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It is true that things like 'average' incomes can be thrown off by outliers. For example, if you have 99 people who earn 10k a year and one person who earns 1m a year the 'average' wage is 20k per year. Which is deceptive, at best. As can be seen from this, real median incomes of people in Canada, and in particular in Ontario, haven't really budged in nearly forty years, https://www.fao-on.org/en/Blog/Publications/income-report-2019

Switch to cigars, that's how you stop cigarettes. Sigmund Freud had the answer 100 years before you.

And then again, if people want to talk about it am I much better than they are for telling them to not? I don't know it just bugs me that people who ostensibly care about our culture don't have more interesting things to offer me.

Fully automated farms or mass importing of cheap unqualified labor from third world? Where will Canada be by the end of this century? And how? Cost of university degree went from $1000 (1980s) to $6,500 (2020). MP salary increased over tenfold in this period. Average wage in the country $54,300. Minus 1% that is paying itself, around $50,000. Now do a simple math: if in your profession salary grew at the rate of MP, it would have been around $5,000 in 1980 ($2.40 hourly). And at the rate of tuition, $7,700 ($3.70). Wait no, that was the average wage in the 1950s! By the rate of prosperity increase of MP or university education, our average salaries are still in the 50-60s. Excuse me, whose prosperity is steadily rising here? Of how many? Now, it's about twice that long to 2090s. What an MP salary will be by end of the century? Compared to that of an average citizen, can we do the math? Or even care to?

If true, this will be the ultimate proof the country is becoming a communist state (the way you interpret it to be). Actual Communism is something different that people here know little about.

When I made a comment on an elected BC Liberal's Facebook page, that he might not like, a computer bot came onto my computer a little later and started reading every word on the screen by highlighting the word in yellow and then stepping to the next word. I shut the computer down. Approximately a day later a photo of himself with a police officer standing next to him appeared on his FB post. Just coincidence or a form of intimidation/terror. Elected officials have more power that we think. That's the kind of democracy we live in now in the information age. MSN also now heavily censors all comments, deleting many and are under the control of the federal government, CRTC. New legislation, C10 and C36, will mean even far more control of all social media comments. New powers will be given to the CRTC to do this plus powers to fine people $70,000 plus one year of house arrest.

The internet is an important tool but politics is a tactile enterprise. How can a voter make a choice without getting to know the candidates personally? As is clear on other forums, what you see on the screen is not always accurate. Some present a convincing false persona. Not on this one, of course.

All men are perceived to be threatening to women.

Do you have a problem with all immigration, or do you have a problem with certain kinds? If so, which ones are you ok with? And how many should come in per year? I don't have a problem with immigrants, but they should be to the benefit of the country. The number of new annual immigrants should help our economy and Canadians, not create harm via stressed infrastructure and skyrocketing housing price etc. Refugees or any other class of immigrant shouldn't become permanent residents if they don't have the skills/education to support themselves in order to stay out of poverty. Bring in a moderate # of highly educated/skilled immigrants, spread them across the country, this will help the country.