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GTA and PQ scarcely know there IS a ROC.

I don't understand the crusades, progroms, jihad, etc. NOTHING to do with religion makes any sense whatsoever to me (other than edicts to prevent death from food - such as by trichinosis)

crusaders might not agree. If you REALLY want the country to work, no need to ban immigration, just ban religion.

You think that's goofy? Shit, there are other religions out the that tell you to pray to some imaginary spook and you will live forever.

even if the mucky-muck was only hot and breathing hard. Then it usually comes off.

SOME kind of actual interview and investigation, not allowing hired "immigration consultants" to coach them on what to say, fill forms out for them and make every aspiring terrorist into a model Canadian citizen (actually that DOES fit the exact profile that the Liberals seem to want).

If you have ever spent much time in MENA, India, Japan or dozens of other regions/countries, you would know they are extremely racist, intolerant and discriminatory. What makes me gasp in horror is that we are not only accepting (even seeking) immigration from such cultures, we are expected to tolerate and celebrate THEIR intolerant culture once they arrive here!

I have been working on a project inside of Manitoba Hydro for much of this year. If you could see the level of overstaffing, overpaying and outright waste you would be sick (i.e. if you were a Manitoba Hydro customer). After leading the country in electing NDP governments for decades, Pallister has a huge mess to clean up, and wisely chose to make damn sure he had a mandate to do so. The side benefit is that the Liberal Party of MB no longer has official status. Yeah, the people really DO (for good reason) associate the Federal and Provincial wings of each party.

The Liberals will not appeal anything, since spending taxpayers' money is simply what they do - ESPECIALLY if it can be construed as virtue signalling. What really bothers me is nobody holds the communities and families responsible who's actions and/or inaction CAUSED the need for children to be placed in care. Just blame Whitey and pass along the bill.

Canada is broken economically because it mindlessly follows the rest of the world. We as a species fail to understand how wealth is created and differentiate that from wealth that is merely redistributed. We have ceded responsibility to financial institutions who in turn pretty much own government and get things their way from the golden rule (he who has the gold, makes the rules). Canada is broken politically because we lack the leadership giving us the clear vision of how to reduce government from a meddling screw up of bureaucrats to doing what government SHOULD be doing...governing, regulating and enforcing to provide a level playing field. As it is, government here is just like government in most of the rest of the world and uses itself merely to dispense privilege to those who can buy or in other ways cause government to provide said influence. Sadly, given a stable democracy, the people don't seem to realize that they have the power to change things...but, as I said, to do so will require actual leadership. Sheeple follow. That's how we got into this mess in the first place.

Fair comment. I am several time zones ahead of you now, so will try to get back tomorrow.

Such a genuine BC answer. Consume energy and resources at a staggering rate, take a walk in the park and protest what others are doing to work and think it makes you some kind of 'environmentalist". An entire province that consumes like crazy but produces next to nothing. There: you have my environmental report.

Courgar: Wait a minute: you have left your energy wasting abode, while off of work from what is no doubt a pollution creating job, got into you old beater wagon and polluted your way to the top of a mountain...to bitch about someone else polluting and wasting energy>?????

Mulroney was a Quebec labour lawyer...you can't really get much lower on the pole than that. We need leaders who have actually accomplished something in their life, who have been productive and successful. Being a silver spoon drama teacher or nice guy with pretty dimples are hardly qualifications to lead a brass band, never mind a country.

No, I would gladly vote in a Maggie T, but not another version of PET Jr.

His problem seems to be too much estrogen. needs a BIG shot of testosterone to get his shit together.

Au contraire. The problem is not climate change, it is creeping Liberalism falling off of the left end of the spectrum

Dougie: this may be your most insightful post - best of all. Thanks.

No doubt they are simply following the Liberal's success. Sadly, their failure as an effective party means any vote would not have gone Cons will go Lib. Even those that WILL go cons are going to be watered down by Bernier.

Yes, as I said, logistical and strategic, not tactical Chinese support for North Vietnam. Do you remember that victory parades in US for Vietnam? Ass whipped, period. But, you are 100% right that they won (to the benefit of literally the whole world) the cold war hands down. Just remember that re: Korea - the rest of the world was bombed into rubble, China not only from the WWII battles, but also from the brutal Japanese invasion that drove out virtually ALL of the money and afterwards, the war between the Red Army and the Nationalists. It should have been a cakewalk for Aruba to defeat it, but the US - the only fully in tact economy and military on the planet - could not. China has a hell of a lot more than a few markers from the Yanks in the bank - they have been exploiting every country they enter, not just the US. When it comes to big investment $$$, they are way over the top. If you remove the speculative BS from the US assessment of what constitutes its economy, China (far more productive) is quite a bit larger. Remember: only production creates wealth, speculative gain is a zero sum (and ultimately inflationary) game. The Yanks no longer have production owned by industrialists and entrepreneurs, they have only finance as owners, and they can't run diddly for production, just to play the stock and M&A games. The 1% campaign knew there was something wrong, but sadly, not what it was. I am anything but a Communist sympathizer, but reality is post Mao Deng re-wrote the rules and they have been far more successful at real growth than any other country. They have been on top of the heap many, many times over the last 5 millenia, and that is very important to understand.

Keep telling yourself that. You could be the next Obama. or trudeau

There is the difference between a militarist and a capitalist. You see the world through some kind of rose coloured, romanticized glasses (held by some Slimey Limey you seem to adore), and I have to look at it carefully and objectively to see what is actually there. First of all, the Yanks already provoked not only a shooting war but two of them with China, and got their ass handed to them both times. I thought you were old enough to remember Korea and Vietnam. My Father-in-law was PPCLI at Kapyong, and assured me that it was Chinese soldiers in his sights, not Koreans. I can tell you from personal experience that Vietnam was mostly a Chinese war as well (granted, with a lot of genuine Viet Kong involved) - but logistically and I suspect strategically Chinese. That "bubble" of an economy you refer to is the largest economy in the world. The opposing one is the "bubble", as the US economy has shifted to Casino Capitalism, where only the strength of the Greenback's hegemony allows Wall Street to print trillions of bloatbux since they own the central bank. China's money is genuine wealth created by replacing all of the jobs in North America and Europe that actually create wealth by producing products. Also, your ideal is an economy barely 200 years old. China has been the dominant economic, technological, intellectual and academic region of the Eastern Hemisphere for nearly five thousand years.

Close, but only partly true. The vast majority of ALL information of potential economic benefit is distributed ONLY to Quebec, and widely disseminated by government offices right out in the open. NO question, though, that those "friendly" to government have the petutie sucked by bureaucrats who are looking for a comfy life after their time in government.

Sorry to be away from the thread, but we capitalist pigs sometimes have to labour in the mud to grease the wheels. I have no delusions to how predatory China is in the world of business, politics, trade or diplomacy. What I observe is that their totalitarian state can streamline strategies and executions (excuse the pun) to target and hit their goals - being unencumbered by all of the baggage of a democratic system. I am no longer in business IN China, but do business with Chinese entities from this side of the Pacific. While I don't LIKE what they have done to North American industry and trade, I have to deal with reality. Reality is that we should have known from day one what to expect, and we let the greed of the middle men and consumers as well as the ignorance of the politicians wash so many jobs and businesses down the drain by allowing cheap Chinese crap into our market (ALLOW!!! geez, I can remember WalMart having a buying office in Guangzhou 30 years ago, we didn't "allow" we invited). The royal "we" have been nothing short of stupid in dealing with this (except, of course, for the ONLY US President with the balls to stand up and take on China - of course I mean "the Donald"), but the literal "we" over in my corner has to deal with reality, and reality is in resource trade and many other things, China is the only game in town. The big LNG project in BC is a perfect example: "we" in Canada could easily have done this, and raked in the profits of selling $2 gas for $5 or $6 all day long, but did diddly squat about it, even when the original Asian investors backed down. Chinese had no problem at all recognizing the opportunity, and have bags of cash...OUR cash...from selling us decades of big box stores full of garbage that will last only until the next required visit to the same store to replace it with more of the same (BTW: most people in China simply would never buy such junk - but will gladly make it for the Yank or Johnny Canuck on the other end of the line asking for it - pure irony).