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First, I think you would need to define what you mean by these terms. Calling Japan or Canada monarchies is at best misleading, giving heavy weight to symbolic institutions and ignoring practical and functional reality. Similarly calling China or Russia republics would be (putting it kindly) a bit of a joke.

TBH free and fair elections are over in the US now that the FBI has taken a side. It was bad enough when the Dems got control of CNN, NBC, et al, but now the FBI is committing crimes on behalf of the Dems. It's straight outta Kremlin. When the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot was "unraveled" one month before the 2020 election it seemed like it was a legitimate plot by right-wing kooks to kidnap her and kill her, then we found out a year later that it was the FBI's own plot. The FBI also called the Hunter laptop info "Russian disinformation" at the exact same time, the NYPost was kicked off of Twitter and it tuns out everything they said was legit, and the FBI knew it because they had the laptops in their possession for 11 months at that point. That's two bogus stories from the FBI the last month before the 2020 election, and that's after their 3 years of lying (and committing actual crimes) about Russian collusion. The Jan 6th debacle is just another FBI hit piece. Everyone knew that trouble was imminent on that day. Trump prepared the National Guard to be there, it was Pelosi who kiboshed it. Then, after the Jan 6th mostly peaceful protest, when they didn't need the NG there anymore, she had 20,000 of them stand around for a month just for show. "OOH wook how bad the wiot was. AOC has PTSD." The US is a gigantic shitshow right now. Its gov't is a total farce. Elections there are no more legitimate than in China or Russia.

In testimony in Delaware open court in the $Billion plus lawsuit of Dominion Voting Systems versus Fox News, both Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson as well as Fox News Program director and Senior Executives admitted that they knew that Trump lost the election. An election that they knew was not “stolen.” The senior program director referred to all those election deniers as “the crazies,” and issued a memo suggesting Fox New to keep them off the channel. Fox News did the opposite. They all admitted that they knew the claims of the likes of Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and pillow man Mike Lindell were lies. This knowledge did not stop them from promoting these two and many other election deniers on the Fox News most watched programs. Fox News also knew that a number of MAGA Republican office holders they platformed were supporting these “stolen election” claims while at the same time were begging Trump to give them pardons for the crimes they were committing. For months after the election, Fox News platformed virtually everyone with a “stolen election facts” story to tell, from the “revenge of Hugo Chavez,” to “Italian satellites under British and CIA control that forced the voting machines to count Trump ballots for Biden,” to “secret signals that were sent from Venezuela that changed election results,” “secret Chinese bamboo paper ballots that reversed the votes for Trump,” Etc. The actual defamation trial of Fox News is scheduled for April 2023, unless Fox comes up with a $Billion or so to settle.

You think and dream impurity. Not me. You are incorrect, I thought about it and your take on it and determined you are paranoid and think there is a crook around every corner and no one is trustworthy and no one takes this country seriously and does what is best for it. No you have not looked at this, you have only imagined perils and deceit and corruption. Amazing how the business of government has lasted so long and done so well without your insight LOL

Justin is not smart enough to run this goat rodeo anyway, someone has been pulling the strings and I'm pretty sure it is not Justin. besides it's not going to happen, to much work for Canadians, That is what is happening as we speak, when, all one has to do is go back to the posts when we were talking about PP being selected as leader. He was not fit to run a gangbang in the local red light district. todays polls have him at 36 % when it was said nobody is going to throw him their support, it is happening slowly, and we have not even begin the election cycle. But hey it is your vote do what ever you want with it. And if that is supporting this government well, we already know what your getting, more lies, and deceit and not much getting done. It seems a lot of Canadians are into that. That and whining and pointing fingers. I'm just hoping Canada can survive 4 more years of liberal leadership.

I could self-describe myself as a Dark Lord of the Sith, but that wouldn't mean anything. Nobody can dispute him. He's not a reasonable person and you're wasting your breath trying to engage with him.

Canada doesn’t have a serious military anymore, so it’s impossible for Canada to have any independent foreign policy. We’re in the Anglo-American camp or the Chinese-Internationalist camp. Even within NATO Canada isn’t taken seriously. Canada’s contribution to world conflicts now is as a place for refugees from conflict regions to resettle, nothing more. I mean nothing at all more.

This is all more totalitarian BS from our “We know what Canadians deserve” ideologues. They don’t want Canadians to leave Canada. It might as well be China or the Soviet Union. Cuba North. End all carbon taxes immediately and get these communist internationalist dictators out of office.

It's clear that Putin wants to reassemble the Soviet Union; he's said as much. Considers the loss of the SU the great tragedy of the 20th century. He won't stop with Ukraine, and him controlling vast Ukrainian fossil fuel reserves would give him the money to afford it.

There are also oligarchies and theocracies out there. Maybe a few others if one is looking for nuance. But democracy isn't limited to pure democracy. Any arrangements in which power is derived from the will of the voting public is democratic. This can be direct/pure, or inspect/representative. Most governments are blended in some way. You have elective monarchies and hereditary dictatorships, for example. Of course the US is a democracy, but it is other things as well. The idea (rhetoric, really) that the US is not a democracy is picking up steam among the conservative chattering class because, frankly, they can no longer compete in a democracy. And, as Republican David Frum so eloquently put it, “If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.” And we have seen this borne out quite explicitly in the last two election cycles.

Someone should be crying for the loss of YOUR SOUL, but it sure ain't me.

I pray that a South American team won. ==== God forbid that Europeans were involved - or won. What a war would involve ensue.

Lol...cry me a river Libbie.

I find it interesting to watch leftards follow their shrieking liars all the way from "The vaccines will work and they'll be safe" to "Children are getting myocarditis from the vax they don't need, covid deaths aren't even down by 1%, and 86% of covid deaths are among the multi-vaxed" while still bowing before the almighty vax. 'Cause of "all the experts", right? Do you still feel like it's idjitotic to say that the virus might come from a lab? Do you still think the Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation? Do you still think there's no inflation? Or it's transitory? Do you still believe that Joe didn't know Hunter was making millions with Burisma, and with the Chinese gov't? (Too late, he already admitted that he was lying) Do you still feel like all of Trudeau's scandals were just minor misunderstandings and the media is holding him accountable? Buddy, all of the things that you take for granted are total BS. You should be ashamed.

You assume "the rest of us" are all on the same page as you. That's interesting. Just a thought Canada...but since we all know about the millions flooding the US border...might now be a good time to firm up our border and immigration laws?

As our former enviroment minister said, if you repeated and say it louder people will believe it. And this Gov are masters at it.

Perhaps you are worried because some of these immigrants may have a HSD/GED and compete with you for FL substitute gigs.

Get with the program. They steal the jobs you don't want anyway, somehow get to collect welfare you pay for at the same time and get to vote while they throw yours away, and none of them are Baptists! /s

If you think the person you hired to be your MP is a crook, how are you going to select a team of monitors? How will you ensure they are not corrupt and in the employ of the Pharmsutical industry, or China? You will need at least 5 monitors for each MP (3 shifts per day and time off) and more to watch over the senior civil service. They will need a high level of security clearance. So, you are going to have to pay them accordingly, say $200K a year. That is about $438,000,000.00 just for MP's and Senators. That is 2190 monitors for the politicians, but then there are the senior civil servants. There are likely 50 of them for each ministry. There are also the political staff. Perhaps, you should think this through a bit more. Better yet, hire the best MP's you can trust and let them do their job.

What paralysis is ocurring now? Having public interest monitors sitting in on these meeting is the very definition of micro-managing. You voted for your MP because you trusted them. They have access to excellent advisors, professional civil servants. You hired them to do the job of governing. They are there to make decisions on your behalf, to provide you with good government. Why would you need to second guess them? During the hiring process, you had the opportunity to vet them, to judge their integrity. You had the opportunity to select the best people through the nominating process. If you were in their shoes, would you not find it insulting to have a boss who automatically views you as corrupt and dishonest.

We can tinker with many things in life, even re-write history. But the one factor in life that is fixed is geography. Geography dictates where people live and what they can do there. Geography dictates that the New York-chicago-Toronto - Montreal region is where most of the power lies. It has the population because it is the centre of economic power.

Government paralysis does and that would be the likely outcome if there was no confidence. We vote for people whom we trust to make appropriate decisions. If we try to micromanage them, nobody will be willing to serve. If a candidate is running to be your MP and you don't trust their judgement, don't vote for them. Nominate someone you do trust. As I said before, politics is a participation sport. If you don't participate, don't complain if you don't like the outcome. Anybody can run for Parliament but they can't win unless we go out an knock on doors, identify their support and get out their support to vote. If the candidate you trust the most does not win, it is your fault, for not working hard enough or backing the wrong candidate. Remember rule #1 in politics. The voter is always right. Rule #2. If the voters are wrong, refer to Rule #1.

The upper classes only had the King as their better. Relations with the lower classes deteriorated after the death of John. The Magna Carta gave the aristocracy carte blanche to ride roughshod over the lower class. It was the pandemic of 1348 - 1358 that made life some what better for the lower classes.

Or, here's an idea, America is no longer filled with empty territory? And the jobs available to low skill workers are not nearly as widespread?

Most Canadians prefer "Merry Christmas" to 'Happy Holidays,' poll finds Even 92 per cent of respondents who grew up in a non-Christian household said they are not offended by someone sending Christmas greetings

I think you're conflating a few different things here. Twitter suppressed the laptop story for 1 day, not at the request of any political operative, but out of their own desire to NOT be weaponized against the American people as they were in 2016. Once bitten, twice shy. Remember, that story was so sketchy when it broke that the original writers at the NY Post wouldn't put their name on it and FOX wouldn't cover it. That's how suspect the whole thing was. Do you really think it's unreasonable for Twitter to deliberate internally for a day about whether or not they should give a global platform to a potentially election-swaying story with potentially stolen files of wildly improbable provenance? Reading those emails is watching them suffer through that deliberation. Rock and a hard place. I think they did okay.

quote Protection In eight years, BC has doubled its protected areas to 13.8 percent of the province – one of the highest percentages in North America. BC’s protected areas are larger than all of the forest area ever logged in the forest. BC’s protected areas total 11.7 million hectares (29 million acres). A total of about 9.4 million hectares (23.2 million acres) of the province’s forested area has been logged over time (5.6 million hectares or 13.8 million acres are forests). BC’s protected areas size comparisons: Same size as the Cuba The same size as either the United Kingdom or Romania Three times the size of Switzerland Same size as Louisiana or Pennsylvania Larger than the size of Kansas 2/3 the size of Washington State Amount of Trees BC is 95 million hectares (235 million acres) in size (about double the size of California). Almost 64% of the province – about 60.3 million hectares (149 million acres) – is forested. Less than one-third of one percent of BC’s forest land is harvested annually. Only 42% (25 million hectares or 62 million acres) of BC’s provincially owned forests are available for logging. 58% percent of BC’s forests (35 million hectares or 86 million acres) will remain as original forests. How large is that? Almost as large as California (which is 100 million acres) and considerably larger than Nevada (70.3 million acres). Original forests are areas that have never been logged or reforested. Original forests include parks; protected areas; areas unsuitable for logging; reserves around streams, lakes, and wetlands; and environmentally sensitive areas. There are more forests growing in North America today than on the first Earth Day in 1973 (Canadian Wood Council). unquote BC Forest Facts | Canada's Log People (en_ca) (canadaslogpeople.com)

I really love these people who come on here and call the government totalitarian whilel demanding that their Fringe views be imposed unilaterally. Potential dictators please raise your hands?

And this info you have came from your MP, Trudeau, a government publication, or most likely God told you so last Sunday in the church? I believe my eyes and nothing else. You may tell me the rivers flow upstream, I really do not care what you would say. The reality is that in BC or anywhere else in Canada or outside of Canada, nothing is really protected. Forests around disappear at an ever increasing rate with new roads being constantly built. Rivers in the States got destroyed by logging and dams and this same thing now just continues further north into the last remaining healthy places.