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You are blind or must be some kind of cult follower of Liberals. That is the only rational explanation I can see. I posted the long list of ethics scandals under Trudeau which his caucus and cabinet never opposed but continued their enthusiastic support of him. Not to mention the cost of living crisis, the housing crisis, the drug deaths, and the crime crisis under the Liberals. Thanks for all that. You are part of the problem.

After ten years of harm caused by Trudeau and the Liberals, you want a continuation of that kind of Liberal government. Sounds kind of insane. Did you read the long list of ethics violations by Trudeau in his ten years. Did you not notice the cities are full of homeless street people living in tents. Did you not notice the soft-on-crime or the Liberal's catch and release bail and parole system is causing great harm to businesses and ordinary people. People fear walking on the streets because they may be stabbed to death. A 92 year old man in downtown Vancouver was assaulted by a mob of criminals and died recently. This kind of thing is common. Liberals screwed Canada, created the housing crisis, the high cost of living, brought in a million immigrants in a couple years, made our health care system worse and squandered billions of dollars. You will get more of the same with Carney and the same old Liberals who are behind him. They are the same group that worked for Trudeau. Don't expect anything different.

So Carney says he will hire more police officers. The Liberals solution to the catch and release justice system is do next to nothing. He said nothing about fixing the bail or parole system that is allowing dangerous offenders back out on the street. The repeat offenders can just walk into stores and load up on merchandise and walk out. They don't even bother covering their faces any more because they know the consequences are nothing if they are caught. Hard to believe but some have been caught dozens and dozens of times and just released. Carney will do nothing about it. The Liberals and the Supreme Court are the two main causes of the crime problems. Liberals will not try to change or fight the Supreme Court. Perhaps the not-withstanding clause could be used or a national emergency declaration against crime. It certainly fits the definition of an emergency more than the Ottawa occupation and trucker's protest. There is a sharp contrast between Carney's solution to the crime in Canada and the Pierre Poilievre's plan to stop the crime by three strikes and you're out, stop the catch and release, and stop the easy bail and parole system.

Just saw on the news this evening the police raided a drug lab house in the greater Vancouver area and arrested two men. It appeared the men were released the same day. I thought a drug lab produces enough fentanyl to kill thousands of people. Yet the judges release these people immediately as if this were a very minor offence. In China people get capital punishment for dealing in drugs. In Canada under the Liberals, they get a slap on the wrist.

In addition to what I said above, you should realize 37,000 people donated to the Conservative Party and thousands donate to the other parties. But Elections Canada regulations state an individual can only donate a maximum of $1750 to a local candidate's election campaign. Donations are not allowed from unions or companies. So if even a group of pro-India supporters donated $1750 each, that would only amount to a few thousand dollars if it was three or four people. Every party is under the same Elections Canada rules. The Conservative Party has millions of dollars from donations. A few thousand from a particular group is insignificant. I'm sure the Sikh Khalistan supporters also donate to the Liberal party, but these groups exist and have a right to donate if they wish. But their donations are only a tiny drop in the bucket. So in the overall scheme of things, the reporting of a so-called pro-India group helping the Conservatives is a gross exaggeration and therefore a lie.

Lying? This is not "reporting on pro-India groups helping PP get elected". Did you actually read the OP? Some pro India individual made a donation to the Conservative campaign out of 37,000. This is nothing unusual. Thousands of people donate to the Liberal and NDP campaign as well.. So what? Nobody knows anything about donors unless an investigation is made somehow. I am sure if the Conservatives could investigate every donor to the NDP and Liberals they would find all kinds of questionable groups or donors behind the names. That's just how democracy works in a free country. Donors are not screened and their connections are not investigated. It would not be practical or possible to investigate every donor to a political party. But of course Liberals can hire investigators if they want to dig up some perceived faults with the opposition, but it is all just fakery. How many Sikh Khalistan separatist radicals donate and vote for the Liberals? Probably thousands.

Really? If a Prime Minister to be has a millions of dollars invested in a place like China, and it is now put in a so-called blind trust, are you saying it is "moot" or has no bearing on his job as a PM? What if he becomes PM and has to make governing decisions that could affect his investments in some particular country? "When a prime minister puts investments in a trust, it means they have to divest controlled assets by selling them or putting them into a blind trust within 120 days of taking office14. The blind trust is managed by a trustee who does not own the prime minister's assets but has the legal authority to manage and sell them3. However, some argue that a blind trust is a sham facade that does not prevent financial conflicts of interest5. How can it not be a conflict of interest if the investments are still invested in the same places they were before he put them in a so-called blind trust? If the investments are now managed by a trustee, where does it say anywhere that the investments are moved to some other country or some other type of investment? A blind trust appears to mean only that the trustee has the authority or manage and sell them. However, it does not say that the investments are moved somewhere else. For more information about this: These are the assets disclosed by Canada's party leaders, and the rules that govern them | CBC News

Since we are in an election it is wise to review the ethics violations of the previous government. This should play a major factor in helping decide who to vote for in this election. How a government performed in its previous terms is of course a major factor on whether they should deserve the right to form the next government. " RIGHT DISHONOURABLE: Scandals that defined the Trudeau era Here's a list of some of the more notable goofs, scandals and blunders that defined the Trudeau era Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s nearly decade-long time in office was defined by a regular stream of scandals, faux pas and controversies — many of which brought the PM to his knees but, against all odds, managed to maintain the confidence of his party. While this list doesn’t cover everything, here’s a sampling of some of the biggest blunders, goofs and scandals committed by the PM and his government over the past 10 years." CASH-FOR-ACCESS SCANDAL (2016) In Dec. 2016, The Globe and Mail reported pricey Liberal Party cash-for-access events held at homes of wealthy Chinese-Canadians, charging attendees as much as $1,525 each in exchange for one-on-one time with the PM. AGA KHAN AFFAIR (2016) Among the first defining scandals of Trudeau’s administration was the PM’s infamous eight-day 2016 Christmas vacation at the Aga Khan’s private island in The Bahamas. While the PMO concealed the trip from public view, the story — broken by the National Post — was later confirmed, touching off an ethics investigation that saw Trudeau become the first PM in Canadian history found guilty of ethics breaches. ELBOWGATE (2016) Trudeau’s attempt to manhandle the Conservative whip during a vote resulted in a female MP being elbowed in the chest, prompting a flurry of apologies from the PM. During an attempt to delay a third-reading vote on an assisted dying bill on May 18, 2016, Trudeau grabbed Conservative Whip Gord Brown by the arm to lead him away from MPs gathered on the floor of the House of Commons. INDIA TRIP (2018) Among the more memorable blunders from the Trudeau era was the infamous 2018 state visit to India, which saw the PM — still riding high in popularity both at home and around the world — engage in some embarrassing behaviour. Despite being invited by Indian PM Narendra Modi, Trudeau and his family were greeted at the airport by an agricultural minister. Among invitees to a state dinner during Trudeau’s visit were Sikh extremist Jaspar Atwal — one of four people convicted in a 1986 plot to murder Indian cabinet minister Malkiat Singh Sidhu. Seemingly unwilling to settle on locally-produced food, the government paid over $17,000 to fly Canadian celebrity chef Vikram Vij to India from Vancouver to prepare food for the PM and his entourage at a number of events. KOKANEE GROPE (2018) In June 2018, a screenshot of a two-decade old editorial published in a local B.C. newspaper accused Trudeau of “groping” and “inappropriately handling” a reporter sent to cover the August 2000 Kokanee Summit Festival on behalf of the National Post. The event was a fundraiser commemorating Trudeau’s brother Michel, killed by a 1998 avalanche while skiing in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. SNC LAVALIN AFFAIR (2019) Among the most notable Trudeau scandals began with a February 2019 Globe and Mail article alleging attempts to waylay prosecution in a corruption case involving Quebec-based construction giant SNC-Lavalin, now known as AtkinsRealis. That article went to print shortly after former cabinet member Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted from Justice Minister to Veteran’s Affairs after reportedly refusing requests to offer deferred prosecution to the company, sparing the firm a conviction that would ban it from bidding on government contracts for a decade. WE CHARITY SCANDAL (2020) The Trudeau government’s April 2020 decision to enlist WE — an international children’s charity founded by brothers Craig and Marc Kielburger — to operate their $912 million Canada Student Service Grant program touched off a scandal that, once again, put the PM in the middle of yet another situation involving questionable ethics. BLACKFACE (2019) A bombshell during the 2019 federal election saw Trudeau come face-to-face with allegations he’d darkened his skin to act as racist caricatures on numerous occasions. THE FREEDOM CONVOY (2022) The Trudeau government’s handling of the Freedom Convoy, one of the largest protest mobilizations in Canadian history, came under intense criticism. THE TRIPS Aside from the infamous India trip, the Trudeau era is marked with numerous questionable uses of government money and aircraft for excursions both local and abroad — including 2015’s trip to COP21, where $800,000 was spent to send 283 delegates to the Paris summit. The United States, in contrast, only sent 124 delegates. “Nothing says saving the planet like posing for pictures as you dine on the taxpayer dime in France,” the CTF’s Kris Sims told the Sun. OTHER NOTABLE SCANDALS/FAUXS PAS: 2017: Trudeau makes his infamous “Welcome to Canada” tweet, which touched off a wave of illegal entries into Canada at illegal border crossings — most notoriously at Roxham Rd. on the Quebec/New York state border 2018: Arrest and subsequent detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver airport on a U.S. extradition request, a move that would result in the summary arrest of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig by the Chinese government. They would be released after 1,019 days in detention on Sept. 24, 2021, the same day Canada released Meng from custody 2017-2021: Appointment, and subsequent resignation, of Governor General Julie Payette 2019: Vice-Adm. Mark Norman affair 2020: Bill C-11, the controversial Online Streaming Act, is tabled in the House of Commons 2020: The infamous May 2020 order-in-council summarily banning thousands of semi-automatic firearms is introduced 2020: Questionable response to COVID-19 pandemic, including bungling disbursement of support money, vaccine mandates and questionable vaccine procurement 2020: ArriveCan scandal, where an $80,000 pandemic-era travel app ballooned into costing nearly $60M, and raised questions surrounding how government contracts get handed out 2021: Gen. Jonathan Vance affair 2021: Government tables bill C-21, its far-reaching and contentious gun control legislation 2021: Trudeau and cabinet abstaining from China Uighurs genocide vote 2021: A mansion belonging to property developer Wei Wei is raided by police as part of an underground gambling investigation in July 2020. Toronto Life Magazine later revealed that Wei had attended pricey Liberal party fundraisers and posed with photos with Trudeau, and was a member of a Chinese industry delegation that had connections to million-dollar donations to the Trudeau Foundation 2022: Media reports reveal the Trudeau Liberals had paid billions in consultancy fees during their time in office, including over $110 million to McKinsey & Company 2022: The Liberals and NDP sign their infamous supply and confidence agreement that would protect the minority Liberals from being toppled by non-confidence votes. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh publicly tore up the agreement last September, but kept supporting the government 2023: Media reports uncover the scale and scope of Chinese interference in Canadian affairs, including allegations of meddling in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections and threats to Canadian politicians. The PMO was given reports from intelligence officials on the meddling as early as 2017, including warnings that candidates may be part of Chinese interference attempts, but allegedly ignored the warnings 2023: The federal government announces attempts to recoup the $112,000 anti-racism grant awarded to a group associated with activist Laith Marouf, who routinely posted antisemitic material on social media 2024: Global Affairs Canada purchases $9 million condo in Manhattan for consul general 2024: Randy Boissonnault implosion — including pandemic-era federal contracts granted to a company he co-owned, and changing stories on his supposed Indigenous background 2024: Sustainable Development Technology Canada program, better known as the “green slush fund” scandal For more details about scandals: RIGHT DISHONOURABLE: Scandals that defined the Trudeau era | Toronto Sun

Why don't we see Carney explaining where his investments are and the exact details about them? He wants to be PM. So shouldn't the people have a right to know what his conflicts of interest might be?

The federal government has the power to override the supreme court which is a bunch of Liberals. The feds could apply the not-withstanding clause to enforce the new laws. Stop the crime. If the SCC and Liberals won't do it, they should be thrown out and a government that will protect the people elected.

Announced on the news this morning, although it is not new news. This has been stated regularly: Poilievre promises to ban bail, parole and house arrest for repeat serious offenders

Why lie? There have been lots of details about solutions available on the internet and the media about what Conservatives would do if elected. " Poilievre will pass a “Three-Strikes-And-You’re-Out” law to keep dangerous criminals behind bars longer and bring home safe streets. Sault Ste. Marie, ON — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announced today that he will end the Liberal wave of violent crime by passing a Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out Law. This law will stop criminals convicted of three serious offences from getting bail, probation, parole or house arrest, and keep violent criminals behind bars longer to keep them away from their victims and off our streets. Poilievre will make sure that three-time serious criminals get a minimum prison term of 10 years and up to a life sentence. They will also be designated as Dangerous Offenders, meaning they cannot be released until they prove they are no longer a danger. The only way for these repeat serious criminals to obtain their freedom will be through spotless behaviour and clean drug tests during a lengthy minimum prison sentence, with earned release dependent on improving themselves and their life opportunities, such as by learning a trade or upgrading their education. “We will lock up the worst violent offenders longer and make sure they are not released as long as they pose a danger to our society,” said Poilievre. “Hug-a-thug, catch-and-release policies have destroyed our once-safe towns and cities. Only Conservatives will take violent crime seriously and do what it takes to get it under control.” As a result of the Lost Liberal Decade, violent crime has skyrocketed by 50 percent, while gun crime is up 116 percent. Gang homicides have soared by 78 percent, and extortion and auto theft are up 357 percent and 46 percent, respectively. We can’t afford a fourth Liberal term under a weak leader like Mark Carney, who won’t take the bold action necessary to stop the crime and chaos in our streets. This crime wave was no accident. The Liberals introduced radical catch-and-release policies like Bill C-5, which allows some of the worst offenders to serve their sentences at home, and Bill C-75, which lets rampant criminals go free within hours of their arrest. The result has been a disaster for Canadian communities. In Saskatchewan in 2022, Myles Sanderson went on a spree, killing 11 people and injuring 17 more. Sanderson was out on “statutory release” after 59 prior convictions for assault, robbery, mischief and uttering threats. FIFTY. NINE. CONVICTIONS. If he had been kept in jail where he belonged, those 11 precious Canadians would still be alive. Last year, investigators in Peel Region made 18 arrests in connection with a string of home invasions, armed robberies and carjackings, with over $1.2 million worth of stolen vehicles recovered. Of the 18, half were out on bail. In Vancouver, police had to arrest the same 40 offenders 6,000 times. And in 2022, 256 people were charged with homicide while out on release. “Not only will Common Sense Conservatives repeal the Liberal catch-and-release laws, we will carry out the biggest crackdown on crime in Canadian history,” said Pierre Poilievre. Mark Carney will keep Liberal soft-on-crime laws. As Justin Trudeau’s advisor, he supported the Liberal Party as they let crime run rampant in our streets. As Liberal leader, his first move was to appoint David Lametti–-the same minister who was responsible for Trudeau’s soft-on-crime laws–-as his senior advisor. And his hand-picked candidate in Victoria wants to “defund” and “disarm” the police. Only a new Conservative government will stop the crime, lock up dangerous criminals, and give repeat violent offenders jail, not bail. Only Conservatives will bring home safe streets for law-abiding Canadians–For a Change. Only Conservatives will put Canada First–For a Change. unquote Poilievre to Crack Down on Liberal Violent Crime Wave with ‘Three-Strikes-And-You’re-Out’ Law - Conservative Party of Canada We know Carney has said nothing about what he would do about the soft-on-crime policies and practices in the past ten years. Why is that? The answer is obvious. He won't change things. He has had lots of opportunity to tell what he would do. Other Liberal MPs are silent also and say nothing about it.

Bull. Actual cases show the depravity and blindness in not seeing the evil nature of this Liberal government and those who blindly support it.

At the time of his graduation celebrations, Jessie walked onto the property of a guy who then beat him viciously and mercilessly with a baseball bat. He now lives as almost a vegetable after suffering many pain-causing surgeries. The offender spent 33 months in jail and is now out.

Just saw on the news this evening that a man who drove his car deliberately into a home to invade their home and put a chain around the husband's neck, threatened to kill him was released by a judge with conditions after two weeks in custody. This is the kind of thing that Liberals think is fine. Catch and release dangerous offenders and put society in danger. They trust that a dangerous offender like this will follow the long list of conditions and not harm anyone else. How often have they been wrong? Countless times.

If you look at the past record of the Liberals and the Conservatives under Harper, several things stand out: 1. The Conservatives did a fairly good job handling the government budget during the recession of 2008-2010. They ran up a deficit over a number of years but the deficit was nowhere near the size of the deficits the Liberal ran up under Trudeau. Also, the Conservatives were able to get the deficits under control and by the time of the 2015 change of government, the deficit was very small or non-existent when Trudeau took over. 2. The Liberals did two things that cause concern. They increased the size of the federal civil service by a large percentage after they took power in 2015. While it is understandable that there would be a deficit in the Covid years, the deficit continued to grow quite large since Covid ended. Today the deficit is 62 billion dollars. That means a large amount of the annual budget must go to pay the interest on the national debt. This interest is about as much as the federal government spends on health care. This article describes some things about the Harper governing years with respect to government economics. " Then came the financial crisis and recession. In fiscal years 2008/09 and 2009/10, the Conservatives budgeted lower revenue and higher spending, and as the economic decline turned out worse than expected, the actual declines in revenues and increases in spending were larger than budgeted, yielding a deficit of almost $56 billion in 2009/10. The reverse was true in the recovery year of 2010/11: revenues came in ahead of, and spending below, budget. In three of the following four years as the bottom line returned to balance, this same pattern of in-year surprises in opposite directions prevailed. This pattern stands out in a good way for two reasons. Letting booms push revenue up and spending down, producing positive bottom-line results, and letting busts push revenue down and spending up, producing negative bottom-line results, is the public economics prescription for macroeconomic stabilization. The Harper Conservatives largely did that. The other reason this pattern stands out in a good way is that, while common in textbooks, it is rare in real life. Canada’s federal and provincial governments over the past 20 years have typically overshot their revenue targets, and spent most of that extra revenue as it came in (Robson and Omran 2019). The Trudeau Liberals reverted to that more common pattern. They recorded better-than-forecast revenues in each of the four fiscal years from 2015 to 2019, and overshot their projected increases in spending in three of them. One result of that overspending is that the Liberals ratcheted the size of the federal government up year by year. The superior fiscal management of the Harper Conservatives avoided that. Over the full 2006 to 2015 period, notwithstanding the spending pressures of 2008 and 2009, federal revenue and spending declined somewhat as a share of GDP. The Liberals are consistently adding to Ottawa’s accumulated deficit, despite a growing economy. If their approach had been more like that of the Harper Conservatives, Canada would have been better prepared for the fiscal impact of covid-19. " How Good Was Harper? (for Canada's Economy) – The Dorchester Review

We see Liberals promise they have the best plan to deal with the housing crisis, the Trump tariffs, and everything else. The Conservatives also promise they have the best plan to deal with each of these things. So how is the average voter supposed to know who has the best plan and who can be trusted? The answer has to be the past record of the Liberal government. They were given the mandate and privilege to govern Canada the past ten years. So it boils down to the history of what they did with the mandate they were given. They were the ones that allowed the housing crisis to happen. They created mass immigration which added to the housing crisis and health care crisis because they did not properly consider how immigration would affect the housing situation or how it would affect the other services such as health care. They also did not consider how their government regulations at all levels would be an obstacle to home building and how the costs of obtaining permits would add to the cost of home building. There are also 149,000 regulations on businesses in Canada. This creates an extreme burden and costs to investment and business. They did nothing about that either. I think they had their chance and if examined closely must be given a fail. Since politicians always promise everything under the sun, it is impossible to decide who to vote for strictly on the basis of political promises. Promises simply can't be the deciding factor. It must be based on what records of the past are available. That means there is only one party, that is, the one which has not had the chance to prove what they could do, but has a vision for the future to build a strong Canada.

After ten years of the soft-on-crime government, it appears many voters are still supporting Liberals. Obviously these people have not been personally affected and they don't have businesses that have been affected. Just on the news that six men, most or all with rifles, were recorded on a security camera arriving on a farm in Manitoba in the middle of the night. The farmer turned on his outside light and they all jumped back into their truck and took off. This could have been very serious. But there will be no consequences for this with our criminal justice system. Winnipeg apparently has the highest murder rate as well. Another young man in Kamloops was badly beaten by a guy with a baseball bat for walking on his property at the time of his graduation night. He was beaten to a vegetable state and now lives in bed requiring continuous care which his mother provides. He has suffered through many operations. Yet the offender got off with 33 months in prison and was released. A judge ordered him to sell his home and give the money to the victim and/or mother for lifetime care. So he apparently sold the house to his parents for one dollar. The victim and his mother have seen very little of the money. This kind of thing should never have happened like this. This is a failure of our justice system under the Liberals. There will be no change if Liberals continue to rule. Same old people; same old soft-on-crime attitude. Please help change this by voting for a Conservative government who will change the justice system to protect Canadians.

Are you saying there is no such thing as provincial sovereignty? You need to go back to school. Or maybe they didn't teach you much. The basic provincial jurisdiction: quote Exclusive Powers of Provincial Legislatures The exclusive powers of Provincial legislatures, enumerated in ss. 92, 92(A) and 93 of the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, concern matters of a local nature (also see notes). They include the following: Direct Taxation within Province Management/Sale of Public Lands belonging to Province Prisons Hospitals Municipalities Formalization of Marriage Property and Civil Rights Administration of Civil/Criminal Justice Education Incorporation of Companies Natural Resources Matters of a merely local or private nature unquote The constitutional distribution of legislative powers - Canada.ca

So that's your excuse for wrecking the country?

Carney is critical of Premier Danielle Smith for defending her province. Carney jokes that it's a 'bad idea' to send 'Danielle' to persuade Americans Carney and Trudeau and his minions have been trying to destroy the energy industry in Canada. They have at the same time squandered billions of dollars around the world and here in Canada for various pet projects. They don't respect provincial sovereignty in areas that should be respected like natural resources, land use, and various other things. They have created more division in Canada in the last ten years than any government in history.

Trudeau ran up the highest federal government debt in Canadian history. Multiply the figures by 1,000 to get the actual debt. It is about 1.5 trillion dollars. This is significant because interest must be paid on debt, which must come out of the annual budget. The more spent on interest payment to service the debt, the less money available for other services.

I was kind of neutral about the U.S. election. While I agreed with some things Trump advocated such as stopping all the illegal immigrants from coming in, I don't recall hearing about his plan to impose massive tariffs on his next door neighbours. So I can't agree with those who say Trump is a good choice. I think the tariff war he started with the rest of the world will be a disaster for the U.S. and the world. Nothing good will come out of it and probably a lot of harm. He claims industries are suddenly going to move to the U.S. and create jobs and wealth. I don't think that is how things work. He is cutting off the supply of low cost goods that our countries have imported from other countries. This will make life more expensive and difficult for everyone. Free trade has been a wonderful benefit for the U.S. and other countries they trade with. What a shame this is being destroyed.

I'm not sure about the either the Liberal or Conservative plan. I don't have much faith in government being involved in the land or building. Government and bureaucracy has often been very costly and inefficient. We'll see what develops.

It sounds good. But the subject is complex. The Conservatives need to produce a detailed plan. We need 5 million homes ASAP. The Liberal plan only plans for near 500,000 per year. That is not good enough and it is unlikely they will even get near that number. Maybe what we need is a joint task force made up of Liberals and Conservatives to come up with a plan that everyone can agree on.