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No, my suggestions is to stay calm and patient, and attempt to negotiate with Mr. Trump. Do not go on the attack. Trudeau should have figured out a way to get into that meeting, rather than storm off. He has no experience, thus no idea how to negotiate. And why would he... like a high school boy got to be the PM.

Canada is only hurting itself by imposing tariffs in retaliation to the USA. These tariffs appear to be more of a facade than anything else, reactionary Liberal smoke. Trudeau et al simply don't get it: Donald Trump loves retaliatory tariffs- they only help fuel his primary mission, to bring manufacturing back to America.

The Canadian government ordered that the native children be gathered up, taken away from the reservations. Away from a life of guaranteed neglect and squalor, substance abuse, disease and rife with ignorance. They were "scooped up", in order to save them from that misery.

I think it points to a larger question about men's attitudes towards women. In a culture where women are seen as equal and not objectified, women are not under intense pressure, or being "ogled" at pools. In a culture where women's liberty is not held to that standard, the men are not to be trusted.

That's fine, the data is objective information but we cannot "deny" anything about it, unless we know first what it is we're denying. The data requires interpretation, otherwise it is just a set of numbers. Yes, you can objectively look at the raw numbers, as a pure mathematician may do. This is one (1), this is two (2)... do those numbers look ok?

Yes we are talking about the same thing. I'm saying the data must be interpreted otherwise it is misleading, especially within the political sphere. The popular vote is not always the most democratic, hence the electoral system is more complex than a simplified interpretation of the data provides- "Horwath is in the lead". We "receive" the data through media, and all media is a biased interpretation of some sort.

Interpreting the data is the tricky part. The poll shows that even if Horwath has the lead in the poll result, Doug Ford is still likely the winner by about 7:1. And that is for majority government. The big change in numbers seems to have "flattened out" now, so presumably this was an adjustment, probably not any fault of Doug Ford. Doug Ford has not made any serious gaffs thus far. No embarrassing videos, no skeletons in the closet, and no Stormy Daniels have as yet been forthcoming. (And you better believe they're looking!) Anyway the poll data shows she is not in the lead. Unless you only look at only the data. But, the poll does make assumptions about the data, in this case, how it is distributed among ridings, and by that it defines the probability of the winning result. A probability is not certainty...

Still, there's little doubt that the situation we re entering in is utterly, utterly perilous. At this point I blame the fools who dumped Patrick Brown at the last possible moment, which in my thinking had to be politically motivated. They knew the PC leader would be the next premier of Ontario.

Can you give specific examples where says something repulsive?

I basically agree, would prefer a Liberal or PC government over the NDP.

In this day and age of readily available, instantly consumed media it's easier to make a "statement" from anywhere in the world. Certain freedom can, in some cases, put us at risk if applied dogmatically, as though they are always morally the right thing to do. Our "enemies" such as the Russians, Chinese, are very interested in exploiting whatever weakness they can, to gain influence in our politics. "Influence" however does not necessarily mean they significantly affected the final outcome. It's still just the Americans who get to vote.

Not really.

One should first understand what polls actually mean before using them, let alone criticizing them.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/onvotes/poll-tracker/ Notice how, on the poll tracker even though it shows the two parties pretty close to equal in the poll, it still shows PC with an 81% chance of winning a majority, and 5% chance of winning a minority? There's a reason why that is.

Don't forget the goonophile vote, or whatever you call it, got him the nomination. If PC's don't like him, they had their chance to make that known. As for "geezers", your apparent disdain for the elderly won't change much. What wins is voting, not moaning.

His supporters love him for the same very reason you do not.

Politics in Ontario:

That's the problem we face. Many people these days are voting on nice, etc. or more specifically, based on identity politics.

Do you realize how much land had to be submerged under water for that Quebec project? So much for environmentally friendly. Nuclear on the other hand has practically no environmental impact in comparison. Winning ridings matters more than winning in the polls. Considering the demographic and the number of seats in each riding, it looks very likely that the PC party is going to win a majority. Sorry but the polls today show PC up by 0.1 %, NDP down by 0.4%. Expect these numbers to bounce around a lot. What shall we do, oh my! - This is not about electing a US-style government, but even if it was, so what. They seem to be doing alright, jack!

NDP demonstrates their inability to add up numbers. Either that or they were trying to pull a fast one on the people of this province. Andrea Horwath admits NDP platform has $1.4-billion math ‘mistake’ Not a great time to make a huge mistake like this. Can they get a do-over?

The only mention of the US economy I've seen, is that it's totally booming. And with recent news that China has agreed to pump another 200 Billion or so into the US, exclusively due to manoeuvres by Donald Trump, there is no reason to think it will tank any time soon. In fact if he pulls it off, expect the complete opposite. Then you can bet your money that "an idiot like Trump" will get re-elected.

Thanks. And what kind of people are they sending here? When the US sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.