will thank us for spending their money. As for compensation for people who work in government, you get what you pay for. If you won't pay for good people, you won't get good people.

And isn't this telling you something ?????? You have a Global economy; you end up with Global problems. Now try to understand what I wanted to explain above so we do not go around in circles. As for the "most affluent society in history", I have to agree with you, few are the affluent and most of the middle class are quickly falling behind with inflation, rising taxes and rising real estate values.

Dude, you advocated for vaccine mandates like a bot. It's all in my post above. You're busted. I posted facts about the covid vaxies which you can't dispute. That's well documented now. You're here to blather and be snotty but you can't discuss relevant facts. You could just say "I agree with everything that CBC says" and save yourself some time.

There is a big niche for this type of people who can generate the largest amount of gibberish in the shortest period of time. Usually they get political or management careers, or plain sales jobs in the worst case scenario. If you want to call Canada Honduras, go ahead, I am not offended. There are plenty or Hoduras citizens in Canada. You can also call it China, India, Mexico, Peru, Jamaica, Indonesia, Philippines ............you get what I mean - put the citizens of all those nations together and they may turn out to be a majority in Canada. But most MP's you refer to are "old stock Canadians" from Anglosaxon or French origin. Turns out their moral compass and values in life are not any higher than those of politicians in any banana republic.

So only women are too lazy to use birth control. Got it.

Huh? Trucker convoy? Vaccinations and you come up with that?? Sounds tome like you lost the argument and deflect again <OL

The Constitution is protected. What part of the Constitution is not protected, both by the Courts, Parliament and the Crown? No where does the constitution give anyone the right to break the law. The context and values of the US constitution also do not permit anyone to break the law. Both documents are designed to protect us from those who would violate the law, from parking violations to murder. What "unaccountable influences on our government" are you referring to? The negative foreign influence I was referring to was not on the government, but on the protesters. That is not illegal, just not desired by me. There are many American influences that are positive such as the view that racism is wrong. But, the American tradition of distrust in science and government, is a negative one.

People who are pro choice aren't pro abortion. Lets get that straight to begin with.

It was grossly irresponsible bordering on liable to engage in mass propaganda and forcing of quasi-vaccines on general population before studying and knowing with at least some confidence their long term effects. There was no justification. It was nowhere near plague or Spanish flu. There are successful countries that managed it just with honest information and top notch health system. One day, Canada's opaque, unaccountable propaganda and trigger-happy public management will lead the country into real serious problems with no obvious exit. Now we know that there's nothing, no checks nor controls to prevent that.

Seems to me that the unfocused bizarre reasons too many people in society have for being against abortion are the best argument there is for leaving the issue entirely up to a woman and her doctor.

Yes it will. Botched abortions killed many women before they became legal. Prior to Roe vs. Wade in the United States, more than 5,000 women per year were killed because of botched abortions.

I really enjoy the lack of freedom and loss of my rights. I'm not allowed to vote or say anything about the government, and I find that pleasurable.