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  1. Justin Trudeau as seen through the eyes of a Czech writer. Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in a Prague newspaper. Prague newspaper quote. "The danger to Canada is not Justin Trudeau, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him as Prime Minister. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Trudeau government than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man as their leader. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Justin Trudeau, who is a mere symptom of what ails Canada. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. Canada can survive Trudeau, who is after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive the multitude of fools who made him their Prime Minister."
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  2. No I didn't vote for Trudeau nor do I support him. The idea that someone who responds to baseless criticism about him favours him is amoeba level thinking.
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  3. I'll start. Even though I'm a "Yank" I read my share of "Canadian content." I just finished reading the book, The Great Lone Land, by William Francis Butler, was a thrill to read. I was led to this book by The Impossible Railway: The Building of the Canadian Pacific, by Pierre Berton. The Burton book relied extensively on The Great Loan Land's description of pre-railroad conditions. Or, to quote Gordon Lightfoot, "There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run, when the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun, Long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the green dark forest was too silent to be real." This book describes a world that is almost unreal; deeply isolated, with bone-warping cold and only recently teaming with bison. The Great Lone Land strikes me as a Canadian Journal of Lewis and Clark. Some of the material echoes that found in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. In particular, the author details the depredations of the smallpox virus on First Nations/Native Americans. The author, William Francis Butler, was commissioned by William McDougall, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (then covering most of Canada west of Ontario except for a much smaller province of Manitoba) to: "1) report upon the whole question of the existing state of affairs in that territory, and to state your views on what may be necessary to be done in the interest of peace and order; 2)ascertain, as far as you can, in what places and among what tribes of Indians, and what settlements of whites, the small-pox is now prevailing, including the extent of its ravages; 3) ascertain, as far as in your power, the number of Indians on the line between Red River and the Rocky Mountains; the different nations and tribes into which they are divided and the particular locality inhabited, and the language spoken, and also the names of the principal chiefs of each tribe." (paraphrased). This book was a tale of his fascinating journey, from October 1870 to February or March 1871, through what Butler called "The Great Lone Land." The journey started at Fort Garry, near modern Winnipeg, thence west to modern Edmonton, southwest to Rocky Mountain House, then returning to the Red River area of Winnipeg. During his journey he intercoursed with the Metis (he called them "half-breeds"), First Nations (called "Indians" at the time) and white settlers and members of the military. The Appendix is essential reading. It contains McDougall's original orders, and the report Butler filed about two months after his journey. Books such as these are rare, and hard to get. I will email PDF's of the book to anyone who requests and supplies an email address, since the book is no longer under copyright. My edition of the book goes to 351 pages, 384 with the appendix.
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  4. Advocating for any kind of sexual lifestyle among young children is grooming. Toxic alright.
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  6. " Three years after the events of the SNC-Lavalin affair, the Trudeau government is once again facing down accusations that they actively meddled in the Canadian justice system to achieve a political end. With SNC-Lavalin, the charge was that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office pressured his justice minister to unilaterally drop bribery charges against a Liberal-allied engineering firm. This time around, it’s that Trudeau’s public safety minister pressed RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to “jeopardize” a mass-shooting investigation so that they could push a gun control package. And in both cases, the allegations have come from some very reputable sources. The most inculpating details of the SNC-Lavalin affair came directly from Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould herself. With the RCMP scandal, the government’s alleged actions were outed by its own federal inquiry." More at the National Post
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  7. From negation to construction of a new the distance can be long. The next step would be self-organization not as reaction to overreaching policies but for some positive change. From that further results can follow. But it still seems to be a long way from that. And I would question the role of the learned community media and such. Are they hand fed to quack for supporting the status quo in perpetuity? When a supposedly experienced political host in response to dismal voter participation suggests another panel discussion or combining existing parties is it a conviction that nothing better is possible, naivite or something else? Watching it over the recent period I cannot be sure there's anything independent left in this country.
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  8. Not necessarily. At least it proves anyone in this country can become a Vile Minister.
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  9. Well there’s two ways to manage this. Either we say that the state must not play such an overbearing role deciding what is moral and appropriate, interfering with parenting, or we say, okay, if the state thinks it has the answer on morality above parents, what is that morality? We could have an all out culture war of the traditionalists (promoting male and female role models where possible, recognizing the biological reality of two genders as central markers of gender identity, XY and XX, requiring educators to leave talk of sexuality out of primary education, encourage values-based education based on ancient wisdom like the “virtues”, etc.) versus those who want to scrap all canonical western cultural beliefs (ancient wisdom texts, religion, science-based gender, two-parent and two-gender families, parental discretion over child-rearing, etc.). If we want the state to dictate upbringing, we can have an all out culture war between the woke revolutionaries (all identity is a social construct, the family structure is sexist, country must be scrapped due to patriarchy and colonialism, money must be redistributed from earners based on designated identities, etc.) and those who believe in human agency/free will, that there is value in ancient wisdom, that gender isn’t entirely a social construct but has important roots in biology, that parents matter and individual beliefs matter, there is much to celebrate about history and culture, including the so-called “dominant” culture, etc. I think we’re entering a time where the lunatics can no longer be trusted to run the asylum. Biden and Trudeau are letting the radicals have at it because they’re so scared of asserting anything that might be construed as patriarchal or colonial. Of course inflation is teaching most people that morality matters and we reap what we sow. Overspending creates moral hazard. Erasing people’s individual rights and views is the hallmark of dictatorship and the loss of free speech. Our mainstream media is clearly too beholden to government through state funding and attempts at censorship. Canadians have been made to feel through the pandemic that many basic human rights are expendable for dubious reasons of so-called safety. Drug use, addiction, depression, anxiety, and suicide have increased. People are paying punishing prices for basic necessities and carbon taxes on fuel that has doubled in price in a year. The woke-green ideological experiments of an overbearing government aren’t working.
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  10. Let's see. Can't say it's obvious to me, but good that at least someone here still has hope.
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  11. I once asked a wealthy man, how he managed to make money on the stock market. He told me that he watched what the majority of people were doing and tried to NOT do that. I asked him why he would actively buck trends. His response I have never forgotten. He said that he'd found that about 75% of human beings do not want to think for themselves and merely follow "trends". They are..."followers" and are usually wrong. Failing that he said...he asks his wife...
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  12. Are you angry with the Prague writer? Triggered once again to shoot the messenger? Carry on Mike and maybe another deflection to O'Toole will make you look less foolish.
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  13. It's actually like they just didn't wanna go see Biden, because no one came to his rallies.
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  14. First, informed and engaged electorate would need to create a system of governance that would reflect and prioritize their problems and needs rather than its own. In this country nothing like that exists. The system has been stitched hastily on top of colonial administration and its main priority is to continue itself. Does it, informed and engaged exist? Probably not - the political history of 160 years speaks for that. And one has to agree, it's where the core of the problem is.
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  15. An overwhelming number of Americans are in favour of extended background checks and assault weapon bans but the gun lobby and their bought politicians make that next to impossible in US political system. Thank god we don't have anything like the second amendment in our constitution.
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  16. True. Yet its also true that gun possession is guaranteed in the USA and they take that rather seriously.
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  17. Lucky you.. The American gun bunch want to spend billions hardening their schools to avoid meaningful reform. Sure be nice if they were so willing to spend that kind of money on actually educating their kids instead of turning their schools into fortresses.
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  19. As old-man Trudeau was known to say, Canadian voters do not give sh*t, as long as there’s beer in the fridge. His son follows the same path. “Let them have drugs.” That is why he will always be emperor. In other words, opium shall be the opium for the masses. The people shall always elect their drug dealer
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  20. Yes we need to be more responsive in this digital age! Try calling a government office of your choice. Let's have an improvement: a bot responding you have options 1, 2 and 3 or call this number (and the same at the other number). All 24 levels of management freed to work productively on... what? Change without changing anything, how good you can get at it in some twenty decades? "Yes we have to be more responsive to ..." (append as and when needed). We get what we accept that is quite certain.
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  21. Online politics? Oh goodie. A new and better way to cheat. Mike we both know online communication from the public will result in no change at all. In fact...all it will do is free up phone lines and produce less letters decorating the trash can.
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  22. And of course it all comes down to Auntie Trudeau as though O'Toole was so much better.
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  23. Given that they couldn't even modify the law to respond to this horrible tragedy, you are indulging in paranoid fantasy. Unfortunately, too many voters actually think this way.
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  24. or perhaps it's because they side with far left Democrats because Orange Man Bad McConnell ain't a RINO though, he's just a slimy cutthroat
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  25. Lincoln, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan. All RINO's, not of The Cult.
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  26. RINO RINO... Romney, McCain and the Bushes... Mc Connell... the core of the Republican party and all recent candidates.... Why is it ? Right - because Dear Leader must be the everything in the eyes of the cult...
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  27. Guess this is where you eventually wind up when everyone and his dog can get a gun. Good object lesson for the rest fo the world.
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  28. What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated | by Susan Dunham | Apr, 2022 | Medium
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  29. And BC, and Quebec, and PEI and Manitoba and Newfoundland. So who is Canadian? Only those that embrace Coal? Sounds like an awful place to visit. Is that part of your tourism strategy?
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  30. Build back better isn't Biden. He just jumped on board. It's the idea what is must be deconstructed to rebuild a more heavily managed system by a thing I'll call "They" for convenience sake. That's not Con. It's Prog. And yeah, that's you. They may have got you while you weren't looking and for that you have my sympathy but don't tell me I don't see what I see. You're a Prog not a Con. Most likely more a Prog-Con but that's still just Prog to me and other more traditional Cons.
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  31. If Trump is so against Globalization why is his company doing business in China ? Why did his properties use undocumented workers ? Anyway, this thread isn't about Trump. The OP is an interesting premise, but in a world where FOX and CNN dish out pablum how can you expect anybody to fathom this ?
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  32. A great piece of sarcasm. Good writing LOL
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  33. The Biden campaign actually did hold rallies, just no one showed up to them. The venues remained mostly empty: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/28/biden-energy-crisis-1345359 Oddly enough, USA Today couldn't even get any good photos of them. They're all in the dark for some reason. Why couldn't Biden's PR people get a single good photo of his rallies? https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2020/11/02/scenes-joe-bidens-2020-campaign-rallies/6128253002/ Biden had very few rallies, in very small venues, and almost none of them were filled to capacity. Near the end they changed from rallies with small crowds of voters to "rallies" that were just press conferences where he'd read a bit from a teleprompter and then take pre-determined "questions". His campaign was all smoke and mirrors. If you count the entire amount of time that he spent mumbling to Americans from his basement plus all the time that he spent talking to people at his rallies it was just a few hours in total, for his whole campaign. And even then his babbling was riddled with "gaffes". What would be called a total brain freeze for a normal person is just considered a gaffe for Biden. "I'm wearing this Philadelphia Eagles Jacket".... Sorry Joe, it doesn't even have any green on it. "I'm here in Ohio".... Iowa. "I'm running for senator".... president. "We hold these truths ta be, self-evident, to um, women and men, whatever, you know the thing!"
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  34. 1. I get it, but sometimes it's impossible for the schools to not set a moral standard. In this case saying nothing is picking a side. Also Catholic schools, to your point about their difference from the public system, are created specifically to imbue Christian and Catholic values into their students. To me, empathizing with the downtrodden, the sinners, the marginalized is central to the Christian ethic. 2. But it's inescapable. What happens when a student raises their hand and asks a tough question about Remembrance Day, that speaks to individual, community, Christian, Catholic values ? Do you expect the teacher to say nothing ? I think in this minefield, it's easier to say that the teacher should be held to account for teaching things that are clearly - clearly now - against those overlapping values. I asked my religion teacher, when I was a lad, if atheists who led a good life would go to heaven. The teacher issued a non-answer but also... a response that challenged me to assess scripture, and the thoughts and edicts of others to come up with an idea on my own. 3. I appreciate your thoughts very much thank you.
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  35. We're able to discuss curriculum without accusing people of being child molestors.
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  36. Except they don't do that, as as rule. Keep yourself happy with your sex paranoia though, our parents group will be doing everything we can to subvert your kind....
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  37. The third world makes up approx. 92% of the worlds population. Therefore it makes sense to me that 92% of the plastic being thrown out and into garbage landfills or on the ground or in the ocean is happening in third world countries who are creating most of the plastic pollution. I hardly have ever seen any plastic pollution anywhere that I have gone too either here in Canada or any western countries. I have been to some third world countries and all I saw was plenty of plastic lying around on their streets and waterways. This is all just more leftist liberal bullshit once again. ?
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  38. Fauci said that we didn't need to worry about getting infected with covid if we got the Pflacebo. 3 doses later the little worm is infected with covid. Now he's saying that we need to get quadruple-jobbed. I've heard of moving goalposts before, but this has to be a world record. Our village idiot also got covid, and he brought it back across the border with him. No trace of irony there lol. Don't worry though, they're not gonna stop pontificating to us all. They're still gonna act like we should be listening to them after all this time, and the MSM will back them. They have the airwaves, you have no choice but listen to them, even though you know they're lying again.
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