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Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world. This is happening all across Canada's lakes and rivers.

If you were concerned about children getting raped, you wouldn't support a government actually changed legislation intentionally to let child rapists and pedos out on the streets. AND. You have been very vocal that those of us who don't support a government that does that are loonies, extremists and radicals.

If a country wants to virtue-signal by taking in mainly disabled & mentally ill refugees and elderly people and people from low-trust countries where scamming and theft is viewed as the clever way to survive, that's fine. But don't try to pass it off as an economic plan.

Population growth is the most over-rated economic plan in the world. A country can thrive with a stable or even a declining population, if the underlying foundations are good. You just need good human capital and reasonable laws. "The good life" is not just rampant growth aggregates, people care about quality of life and the lifestyle they get to have. Mass immigration has been happening for a couple decades now, Europe is quite ahead of us there. Can you name one country that has ever mass immigrated its way to prosperity? 66% of recipients of Burgergeld (Welfare) in Germany are immigrants. Part of the UK are now poorer than Lithuania or Slovenia. Only 20% of Muslims in the Uk are in full-time employment. I recall Denmark doing a study that tracked (I think) 350 Palestinian men that arrived in the 90's. In 2019, 55% of them were still on welfare, and so were 37% of their children. Total cost to citizens was like $1 million per man. In Sweden, only a fraction of refugees get jobs. Nothing wrong with immigration, per se. But it has to be good, productive, growth-driving, attracting the best & brightest, most hard-working ones to benefit a nation. That is not what's happening. A wealthy, happy population makes more babies. 👶 🍼

These ones released on bail today.

Immigration minister finally admits that they brought in far too many for far too long and that it did, indeed, affect our housing, infrastructure and health services. They've spent the last 5 years convincing their voter base that that Conservatives pointing this out, are racist, Nazi pigs. That's why folks like eyeball think the Conservatives are racist, Nazi pigs, playing to their racist, Nazi pig base. But it turns out, the racist, Nazi pigs were right all along. This will not change eyeball's mind. He is hard-wired now. The lie is his reality and there's no changing it.

But we are #1 in the world for the last 11 years at funding transgender rice and bean farmers all over the world and that's far more important. Why can't you appreciate all the things the Liberals have done for you? Is it because you are a racist?

I'll be praying for your son's safety.

@Army Guy This was the second video Northern Perspective did for the young man. Made me cry 😭

But not when it's Liberal biased. If any of that were true, you'd vote against Liberal policies. But you don't.

OK. I see now you are one of *those* Liberal supporters. It doesn't matter how much they f*&k everything up, you will defend them to the death. You agree with letting rapists and pedos loose on our streets. You want higher & higher taxes, more & more immigration, no industry in Canada. Got it.

OK.

eyeball: "I'm against lobbying but I'm always going to vote for the party that allows lobbying and never for the party that says they will do away with it when they are in power." 🙄

They all meet with lobbyists, but Pierre says he has no use for them and if he was in power, he'd make them lobby citizens directly. They would have to explain to taxpayers why they need bailouts and tax breaks. I'm not surprised you have no problem with Liberals meeting with lobbyists and that Liberals cater to them constantly. They are the main party that caters to the business cartels in Canada. You always have totally different standards for Conservatives and those standards go right out the window when it comes to the Libs.

I didn't know much either until recently with all this trade stuff going on. Canada lost the Chobani yogurt business because of the dairy cartel. And Chobani is currently expanding its facilities and adding another 1000 employees. In the US. They buy a large portion of milk produced in New Jersey, as well. There are basically 5 cartels in Canada and much of our economy is based on keeping them happy, which I agree with to an extent. Here's a brief overview by Cosmin Dzsurdzsa that I posted here somewhere recently. It's worth a boo. Canada as a nation is not particularly difficult to understand if you spend even a small amount of time thinking about how the system actually operates and I think the Americans are starting to catch on. It goes like this: Canadian governments exist, to varying degrees, largely as protectionist rackets with the sole purpose of preserving a series of entrenched industry monopolies and cartels. These cartels are largely dominated by a small number of old, moneyed family dynasties (the Rogers and Shaws in telecommunications, the Irvings in oil and shipbuilding, the Westons in food retail, and many others). For simplicity’s sake, I’ll refer to these powerful, dynamic industry groups as “The Cartels” going forward. This is the basic operating theory of Canadian politics. Once you understand it, almost everything else begins to make sense. Nearly every sticking point in Canada’s ongoing USMCA trade disputes with the United States can be understood through this lens (more on that shortly). First, it’s worth exploring the broader implications of this operating theory. The implication is that virtually every piece of legislation, every policy choice made by the government-of-the-day, and every trade relationship is viewed internally as a zero-sum game: net gains or net losses for The Cartels. The public interest is often secondary and incidental. Canadian governments win or lose elections and sometimes tear themselves apart based on how well they balance the sometimes competing interests of The Cartels. Some of The Cartels are more closely aligned with Conservative governments, others with Liberal ones. But the most powerful and deeply entrenched of The Cartels almost always emerge unscathed, regardless of which party is in power. By far, the Liberal party, often self-indulgently described by Canada’s Laurentian elites as the country’s “natural governing party” has proven the most adept at protecting cartel interests. The Liberals excel at this game because they understand how to obscure the underlying reality: that laws and decisions are made primarily to protect monopolies, by wrapping those decisions in branding that appeals to Canadian identity, culture, sentimentality, or phoney nationalism. Take dairy as a clear example. For those unaware, dairy and other agricultural goods in Canada are determined by a supply management system, essentially a central planning system where bureaucrats determine quotas, supply and dictate pricing. Supply management has been a persistent flashpoint in USMCA negotiations. U.S. President Donald Trump has personally called out Canada’s "250% tax" on dairy products, and American negotiators have repeatedly pushed to put dairy access on the table, much to Ottawa’s chagrin. Why won’t Ottawa budge? The answer is simple: the dairy cartel. Within Canada, and especially within Conservative circles, much has already been said about the outsized political influence of the dairy cartel across both major federal parties. Anyone who witnessed the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership race will quickly see how radioactive this issue became (but that is a separate can of worms best left unopened here). What matters is that the dairy cartel is not merely influential; it is legally entrenched. Entire statutory frameworks and government bodies exist, namely the Farm Products Agencies Act and the Canadian Dairy Commission, solely to serve their interests. This is cartel behaviour, formalized by law. Now consider the Digital Services Act. As recently as yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick explicitly raised this issue while speaking at the World Economic Forum, calling out Canada’s insistence on taxing U.S. digital products. What’s notable is that opposition to Canada’s digital taxes has been bipartisan in the United States. Even the former U.S. trade representative under Democratic President Joe Biden, Katherine Tai, expressed frustration with Ottawa’s approach and requested dispute settlement over this issue. On this particular tax, Canada has retreated and recently rescinded the tax. But the question remains: why did Canada fight tooth and nail under threat of tariffs and consequences to preserve this tax? Because of the media and telecommunications cartel. The Digital Services Act is only one iteration of an entire web of legislation and trade policy designed to preserve the media/telecoms cartel. The Digital Services Act, the Online Streaming Act, and the Online News Act are all part of the same architecture. These laws are the reason Canadians can no longer access news on Facebook to this day. The media/telecom cartel, organized through lobbying groups such as News Media Canada, successfully pushed these measures through under the guise of fairness and cultural protection. But the underlying reason is far less flattering: Canada’s legacy media sector cannot compete with American firms due to chronic deficiencies in talent, innovation, scale, and human capital. Without protection, subsidization, and forced revenue transfers, the system collapses. The reason I highlight dairy and media/telecom specifically is not only because they are central to Canada’s trade disputes with the United States, but because they illustrate how effectively the Canadian government has sold these protectionist regimes to voters. Supply management is framed as a patriotic necessity. Canadians are told that dairy farmers must dump millions of litres of milk down the drain each year to meet quota targets because Canadian dairy is inherently superior to American dairy. Media subsidies and telecom monopolies are justified as essential to preserving culture, heritage, and a disingenuous "Canadian nationalism." Any appeal to preserving Canadian sovereignty should at this point be considered an appeal to preserving the system of The Cartel I have just laid out for you. These narratives work. They ensured compliance. And it certainly helps that Canada’s media ecosystem itself is thoroughly monopolized (a point I have addressed at length elsewhere ). So you see, the system is actually quite simple. The same logic applies to many of Canada’s most questionable laws and trade practices. And to return to my original point: I think Americans are beginning to understand this faster than Ottawa likes to think. For years, Canada’s Laurentian elite appeared to believe they had successfully hoodwinked their American “partners”, that the U.S. was asleep at the wheel while Canada quietly enriched The Cartels and hardened their monopolies, all with a sense of duper's delight. Unfortunately for them, the giant is awake and it’s not falling for the tricks anymore.

I don't know if you saw my post about Chobani yogurt, but protecting these business cartels works against Canadian citizens and our economy. Both parties have catered to them and introduced legislation that benefits them and is a detriment to citizens. I, for one, don't like that we likely will not get a trade deal with the US so billionaires can get richer. Carney clearly does not have the cojones to stand up to them, so I doubt he has the cojones to stand up to Trump or anybody else. He will not be doing what is best for Canadians.

It's more of an issue for you, not me. He's been clear on how he feels about lobbyists and what he would do with them if he was in power. He never said he wouldn't meet with them, he just said it wouldn't do any good.

I think it's even in the rules for the forum that it's YOU that has to provide cites for your statements and cites to back up your opinion. What he said - repeatedly - during the election campaign, is that lobbyists were welcome to speak to him, but that he would be telling them it wouldn't do them any good - they had to plea their own cases directly to the public and convince the public. Since you've apparently been in these meetings between Poilievre and lobbyists, why don't you share what is being said by him? As usual, you hold Poilievre to a higher standard than any Liberal, including Carney. Shouldn't it be the PM who sets the example for everybody else? Again - he has said lobbyists are welcome to speak to him, but they have to plead their own cases to the public. So, again - tell us what is being said in those meetings. You insist you know exactly what's going on. So.....tell us.

Carney has said a few times that there would be no compromises made involving the dairy industry.

I work with someone who only has permanent residency. She received a voting card last election and voted.

They are bringing in 2 million Liberal voters a year and they just introduced legislation that would allow people who live in OTHER countries, who only have a loose association with Canada through a relative, to vote. They also get all the financial benefits of being a "citizen" without ever having been here or paying into the system. All of these people are going to vote Liberal, from far off lands, to keep and get MORE benefits, which the Liberals will continue to increase. It's a vicious cycle. There is zero chance of anything other than a Liberal government, ever. Very soon, it won't be Canadians electing our government. It will be foreigners voting to get money and benefits. It's not sustainable, but people like you won't stop voting for it, so.......nothing but tax & spend, immigration fanatics forever.

I answered this already. I'm getting really tired of you just saying things with no cites. But in this case, ti doesn't really matter, since he holds no power to change the system. I answered this already. He is not in power. He's stuck with a system he has no power over. He says that if he was PM, he would make lobbyists plead their cases directly to the people. He spoke on this many times. I don't think it's fair to hold him accountable for things he promised to do when he gets to be PM, at a time when he does not have the power to change anything. If he ever gets elected as PM, if he does not do what he promised to do, I will be holding him to account the same as I hold the Liberals to account. For now, he doesn't have the power to change the system.

There will never be another government in Canada other than Liberal. Mark my words.

Ooooooh, damn. You're on to me.