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This thread is about the death penalty in the US, not propaganda.

I guess First Nations have a bigger back yard.

I guess those jokes must have made Trump a little whiny once again. His chief of staff is now talking about "taking a look" at the !st amendment. Can you spell narcissist?

Explanation: you'd expect compensation if they dug a furrow through your backyard.

So I see Trump skips out of the WH correspondents dinner, the first since Ronald Reagan who was recovering from a gunshot wound, but still had the guts to phone in. I guess Trump needed to run away to go tell his supporters the stories he knows they want to hear about all the tings he has "accomplished" in his first 100 days. I wonder if it was just by chance that the headliner at the dinner was a comedian who is also a Muslim. He did get some bigly laugh.

I understand why i'm this case the process didn't work. The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned approval of Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway project after finding Ottawa failed to properly consult the First Nations affected by the pipeline. "We find that Canada offered only a brief, hurried and inadequate opportunity … to exchange and discuss information and to dialogue," the ruling says.

How it works was Harper's arrogance and disregard for First nations got in the way to quash his project. The courts had to point that out to him.

It was arguments directly from First Nations that convinced the Federal Court to quash the attempt at a pipeline.

Perhaps you forgot that the approval Harper sought for that pipeline was quashed by the courts because he ignored various first nations stakeholders.

Trudeau is, for better or worse, pro pipeline for now, while at the same time wanting to head for a reduction in fossil fuel use. He understands the science of global warming. Trudeau took credit, if you want to call it that, for his own conversation with Trump, why should he try and take credit for Nieto's efforts? That's much more like what Trump might do/has done. Trudeau behaved like Sajjan? That's quite an obvious stretch. You really didn't try very hard.

Who are you trying to kid? Trump's little tax plan, assuming he ever actually gets anything done, will drive their deficit/debt into the ozone. A working couple will continue to pay 24% while fat cats like Trump will pay 15, and that's only on the money they don't hide offshore. If you don't like pot them don't smoke it, eat it, etc. but if you don't think people will continue to use it, legal or not, think again, but look at how various States have profited greatly from legalization and how so many more are heading toward that cash cow. Also I think if I was going to smoke, pot I'd prefer a product created under gov't supervision rather than grown in somebody's basement, just as I'd rather sip a whiskey that was not created in someone's backyard still.

Harper, for all his efforts got 0 pipeline's approved in his nearly a decade in office. The fact that both Trudeau and the other amigo phoned Trump to discuss MATO and that Trump admits those discussions swayed him, and the fact that Trudeau did not put words in Sajjan's mouth should go some way to blunt this round of your anti Trudeau rant. You'll have to try harder. A lot harder.

Sounds like you want to stop people from going to bars. That ain't going to work. I would like to hear your idea of how people become addicted.

Could it be much clearer? If you can figure out why something happens you have information that can allow you to take steps to prevent it happening.

My conclusion is even if they get this wall built, which they likely won't, it won't make much of a dent in the drug trade, too much money involved. Maybe a small one, and likely only for a time being. However even Trump supporters/farmers who live down that way who were interviewed on CNN today, and who depend of Mexican/foreign labor to get things done are already feeling the pinch because of the current turmoil. They may have to pay much more to get crops off and such so up goes the price of tomatoes. Drug addicts will get their supplies one way or another. Put the wall money into rehabilitation and prevention instead of pissing it away on a wall.

Um, apparently you forget I'm a Canadian so I don't' have to pay all those taxes covering costs death penalty appeals. I though we already covered that, speak of waking up and smelling the coffee!

Conservatives would prefer to abandon the poor and destitute. Let me guess, are you a Breitbart fan?

Got off what? Was he ever charged?

not a deduction by me it seemed I needed to point out that a tradesman for instance, is not stupid, but may not have the knowledge of how the legal system works, or how inefficient as well as expensive capital punishment has been proven to be.

Perhaps the math escapes you. Try to consider the cost of all the lawyering that must be spent throughout the appeals process.

Stupid and ignorant are not the same.

I care because I am a Canadian, and, apparently unlike you, I know exactly why I put my X where I do. And I don't really see this "mess" you speak of. I have been to a lot of countries that are a hell of a lot messier. You apparently have't been far from home and don't know how good you have it.

Your second paragraph is complete foolishness, but I have no idea what political affiliation to ascribe it. Certainly sounds right wing extreme but whatever. Did you read the article MH provided you btw. It give you a good insight into the basic misappropriation of taxpayer funds the death penalty amounts to over what I assume must be either a religious affiliation or just some redneck reaction. But look at the numbers provided there and figure out how much money we have saved since 1961, compared to what the US has wasted.

Certain issues do come to a referendum from time to time here but it is not an efficient way to run government. People would vote for or against this or that while not knowing what the hell the issue actually is. The death penalty issue fits that category about as solidly as amy I can think of. Cooler heads will prevail.

JT doesn't want the death penalty either, like most of the rest of us. You keep people in jail first to protect public safety, and them you look at the possibility of rehabilitation. If you think that tying a rope around someone's neck and kicking the feet out from under them is more humane, them I think you have a problem, but you are allowed your opinion. But it won't be happening here any time soon.