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1. That is how it appears to me. Nerd is a great description. 2. Yes. 3. When he says the CBC is bad, he is telling me I am wrong, and by inference he is smarter than me. Of course he is wrong about that. 4. I am piecing together statements he has made. His support of the illegal occupation of Ottawa is an example. 5. Mr. Poilievre has failed to provide a hint of any positive solutions to climate change. He is not alone on the political stage in that matter. I crave a leadership with real vision to face the coming crisis. I want a leader who works with political rivals to achieve great things to overcome global warming. But, as a militant Monarchist, I have learned politics is a venue of unfulfilled dreams.

Mr. Poilievre will need to abandon many of his positions from the leadership race if he intends to win a federal election. The defunding of the CBC is a case in point. Politics is an exersize in building support. Remember the firestorm Prime Minister Mulroney unleashed when he thought it would be a brilliant idea to pre-empt Coronation Street to hold a press conference. CBC is a national institution created by a Conservative government and it has a large base of support. It is not just politics. It is Quirks and Quarks, the Nature of Things, Under th Influence, drama, comedy etc. Why would any politician tell a significant body of voters to kiss his ass? Political parties serve one purpose. They do not exist to promote some stupid ideology. They exist to win elections. We need leaders who are pragmatic, not ideological. Mr. Poilievre has campaigned on a format of ideology. The majority of voters disagree with him. For him to say he is smarter than the majority of people is pure arrogance. He has laid out a platform that is at odds with what voters want. Therefore, he must either flip flop and be called a liar, or stick to his platform and be called a loser. The only Conservatives who have won elections are Red Tories who can draw support from liberals.

1. He gave a surgical answer when asked: He supported the legal participants but not the illegal participants. Which is... uh... Anyway, at least it's something. I'm sure the Convoy lovers will see him as going after Trudeau and love him. 2. Ok 3. I just want leaders who "debate" "ideas". I utterly hate Trudeau's opportunistic capture of 'progressive values' as his own idea, and wish he lived up to the image that was crafted as a new kind of PM. He just waved at the crowd, then went behind the curtain and got all his ideas from the old Liberal machine. Replacing him with a nobody who has only been in parliament his whole life, acts like a Nerdy insult comic isn't an improvement. At this point in our history, we have a LOT of people under 50 years old who have a lot of experience in transforming organizations and understand the new world. Finding someone with a brain and heart and recruiting them shouldn't be so tough. We're Canada, we should be doing this more. Rather than finding another lawyer who looks at the whole system and comes up with one-offs like legal WEED or ?!? POPPERS...

Yeah, living or dying is also a choice: “To be or not to be.” So is murder. What does having a choice have to do with the injustice of vaccine mandates? Fucking nothing.

Then so does masturbation

Well, as I always need to point out, then you have killed billions. And this will mean outright bans on abortion, or have you not met the insurrectionist party? "Up to the states" means "we want to remove this right." You have killed women with this. Not your little magical spirits, REAL women will die because of this. No doubt about it.

What’s not scientific about? Be specific.

If you’re going to continue to deny prenatal science, then there’s really no point in carrying on this conversation.

I don't see anything wrong with men feeling strongly about being anti abortion. You're on the political left so you're of the opinion that men can also get pregnant aren't you? Birthing people??

I asked Oksana if they should have to prove they've never had an abortion to those store owners who want to know. Didn't really get a response

come and say it to my face come down to the infantry mess and parade about with the routine you put on here as a sock puppet troll we will sort you out, coward

Her Majesty did pay me a compliment actually on parade for the Queen, she stopped and spoke to me she asked me "how are finding the infantry, Corporal ?" I replied "it's an honour & privilege to serve, maam" she said, "very good, Corporal" and smiled at me, then moved on down the line

I liked Aitchison he made sense and did not want to get involved in the catfights, or name-calling I also liked Baber who had all the right answers as well. but I don't think these 2 have the support and that's what it is going to come down to... Charest got played by PP, he spent most of his time yelling and countering PP, if he wants a chance he has got to up his game...

? wasn't a big deal anyways, I just went full drama queen. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-28-0001/2020001/article/00087-eng.htm I think that the majority of people who "died of covid" were already walking on the edge of their grave and covid just gave them a nudge. 80% of covid deaths are among 70+, and people that old who have dementia aren't long for this earth. My father-in-law didn't last half a year after he had full-blown dementia.

I don't want to cause thread drift, so I will point out that the image I described of Mr. Poilievre is the image many centre - centre right voters have of him. To win enough seats currently held by the grits in Ontario and Quebec, the Consevative party needs a Red Tory like Brown, Charest and Aitchison.

I return compliments in kind on behalf of Her Majesty & The Royal Canadian Infantry Corps you're a good man, I'd stand to in a trench with you anytime, brother Ducimus

I wouldn't serve in the pathetic military of today but I already had my ceremonious retirement, with the regiment on parade congratulated by the CO, RSM, Brigade Commander, Brigade Sergeant Major "on behalf of the Government of Canada & Canadian Forces, thank you for your faithful & devoted service to our country" I'm still welcome at my regiment none of my brothers would care what some NDHQ wog had to say about me mind you, even when I was in the ranks I always was a bar brawling shit disturbing barracks room lawyer who castigated Canada for destroying its own military

No, I know military persons who are glad they didn't have to enforce this crap of Justin's because...they don't really agree with it all.

If the CBC can’t produce content worthy of drawing enough viewers to win advertising dollars, it shouldn’t exist. If the issue is ensuring that East Coast Christmas kitchen parties and Inuit belly singing gets aired because Canada, there are ways of ensuring that all broadcasters provide some unpopular Canadian cultural content. We can even subsidize it. We already do. The clear problem with the CBC and much of our MSM in Canada is that it’s heavily dependent on government funding, making it beholden to government. Also, there’s no real public demand necessary for much of the content. Basically, programming that isn’t especially interesting can be propped up for ideological reasons. 20-30 years ago I think CBC played a critical role in affirming Canadian cultural content, but Canadians produce a lot of popular and interesting content that advertisers are willing to fund because people like it. I’m not saying the CBC should be scrapped, but it does need to survive on its own merits to a greater degree. I hope PP kicks their woke asses.

Also remember that it is often the only way for voices to be heard in Canada’s North. Clearly, it is not profitable for radio and TV to broadcast to places in the arctic. The CBC is often a lynchpin bringing people closer together. Art, community, news…. All of it is tied together up there because of the CBC.

Another stupid analogy. There are a handful of your ilk that really do say the dumbest things LOL If entitled and earned, you get it, if not you don't. Nothing further to discus LOL

1. Has he ? I have heard slogans and smart-ass comments. Basically the same method as Trudeau, but a wisecracking nerd personality instead of an eyelid-batting middle-aged Tiger Beat alumnus. It's style vs style. This should be what we all reject - the game they invite us to is not intelligent. 2. Do they ? 3. Did he really say that ? 4. Has he laid out a platform or are you piecing together statements he has made ?

My opinion: In the case of the f*ck trudeau/canadian flag waving crowd: When you have a small percentage of people, sitting in an echo chamber (social media), they're not only continuously fed the same, unchallenged misinformation, but they are also under the delusion that they have large support. Because support is all they hear. The reality is that they're a small, but very loud minority, who, thanks to social media, can actually organize these useless and unproductive stunts. This is why 2/3 of Canadians supported the government's measures to clear the convoy from downtown Ottawa.

This is the state of the so-called patriot today: calling Canada a dictatorship and catastrophe is considered ok.

How are real women going to die? What’s a real women anyways? Are there fake women? Are you referring to trans women or something?

If you have nothing to contribute to this topic, please don't derail it. "Abuses" aren't all same. There are millions in concentration camps, killing camps and criminal invasion wars abuses. Between Stalin's socialism and Canada or even U.S. capitalism a moral, ethical, common sense and any imaginable choice is obvious for anyone with a shred of common sense left.

This is not in Canada's control.

Regardless of what people think of DeSantis education policy or Disneys criticism of it, it’s an exteme abuse of office. Imagine if you publicly criticized your mayor’s education policy and announced that you will no longer give political contributions to anyone…and so in retaliation the next day the mayor passes an act that quadruples the property tax on JUST YOUR HOUSE and he openly admits that the only reason he’s doing it is to punish you for criticizing him and the law serves no other practical purpose. Using your office to harass and settle scores with your personal enemies is ABUSE OF OFFICE plain and simple. Not to mention that even corporations have first amendment rights to express themselves as they please and the right to donate or not donate as they please. Now consider that by repealing this agreement the Florida counties that surround Disney World are now on the hook for billions of infrastructure that Disney used to pay for. Similar to Texas purposely delaying trucks at the border with phoney “enhanced safety inspections” that cost the Texas and US economy billions. Running things into the ground and enacting self-harming policies just to lash out at enemies is another example of growing right wing fascism in the US

I guess after this we can expect Djokovic to get a ban on participating in Paris and Wimbledon. Maybe because he doesn't belong to this company.

I already provided you with incontrovertible evidence. The best that you can do is look to propaganda from other countries. In this case you've chosen to look to the country that profits the most from making the vaxxes, who lied and said that the "vaccines" would be safe and effective, and from the administration that brought us the Russian collusion witch hunt, Ukrainian collusion witch hunt, war in Ukraine, whipgate, Fordgate, Burismagate, etc. The United States is a dumpster fire. We're done here.

Ya, life's a bitch. Choices have consequences, isn't that what you are saying about abortion? It just blows me away that you would compare getting vaccinated so you don't get sick to being forced to bring up a child you can't support.

Inflation caused by Trudeau's obsession with printing money is nothing more than a wealth transfer from the middle class to the ultra wealthy

Sure I think it's force but not the deadly violent act you stupidly persist in pretending it is. Awwww.

Let's get something straight, I am not pro abortion, I think it is the worst form of birth control but I am 100% pro choice. If it was someone in my family I would tell them I would do anything I could to help if they wanted to keep the child but it is their decision alone and I would respect it, whatever it was.

It's drama to you because you d-g-a-f about other people's lives. You watch the CBC's propaganda and then you click your heels and turn off the tube. You're done. "Opinion received, sir! I'll start engaging in disseminating this [dis]information as soon as I get to my computer." Some of us really hoped that the vaccines worked so that we could get on with our lives, but I knew long before you did that the vaccines weren't good enough to let us get on with our lives. Thousands of people were ending up in ICU right away. There were nasty side-effects that first came out as rumours, then some credible people said them on TV, then statistics finally creeped out of the CDC to confirm what we already knew. The more data that comes in, the more we see that even boosting doesn't work. The vax doesn't work Flyer. Santa isn't real. There's no tooth fairy. Am I going too fast for you?

I don't care about your sites. I showed you sites that prove what's happening in Canada. FYI that's an entire country with 38M people in it, and by far the most relevant place on earth to us. You misinterpreted the data I showed you and now you look stupid now, so you want me to look at propaganda from somewhere else. Go fish. I haven't looked at a single stat from Wisconsin since the beginning of covid. I don't know what they've been saying all along, or when people there started getting vaxied, or when there were a significant number of people single-, double- or triple-vaxied. I don't know what treatments they provide in hospitals and what's banned. I'm not gonna just start researching Wisconsin to find out where their propagandists are fudging the numbers because I don't have to. I have a country-sized data set that I'm well aware of. You could learn from looking at the info that I posted or you can keep your head up your ass, I don't care, but I'm gonna keep posting the truth.

I'm using your exact logic eyeball. You think it's not "forcing" someone to do something when you threaten to take their job away but it 100% is. People don't just change their occupation willy nilly. People build up holidays and get raises and get seniority and get promotions and they make friends and it's a massive thing to just give that up all of a sudden and start over. Maybe you worked in entry-level positions all your life, so going from McDonald's to being a Walmart greeter to being a junior girl Friday is no big deal for you, but for people who have worked their way into a good job and have a mortgage and some car payments and have their kids in sports or other expensive extracurricular activities it's not possible to just suddenly quit and go find a whole new line of work. Some people's kids are also getting expensive medical treatments which are covered by company policies, and they definitely won't be able to afford those drugs if they quit. Chemo can be thousands of dollars a month. Of course a person in that position can't just quit. You're just the worst kind of person on earth, eyeball. It's disgusting that you're so ok with people being forced to take the pseudovax which young people don't need, has dangerous side-effects and doesn't prevent the people who actually need protection from dying.

Wow, chauvinism is alive and well. You don't absolve anyone of anything but women are 100% responsible for unwanted pregnancies. According to you 95,000 girls failed to make an attempt to prevent something but the 95,000 guys had no responsibility or accountablity at all. You have no problem giving them a pass. A condom breaks or a couple gets drunk and have unprotected sex, the woman gets a life sentence but the guy just got laid and moves on to the next one. Life is grand. For most women, an abortion is a difficult and traumatic decision. An early term fetus will know nothing if it is aborted but the women carries the guilt for the rest of her life, even if her pregnancy was not her fault and she was justified in doing it. How much guilt does a man carry? SFA yet he (you) still believes it is their right to determine that woman's future.

Righ wing propaganda outlet reports that right wing activist confirms right wing theory. In the reality world 95% of biologists do not support banning abortion at conception and do not consider a human being to exist at conception

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.

You’re totally clueless. There are multiple court challenges in queue. These could take years to work through the courts. Where were you during the debates and interviews with Brian Peckford? You’re just an apologist for crap government. What’s more, I don’t believe you were in the military for 35 years. You don’t seem knowledgeable.

No idea what I replied before in this thread. I prefer Charest. I'm an old school conservative: what works is good, get along. But make things happen. Mulroney did the GST, free trade. Charest did the Mtl interchange.

it's not anger I am merely extrapolating the catastrophic trajectory that Canada has degenerated into the Government of Canada declaring that Canadians have "unacceptable views which should not be tolerated" that is invoking thought crime, which is totalitarianism in egregious contravention of Section 2 of the Charter of Rights & Freedoms I am simply bound by solemn oath to Her Majesty, the Commander-in-Chief, to resist the onset of such a regime I do not act in anger, but rather out of duty as the government in Ottawa is violating its own constitution thus I decry that vociferously, as it will destroy our civil society if it is permitted to carry on like this I am bound to no fealty to the government in Ottawa which violates their oaths to HM I am only bound to the House of Windsor, as that is my nation, and yours Nec Aspera Terrent

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.

Say what?

The US about to take a great leap into the 19th Century. Can't wait for the good old days of back alley abortions and coat hangers.

No it doesn't. Rights don't belong to the states, and the Roe is absolutely an interpretation of the constitution. It will be overturned based on the bible and in defiance of the constitution. It will result in the erosion of other rights as well.

And pussies it seems.

Oh, pre and post vaccinations? NOT!! Understand that employers (and often the employee unions) determined what their employees were required to do. So, the "otherwise entitled" still got what they were entitled to under the laws and employers and union wishes..

Of course not, don't be stupid. What would be accurate is to define your example as a violent use of force. What would also be accurate is to say its stupid to try and equate this example with having to choose a different occupation if you don't like it's terms of employment.