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No. Always "No".

Those are honest and reasonable concerns, so they will be ignored by our government. The whole Canadian 2030 Climate Action Plan is an utter lie and joke when you consider how much more waste our country will produce and how much more energy we’ll consume with these millions of additional people. The whole Liberal platform is a fake show of greenwashing and identity politics. Woke-green rhetoric with real added costs for Canadians in the form of carbon taxes and overcrowded cities with overstretched infrastructure, overpriced homes, and siloed communities. Canadians continue to buy into this narrative, so I doubt anything will change anytime soon. We will literally be funding gender transition surgeries in Africa as Quebec bans use of the English language and young people can no longer afford housing.

So, maybe think more than 4 months ahead? Seems the imprisonment is shorter term than the freedom though, right? If you didn’t think very far in advance, you have a lack of freedom for 4 months and then freedom for 10 years. Did I get that correct? Is this honestly what you think qualifies as totalitarianism?

they're coming to replace you, wrinkly, pimply, warty dark skinned people clad in goat skins who'll gibber like coyotes outside your windows as they steal your rhododendrons for a side dish they serve beside your roasted pet pomeranian. they'll steal your job as a custodian and collect welfare at the same time, worship the Old Gods at 2:00 everyday and be constitutionally guaranteed that time off with pay. your daughter will have no choice but to marry one and wear just a gunny sack if she wishes to fulfill her only purpose of breeding grandchildren you can never be able to even talk to. they won't live anywhere but downtown Toronto and Vancouver so the gov't will take your house away to build them housing and you'll have to live in an igloo in Nunavut.

Take it as a point of pride that he doesn't. That's one of the few people on this forum I've muted. I've yet to hear a reasonable thing come out of his mouth.

Another non-answer from you. Please get with the times and stop hoping that Oil will be a key industry for another century.

What happened to your Heritage fund ???

Until more people call out the government for these irresponsible policies, this will continue. I think people have been swayed by government and media into a disinterested compliance. Fear, exhaustion, messaging…People don’t know which way is up or down and are focused on trying to pay bills as Rome burns and Nero plays the fiddle.

A better question is: why the country wouldn't turn into a (third world) banana republic, in the next say 50 years? What is there to prevent it? Anything?

She’s come to symbolize the anti-human. Reduce the human footprint out of existence. That’s where this is going. It’s the utopian Puritanism (dystopian nightmare) of an environmentally pure world of shivering, starving humans worshiping a Gaia that will carry on with or without humans. It’s a death cult. Extinction Rebellion uses similar rhetoric. I wasn’t a Trump fan but he made a hilarious comment about Greta when he said, “She seems like a happy girl.” Greta is the exemplar of wet blankets.

The system is heading into a crisis and meaningful change is a taboo here. The caviar class have to do something and they can do anything. Massive dependent population is much easier to manage. China and Russia know.

and again, here you are with your silly, emotional hyperbole. Next time you want to complain about the poor truckers getting "smeared", remember how consistently unreasonable your own language is. ?‍♂️

We barely have enough construction tradesmen to build what we're building now, which isn't enough NOW. You want to increase the rate at which housing is going up we need more people in the construction trades. A lot more. You think they're going to want to plunk their arses down in Thunder Bay or Whitehorse, people largely coming from areas near the equator? They're going to Toronto, Vancouver, and a few other cities. Which means making those cities more crowded or increasing urban sprawl by paving over farmland. And for what, exactly? Will they remit more than the government has to spend on them? The last study done strongly suggested otherwise. Economics experts? Like this guy? https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-canada-has-abandoned-middle-class-says-b-c-s-former-top-civil-servant Oh yes, I forgot about all those empty houses that can't be rented or bought because, like, there's such an oversupply. More potential customers? Indeed. But you know what else comes with more potential customers? More potential competition. The only businesses that are certain to benefit are the oligopolies who have lobbied the government for this, and some of the real estate and construction industry.

I think also, that the alphabet entities we've been traditionally able to trust, are now stacked with non-medical bureaucrats. We have politicians and bureaucrats running a pandemic and the majority of public health officers have zero immunology, virology or epidemiological knowledge and are relying on the politicians and bureaucrats to direct them. That's why so many of the decisions made during covid have had no scientific backing, only political expediency. The public health officers who were making decisions on their own, with no assistance from any other industry, are people who are also just bureaucrats now. They haven't treated a patient in years and not one of them ever treated an actual covid patient during this whole mess.

I'm finding this is a common way of hiding what's happening. Someone tried to post studies on my thread to prove that unvaxxed are dying in vastly larger numbers, and didn't really read them. Pfizer funded studies play fast and loose with the numbers. Although 2 of the studies did caveat that the results of the study weren't reflected in real life (they said it more eloquently than me, but that was the gist.) One of the studies had Neil Ferguson - a UK guy who "predicts" how many deaths from certain illnesses that go around. He hasn't been right once, but the world used HIM to predict covid deaths and VOILA, he is the father of the lockdown in the West. Ironically, he was fired in disgrace for visiting his mistress for sexy time during the lockdown he recommended implementing. But apparently, he's still contributing to "studies." Well done on the research. I know how hard it is to find out the true picture when they make it so difficult. England is actually a bit easier. But ya, they try to slip things in, like including men in the data to prove that menstrual irregularities are "rare."

The game is to bring in people who are grateful for a lot less than the people who have been living here for a while would accept. Such people generally won’t make waves. There’s no question of what the impacts on our social services, healthcare, ESL educators, democratic values, home prices or rents will be. It’s about the Liberals looking pro-diversity and counting on the immigrant vote. Canada always needs some immigrants, especially in certain sectors, but 500000 per year is irresponsible. Canada has almost double the foreign born residents of the US. In areas of the GTA where immigration has been heaviest it’s very hard to tell how much integration outside the immigrant community is taking place. This situation is unlikely to change until everyone on this forum is long gone.

That is the sort of thing which ought to have been studied prior to the decision to increase immigration - 7 years ago. But Canada has undertaken no real study of the benefits or drawback of immigration, what immigration can do for the country, what it has done so far, or how to adjust/alter it to get what we want. Or even what we want. The government has studied none of this and has no plans to do so. Obviously, bringing in even more immigrants will exacerbate the housing shortage and resulting price increases in everything from rent to mortgages. Very few of the new immigrants will be construction tradesmen, and we have no idea how well their skills (presuming they have any) will meld with Canada's needs. Bringing in half a million people a year means more demand for housing, which in the absence of a flood of new people into the construction trades we will be unable to supply. Likewise medical services, especially since Trudeau has grandly increased the number of elderly immigrants three times in the last seven years, from 5,000 to 30,000 now (and counting). What we can be fairly sure the new flood of immigrants will do is make it easier for low wage jobs like those in the restaurant and hospitality industries to be filled without raising wages. Ditto for the tech industry, which will continue to spurn Canadian software grads in favor of more experienced and much cheaper Indians and Chinese. There's no real suggestion any of this will be good for Canada, at least in the short to medium term. Nor, I suspect, is it supposed to be. It's designed to make corporate Canada happy and to meet the Liberal party's goals under the Century Initiative as well as increasing immigrants from ethnic groups seen to be strong Liberal party supporters.

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Ever hear of James Earl Ray? When he was arrested, he was carrying a Canadian passport. After that, they tightened up the background checks. I am sure none of us want the wrong people getting a passport. OTOH, if we are a tyranny, I've always thought it would be fun to belong to the secret police. I have 25 years expeience. I've even been called Stasi on occasion. Maybe I should mention that on my application. Zeit, any idea what the pay is like?

It's obvious Michael. We need to get rid of the things that make us MAD and then have more of the things that make us feel GOOD!

Are the teachers blockading streets and disturbing an entire neighborhood late into the night? Are businesses closing as a result of their strike?

The rationalizing of these obvious questions is always a fun exhibit ?.

Holy crap. I'm going to award you some kind of trophy, because I've never seen so much wrong crammed into 3 lines. 1. The M1 exploded in early 2020, under Trump, a year before Biden took office 2. The money supply is primarily controlled by the Federal Reserve, which operates independent of the federal government (and the current chair Powell was originally nominated by Trump). Regardless of who is in office, the POTUS is not the primary driver M1. 3. The M1 explosion was deliberate, in response to challenges of the pandemic, with every expectation that inflation would follow. 4. It's not just the US. Central banks around the world turned to loose money to cope with the pandemic. FRED You have not taken Econ 101, but it'd be a really good idea.

The idea that we would not get tech workers from some specific place is viable, but we have been importing Muslims for decades since 9=11 and ... pretty much no impact, except maybe on them. Not importing from Pakistan, or Iran would mean jobs go unfilled and $ left on the table, that's it. What I find is that the same people who fret about 'the economy' or inflation are happy to suggest self-sabotage like embargoes with China, blocking immigrants based on religion etc.

Maybe look at a different perspective, not the one western MSM is madly pushing… “Most of the world, including Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, is carefully watching Russia systematically destroy what was by far the largest and most capable NATO-equipped, NATO-commanded army in the world (the Ukrainian army, that is), understanding full well that what is unfolding is Washington’s Waterloo. Some countries (Saudi Arabia, for instance) are so sure of the result that they are already refusing to obey Washington’s dictates. This is a problem, because all the Washingtonians know how to do is impose their will on the world. Treating others as equals or looking for opportunities to negotiate a win-win is simply not part of their core competence—or any of their competence, for that matter. Once defanged, all they know how to do is bark and drool.” https://thesaker.is/the-new-cuban-missile-crisis-that-isnt/

Azov vs Trudeau's Nazi guy pretending to be a trucker.

"Wrong places..." Gee I wonder what exactly you mean by that ? Oh, wait, I know... ?

Here’s another ‘random’ thing. Yesterday Biden said: no more drilling. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2022/11/07/biden-promises-no-more-drilling-just-days-after-demanding-more-drilling/amp/ Just a day after not exactly apologizing to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin for promising a San Diego audience to replace coal fired power plants with wind farms, President Joe Biden turned to promising a New York audience to shut down drilling for oil instead. I know I shouldn’t blame Biden, after all he only said it, in public, and it was about oil and drilling, but I’m wondering who to blame. Wait, let me grab the left wing playbook on this…turning pages….Oh, here it is! Blame Putin!

So we go from DeNazification to Rabid Anti-Semitism. Good Job Putin fans!

So you think when the Liberals book a facilitaty for some event, they send a team in to send away security guards that might appear 'white' ? Interesting. And you just THINK this happens, right ? No evidence ? Why wouldn't they do that for every single position ? Every event, every employee ? Obviously they have limited resources so why are they selecting security guards ? BTW, non white security guards happen to be a 'thing' in Toronto so they probably don't have to bother doing that here

Which ones specifically ? Immigration ?

The term democracy IS being used correctly. Republican authoritarians trying to set the stage for an American Putin or Orban to sit on the throne are the ones playing word games, all part of their program to groom the public into accepting authoritarian rule. That’s the REAL groomer threat people should be worrying about. As the article says, get used to the term “Contingent Election” as one of the many plots Republicans have their eyes on, in order to try and ignore the will of the voters.

I like that old chestnut. It's almost as good as the one about how raw democracy is just 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner.

Well, as it's not grounded in fact, I don't think there's a solution for that. I mean, we see it here constantly. Every bit of nonsense that is debunked by fact becomes another layer of the "conspiracy." It's looney tunes.

Except for indigenous peoples, we are all children of immigrants here. That said, today we have to ask the question...do we need more immigrants? We are a sparsely populated country so we have a large per capita carbon footprint. Do we need more of that? Our wealth comes from resource development and agriculture. Do new immigrants, who seem to settle more in large urban centres, contribute to our productivity in those economic areas? What we need is job creation and capital investment. Certain types of immigrants do that but how many are they? We also need to think hard about diversity. Cultures don't easily meld and blend and maybe our grandparents weren't totally stupid when they emphasised the "melting pot" focus. The main pro argument seems to be we need people to look after us in our old age. If that were true then China and India should be geriatric heavens, but I don't think that's the case. I know this is highly politically incorrect by today's standards but maybe it something we should think about.

The other issue I think humanity needs to address is: We've allowed the majority of the world's money to be hoarded by a few individuals. In times past, wealthy people built hospitals, libraries, theaters, critical infrastructure like bridges. They're not doing that any more. Money is just sitting there, being hoarded. I find it hypocritical that billionaires are lecturing the rest of us on reducing our carbon footprints while they jet around the world on private jets and float around on giant yachts and pay Disneyland to close down for everybody else on their birthdays. They need to be shamed. Trudeau cost us a metric f*&^Kton of money, partying in the UK with his giant entourage. That money, our money, could have brought a lot of water to remote reserves.

I actually get really mad if I think about it too much. It seems like "Err on the side of stupidity/danger" is our mantra now, just like when The WHO decided to say "This coronavirus probably isn't all that contagious. Just let people from Wuhan fly into all the major cities of the world unimpeded."

If the first vector really was stupidity I'd miss some people for about 0.1 seconds, then I'd move on. And I definitely wouldn't be hoping for a cure. Probably the most worrisome change would be that the US and Canada would be down to a 1-party system until we found someone to fill the 100% gaps in the LPOC, NDP, Democrats, and OMG the Green Party would be so dead that the dinosaurs would feel sorry for them.

The Liberals know they are more popular among Canadians not born in Canada. This is why they've dramatically increased immigration levels and lowered the # of years in Canada required in order to get citizenship (voting rights). The Liberals are engaging in demographic warfare tactics to secure their power, which is pretty racist. I once attended a Trudeau campaign rally during an election period. 100% of his security and enterage is made up of non-whites. I found that very odd and very racist. Trudeau and the Liberals are obsessed with identity politics like race and gender issues. Only a racist would care what race the members of their security detail are. Enter: blackface.

"you people" ? didn't Don Cherry get cancelled for saying that ?

You people swallow misinformation like babies swallow breast milk.

Here's a comparison of Canada "almost completely unvaxed" vs Canada "86% vaxed". I'll say right now that it shows that the vaccines did a big, fat, zero, but if you gotta see the full proof, read on.... The meat and potatoes starts at the "How Many Canadians Died of Covid" section. What's between here and there is background info that you can choose to read for your own info. Vaccine, or Pflacebo? If what we have truly qualifies as a covid "vaccine", and it really gives people an 80% chance better of surviving covid, then we should be able to see evidence of that by seeing how well we fared back when we were "unvaxed" to when we, the exact same group of people just one year later, fared after 86% of us were "vaccinated" multiple times. In order to do that, first you need to know what % of us were vaxed, to what extent (1-4 doses), and when that happened. Covid "Vaccination" Status of Canadians: I have the "% of Canadians vaxed" timeline and the Canadian covid deaths" timelines attached below: How are vaccination stats presented to us in Canada? The next thing you need to know is that the "outcome" stats (deaths, cases, etc) presented to us by our government are always from Dec 14 2020 moving fwd . It's important to know that they never talk in terms of "how many people died in the last x number of days", they only refer to the number of deaths from Dec 14 to the present. It can be very misleading if you don't keep that in your head, and they won't remind you. As an example, they'll post something like "Dec 14 to present" at the top of a page, and then halfway down they'll say something like "Only 4.5% of covid deaths are among the quadruple vaxed", which would imply that's what's happening right now, but they actually mean "4.5% of people who died since Dec 14 2020 were 4xers". (in fact they said that exact thing and someone from this site was fooled by it and quoted it here). It's very misleading when they do that, some would say "intentionally misleading", because the timeline goes back almost two years, and people didn't even start getting the 4th jab until this spring, but they'll do a straight across comparison between 4 months of quadruple-vxed deaths and all 22 months of all he other deaths. It's like if I talked about the number of points by LA Lakers over the past ten years and I said "LeBron only has 4.5% of the points scored by the Lkers in that time". It's a completely worthless stat because he's only been there for 1 year or so. There's no way you can even make it relevant. The only way to judge his presence there is by "what % of the team's points were scored while LeBron was there". It seems obvious, but health Canada presents stats in a very misleading way imo. You have to do all the legwork yourself. How many Canadians died of covid? The bulk of the covid stats which I refer to all start on Dec 14 2020, so I do all my statistical comps from that day fwd. Their choice, not mine. Here's the overall graphs for deaths, but I'll break it down into relevant sections for the purpose of this tpic. We have a lot of stats from Dec 14 2020 moving fwd. Let's look at the vax/death stats from Dec 14th, when 38M Canadians were all unvaxed, and exposed to covid during flu season. Vax status after the initial rollout: You can see that almost everyone in Canada was basically unvaxed from Dec 14 to the start of July. How many Canadians died during that period? What was the vax/status and the number of deaths a year later, when 86% of us were vaxed? And the number of deaths? Here are the death charts cropped, side by side, so you can quickly compare: Dec 14 2020 - Aug 2021 and Dec 14 2021 - Aug 2022 Does that look like case of "vaccinated vs unvccinated"? I see now, with the charts side by side, that i didn't crop them perfectly. If you need to do that, go for it. I'm done here.

because it was not a war Section 1 of the Charter was invoked to suspend our rights as if this was World War levels of emergency meanwhile it wasn't anything approaching that, not even close for all intents & purposes the entire country was mobilized as if this was total war when nothing like this has ever been done is the past for any pandemic to include the Spanish Flu, the worst pandemic in human history at first I complied with the mandates, I took the first two jabs in good faith but after awhile it became more than clear, that these mandates were being exploited to impose Chinese Communist style Social Credit totalitarian control upon us notice how the decorated Canadian combat arms veterans reacted then that is because we were indoctrinated to resist Communist infiltration of institutions, dating back to the Cold War Cold Warriors know the trace between East Germany & the Free World and are thus incited to call "stand to" when the Commies have overrun the defences, running amok inside the wire our freedom loving American brothers in arms saw it too, answering the stand to as well Anglo-American Empire of Liberty, since 1917 Ducimus

Many doctors and scientists have been calling for this for almost 2 years. The institutions in power positions, who had to be dragged to court to release the data, obviously don't want anyone analyzing it but themselves. Pfizer touted its jabs as 95% efficacious, that's how they got the EUA and got governments to sign off on liability. Once the data was released, it was clear that efficacy was nothing near 95%. Even more obvious now. But governments had already signed binding contracts with Big Pharma and given them full immunity from liabilities and were forcing everyone to jab repeatedly or lose their jobs. I think at this point, institutions and authorities know. But to admit they were wrong to put blind faith in Big Pharma and coerce jabs and lockdowns, restrictions and mandates would result in mega lawsuits. and loss of careers. It's far easier to continue the bamboozle on populations who have already been cowed into compliance with unprecedented overreach by a constant barrage of fear porn. The average person is still too afraid to demand any kind of inquiry. At some point though, it's going to be too obvious and the gig will be up. There's been over 1000 athletes drop on sports fields, over 700 of them died instantly. Normally, there's 39 in a year. That number doesn't even include all the non-famous children and teenagers dropping dead in sports. Google "died suddenly". It's astonishing. "Unknown Causes" is the biggest cause of death in Alberta now. That's unacceptable. People will only take it for so long. They keep trying to squash the groups - scientific and otherwise - but it's really just a giant game of whack-a-mole at this point. Notice how quickly "monkeypox" died out? I think because people know now. Nobody's jumping on getting jabbed 10-12 times a year - I mean, c'mon. You'd have to be totally brainwashed. Any inquiry is likely years away yet.

You seem to be bothered by someone bringing up the subject of Al Gore as an attempt to deflect and deny. Are you suggesting that Al Gore is not as deeply committed to climate change as Greta Thunberg? Given the rather outrageous scenes in Gore's movie, why can't anyone point that out? I think it's fair game to bring up Al Gore and his own, very high carbon footprint lifestyle. Greta is also fair game. I'll give her some credit here. She actually does give responses to the questions posed to her, but not good answers. She is pretty good at deflecting too as you will see.

You just don't want to accept facts. Put your fingers in your ears. You just proved you don't believe in freedom of expression. What religion are you again? I also quoted a different source in my last post, but you will say any post that you disagree with is not credible. The idea of no go zones really scares you. It scares me too.

I have you ignore because you use bad sources and are not good at listening or discussing facts. I'll focus on this one thing, which I've already refuted twice and you just keep restating like a parrot. Public dialogue is centered on people discussing with open minds and intellectual honesty, and you're a detriment to that goal.

Let us recall when she helped displayed the banner of the Ukrainian Nazis of old. This photo is being scrubbed hard from the ol' search engines.

Since the early 1980s, several billion people are living better than at any time in our planet's history. What we have achieved in the past 40 years is astonishing. As a community, we have brought several billion people into the modern world. In 1600, no one knew what a derivative was. Nowadays, kids can take a derivative using their iPhone.

1. It's below the current level of inflation, so yes very reasonable. Not sure how many years in the contract, though. 2. Why shouldn't they try for the best deal they can get for themselves ? Isn't that's why people organize themselves ? There are lots of problems with organized labour and management thereof but unless somebody is submitting some better ideas banning unions isn't a great way to run a province.