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Pierre Poilievre explains what the problem is causing the housing crisis and how the Conservatives would deal with it. Quite an informative video. Reportedly approaching 4 million views already. To view, scroll down the screen to the X Video showing Trudeau on a red background and click on that screen. HOUSING HELL: Poilievre lays blame on Trudeau for housing crisis in short doc (msn.com)

The truth is the Palestinian children and young people are taught to hate Israel and the Jews from day one. That is just the way they grow up. There are some Palestinians that work in Israel and have realized that hate is a fruitless path but they do not control the majority living in the West Bank, Gaza, and elsewhere in the middle east. Since there is nothing that anyone can do to change that, things will just continue the way they are indefinitely.

Melanie Joly, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was on the news this morning again touting a "two-state" solution for Israel and the Palestinians. It is clear she has no idea of what the causes of the conflict are. A so-called two-state solution would not work for several reasons. 1. The Arabs (or many of them) have absolutely no inclination to give up their belief that Israel has no right to exist and their desire to destroy Israel. This struggle has been going on for centuries and is not going to disappear by simply carving up Israel and giving the Palestinians half of the land. 2. Cutting out half of the land of Israel would seriously threaten its security and ability to defend itself. So as far as Israel is concerned they will never allow it to happen. They are in the best position to see how determined Iran and the terrorist organizations are determined to eliminate them. So it is a waste of breath for the Minister of Foreign Affairs to keep harping on that line. We know it obviously sounds good to simpletons and therefore plays well to the base. But it is totally unrealistic.

I can tell you the DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) ideology and policies are having a devastating effect on many Canadians. These policies are resulting in people who are unable to speak English being put into positions that seriously and negatively affect Canadians. Yet they are there trying to provide services to the public. I ran into two of them lately. One was in a critical position in the health care system. One of them phoned me to discuss serious health care issues. Unfortunately for me I could barely understand a word that was said. The second serious incident happened today when I phoned the Walmart support number to find out why I had been double-billed for a load of groceries. I could barely understand a single word. It was very frustrating and we both struggled for quite a while to finally get to the answer. In both cases their accents were strongly east Indian or from that area of the world. These people are being put in key positions regardless of their lack of ability to communicate with the population of Canada. It appears the ability to communicate with the people they are supposed to be serving is a very low priority. What is important is giving the appearance of implementing DEI. Of course in Jagmeet Singh's case, the problem is not lack of ability to speak English. The problem is his ideology is completely alien and screwed up. There is nothing rational about someone who rejects free enterprise in the west and embraces Socialist authoritarian types of government.

Your comments make little sense. Did you read it over before you posted it? The first paragraph makes absolutely no sense and seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with my comment. Not sure what you're trying to say there. Don't know what natives have to do with blasphemy. In the second paragraph, are you complaining about authoritarianism? Not sure where in my post authoritarianism comes into it. Don't think banning blasphemy is authoritarian or unreasonable. What is unreasonable is course loud mouth reprobates that go around cursing and blaspheming and spitting on the street. These people should be in a mental institution. Obviously they were never taught anything. You know in the Old Testament blasphemy was considered a serious crime. "To blaspheme is to speak with contempt about God or to be defiantly irreverent. Blasphemy is verbal or written reproach of God’s name, character, work, or attributes. Blasphemy was a serious crime in the law God gave to Moses. The Israelites were to worship and obey God. In Leviticus 24:10–16, a man blasphemed the name of God. To the Hebrews, a name wasn’t just a convenient label. It was a symbolic representation of a person’s character. The man in Leviticus who blasphemed God’s name was stoned to death." What is blasphemy? What does it mean to blaspheme? | GotQuestions.org "The “supremacy of God” is a section in the Constitution of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedom. The phrase in the charter states, “Canada is grounded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God”. Therefore blasphemy is an insult to God and country since the country is theoretically governed by the Constitution and the Charter which specifically state that the said Charter recognizes the supremacy of God. There it is in black and white. Contrary to what multiculturalists and ecumenical people of various religions say, the God mentioned in the Charter can only be referring to the God of Christianity and the Bible because there is no other God. No politician or judge has the power to change the fact that there is only one God, the God who inspired the Bible, in English, the King James Bible of 1611.

The so-called rebate for carbon tax paid is not actually a rebate because it does not compensate fully those who paid the carbon tax. Carbon taxes are charged to those who use natural gas for heating and run private or commercial motor vehicles. The rebate has nothing to do with how much anyone paid in carbon taxes. The rebates go to those in the lowest income brackets whether they paid any carbon taxes or not. It is not related to how much carbon taxes they paid. So it is a redistribution of income scheme. It also doesn't matter how much one receives for income. One could be on a pension and still pay relatively high carbon taxes if he has a natural gas heating system which requires a lot of natural gas and if he is living in a remote place and is required to drive great distances. Also, if one drives a truck and it uses a lot of fuel in a business such as transport, he will pay a lot of carbon taxes in the fuel. I am not aware of anything in the rebate system that considers when a person uses a vehicle for business and is required to use a lot of fuel. The only thing that might compensate for that slightly is the reduction in taxable income for business expenses. But that is not going to compensate much for the high cost of carbon taxes.

Depends whether you believe in any kind of morality or moral compass, including some respect for your fellow man.

Why should Canadians be subject to Marxist intervention and control of everything in society, what we read, what we see on television, what we are taught, what we hear on media? We need to dump the politicians that promote and support interventionist, Marxist, control.

We need to defend real freedoms. That includes freedom of speech that is rational. Opposition to government overreach is rational speech for example. We live in a time where Marxism and Romanism and progressive ideology are a threat to our freedom. "In our twentieth century America few among us seem to realize what a priceless heritage we possess in the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of assembly that is an integral part of our everyday life. Nor are many aware of the bitter and prolonged struggles our forefathers went through at the time of the Reformation and later to secure these freedoms. Instead it is quite the common thing to take these for granted and to assume that they are the natural rights of all men. " from the book Roman Catholicism Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive In your opposition to Judeo-Christian civilization and culture you should consider the alternatives are likely Communism and/or Romanism or a mixture. Don't forget especially that it was the believers in the Bible that brought the Reformation 500 years ago that resulted in your fundamental freedoms such as freedom of speech and beliefs. The population of Europe went through a hundred years of wars to win you the freedoms you have today and a large portion of the population in Europe died for that.

No. Blasphemy is a different category. It is offensive to millions of people. It has no place in public places where children and adults with some sense of decency go. Blasphemy should not be considered as ordinary speech or opinion for the same reason threats should not be considered as acceptable speech.

Marxist-leaning politicians do it because they can. Canada is becoming more interventionist and authoritarian every day. What religion do you think Trudeau etc. are most connected with besides Karl Marx's religion. Loraine Boettner warned about this in his book Roman Catholicism over sixty years ago. Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive One would think after a thousand years of tyrannical rule by Rome over the population until the Reformation around the 1500s, that people would wake up. Apparently not. We are going backward.

Criminalizing speech is a part of Communist and Romanist ideology. Careful what you say in China or other Communist countries. Seems that Canada is moving in that direction. Loraine Boettner wrote over sixty years ago: "Our American freedoms are being threatened today by two totalitarian systems, Communism and Roman Catholicism. And of the two in our country Romanism is growing faster than is Communism and is the more dangerous since it covers its real nature with a cloak of religion. " Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

"Our American freedoms are being threatened today by two totalitarian systems, Communism and Roman Catholicism. And of the two in our country Romanism is growing faster than is Communism and is the more dangerous since it covers its real nature with a cloak of religion. " From the book Roman Catholicism by Loraine Boettner (copyright 1962). May read online at: Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Are you a non-practicing Catholic by any chance? It appears apparent the Catholic church is divided. You have many Catholics such as much of the Liberal government including Trudeau who are Catholic yet support LGBT, same-sex marriage, etc. progressive ideology. Then you have other Catholics like the poster you are talking to who support more traditional Catholic teachings. There is a major divide within the Catholic church itself. I would guess many of the progressive Catholics are non-practicing and rarely go to the Catholic church. Many politicians I believe are like that. The only time they go is for weddings and funerals. Some may go infrequently and are somewhere in between.

I am not sure if you understand the significance of the Reformation and how it brought much of the west out of tyranny. The importance of the Reformation cannot be overstated. Here is a brief quote on what things were like in the west before the Reformation that should give you an idea of how it was. Most people have no idea how things were for over a thousand years prior to the Reformation. quote For more than a thousand years before the Reformation the popes had controlled Europe and had said that there was only one way to worship God. That period is appropriately known as the “Dark Ages.” In the church and, to a considerable extent, in the state, too, the priests held the power. They suppressed the laity until practically all their rights were taken away. They constantly pried into private affairs, interfering even between husband and wife and between parents and children by means of the confessional. All marriage was in their hands. They interfered in the administration of public affairs, in the proceedings of the courts, and in the disposition of estates. The revenues of the state built new churches and paid the salaries of the priests in much the same manner as in present day Spain. Anyone who dared resist ran the risk of losing his job, his property, and even his life. Life under such tyranny was intolerable. From that condition the Reformation brought deliverance. unquote from the book Roman Catholicism by Loraine Boettner (copyright 1962) You may read the whole book for free on the internet at the following website (archive.org) if so inclined: Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

I understand what you're saying about trustees that are not supporting Catholic doctrine. I can understand how that would be a problem for the Catholic church, particularly for those Catholics who hold to traditional Catholic teaching. They would feel a sense of despair and being cheated out of what they believed the Catholic school was supposed to be standing for. As to how to worship God and how Catholic theology fits in with the Bible and Biblical truth and how it compares with Protestant understanding of the Bible, there is an extremely good book you may consider. It is called Roman Catholicism by Loraine Boettner. It is available for free to read online at the archive.org website. It says in part of the introduction: quote The basic features of Protestant belief therefore are: The supremacy of the Bible in all matters of faith and practice. Justification by faith, not by works, although works have their necessary and logical place as the fruits and proof of true faith. The right of the individual to go directly to God in prayer apart from the mediation of any priest or other human intermediary. Individual freedom of conscience and worship, within the authority of the Bible. For more than a thousand years before the Reformation the popes had controlled Europe and had said that there was only one way to worship God. That period is appropriately known as the “Dark Ages.” In the church and, to a considerable extent, in the state, too, the priests held the power. They suppressed the laity until practically all their rights were taken away. They constantly pried into private affairs, interfering even between husband and wife and between parents and children by means of the confessional. All marriage was in their hands. They interfered in the administration of public affairs, in the proceedings of the courts, and in the disposition of estates. The revenues of the state built new churches and paid the salaries of the priests in much the same manner as in present day Spain. Anyone who dared resist ran the risk of losing his job, his property, and even his life. Life under such tyranny was intolerable. From that condition the Reformation brought deliverance. unquote Roman Catholicism : Loraine Boettner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive I was very pleased to come across the archive.org website because they have many books that would otherwise be very expensive to purchase, but you may read them for free or a donation to the website. I just add that the book was copyright in 1962 and therefore I am not sure if the situation in Spain is the same today. The relationship between the Catholic church and the Spanish government may have changed in some ways in the last sixty or so years. I don't know. Just an added note. I just read that Spain has become secular to some degree, but the Catholic church still has an enormous power and influence in the government, legal system, etc.

The reason I thought you meant Reformation is that the Reformation occurred about 500 years ago and was a major change in society in Europe that is well known by many people. It was considered started by Martin Luther in 1517 when he nailed his 95 theses onto the church door at Wittenberg as you probably know, although there were other church leaders involved in different countries in Europe. I am not familiar with the term Restoration. I suppose the term Restoration refers to the non-religious changes that took place in those centuries that you referred to. Fair enough. I was thinking of the religious or theological changes but agree with you there were major changes in many fields. It did sound like you are saying that the poor morality contributed to the changes in science, mathematics, etc. Poor morality has always existed through all ages and may be worse today as we appear to be living in the last days or end times. One of the signs of living in the end times is worsening morality. quote What has convinced these theologians and pastors that the end times could be ramping up? That’s a question I covered in-depth in my book, “The Armageddon Code,” through interviews with about 20 of the most prevalent eschatology experts. Many of these theologians and pastors told me that sweeping moral decay, biblical disconnectedness, and ongoing violence in the Middle East are just a few of the prophetic markers they believe were foretold thousands of years ago in both the Old and New Testaments. unquote 5 Reasons Many Christians Believe End Times Are Upon Us — and Israel Plays Major Role – Faithwire

I'm sure you mean Reformation. Yes, I agree there were great advances in science, mathematics, physics, biology, etc. Sadly there was also the Hundred Years War after or as a result of the Reformation during the 1600s. The reason was of course the followers of Rome were still attempting to keep control of those areas and countries that broke away from Rome and became Lutheran, Reformed, and others. Rome was not willing to accept the new order peacefully. Germany lost a large part of their population in the wars. Then other wars occurred through the last 500 years right up to the present. Parliamentary democracy was born through this period. We now know the population paid a heavy price for the transition from the totalitarian rule from Rome to independent democratic states. The number of people killed in wars in Europe alone is staggering. But this is a result of the Fall of man as I said.

Some native Indian band up around Pemberton shut down a provincial park for a number of days, which they claim is within their traditional territory and the B.C. government allowed them to do so. Nobody was allowed to use the park and campsites. I doubt that the Indian band had any legal right to shut it down or any law that gave them such a right. How do you explain that? Natives don't always need a written legal paper in B.C. They can sometimes do what ever they want and the government bows to them. When natives blocked railways a few years ago in different places in Canada, the government often did nothing about it. They were not stopped, removed, or punished. They have far more power than non-natives. If you or I tried that, we would be arrested right away.

" I love Catholic people, which is why I expose the manmade religion of Catholicism that keeps them in spiritual bondage. In the article I quoted to you earlier, we read that "Jessie Carbullido, also a confirmation student, was enlightened by the spirituality of the celebration." Jessie may have been enlightened by the "spirituality of the celebration"; but was it Biblical enlightenment? The term "spirituality" can be a dangerous term if it's not rooted in the Word of God. We hear much about "spirituality" from the heathen world today, including from unsaved New Agers like Oprah Winfrey, demonic psychics like James Van Praagh and John Edward, and from apostate, feminist, lesbian, abortionist women preachers like Carter Heyward. Spirituality is demonic Jessie if it's not based upon the Bible. Catholicism is a prisonhouse of religion. Jesus said in Mark 7:9,13... "Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition ... Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye." How much clearer could the Word of God be? We read in Romans 10:3,4 concerning the Catholic Church... "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." Salvation is not found in ANY religion; but rather, in a Person—The precious Lord Jesus Christ! unquote

I love Catholics and 55 years ago, when I was a Catholic, I had a priest who stayed at our house on weekends when he came to the village for mass. Once he brought the Bishop who also stay at our house overnight and ate with us. But when I heard the real gospel in 1980 over the radio from the preaching of the Free Presbyterian Church, God opened my eyes and by his grace, He converted me to Jesus Christ. The progam was called Let The Bible Speak. You can Google it I think and watch gospel messages on the internet. But Catholics need to be warned they are following a false religion. This is from: Catholics Admit Sinfully Worshipping Statues! (jesus-is-savior.com) To see the whole article click on the link given here. quote Catholics Admit Sinfully Worshipping Statues! By David J. Stewart The following article is quoted from the Pacific Daily News, originally published on January 16, 2008: Tumon honors San Vitores By David Mercado | For Central Weekly The Blessed Diego de San Vitores Church in Tumon was filled with the presence of dozens of devotees as they celebrated the annual village fiesta Saturday. A Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Anthony Apuron, signaled the opening of this celebration with a veneration of the statue of Blessed Diego. Filled with silence, the people commemorated their saint through prayer... Jessie Carbullido, also a confirmation student, was enlightened by the spirituality of the celebration. [emphasis added] Did you read that? ... "VENERATION OF THE STATUE"!!! In the photo above, Archbishop Anthony Apuron venerates the statue of Blessed Diego during the Tumon fiesta Mass. Oh, how blinded are the eyes of Catholics! They openly admit to venerating (i.e., worshipping statues) which is a violation of the 2nd Commandment (see Exodus 20:4,5). Idolatry! I'm tired of meeting Catholics who defend their false religion, by claiming that they "don't" worship statues. Well, here it is in plain incontrovertible view. The Bible, including the Catholic Douay Bible, condemns idol worship. I scanned the newspaper clipping below from the January 14th, 2008, Pacific Daily News:

You are straying from the truth. It would be pointless for me to try dissect every detail you raised because I'm sure you would find a counter argument. An artist producing a work of art such as Michelangelo does not negate the horrors of warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed you mentioned. Similarly, the good things that Canada may have contributed to the world do not negate the negative things that happened to millions of people in Canada. There are countless problems that millions of people have had or are experiencing. None of this would have happened if mankind had not rebelled against God in the first place.

Guess this is the enemy of mankind in your mind.

Did you know that Genesis ch1-3 in the King James Bible gives the real cause of the fall of mankind. Here is a fairly complete article on it: quote The fall of man occurred sometime after God created the world and after Satan’s rebellion in heaven. We find the biblical account of creation and the fall of man in Genesis 1–3. According to the book of Genesis, God spoke everything into existence: sky, planets, seas, vegetation, animals, and everything else. He pronounced it all “good” (Genesis 1:25). But when God made man, He got down in the dirt and formed the shape of a human body from the clay (Genesis 2:7). Then He breathed His own life into the man’s nostrils, and “man became a living soul.” He called the man “Adam.” The man had a life that differed from the plant and animal life. He had been created in God’s own image (Genesis 1:27), which means that he possessed an everlasting spirit, such as God has. He was designed to be like God, fellowship with God, reason like God, and enjoy God forever. So God placed Adam in a garden designed specifically for him (Genesis 2:8). In these perfect surroundings, God walked and talked with the man, enjoying the creation He had made and Adam’s pleasure in it (Genesis 2:19–20; 3:8). Because God did not want the man to be alone, He fashioned a woman, Eve, from one of Adam’s ribs. He gave them everything in the garden to enjoy except for the fruit from one tree (Genesis 2:16–17). God told them that, if they ate fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die. Genesis 3 introduces us to another being involved in the fall of man: the serpent. Satan had already been cast down to earth due to his rebellion against God in heaven (Luke 10:18). Satan came to Eve as a serpent and suggested to the woman that God had not really forbidden the fruit for her good but was rather keeping good from her (Genesis 3:1–4). So she ate it and gave some to Adam (Genesis 3:5). Adam also ate it, and in that moment everything changed. Sin had entered into God’s perfect world (Romans 5:12). Mankind had fallen. The fall of man was caused by Adam’s sin. Sin is any human behavior, word, or thought that is contrary to the perfection of God. Because of Adam’s sin, God placed a curse upon the world, the people, the animals, the plants, and the very ground (Genesis 3:14–19). Their sin had brought upon them the judgment of God, and the only just punishment for such high treason is eternal death (Romans 6:23). But God then put into play a system by which human beings could find pardon for sin. God killed an animal and made garments for the man and woman to cover the nakedness that now brought them shame (Genesis 3:21). In doing so, God painted a picture of what He would do thousands of years later when the Perfect Lamb was slain to take away our sin (John 1:29; Revelation 13:8). After the fall of man, God drove Adam and Eve out of the garden and placed a cherub to guard the entrance. This was so that Adam and Eve could not return and possibly eat from the tree of life and live forever in their cursed state (Genesis 3:23–24). They were forced to find their own food and shelter. Adam had to fight weeds and thistles to eke out an existence from the ground, while Eve had to suffer in childbirth. Suffering and toil are part of the curse God put upon this world because of sin. We call this episode in human history the fall of man because, in that act of disobedience, Adam brought a curse upon every person yet to be born. The man who was designed to walk with God in unbroken fellowship had fallen from that exalted position. He was doomed to live in a broken state, in a broken world, apart from ongoing communion with a holy God. God promised that the Seed of the woman would one day save them from the eternal consequences of their sin (Genesis 3:15), but the temporary earthly consequences of sin remained. We all suffer the consequences of the fall of man. Our salvation is in calling upon the name of the Lord and trusting in Jesus’ perfect sacrifice for our sin (Romans 5:10–11; 2 Corinthians 5:18). The world groans under the curse, crying out for the relief that will come at the ultimate redemption of God’s people when Christ returns (Romans 8:22–23). When Jesus comes for all those who have trusted in Him, God will restore all things (Acts 3:21). He will create a new heaven and a new earth to replace that which sin destroyed (Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:12–13; Revelation 21:1). Mankind will no longer be “fallen” but restored and redeemed by the blood of the Lamb of God (Revelation 7:14). unquote What truly happened at the fall of man? | GotQuestions.org So we can take a couple basic facts from this: 1. Man in an act of disobedience brought a curse upon every person yet to be born. 2. The rebellion of Lucifer (who became Satan) in heaven and his being kicked out of heaven along with one third of the angels was the beginning of his influence on mankiind. 3. God's plan to counter this was the sending of His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth to die on a cross and shed his blood for the sins of mankind. This being demonstrated in the gospels as the way of redemption and salvation for lost sinners. 4. "13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. " Matthew 7:13, 14 KJV