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This is a fair question in view of the widespread abortions in Canada and the legalization of medical assistance in dying. It also helps explain the widespread crime and insecurity many Canadians feel in their own country. The subject of respect for human life touches on everything. This video from the First Baptist Church in Dallas on the Sixth Commandment of the Ten Commandments explains why human life should be respected and preserved. Human life is sacred. One reason is because God created man in his own image. The Sixth Commandment - Preserve Life - Pathway to Victory (ptv.org) One of the very first commandments that God gave was: "6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. " Genesis 9:6 KJV Dr. Jeffress points out the reason for this commandment. Human life is so valuable that anyone who takes it wrongly shall have his life taken. An example of the dysfunction in Canada is a man was found guilty of murder for putting poison in a little child's cereal which resulted in the death of the child. His punishment was ostensibly a life sentence which meant 17 years in prison and then possible parole. Dr. Jeffress explains why life should be preserved. When human life is devalued, society pays in various ways. Believe it or not, capital punishment for murder is for the purpose of preserving life. To abolish it means devaluing human life. Not only does this subject require faith on God but in Jesus Christ and his written revelation, the Bible, but we are taught to carry the fire. Dr. Jeffress explains what that means. That is how Canada will have a just society. It must follow the principles taught in the Holy Scripture. Without that, all a nation has is human reasoning to guide itself. We can see where that has led us. It is turning the country into a dysfunctional society where people have little hope and more crime and corruption.

I don't believe in those conspiracy theories. The evidence for the al Qaida terrorist 9-11 attack is overwhelming. There is even video showing the planes flying into the twin towers. They have recordings of the planes that were hijacked by the terrorists and people on the plane that called relatives on cell phones and gave information about the hijacking. Documentaries showed a lot of the evidence. Almost nobody questions it. They have the history of the terrorists and what they were doing to prepare for the attack. They also flew one plane into the Pentagon at the same time. Another plane crashed into the ground. Tons of evidence it was a terrorist attack involving a number of terrorists.

If nuclear power plants were a profitable business to get into, why are private companies not building them everywhere? Having government invest taxpayers money in building private businesses is not the answer. Government doing it would be disaster. They lack the knowledge and are inefficient. So it would have to be done by private companies. It is not being done probably because private companies do not see it as profitable and there are too many hurdles to get past. Companies have to see it as a proven money-maker. You also have government environmental hurdles to overcome. It would probably take decades to get approval to build some nuclear power plants or they would never get approved because of environmental concerns and opposition from many people. So it doesn't seem like it would be possible in the foreseeable future to have a lot of nuclear private plants. There are too many obstacles.

I don't know how you figure that. America was attacked on 9-11 and over 3,000 lost their lives to al Qaida. America had a perfect right to go after al Qaida wherever they were in the world. So they did take action against terrorists in the middle east and Afghanistan. They had no choice. America has had to fight against Communist dictatorships and terrorists in the world. That is not being a sponsor or supporter of terrorism. If they didn't act, you might be living under a totalitarian or Communist system now. The Islamic extremists are very bold and will go into the west and attack if given the chance. America is a superpower and has to defend itself and its interests in the world or be taken over and pushed out by other superpowers or radical Islamic countries like Iran. Europe and America have struggled for a long time to maintain western interests in the middle east. If they didn't China or Russia would just extend their control over the area and expand from there. That is just how the world works. The west sees Israel as a holy land for Jews and Christians and Muslims see it as theirs. So it is a kind of focal point for much of the world. Israel was formed again in 1948 and is not going to disappear because Muslims want it gone. Their problem is they are not willing to accept it and live in peace. So there is no solution.

You realize the natural gas industry is a major industry in B.C. and a new pipeline to the coast is now being completed so we can ship natural gas to the rest of the world. Do you really want to stop natural gas production and use? It is a very clean-burning fuel and generates a lot of heat. Why kill a major industry such as natural gas when the province can earn hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty revenue and thousands of good-paying jobs for Canadians? We will also be capable to selling it countries like China which presently are building more coal-fired generating plants. Natural gas is much cleaner and more efficient. First nations bands along the pipeline route will also benefit from the pipeline. That's why they support it.

I lived in northwest B.C. for 27 years and had a natural gas furnace. The monthly bill in the winter was around $300 or $350 including carbon taxes. I kept my receipts at that time and from 2008 to 2016, I paid about $300 per year in carbon taxes and I don't believe there was any rebate. That is a significant amount of money for a retired person. I don't believe it made any difference to CO2 emissions or climate change. It was nothing more than a scam tax. B.C. was one of the first in the world if not the first to impose carbon taxes on its citizens. They had no feeling for people. I doubt I will ever vote for the BC Liberals (now BC United Party) or the NDP. But my vote is next to worthless. B.C. is full of left winger woke, tree huggers and such.

No research has proven that man is the cause of climate change. You seem so adamant and believe everything you-ve read. So why don't you give the basic research and proven facts that demonstrate man is causing climate change. I am waiting. So you take the word of a prominent atheist who denies God exists and created the universe; someone who is a highly recognized theoretical scientist I assume, but has absolutely no credible explanation of where the universe came from. Steven Hawking was not a researcher of climate science. He did no research himself on it as far as I know. He was a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. I will say he had 50 years of struggle with motor neurone disease which was difficult. Yet you "are sold" simply because he says something. Interesting. I would believe 99.999999% of people are like you and simply belief something because the media or some politician says it is a fact. None of the climate alarmism believers have any clue about what proof there is or lack thereof, but they just believe it because somebody in media or political world says so over and over again. That is called manipulation or propagandizing.

People are using natural gas furnaces and driving their cars because that is a necessity of life. It is very inconsiderate and harmful to Canadians to tax them for just living. Who could turn their temperature down in their home in a cold country like Canada? It is an insane demand by Trudeau and others. Do you think Trudeau turned the heat down in his offices and home? Not a chance. Trudeau constantly accuses ordinary Canadians of polluting, Canadians who are just trying to live their life and make ends meet. He constantly claims the carbon tax is fighting pollution, which is the biggest lie of the century. He flies around the world constantly in a government jet, emitting huge amounts of CO2 and thinks nothing of it. This is hypocrisy. He is currently off on a jaunt to a conference of the organization of Americas. Also, man cannot control the climate and nothing will change that fact. Man only contributes a tiny amount of the total CO2. 97% of CO2 is natural emitting. All humans emit CO2 when they breath. Would Trudeau call humans polluters. Probably. According to Trudeau and Guilbeault, humans are the problem. They worship Mother Earth. This is an idol and false god. Humans are not the problem. The problem in this country is the people who do not understand all this climate change alarmism and environmental radicalism (Guilbault is a known radical from Greenpeace who climbed a building illegally in Toronto).

Canada has sunk very low on many issues. The list is so long. Just pick a subject. Trudeau's superiority in saying there will absolutely be NO MORE CARVEOUTs of the carbon tax just proves his arrogance. He could care less about Canadians. The only reason he gave a break to the Atlantic provinces is because Liberal voters in that area were turning against him. Everything he does is geared to the next election. But he has made grave mistakes and has gone down in the polls a long way. But never underestimate the cunning abilities of liberal politicians. We can be sure they are scheming for the next election and will have something up their sleeve.

Our B.C. NDP government is always looking for any excuses to hand millions of dollars over to aboriginals. New schemes are announced every few days and more money is poured out for them. Yet the walk-in medical clinic in Campbell River is closing. How about spending money on the health care system instead of throwing out hundreds of millions of dollars for feel-good saving the forest with "knowledge keepers"? "Campbell River is about to lose its only walk-in medical clinic. The Quinsam Medical Walk In Clinic in Campbell River’s Willow Point neighbourhood will close permanently after its last full day on Nov. 17 to people who aren’t connected to one of its family doctors. The clinic has been hearing from those who will be impacted." Campbell River's only walk-in clinic for unattached patients is set to close (cheknews.ca)

The federal government just promised 500 million dollars and the B.C. government contributed 500 million plus dollars to a fund to preserve one third of the wilderness of B.C. Of course the natives will be on the receiving end as they will be part of the plan on how this will work and they are the "knowledge keepers". They apparently know how to preserve the wilderness but it will be at everyone else's expense. It pays to claim you are a knowledge keeper, but you must be indigenous to qualify.

You still don't get it. Islamic theocracies like Iran are a threat to not just Israel but to the west. They are not any kind of friend of Canada's or the west. Why are you such an Islamic radical supporter? Iran is a state-sponsor of terrorism and one of the most dangerous Islamic theocracies in the world. They brutally suppress their own people, especially women who do not follow their tyrannical decrees about what women shall wear and what they shall do. They have threatened to wipe Israel off the map and call America Satanic.

Climate change alarmism is not based on "science". I would be happy to see your proof that man is causing excessive climate change. Just saying man is the cause is not science. That is false religion tied to worship of Mother Earth. Darwinism is a false religion that many blindly follow. Yes, man needs to adapt to climate change. Not try to stop it.

That is nonsense.

As far as the war in the Gaza is concerned, I believe there needs to be some pauses to bring humanitarian aid in. I also believe Israel should do everything possible to avoid harming civilians. They should be making sure civilians will be safe. I don't know how much the reports coming out are true or accurate because they come from Hamas-controlled sources. This is a problem.

I believe the climate changes and has always changed. I do not believe man can control the climate in any way. To me that is wishful thinking. We are being conned and taxed for something that we cannot control. Most of the world does not pay carbon taxes like we do and carbon taxes do not change people's use of essential things like natural gas for heating. We still have to heat our homes in this cold country.

The political parties that started and had something to do with running residential schools a hundred years ago and the churches that ran them should be the ones that pay, not the tens of millions of ordinary Canadians today who never had anything to do with racism or running residential schools 50 or 100 years ago. Many Canadians are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and put food on the table; yet they are forced to pay billions of dollars to FNs for alleged past wrongs done to some of them. There is a similar injustice with carbon taxes being taken from millions of Canadians for the fake purpose of controlling the climate.

What fiction are you spouting? Myself and everyone I know have just lived our lives and never been racists. Yet we are forced to pay hundreds of dollars a year for supposed "racism" that never occurred in our lifetime. How can there be racism if we never had anything to do with natives in our lifetime? If there was any racism against natives, it was done by a handful of people, perhaps some that ran the residential schools, that are long gone for the most part. So why are we forced to pay again?

It is shocking and concerning that someone like the person in this article would be appointed to such high positions by the Biden administration. Just proves how badly America has fallen. quote Dr. Rachel Levine was appointed by President Joe Biden in October as a four-star admiral, the highest-ranking official in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Dr. Levine also serves as the HHS Assistant Secretary for Health. Levine’s background is as a pediatrician. In a rich bit of irony, not only is Levine the first transgender person to serve in the uniformed health service as a four-star senior officer but is also the first “woman” to serve in that capacity. Until age 53, Rachel Levine lived life as a man. Richard Levine was born with all-male parts and with male chromosomes. In 2011 however, he decided he was a she. A divorce followed, but so did Levine’s public fortunes. Levine served in public health positions in Pennsylvania for several years to mixed reviews. One gay advocacy publication describes Dr. Levine this way, “Dr. Rachel Levine is very much regarded in the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry and social well being…” They neglect to mention that Dr. Levine has advocated for allowing persons who are below the age of sexual consent to get hormone blockers and genital mutilation, causing irreversible damage. In other words, the new four-star admiral and HHS Assistant Secretary for Health believes your thirteen-year-old is too young to consent to sexual intercourse but is old enough and mature enough to make life-altering decisions on taking hormone inhibitors to prevent normal puberty and to get surgery removing or altering his or her genitalia, without parental consent. unquote Transgenderism: It's time to state the obvious - Washington Times If you believe a person can be biologically born as a male and live as male until age 53, and then suddenly decide he is a she, I've got some property I can sell you ....

It's a payout for votes for the liberals, left.

How many were Papists? Likely four out of five. The Papacy is all about political power and control. That is why it has a large bureaucracy. I believe it was reported Putin is a defender of the Russian Orthodox Church. "Father Mitrofanov put it this way: "Orthodox belief is no longer understood as a belief in Christ, but as a totalitarian ideology, that mixes nationalistic ideas with zero-tolerance for internal and external critics, and a need to feel like a part of a powerful community."

The reason it took six months is simple. They have no ethics.

7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. " Galatians 6:7 "29 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. " Proverbs 19:29

Western countries have declared Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. This is common knowledge. Where do you get your information or lack thereof?

Trudeau is bringing in immigrants that would support his Socialist agenda. They come from countries where there is no democratic system and so they don't understand freedom. Judeo-Christianity brought more freedom and human rights to the western world than anything else. If you oppose Christianity you are setting yourself up to be taken over by a Socialist dictatorship. I found from observation that atheists or agnostics often believe government should take care of them. The word that describes Trudeau, liberals, and NDP is establishmentarianism, which means more government bureaucracy and control of every aspect of everyone's life. Another similar word is authoritarianism. It is bizarre how one man, like Trudeau, believes so strongly that he knows everything and nobody else knows anything. Many people want government to provide for their every need. There is a price to be paid for having government so involved in everything. The price is freedom. The more government gets involved in everything, the more convinced they are that they know what is best for everyone.