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That we know of. Desmarais for sure would not be making serious contributions but you can bet Bombardier and I suspect Irving would be covering all of their bases.

Yeah. He learned that from watching too much American TV.

Hadn't heard of that, but it makes perfectly good sense.

IIRC he was PM when justice went after SNC about hiding Daffy Duck's kid (Gadafi)

No, but the government of the day had a responsibility to enforce the laws of the land. On top of that, they could have put the back room senior Liberals in jail, where they belong.

Worth noting Harper had two terms during which EVERYONE knew hoe corrupt SNC was but did next to nothing.

I voted no, since it is very unlikely a Liberal of any kind would stoop to telling the truth. Let's face it: you couldn't BE part of the party, never mind minister of anything if you hadn't bought into the Big Lie in the first place. On the other hand: she IS a lawyer, so by very definition her ethics and allegiance is for sale to the highest bidder. When one chooses to make their living by causing the misery of others and lying for them, it is not a big leap to go either way. So the question: is she really a Liberal or a lawyer?? Time will tell.

I would love to have the numbers to rank them properly. Too bad we do not have any rule of law for the privileged in this country. Jeez! Did I just create another "Canada becoming another Venezuela" thread??

That is your conclusion, but it is not shared by my Iranian friends (who are exceedingly well educated, BTW).

I can tell you from my son-in-law's experiences in Afganistan, no Canadians under his command saw any such thing, and had he any knowledge of same, it would have been dealt with severely and instantly. And you know this how?

I would take exception to that statement. Canadian military training and discipline is generally a full notch above that of most of our allies. You, the media, government, etc. may not know or see the difference, but those deployed sure as hell do. Even though dramatically underfunded, they still command respect of their peers.

I/we know SNC Lavalin very well. They are famous (really, infamous) around the world for corruption, and here for technical incompetence. They are second only to Bombardier for political influence and probably the worst in the history of Canada for corruption. Also, part of the backbone of the LPC that has always had such a significant PQ component.

Interesting link but we would need to know the numbers behind the numbers and have a complete result for it to mean anything. The "out of school primary" numbers really are better for Iran than the US, but being in a theocracy, putting a kid in a room with the Imam and pumping their heads full of BS is not, IMHO "education", it is brainwashing. If you go down to years of compulsory education, you will notice that Iran requires ONLY 8, vs. the US requiring/funding complete secondary school - and the missing stats are the "out of school secondary" that would tell a much more accurate story. THAT is where my Iranian friends tell me the difference lies and the source of the voter base that sustains the caliphate. Percentage of government spending on education is the other place Iran surpasses US - but now put a dollar value on it, even a per-capita dollar value and you will rapidly see that the US - even though having far less than stellar overall education - greatly surpasses Iranian spending and results. The next and by far most telling stat is the literacy rate. Iran in the 70s and US at 99%. And you think that is indicative of BETTER education????? Another place Iran outranks the US is in having 7 yrs. vs. 6 for post secondary - but look again and realize they both have 12 years of pri/sec, just that in Iran the declare the separation a year earlier - and note that secondary education is not even mandatory. Once again, the literacy rate tells you that the "out of school primary" is either a totally false number or the curriculum is theocratic, not academic. The last thing in which Iran has larger numbers than US, and you seem to be reading as "better" ranking is the student/pupil ratio. The US is significantly lower (and that IS what is better) in primary and WAY THE FRICK better in secondary - where the few Iranians privileged to even get a secondary education must do so with twice as many students in each class. I think you need to learn to read a report. But, what do I know, I just live in a family of many educators.

NOW we know what caused Minister Raybould to be booted out of cabinet - the drama queen, our own Prime Mistake had ordered her to let SNC off the hook for their usual criminal behaviour thanks to the usual generous donations to the LPC https://www.google.ca/search?q=snc+lavalin+jodi+rayold&oq=snc+lavalin+jodi+rayold&aqs=chrome..69i57.10158j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Raybould seems to have had some ehtical backbone when dealing with PMO behind closed doors, but when it matters and the problem is out in public, she shows herself as a real Liberal and won't come clean. People need to be going to jail on this one.

Canforces have had scores of deployments to Kosovo, Egypt, Cyprus, Bosnia, Darfur, Kosovo, Somalia, Sudan, etc. Most certainly qualify as "interventions".

The US HAS turned sharply to the left. Billary and Obama were heading there, but Pelosi and Sanders represent the right-off-the-left-side brigade.

BC: Excellent find, thanks for posting. Took the liberty of sharing with my daughters (both scientist, one a former academic) some friends.

until it's not there, then you really miss it and need it.

You got part of that dead right: the problem with Quebec and the Natives is that those of us who actually have to work and create wealth are forced by confederation to shell out billions a week to satiate the politically correct who reside for the most part in Ontario. Quebec already sees itself as a sovereign state - as now do the "First Nations", again from the idiocy of the body politic mostly of ON - so let the frigging lot of them sail down the St. Lawrence together and leave the rest of us to our own devices. I suspect Northern Ontario would vote to split off and stay with the ROC.

Only if it takes Quebec and the aboriginals with it! THEN, we would have the perfect country.

You know, it just occurred to me: we could actually pick a far, far better cabinet from the posters on this site (from BOTH sides of the so-called right and left of our rather left of center political spectrum) that the Drama Queen and LPC did in this term.

More like damnation from faint praise. I don't know who in the LPC set this up, but I imagine it was 100% to try to repair the damage by and to the drama queen..er drama TEACHER and Canada's reputation. While what they did to host the Lima Group is absolutely the right thing, since it is aimed at dethroning one of the ideals of the Trudeau family and legacy it was not done for the right reason.

Venezuela already decided but Maduro fudged the results. Another three million Venezuelans have also decided and voted with their feet - fleeing to neighbouring countries as life in Maduro's Bolivarian paradise is impossible for ordinary people. Personally, speaking from what our Venezuelan friends had to say (past tense, as they are in hiding due to attempts on their lives - as well as a couple of actual murders by Maduro's people), I don't give a rat's as WHO does what to dump or better yet eliminate Maduro and enforce the actual will of the people. THEN they can have a real election, supervised or at least audited by foreign powers (probably from the Lima group, but maybe Canada??? - we still are struggling to keep enough credibility to pull that offf) and they can and will do what THEY feel is best - as a sovereign state with some semblance of democracy as was intended even from the first Chavez constitution - you know, the one before Maduro had his henchmen he appointed to the Supreme Court make it possible to prosecute elected members for anything the Supreme Court felt they would like to do. AND, that is exactly what Maduro did. You think Americans helping (along with MANY other countries) to restore representative government is somehow a bad thing???????

I agree with you, I don't find Scheer anywhere near the level of performance needed to solve the disaster of the Prime Mistake from drama class, but in reality, it is the cabinet that really runs the show. The Libs used political correctness as the ONLY criteria to choose ministers, and that is something the Cons will not likely do in any significant proportion. From what we have seen over the last three years, 90% of the current cabinet would be in over their head acting as WalMart greeters. Then, of course, there is one real problem - Goodale. That is a man with absolutely no respect for the rule of law.

There we go, a REAL lefty in the flesh. Yeah, any election that the Bolivarian Revolution held was legitimate. I have to hand it to you, you are staying true to the cause - what with only Russia and China in agreement with you. That is, Russia, China and Maduro. If you know anything at all about Venezuela, you would know there is a HUGE issue with who is legitimately the leader. The "foreign meddling" is happening because a criminal and his co-conspirators have been running the show for several years, milking the wealth of the country for their personal benefit and jailing or killing (a lot more of the latter lately) anyone who gets in their way. Virtually every credible international company long ago left Venezuela since the corruption and incompetence (only party faithful members were given jobs at PDVSA - which is what runs the economy). But, hey, what the heck would one of those actual petroleum employees know about running a business that some good Bolivarian socialist couldn't just figure out on their own?