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Polls showed that Canadians were sympathetic but didn't support them. After Coutts it was clear that there were elements trying to use the protests for nefarious reasons.

Careful what you wish for, as we used to say the Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans headquarters is 1500 miles from the nearest ocean. But then on some days I honestly don't know why we even bother with provinces. Area/regional management boards make more sense. Hey I know, we'll make governments of the future so they don't govern an area bigger than you can drive in 15 minutes.

What is the matter with you? How do you manage to get out of bed in the morning and make it to the end of the day without slashing your wrists? Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard of anyone with such a black dismal view of reality. Have you been like this all your life? Is it caused by depression? And yet that said... perhaps this way of thinking cheers you up.

Pfizer is loaded with cash from their lies and deceit, and it's really important that the vax-injured get what's due to them. I personally don't care if Pfizer goes under, they need to pay, bigtime.

Why would anyone? 1. You ascribe any contradictory information to your conspiracy of pharma/gov/MSM/medical establishment. 2. We're not trying to convince you of anything, you are trying to convince us. It isn't working, for the reasons @Moonboxgave.

This continues to illustrate to our allied and other world nations that we are nothing but free loaders, and continue to dismiss our defensive obligations with NORAD, NATO, 5 Eyes, and have been left out of the UKUSAUS defensive pact we were once part of... And yes this is decades worth of neglect, but lets face some facts, the liberals have been in charge for 8 plus long years now. Currently they hold the reins of power and it is them that should be held responsible... Another blast across the bow this time from the US media, this should make Canadians stand tall and proud, this is what we, Canadians look like to our allied. Will they wake up and see that our armed forces is on life support, or better yet stand up and do something about it. I think they already know the answer... Canada's broken tanks evince an unserious security partner | Washington Examiner

The Canadian Military is a pawn of government, no matter who is in power. Conservatives are as much to blame as liberals. I joined many decades ago and it was always a problem with personnel shortage, equipment shortage, maintenance issues, over taskings, budget shortfalls etc etc. The DND has never had sufficient funding to do all it was tasked to do. They get an annual budget just like all other departments and they get tasked by the government but, they have to use their budget for all tasking so, they run out of money before they can do what they planned for. Unlike other departments when government makes announcements, there is always funding attached to the announcement, with DND, it is just a tasking, make it happen.

you and WestConMan

You can disagree all you want, but you're posting either: a) Junk studies widely debunked by the greater medical community or b) Promoting nonsensical conclusions on real studies that don't actually support what you're saying they do. It takes a special type of deluded overconfidence to believe that you can read medical studies or journals on specialized topics and understand them better than the overwhelming weight of doctors and researchers, but here you are, DoInG YoUr OWn ReeSearch."

I don't need my worldview to be more convincing. I just need it to actually make basic sense and not deny facts, rather than being based on vague anxiety/anger and a layer-cake of conspiracy theories. We're not arguing about poor governance. We're arguing about basic reality now. You'll not find me saying a good thing about Justin Trudeau, or his dad, who I'd probably rank #1 and #2 for worst Prime Ministers in Canadian history (you decide which). Unfortunately, the most vocal opposition for him miraculously somehow makes themselves look even worse, with their delusion and befuddled rage.

Well, considering that I'm the only one here posting studies and datasets and has never relied on MSM headlines for information, I disagree on who is willfully ignorant.

I doubt you'll be very interested at all but for what it's worth...The Spanish flu epidemic provided all we needed to know that lockdowns work to save lives and speed up the economic recovery that follows. We went into COVID knowing full well that jurisdictions which locked down sooner and that resisted the urge to lift restrictions too early during the Spanish flu fared better than jurisdictions that didn't. Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic. Here's how it worked. In those days it was city authorities who were responsible for ordering or not ordering measures designed to cope with the epidemic. So there is and always was plenty of evidence of what we could expect going into COVID in terms of saving lives and predicting outcomes. I doubt if you'll recall but I said in early March 2019 that Canada would fare much better than the US because of the far greater disdain US politicians had for taking measures and I think the death tolls in each country proved this and unless I'm mistaken our economy is also in better shape in terms of our recovery.

Canada is broken. That reason is more than enough reason to demonstrate and protest against the government. Trudeau and the liberal government should resign and allow Canada to try to get out of the mess it is in with a broken health care system, broken military, broken housing supply system, broken justice system, broken economy with the inflation and many other things.

They're not. And you know they're not. But you continue to fling this accusation like a monkey flinging poo.

Easy there, Kim Jung. I don’t think many are rushing to live in your public health paradise.

Every study and dataset shows right now that the vaccinated and boosted are MORE likely to get covid infections. The majority of unvaxxed have natural immunity, which is superior to vax immunity AND are far less likely to get re-infected. Your hatred is based on propaganda.

Joke "parties" and not "parties", as already explained. Confusion doesn't help. Yes you are correct and I can't but admit it. I have not. And I will not, as a matter of conscious decision and principle, until I have modern, grown up democracy with a free choice of free citizens. Why would I even bother otherwise... why would anyone? Beats me.

You can always tell who the brainwashed are when they are presented with facts…

It's baffling to me that after 2 years of people saying "Follow the science!" that when the science starts coming out, they suddenly don't want to follow the science. I notice that none of the ones arguing with me have any science to offer. It's not in their favour. It never was. Their arguments are all based on emotion. And they keep repeating untruths that were drilled into their heads for 2 years. This product should have pulled from the market shortly after it was forced on the public. Canada is, I think, the worst country right now. Still pushing the jabs indiscriminately and recklessly.

Yes, due to history and the disparities in population density there are big differences in ridings. In remote parts of the country, ridings can cover thousands of sq km but have relatively few people. Because provinces entered confederation over a period of decades, they have more ridings than their populations warrant. A good example is Prince Edward Island which is our smallest province. It has about the same population as the BC city I live in but has 4 seats in parliament to my city's one seat. When it entered Confederation PEI had triple the population of BC, now it has 1/30th the population. This disparity is greatest in Canada's two most western provinces, BC and Alberta because they have experienced the greatest proportional growth since they entered Confederation. The number of seats they have been allocated has increased but not kept up with the growth in population. .

You downplay the international significance of the convoy, which started in Canada and was probably the most important resistance to top-down overreach in recent history.

If the UK is still up there I don't see us likely to drop. They did away with freedom of speech years ago.

Leave it the way it is.

Upset how only 128 bytes can demolish petabytes wasted on lies and disinformation are we?

Chuckleheads never have anything worth contributing. They just chuckle over and over, like the above quote suggests. But other than a small extremist minority that won’t believe that Christmas is in December unless their sugar daddy media says it is, the main stream public is starting to realize that the jabs have issues.

Facts are not insults.

Oddly enough that's the way I feel about some of the nutty things you obsess over. But we already know yours turned out to be false. Still think the unvaccinated need to be mandated out of polite society but think the clot shot protects you from infection? Actually you should have pegged that one as illogical if not nutty when you were pushing it.

"With PR, there is even less local control, and candidates are even more tied to party leaders while ridings have even less attachment to their local candidates." That's why in BC our initiatives were for STV which keeps ties to local representation and avoids the guaranteed inclusion of the fringes. Hell, does anyone want 3 or 4 sitting Rhino Party members? We would've had that already. To paraphrase Churchill. what we have is not perfect but no one's come up with a better one. That's why I proposed making the GG officially elected as Head of State and nothing else. The King or Queen could still be the King or Queen of Canada. But even that minimal change is impossible.

I'm not sure if I would lump them into the MSM category just yet, but they still cover some stories that the others don't like to touch. Yes, the Democrats still win even with FOX dominating the news but perhaps if they did not exist the Democrats would be almost unbeatable. Recently on the Munk debates program, Matt Taibbi made a great point at the beginning when he pointed out that all of the major networks cater to their targeted demographic and basically only tell them what they want to hear. This is true and that includes FOX as well. I personally think their overall coverage is still superior to the rest but there's always room for improvement. I would suggest that anyone interested in this topic check out the actual debate itself as it was really interesting and both sides always have equal time. The audience get's polled before and after the event as to whether opinions shift.

I think I mentioned it here that after my sister's vaccine injury, i got involved with the injury community and met a lovely lady, approx same age as my sister, similar injuries but Leigh Anne's were worse. This week, she got notice that she has been approved for a payout from the Vaccine Injury Fund. I don't know the amount, I didn't ask her but I asked if it was enough and she said, "Not even close." When you factor in that she will lose at least 20 of wages due to not being able to work. She's lost her career. And since it took 2 years to get anything at all, she's lost her house, lost her savings because she's had to pay for her own treatments, lost her health. She said it's bittersweet, but mostly bitter. She doesn't believe her sacrifice saved even one person from dying of covid. And the fact that her sacrifice is mocked and laughed at by the Canadian public is angering. On Twitter right now, anyone who has posted videos of their neuro injuries - the shaking and seizures - is being brutally mocked by pro-vaxxers. They're going back through the person's timeline and posting pictures of times when they are good, and saying "See, you're a LIAR!" and posting images of Oscars. I've never seen anything like it in level of cruelty. I fear it will result in myriads of suicides, which is already a problem for many of these people who have lived in constant pain for 2 years now with zero help and are already at the end of their ropes. She said the frustrating part is that she now knows that she WAS, at the time being very healthy, at a very miniscule risk of having either severe covid or dying from it. But now because of her poor health, she is at GREATER risk. And now that she's seen the data showing the jabbed and boosted are experiencing infections at higher rates, the chances of her getting it are increased, too. I don't understand how this makes sense to people. EDIT: I will add that in helping my sister keep her house and life together, I have lost my entire life savings and part of my RRSPs. I won't ever be able to make it up. Most vaccine injured do not have family with resources enough to rely on in this way.

Oh shoot, I keep forgetting National Geographic like Scientific American and Google are in cahoots with the conspiracy to infect/ enslave/eradicate us.

No, my disgust is based on your willful ignorance.

What did Trudeau do in response to the convoy protest then? Why did Japan drop mandates? Are they watching CBC over there? Stop smelling your own odors...

Pssssshh.... No. Mandates were e already on their way out... And also have been removed in jurisdictions where there was no convoy. Do yourself a favor and don't over inflate your posts. You'll be taken more seriously.

It's only around 2.4 million Canadians who refuse to get with the program. Screw every last one of them.

My info actually comes right from Health Canada's stats. They presented it in the most misleading way possible, I extracted the recent data and presented it in a way that is quite meaningful and precise. If you can't understand it, even after I explained it to you, then just imagine how much smarter than you I am, because I figured it out myself. We already knew that though, didn't we...

The cure is much worse than the disease for healthy people. You got to choose to take it. Good for you. It was cowardly and disgusting to foist it on other people.

All medications have side effects for some people. That is why there are so many warnings. I chose for my reasons. No "foisting". You had a choice.

You're just being a sore loser now because you spent the last year and a half saying that vaxing made you better than other people, and that it was right for the vaxtards to inflict the jab on the unwilling because they just didn't know what was best for themsleves and everyone else, now you can't admit that you were dead wrong. In short, you thought that you were being all 'sciencey' and superior, but it turns out that you're a stupid bigot. "Uh, I'd rather take ignorance for a thousand, Alex!" - ExFlyer.