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If the shop I work in gets certified, I am NOT free to work in a non-union shop. If the building I want to buy was formerly occupied by a union business, I am NOT free to run that as a non-union facility. If the work I am bidding on is in a closed shop collective agreement, I am NOT free to work there as non-union. The whole legislative and regulatory framework is one sided for organized labour.

I think on MG's chin.

Just a little technical point: there are NO vessels capable of carrying 4mm bbls at one time. There WAS one, long ago scrapped, and there are only two remaining ULCCs at 3mm. The normal size is VLCCs that are either 1mm or 2mm. Anything larger has too much draft to use the English Channel.

Fair enough. I have lived and worked with prairie and northern bands. You can very quickly get their political pulse by looking at how they vote...extremely biased to the left. The difference may well be that you are familiar with some who WORK for a living. The ones who can spend weeks travelling to and sitting on protest lines obviously do NOT work for their living. Curiously, one of my closest "right wing" friends was once my NDP MLA in the bush. Once one grows up one tends to shift your political benchmark.

You win the interwebs! That is definitely the funniest thing written in this world on this day.

What precious little credibility the state or its police might have thought they had vanished on day 1. The only thing a Liberal has ever done to jail a Canadian standing on principal was to lock up Andy McMechan for committing no crime whatsoever - just LEGALLY standing up to the Canadian Wheat Board's presumed government granted monopoly. You need to look at this from an obvious and logical perspective: in the world of virtue-signaling globalists only white men can be jailed for such crimes.Visible minorities are free to seek refuge behind the idiocy that is Liberalism/liberalism. On the subject of "no balls at all": I lump Canadian business leaders in with the Liberal government. If someone had this protest, they were obviously organized. The organizers should be sued IMMEDIATELY, as well as whatever organizations in affiliation - for the business losses incurred. I do a lot of business internationally, usually representing US interests. When asked how to tell the difference between Canadians and Americans, I simply reply: "If you want to tell them apart, just look between their legs. The nice guys with no balls are the Canadians."

You definitely have the real issue identified. The concept of 200 sovereign indigenous nations contained within one nation is simply not viable they way we are doing it. As with the federal/provincial/municipal layers of government, Indian bands need to be seen as exactly what they are: a level of MUNICIPAL government, that must follow the laws of the province and country in which they are contained. Sadly, one of the first pre-requisites to working for government in a senior capacity is to first undergo a successful pre-frontal lobotomy. Seems about the same for politicians. In combination, this lot is far too short on even a functioning level of intellectual capacity to deal with this issue (or pretty much any other, it seems).

To have wages, they would have to have a job. If they had a job, they could not be hanging around smoking dope and 'protesting".

What the anti-pipeline and anti petro fruticakes do not seem to understand is that while it would be nice NOT to use petroleum hydrocarbons, until someone figures out how to ACTUALLY be able to live without them, they will continue to be produced, shipped and used. Since we are sitting on one of (actually THE) largest deposits, to get from where we are to where we need to be, our main source of revenue is some of those very finite resources that EVERYONE is using...because THAT is what the infrastructure in place is designed and in place to use. When you stop some oil going down a pipeline, it just gets stuffed into a train. BUT: when you do that to Alberta, you cut the revenue we get to FIX these problems pretty much in half. On top of that, over here in SK, we are suffering the second dillbit derailment and massive spill and fire in a month. What do we need to do to get the left coast loonies collective head out of their ass? Arrange a Lac Megantique in one of their drug parlours?

Ontario does that because it is the seat of the Federal government and the home of the ultra-left wing media. They have learned that they can pay for their virtue signalling by taxing the crap out of the productive economies of the West.

Compared with the life-long achievements and current display of ineptitude of our PM, Trump IS a genius. We are not talking absolutes here, just relative.

Western separation would require IMHO everything from Thunder Bay to the West Coast. People in Nortern Ontario hate the East almost as much as we do. Yeah, the druggies of BC lower mainland would be tough to swallow, but it would be our albatross. Since all we get from Ontario is grief and looney leftwing politics (not that there hasn't been NDP governments in ALL of the Western provinces - but we are mostly cured of that ailment now), we would be free to source stuff directly from the US that we now waste billion$$ and a lot of time sending from the "distributors" in Toronto down the only road connecting us to our biggest problem. We pretty much get everything else from China, thus the need to keep Port of Vancouver.

My plan is six posts above

One of them is smart enough to win the job of most powerful person on the planet and play the media like a fiddle.

Since one of them has no brains nor balls, it would be a pointless conversation.

I think we have drifted off of the important question of the thread. What our dear PM SHOULD be doing is making a personal visit to Wuhan hospitals to make amends for his Wuawei screwups. Instead of spending his time kissing SNC and African asses, he should kiss some Chinese NCV cases as a virtue signalling gesture of good faith. The whole world could be a better place in a couple weeks.

"WE" did not do that, Her F#cking Majesty did, and HFM should damn well pick up the tab.

I have had the good fortune to watch this and discuss with an epidemiologist. His opinion is the China is going over the top in response, but you can't trust their information output and methodology enough to really know what is happening (he has a lot of experience in the region). Based on his counsel, I am not at all upset with Canada's lack of panic in response. As has been wisely mentioned in this thread: the food and many other practices in China are the result of millenia of engrained behaviour. To understand this better, one needs to appreciate that within a culture that uses a contextual language, things that SHOULD be obvious from science or read from contracts, etc. are interpreted differently from day to day. The cultural artifacts of more than 5,000 years of doing things a certain way are far more deeply rooted than logical thought processes. I am, however, alarmed at how much disruption the business of the entire world is going to suffer over this. My friend and business associate (now living here) from China is telling me daily of what things will simply come to a complete stop (they are now due to New Year) due to plants not re-opening and people not travelling when things would normally start up after the holiday. What I DO get a huge laugh from is our idiotic government's continuation of the Huawei debacle. The Canadians "stranded" in China owe their plight to the Liberals' ineptitude at foreign affairs.

I want a 70% cut in earned income from doing actual work, and a massive increase in tax on speculative gain. But: what I also want to see is a 70% reduction in government spending, as well as constitutional prohibition on deficit spending. If you want to make idiotic promises and gifts to try to buy votes, you need to pay them during YOUR term of office.

We don't? I guess you are not familiar with the story of Andy McMechand and the Canadian Wheat Board. When doing, as proven in federal court, NOTHING against any law whatsoever, the Fed's jailed him because he drove off in his tractor/trailer when they attempted to seize it - for a crime that did not exist. The problem in Canada is NOT "gun control", it is illegal weapons being used in the commission of criminal acts. Registering, restricting, confiscating, etc. all of the legal guns in the world won't make any significant difference in gun crimes. Throughout this thread, people have posted that the problem lies within immigration. That might well be the case. Since Toronto considers itself the center of the Universe, and for immigration reasons it might well be, take a look at those most wanted criminals: http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/mostwanted.php I think you could EASILY see the connection between crime in Toronto vs. the profile of immigrants who flock to those ghettos (and I mean that in the literal sense of the word, not that all are financially distressed neighbourhoods). It is also easy to see that the 416 and ESPECIALLY the 905 is not only the root of our immigration and crime problems, it is the source of much of the Liberal/liberal elitist political BS. The real solution to most of Canada's problems seems to be to cut out Toronto.

To be a bit more precise: I believe the Trump supporters are concerned about falling birthrates among those of traditional ethnicity and US culture. I don't think you really understand the "Deep State" in its reality. The perpetual network of those who benefit and profit from the business and politics of the nation is very much embedded in the massive bureaucracies and back room relationships to the function$$$$$$ of government. It is far more stable and influential than the fleeting partisan swings of the Uniparty.

I can agree that there is a considerable amount of contradictory information about the Holocaust on the interwebs, but that can be said of ANYTHING. My take on the whole affair comes from a few very first hand observers. For one, of course, my wife's Aunt. She was there, in a camp and was a first hand witness and victim of so many atrocities. I have absolutely no doubt about her credibility nor her accuracy. The second, strangely, would be one of my recently deceased very close friends. Hitler Yugen - a genuine Nazi. NEVER did he ever even suggest that there was anything but a slaughter of millions in the death camps of his youth (he was a driver for the SS in early teens, so once again, an eye witness WITHOUT any pro-Jewish bias...quite the contrary). Finally, another very close friend with whom we will celebrate his 98th birthday in 9 weeks (we usually do this while participating in closing runs at nearby ski hill.). He was a USAF sergeant at the end of the war and occupational force member for almost 2 years. Once more, a first hand account from a highly credible source who was actually on hand for camp liberation, support of survivors and some relocation. The mere suggestion that somehow these events did not take place, or were in any way less of an atrocity than history has very well documented is exactly WHY this story must be told. Were there other victims? Sure as Hell were, and once again, these are very well documented. BUT: the question from TM was not denial of the Holocaust (I think) but why is it that the Jewish side of the story is so well told and persistant while other victims seem to be forgotten? The answer, IMHO, is pretty simple: the Jewish population was the well documented primary target in the "Final Solution", and within their culture, the story has been very well preserved and related to the HUGE ongoing issue of displacing a massive surviving population to yet another hostile location. The amount of organization to do this is significant. Why do the Founding Fathers of the USA still have such great coverage and presence in our everyday lives? Just a few tiny skirmishes with the Brits and a handfull of smart guys who wrote a bit of good documentation. BUT: the end result has been a great nation, thus the events and people that defined it loom far greater in our rear view mirror. Add to that the financial success of the Jewish community IN the USA and their disproportionate presence in the ownership of the print and electronic media that shape our everyday opinions. If the Roma, for instance, want some kind of similar high profile for their suffering at the hands of the Nazis, they are quite free to buy a few publishing and broadcasting networks and have at it. Curiously, I too had a German girlfriend all through high school. The difference is that we were raised on military bases, and my girlfriend's Dad (and a few other friend's Fathers) were on the opposite side of many battles from other Fathers on that same base. It wasn't all that long after the war, and we boomers were to say the least, surrounded by WWII history and people. While there was a small amount of open hostility, and a large amount of discrimination, at NO TIME was there ever any great fuss over the Holocaust either to validate or deny the events. I feel and felt that a lot of this was left unsaid at the time out of respect for the victims and the desire of our parents to spare us from the horrors of that war. I say this in support of the previous paragraph: the survivors and their cultural mates were busy recovering, not yet able to organize and "advertise".

Go to the Hong Kong WWII memorial, and also read about the things Japan did not only to POWs but to civilians during their occupation. As I said: I knew people quite well who lived through that, and their contempt for all things Japanese stayed with them until their dying days - and I fully understand it.