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What makes you think our troops go into action no plan and no vision???? Battle plans for every potential scenario in most known or likely hot spots are in place before they leave, and as situation changes, they are constantly revised. These aren't cowboys in the wild west, they are professional soldiers within a national armed force.

If they were genuine refugees, they would be asking Mexico for asylum, not safe passage. If yo want to make your country a better place, you don't leave it, you fight to change what is causing your problem.

Sadly, Taxme has it right. The problem with out legal system is that is designed by, for and with lawyers. The more time they can waste, the more they can bill.

When was the last time you saw a Federal plebiscite? As I said, you/we already voted in Parliament, and it was within their perview (on edit) BTW: I STRONGLY agree with you about direct democracy. With the technologies available today it should be easy-peasey.

Yes, you DID get a vote. You/we elected MPs to represent us, and when one of our allies was attacked, our elected members carefully considered what the correct response should be. I was quite impressed that Parliament stepped back from Iraq and forward on Afganistan. With such a volatile situation, the reason we empower our Parliament to deal with such matters is that we simply don't have the mechanism to call for a plebescite in the timeframe needed to respond.

250 years ago...even 50 years ago, some of this might be valid. There is simply no excuse to continue on in the same way today. I have lived beside and worked on reserves, and have friends, family and co-workers who are aboriginal. All it takes is the decision to leave the lifestyle of violence, drugs, alcohol and violence behind, plus a bit of effort. Our "Indian Industry" however (the gov't and leeches...er... consultants and contractors) resist this as it is how they make their considerable living, and governments seem to get in step as they seem to think that pandering to the status quo maintains hope of winning a large voting block (generally over on the left end of the spectrum).

While in my own personal world, I would like to have seen the Democrats completely wiped out, reality is as has been mentioned in this thread that they are merely following pattern and gaining in the House. In reality, this is politics as the framers of the Constitution intended - there is some balance. Sadly, the massive shift to partisanship on both sides of the Uniparty means more likely deadlock than compromise. We just have to wait and see.

In his Liberal/liberal left wing lunatic world. You can see that right here on this site and in this thread.

This IS a free country. One can choose to learn some skills, get and hold a job and hold it becoming a productive citizen. You can choose not to do so, but your life will become miserable. IF you happen to have a treaty number, though, you have a choice not available to the rest of Canada: you can simply stay at home, drinking, doing drugs, commit crimes, or go to the big city and do the same since you know with absolute certainty you will receive financial support. On top of that you can get in sync with an entire community and culture of victim belief - supported (even created) by the left spectrum of politics who use this kind of BS to justify their "us against them" zealous religion.

Canada is undercapitalized because we imitate the idiotic model to our South where finance is allowed to operate a system of wealth re-distribution without the nasty bother of creating any wealth. Even the Chicoms have figured that out and managed to overwhelm the world of trade in a few short decades.

The difference is that in Canada, the "big" banks aren't really all that big or powerful. The Bank of Canada is the central bank, owned and fully controlled by the government - as is the case in most of the world. Our banking system is overseen by the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and they ensure that our conservative bank ratios are in place and actually enforced. We are also signatory to Basel conventions on banking and comply thanks to SOFI. Our major failure in banking is that we let the reckless and irresponsible version of finance featured in the US influence some of what we do. South of 49, some of the Manhattan banks are REALLY big, and operate in an environment where they and their cohorts OWN the central bank (the US Federal Reserve) - and essentially the government, so they get to dictate fiscal and monetary policy. When they create some "money from nothing" get to increase the money supply by racking up another HUGE liability to the taxpayers, stuffing the cash into their personal back pockets in a runaway, unregulated and unenforced orgy of greed. When their treachery causes a failure, they simply dictate to their puppets inside the Beltway to bail them out, since they are "too big to fail". The US is NOT signatory to Basel conventions, doesn't regulate very much (since Goldman Sucks has had them repeal all of the protective legislation from the 1929 crash and subsequent government attempt to protect the people from the banks - now with Goldman in charge, they protect the banks from the people). Instead of enforcing regulations that barely exist, the game is to simply do what the member banks tell regulators and governments to do. BTW: how big has this problem become? The five largest bourses on the Street have a combined exposure to derivatives (a bet on a bet, backed by nothing - also called "synthetic" instruments since their is little or no underlying asset) something like 20x to 30x WORLD GDP! Yes, Goldman and the Street have far, far too much power and use it with no regard to the taxpayer who is ultimately going to be stuck with the bill (and it is in the trillions). AND, they own the central bank of the US lock, stock and barrel and can do pretty much what they please. Only Italy (an icon of financial responsibility, no!!???) allows the Central Bank to be fully private.

Most of our businesses are American. I just live up here.

Cowards give up. Those with any balls try to change things for the common good.

Wealth that is created from nothing is NOT abundance, it is pent up inflation and increase in taxpayers' liabilities (all fiat currency and the money supply are direct liability to the citizens). The market for capital (IPOs and POs) are far less than 1% of Wall/Bay street activities. The vast majority of their transactions are purely speculative gain at best, or in the case of derivatives, synthetic instruments representing a bet on a bet (thus the "money for nothing" part of Casino Capitalism). The shift in access to finance from entrepreneurial companies making things to financial agencies playing the M&A games and such means that money from the Street holding control of boards is likely to result in management by financiers and "finance friendly" execs (busy robbing shareholders blind with their stock options plans) these days. You don't worry about such things because you are not likely responsible to anyone for the success of your business and their investment. I do not enjoy that luxury.

What you, and a lot of other people worldwide do not understand is that Wall Street creates no wealth, adds no value from 99% of its activities. It is not "business", it is banking that merely re-distributes wealth just as does any welfare scheme. The difference is: given a barely regulated environment, they not only re-distribute wealth, but inflate the money supply at an impossible rate and pass that bill on to the taxpayer. Wealth can only be adding value to a resource, or delivering a service required to do so. Main Street does that for the most part. Take a look at WHO has been at the root of fiscal, monetary and economic policy for decades from both sides of the Uniparty: Goldman Sucks every time. Again, not business, finance. Same guys and gals who own the central bank. THIS is what will kill off the US as the leading economy in the world.

The US government has been owned lock, stock and barrel by Wall Street for quite some time. IF the US had any of its original values still in tact, the financial crisis would have been the end of Wall Street. Instead, they rewarded them for their treachery by handing over the keys to the bank. The US government has screwed Main Street almost to death. I hate that.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2013/10/how_toronto_got_the_nickname_hogtown/ Seeing as how you live in Hongkouver, I guess I can understand why you did not know this.

many decades ago, not sure of the source, but it was written by Canadians with stories of how well we received those fleeing from USA. Also, maybe 20 years ago, a former business associate living in Chatham said similar things (as in they were well received in Canada - at least around Chatham). Have held onto that notion ever since, since I have never seen (or sought) anything else on the topic until your links.

Thanks for the post and links. I had not read THAT version, just the glowing reports written long after the fact.

Then send them all to Hogtown and keep them the frick out of Canada. Failing that, Northern reserves are where they belong. The Liberal rush to import hundreds of thousands of completely unsuitable potential voters is going to destroy the freedoms and values of this country as we know it. We have no shortage of labour, we have a shortage of people capable of and desiring to actually work. THOSE are what we need to have as immigrants - not what we are getting.

Any single large forest fire, and any single large volcanic eruption spew out far more GG than any anthropomorphic contribution. I suppose the tree huggers are now going to blame people for causing forest fires (no kidding, they don't realize that coniferous forests HAVE to burn to survive) and hydraulic frac'ing of hydrocarbon reservoirs are causing volcanic activity - and they will no doubt get some moron bureaucrat to fund a study that says so).

But, we ARE nature, as you point out. We are just another animal that does what our brain works out for us to do to survive in a way that same brain has evolved to picture as survival. I we had some sort of collective intelligence that was objective, we never would have allowed population growth to the point where those "survivalistic" behaviours could be come threatening to our survival. The natural evolution is that the short sighted, conscious things we do will ultimately correct the population of this species to a sustainable level, or just wipe us out. The bacteria and many insects will survive, and the whole thing will start over again. Further: we choose to ignore Mamma N's own contribution to where we are in the ebb and flow of the carbon cycle. One single large forest fire, or one major volcanic eruption puts out more greenhouse gasses that YEARS of anthropomorphic contributions. Even further from our myopic view is the celestial contribution to our energy balance - that is reflected in very long term climatic (not climactic!) cycles. We are moving out of an arm of the Milky Way and those subtle emissions play into our little chunk of the Universe. So, what I am saying is that "climate science" such as it is seems to have a very short veiwpoint more tied to the next paycheque, publication or funding campaign than any purely objective exercise in scientific pursuit.

Why would we see this idiotic need to "grow"???????? And, if we are going to grow, why would we want to import the problems of the worst trouble spots in the world to do so???? Yes, we SHOULD be directing immigration North - to the other side of the pole. Russia has lots of room for the refugees they displace with their "foreign policies". Now, I am NOT against immigration, I just think the 100% requirement would be that all qualified immigrants be wealthy, healthy, atheistic scientists.

I am old enough to recall my parents (who lived on Niagara peninsula then) travelling, shopping and working freely on both sides of the border, so there is a precedent. But, in today's world, you have identified the real issue: we would be flooded by sick care refugees - the ones who are NOT adequately covered (and Obamacare is considered a joke by most). Once the Yanks realize that health care and sick care are a social service, not a business, and people get genuinely universal insurance THEN what you propose is IMHO quite workable (pun intended).

Chinese hacking is NOT the kid next door playing games, it is a national strategy used by (mostly Red Army) professionals to gather information for analysts to use for military, diplomatic, political but mostly ECONOMIC advantage.