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There isn't even a credible allegation. @robosmith is engaging in an emotional outburst believing that an illogical, emotional diatribe will convince people he's correct.

That's disturbing because it's really hard to imagine that a human trafficker and drug smuggler working for gangs with a vested interest in the outcome of this case would ever be dishonest At the end of the day why would we even care? I'm sure there's lots of legal systems around the world that aren't very good, that doesn't mean we need to throw open our countries own borders And just let people in

She got what she asked for.

I think he's mostly concerned with convincing himself. Plus, he has to agree with the voices in his head or they start being mean to him, so there's that

Oh yeah... a nice AC tent with beds is now the "gulag" You people are not serious, just a bunch of liars.

For those who are wondering how they can help stop the democrats from perpetuating illegal immigration, the link below provides some helpful resources. What ideas do you have? https://www.dhs.gov/get-involved

Ahhh yes, Duffygate. That scandal where the conservatives got caught forcing someone to give back taxpayers their money because they felt that it had been taken unfairly. We need a hell of a lot more scandals like that

If the CBC was talking about the Duffygate after 3 years, then to keep things in perspective, they should still be talking about the WE scandal 30,000 years from the date it happened. So basically during the during the 32,015 federal election.

No doublespeak.... we just spent ~$34.2B on TMX that is running at 80% capacity. Eby is saying shovels ready to go in the ground for LNG, mining, hydro and wind projects, where this is no backed proposal for a pipeline on the table. Lots of ship builders....just not the capacity to build BC ferries requirements - Domestic shipyards, including Seaspan, did not submit bids for BC Ferries’ latest procurement, and they generally have not done so for the past 20 years. This raises questions about whether British Columbia’s shipbuilding industry has the capacity or economic incentive to compete in commercial procurements without similar policy support to what exists under the NSS.

NoI I suppose the bliss of ignorance and indifference are probably your greatest challenge.

What...? We or they and "have money" is irrelevant....it's the dollars being traded. Google the definition of trade....

You want a REAL oil vs milk story. This is from my Dad, the head chemist at a refinery, back in the early 1970s when one of his friends griped about the rising gas prices. We have to go halfway around the word with an army, start a war and beat a country senseless, steal their oil and ship it all the way back, pipe it, refine it, and send it to the stations. You put a cow out in the field and milk it. You should ask why milk costs so much more than gas.

His cabinet, and his advisors and all these people are still there. Nothing is changed

" Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have detailed the “severe mistreatment” and “torture” he experienced during his month-long detention inside a notorious El Salvador prison, in a renewed lawsuit challenging his wrongful removal from the United States. His attorneys say the 29-year-old Salvadoran immigrant was subject to “severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture” at the facility, where lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration have admitted he was mistakenly sent in March before a weeks-long legal battle to keep him imprisoned there. Abrego Garcia was abruptly returned to the U.S. to face a federal criminal indictment accusing him of smuggling undocumented migrants across the country, allegations that were only raised after he was removed. He has pleaded not guilty. The new legal filing follows ongoing debates among attorneys, judges and the Department of Justice over whether Abrego Garcia should remain in jail before trial as lawyers for the government threaten to deport him as soon as he is released from custody. When he arrived in El Salvador on March 25, still in chains, two officials grabbed his arms and pushed him down the stairs from the airplane, according to the new complaint. He was “forcibly seated” on a bus and placed in a second set of chains and handcuffs, then “repeatedly struck by officers when he attempted to raise his head,” the filing states. Upon arrival at the Terrorism Confinement Center, officials told Abrego Garcia and other detainees, “Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn’t leave.” He was then “forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster,” according to the filing. Prison workers shaved his head and “frog-marched” him into a cell, striking him “with wooden batons along the way,” lawyers wrote. By the following day, “Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body,” they said. He shared a cell with 20 other Salvadorans, who were “forced to kneel” from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion,” according to the complaint. “During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself,” the filing states. “The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation,” it claims. After one week at the facility, the prison director and other officials separated 12 Salvadoran men, with what they said were gang-related tattoos, from a group of 21 detainees. Abrego Garcia remained with eight others “who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos.” It was at this time that prison officials “explicitly acknowledged” that Abrego Garcia’s tattoos were not gang-related and told him “your tattoos are fine,” according to the complaint. Prison officials repeatedly threatened to move him to cells where gang members would “tear” him apart, lawyers wrote. Abrego Garcia “repeatedly observed prisoners in nearby cells who he understood to be gang members violently harm each other with no intervention from guards or personnel,” the filing states. “Screams from nearby cells would similarly ring out throughout the night without any response from prison guards on personnel.” The 29-year-old Salvadoran father was abruptly returned to the United States to face criminal smuggling charges after a weeks-long legal battle. He has pleaded not guilty (EPA) After three weeks inside the prison, and after losing 31 pounds, Abrego Garcia and four other detainees were transferred to another part of the facility, “where they were photographed with mattresses and better food — photos that appeared to be staged to document improved conditions,” according to the complaint. Nearly one month after he was deported, Abrego Garcia was transferred to a prison that explicitly did not house known gang members. At Centro Industrial, “Abrego Garcia was frequently hidden from visitors, being told to remain in a separate room whenever outside visitors came to the facility,” according to the complaint. He was denied communication with his family and access to legal counsel throughout his detention, until he met with Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen on April 17. Abrego Garcia fled El Salvador when he was 16 years old and illegally entered the U.S. He was living and working in Maryland with his wife and child, both American citizens, and two children from a previous marriage. Federal judges and a unanimous Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return after government lawyers admitted in court documents that he was removed from the country due to a procedural error. A 2019 order from an immigration judge had blocked his removal to El Salvador over humanitarian concerns. The government spent weeks battling court orders while officials publicly said he would never step foot in the U.S. After spending three months inside those El Salvador jails, Abrego Garcia was returned to in June following a federal grand jury indictment accusing him of illegally transporting immigrants across the country." New legal filing details graphic ‘torture and abuse’ of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador prison I think it was known what kinds of things were going on in the CECOT prison; yet the admin went ahead and sent Abrego Garcia and several hundred others to that place anyway.

Many of those poles would love to put an oil rig, fishing fleet, listening post, rusty old oil tankers and cargo ships, and pipelines in our arctic, mine resources off our sea floor, and through there. Including USA. The global powers have every intention of trespassing across our waters and arctic at will as they please if we don’t secure them. It won’t be an invasion it’ll just be an oil rig with armed men on it and a dare for us to do something about it Don’t be so naive.

Go.

And since when did China's massive use of cheap and even slave labour become an issue? These have always attracted us to them. We want EVERYTHING to be cheap, especially our environment.

What third-world Gulag? You are a liar. There is no criminal conviction of this third-world Gulag.

The long game is to fundamentally restructure the Canadian economy and diversify away from USA. That will be the ongoing project that will take years. Going back and forth with Trump over exactly how much economic vandalism he is going to commit over the next few months is the short game. Well I don’t think he’s caved in although seemingly he had a give with respect to DST. I don’t think he’s going to give America “whatever it wants” but he never said Canada wouldn’t have to give up anything. It’s a negotiation and negotiations mean give and take. Trump is trying to take our lunch money, we’re not trying to take anything from Trump, therefore a totally unrealistic one-sided Canadian victory where Carney wipes the floor with Trump would only mean things remain the way they were before, with nobody having gained or lost anything. Anything short of that, which is reality, means Canada gives up something vis-a-vis the US and we will need to replace that with domestic trade and increased trade with other countries. We don’t know what’s on the table or where they are, perhaps giving up the DST was the best possible deal. Nothing has been signed yet they’re still negotiating doe the next 3 weeks or so. And we have NO deal at the moment, at least not one that Trump’s honouring. Certainly some of the tariffs he has announced against us this year will come off. Others like aluminum and maybe steel will likely come off, be reduced or discretely poked full of loopholes regardless because USA simply can’t sustain them. USA’s aluminum industry will never be able to support domestic demand, not only do they not have the raw materials but it would take decades of investment and hundreds of billions of dollars to restructure and refurbish not only the US aluminum industry but also the highly fragmented, privatized, politicized and inefficient US electricity market It just ain’t gonna happen.

Carney Failed. Really.... between the two countries there is close to 1 trillion in trade annually. Conceding a sore point that is ~1.4B annually and not unanimously received anyway is hardly failing.

So does idiocy. I can understand why you're incapable of providing more than a partial sentence....

Cope with PP....? He's essentially irrelevant right now and soon to be history. Not much to cope with here....

Poilievre got a higher percentage of the vote this year than Chretien, Harper or Trudeau ever managed. If it weren't for Trump and Singh's identity politics party collapsing he'd have had a majority Carney said he would eliminate the carbon tax. And then replace it with... a carbon tax. But don't worry! It will be on business and industry, and OF COURSE that won't be passed along to the consumer (nudge-nudge, wink-wink). So those cheques they used to get to make up for the tax will be a thing of the past. LOL. Big win!

Oddfuscation abounds.

Well that's a stupid lie. Can you quote where I said that?

The Liberals and the mainstream media they pay for convinced too many people that Poilevre would cave into whatever the fat Orange man wanted - kinda like Carney has been doing since he took office - and that the mighty Mr. Carney, who slouches through the room like an unhappy teenager, would stand tall. Only he never did. Anyway, it didn't convince anyone with brains. But it convinced the lefties so they all abandoned the NDP and flocked to vote for a corporate banker thinking he was going to 'protect' them.

"I love hardened criminals who rape and murder little girls." What a goof.

There is no longer any question which country is leading in the export of lithium-ion batteries, solar panels and electric vehicles:

Gimme a break. This is not the 1960s (when the Soviets were about to take over - and trust me, JFK, LBJ & Nixon were right to oppose those guys. You Americans won.) The 1990s proved to everyone that the Soviet system, Maoism, does not work. Communism/Socialism does not work. ====== Russia? China? 2020s? We now live in a multi-polar world.

It's hard to imagine why you would LIE about Garcia when he hasn't been convicted of a crime, but it's what you do cause you're CdhLIAR. LMAO

Its not about being invaded. We have security and sovereignty threats in our arctic and maritime approaches, not least of which is from the Americans. And now of all tomes we need closer economic, security and defence ties with Europe which means investing in European defence

I had a discussion with our niece's husband like this yesterday. He insisted that Iran and Israel are still firing missiles at each other...that the economy was not recovering...that the border was not closed. How can a rational person deal with such obstinance? He finally got mad and went home. Meh... Normally...a good economy, peace, and a cleaning up of crime would be considered "good" by all citizens. But not now. Not while Trump is in the Whitehouse.

You can say this about most everyone in the country. I didn't take a gun and shoo FN's off my property and built a home on it. We all benefit from the colonialism. If you moved here you're a "settler" like everyone else and perpetuating and even expanding the same system.

Once again, people are responsible for their own emotions.

I get it they are problems only conservatives see...the rest well they are parts of the rights imagination....Sorry if you can't even admit there is problems everywhere you look, then i guess this conversation is over...not worth it to continue when all you see is rainbows and unicorns...

User, Russia? Soviet? Communism? Enemy? China? You Americans confuse all these terms. ==== Reagan defeated the ideology of Communism. Truman and Nixon made the world get along.

How about all the cities painting their sidewalks with homosexuality? I dont wanna pay for that

If you were then you never would have voted for Trudeau.

Everything is nuanced. I can write it down for you, but I can't understand it for you. 1) Casualties are classified as "children" until they turn 18, and by 18 a lot of these "children" have been active as terrorists for 3 or more years. So you need to take the "children" total that you read from the UN and bump that number down by 30%, and add that number into the "Hamas islamist" column for a more accurate interpretation of what's happening. 2) The Isrealis are giving civilians ample warnings of strikes, via several different methods of communication, and Hamas is blocking them from fleeing. So a large percentage of the civilian casualties should be considered intentional murders by Hamas instead of accidental casualties by the Israelis.

Yeah but you're a liar so you just conceded defeat.

That's how I see it too, absolutely breathtaking. On a daily basis I read about gang violence and gun crime in places like Toronto. To think that people are willing to spend (literally) hundreds of millions of dollars trying to eradicate a problem most of them admit doesn't (really) exist just bogles the mind. When asked, the answer I usually get is: "well, we have to do something." It's not just the ill-informed nature of these conversations either, it's the attitude. They seem to think that what Ukraine really needs and really wants is semi-automatic rifles with 5 round magazines. People should take a moment and consider how they would explain things like this to village elders (virtually anywhere) whilst maintaining a straight face.

The promise actually contained the word solve...in 10 years you said. LMAO!

There is a reason why Trump wanted the libs to win. Still the same fools making the decisions. PP has always been against that tax.

Everybody tells me things that are important. That's how I know carney screwed up and why you don't Oh that's nice, your folks taking you to chuck E cheese again?

Never trust anyone who is cheering on Russia or spreading propaganda for them, as they are invading Ukraine, when they also advocate against NATO. August would be out in the square waving the Soviet flag, welcoming the Russian tanks if he could...

The Military aid to civil power is for all local people, regardless of in Canada they live. They serve where they are needed. They need new fighters...if you own stock in someone other than Lockheed Martin then for sure you would not approve but, you know nothing about aviation, avionics, weapon technology, Military effectiveness and international support.

So... no idea if any of that is accurate, but lets assume that is what Carney said... Then Canada was never a reliable military partner to begin with. He just admitted they are not going to meet their obligations as part of NATO, which they are a member of and benefit from, but to spite the United States. And you cheer that on? I mean, do you even realize how stupid of a position that is? America has carried NATO for as long as NATO has existed with our military size and the threat we posed to any adversaries. But yeah, sure, we are not the reliable ones because we fund our military to meet and exceed NATO obligations while Canada doesn't.