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EDITORIAL: Canada still ignoring foreign interference (msn.com)

Spoken like a good leftist/liberal who doesn't know what is going on in the world or likes authoritarian Communist countries. Too bad you don't understand how they are meddling with Canada's political system, interfering with elections, and spreading their tentacles through western democracies to undermine them. Dealing with the Devil has its consequences.

I am not holding my breath for Trudeau or the Liberals to change the immigrations laws or number of people coming in or to deport those that commit crimes or cause a lot of trouble. Liberals are only looking a possible votes. LILLEY: Trudeau fails to deal with out-of-control immigration (msn.com)

Not really. I don't agree with some things he may support. I oppose the proliferation of guns and assault weapons. But I agree with much and if I had a vote, I would vote for him instead of a Democrat. But, I being a Canadian, of course I have no vote on it.

Let's put it this way. I wouldn't vote for a Democrat.

Do you really believe any party or politician lies less than the others? That's the nature of politics. Welcome to the real world. Do you really think a party that supports killing unborn babies, sexual orientation gender identity ideology being pushed onto kids in schools, criminals running rampant on the streets, drug enablement policies, and uncontrolled illegal migration can be trusted?

Does anyone really believe either of the two major parties lie any less than the other?

The federal government seems bent on perpetuating and building a country along racial lines. We know this will be almost a give away. No FN group has the billions of dollars to purchase even 30% of the what this pipeline is worth. So it would be a huge gift at the expense of Canadian taxpayers who are paying tens of billions of dollars for the pipeline. Is this really fair for the taxpayers who rightly own it in the name of the federal government? news item on energynow website energynow.ca/2024/06/trans-mountain-looking-to-sell-30-stake-to-indigenous-groups-alberta-premier-says/#:~:text=Canada’s%20federal%20government%20is%20looking%20to%20sell%20a,pipeline%20system%20to%20indigenous%20owners%2C%20Alberta’s%20premier%20said.

NP news article: "Terry Glavin: Mélanie Joly can't wait to make up with China's dictators" "It’s a circle that can’t be easily squared. On the one hand, there’s the spectacle of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly happily abasing herself at the feet of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Friday after being summoned to China to take instruction on how Canada should behave itself as Xi Jinping persists in flouting international trade rules, accelerates his encirclement of Taiwan and pours ever greater resources into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On the other hand, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland begins consultations with business and labour groups this week to discuss how to deal with what she calls “unfair Chinese trade practices.” The measures are expected to include some degree of conformity with stiff American and imminent European tariffs on electric vehicles and other Chinese imports. In an interview about the consultations with Bloomberg News, Freeland offered a rare and candid admission of the calamitous error the Liberals are generally disinclined to mention out loud, namely that “China’s entry to the World Trade Organization more than two decades ago,” which former prime minister and lifelong China-trade enthusiast Jean Chrétien championed, “was a mistake.” That China’s admission to the WTO was a colossal error, a cross-partisan consensus that has emerged in recent years in the NATO capitals, has been coming to the fore quite a bit lately. “I think it’s high time for us to be clear-eyed about that,” Freeland said. The Americans are clear-eyed about it, across the board. Earlier this year, a report released by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai noted that rather than bringing China into the norms of the international trading system, China is using its place within the WTO to undermine the system. “It has been 22 years since China acceded to the WTO, and China still embraces a state-directed, non-market approach to the economy and trade, which runs counter to the norms and principles embodied by the WTO.” That’s Freeland’s standpoint. But Joly is a Chrétien protegee, and her mission in Beijing is just another milestone in the Trudeau Liberals’ efforts to restore relations to the warmth and intimacy they’d been nurturing with the Chinese Communist Party leadership until public revulsion got in the way fairly decisively in December, 2018. That’s when the Chinese Ministry of State Security abducted on-leave diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor in retaliation for the detention in Vancouver of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. fraud and sanctions-evasion warrant. It was only a few months after Kovrig and Spavor were released following a plea deal Meng’s lawyers concluded with the U.S. justice department that a series of leaks from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service revealed that the Trudeau government had been sitting on explosive evidence that China had been deeply involved in monkeywrenching the 2019 and 2021 federal elections to the Liberals’ advantage. Right through these tumultuous disruptions to Canada-China relations, however, the Liberals have been intent on maintaining the advantage and status that Liberal-friendly Canadian corporations had secured in trade policy and foreign policy. After four years of Liberal promises to bring Canada’s approach to China into the 21st century, the November, 2022 federal Indo-Pacific Strategy contained the smidgen of an acknowledgement that Chinese strongman Xi Jinping’s state-capitalist kleptocracy had caused severe structural damage to the West’s liberal rules-based global order. But then Trudeau more or less detonated the Indo-Pacific Strategy by rising in the House of Commons last September to accuse the government of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi of being linked to the murder of a Canadian, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, at a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. Indo-Canadian relations went straight into the dumpster and there’s no “reset” in the works. In Beijing on Friday, Wang Yi left little to the imagination in what China will expect of Canada in the back-to-the-future relationship Joly is hoping to restore. We should shut up about Beijing’s evisceration of Hong Kong’s democracy and its trampling of civil liberties there. We should shut up about the brutal oppression of the Muslim-minority Uyghur people of Xinjiang, and we should mind our business about Beijing’s menacing manoeuvres in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. We’re turning the clock all the way back to 2016, when Wang famously berated, badgered, insulted and lectured the reporter Amanda Connolly in a long harangue in the lobby of Global Affairs headquarters in Ottawa. At a news conference, Connolly had put a question to Stéphane Dion, Canada’s foreign affairs minister at time, about how Canada intended to press its concerns about Beijing’s judicial abductions, the violations of solemn civil rights commitments Beijing had made, and so on. “Your question is full of prejudice against China and arrogance,” Wang blurted. “This is totally unacceptable. . . I would like to suggest to you that please don’t ask questions in such an irresponsible manner.” Dion, standing at Wang’s side, just stood there looking pathetic. Over the weekend, Joly was positively bubbly about her reception in Beijing. There was the usual boast about Canada’s alleged defence of its democracy “and the values it has always stood for, including human rights.” But the main point of the meeting was to reaffirm a policy of “pragmatic engagement” and “the development of sound and stable bilateral relations.” Joly’s visit came in the wake of NATO’s 32 member-state consensus statement two weeks ago, which fingered China as a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war on Ukraine through its “no limits” partnership and its “large-scale support for Russia’s defence-industrial base,” the NATO statement declared. “This increases the threat Russia poses to its neighbours and to Euro-Atlantic security.” Beijing should “cease all material and political support to Russia’s war effort,” including “the transfer of dual-use materials, such as weapons components, equipment and raw materials that serve as inputs for Russia’s defence sector. The PRC (People’s Republic of China) cannot enable the largest war in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting its interests and reputation.” Beijing “continues to pose systemic challenges to Euro-Atlantic security” by engaging in “sustained malicious cyber and hybrid activities, including disinformation,” the statement read. It’s all well and good to engage in Joly-style “pragmatic engagement,” but NATO’s members are “boosting our shared awareness, enhancing our resilience and preparedness, and protecting against the PRC’s coercive tactics and efforts to divide the Alliance.” Wang Yi’s invitation to Joly and her submission to his requirements for a renewed Canada-China relationship are consistent with that coercion and of a piece with Beijing’s efforts to divide NATO against itself. It is not clear that Joly understands this, or that she even particularly cares. National Post unquote Terry Glavin: Mélanie Joly can't wait to make up with China's dictators (msn.com)

" About 3,000 migrants were on their way to the US southern border by foot Sunday — as some made clear they wanted to reach the country before November’s election and a possible Donald Trump victory. The caravan of potential border-crossers from a dozen Latin American nations embarked on the trip from Mexico’s southern border in hopes of seeking asylum in the US before Trump could harden the border if he wins the White House for a second time. “We are running the risk that permits [to cross the border] might be blocked,” El Salvador migrant Miguel Salazar said." Caravan of 3K migrants hope to cross southern border into the US before possible Trump win (msn.com)

Reports indicate this took place in Israel near the border with Gaza. This needs to be fully investigated by Canada and Israel. Was this person a Palestinian immigrant who was given Canadian citizenship? What was this person's background? How were they screened for Canadian citizenship? Should the Canadian immigration department be reviewed to see how they are admitting immigrants and how they are granting citizenship?

Reportedly a Canadian tried to attack Israel security forces in Israel near the Gaza border with a knife and was shot dead. This raises a lot of questions as to who this guy was, how he became a Canadian, what he was doing there, was he a Hamas militant, and his connection with Gaza and Canada. It also raises questions about how people immigrating from Gaza to Canada are screened. Is it even possible to determine their beliefs, past history, and connections to terrorist organizations?

There should be a plan for them to clean it up properly themselves or face jail time.

News reported that the shooter was able to get on a rooftop with a clear shot to the ex President. How is that possible? Doesn't sound like they covered all bases. Who was responsible for what appears to be a major failure?

I assume you are referring a Roman Catholic seminary, but I could be wrong since you never explicitly said. If so, I can empathize with you. Since most of what the RCC teaches if unbiblical or false, that might be enough to cause one to reject all religion and become quite cynical about it. True biblical teachings are completely different and have energized millions of people down through time. It can give one a complete new perspective and life.

Biggest lie I've been told is man causes climate change.

The theory of evolution, which is unproven, is a good example of a massive failure of science and the unending consequences. This link gives a number of examples of where science has been wrong or faulty. "Piltdown Chicken The finding was initially trumpeted as the missing link that proved birds evolved from dinosaurs. In 1999 a fossil smuggled out of China allegedly showing a dinosaur with birdlike plumage was displayed triumphantly at the National Geographic Society and written up in the society's November magazine. Paleontologists were abuzz. Unfortunately, like the hominid skull with an ape jaw discovered in the Piltdown quarries of England in 1912, the whole thing turned out to be a hoax. The fossil apparently was the flight of fancy of a Chinese farmer who had rigged together bird bits and a meat-eater's tail." 20 of the Greatest Blunders in Science in the Last 20 Years | Discover Magazine

It appears we have lots of know-it-alls who think science is infallible, kind of a god to them.

You think science is infallible? Here are a few debacles from science: " In the last two decades, glorious scientific and technical achievements have altered our lives forever. Try, for example, to imagine the world without the existence of those two little words personal and computer. But there have also been — how can this be put delicately?— blunders. Some were errors in concept: Bad science chasing a bad idea. Some were errors in execution: This would have worked so well if only it hadn't blown up. Others were cases of deliberate fraud, out-and-out hoaxes, or just dopey moments that made us laugh. Perhaps Albert Einstein said it best: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." Challenger Surreal in its beauty, a plume of white smoke ushered in the end of America's romance with space travel after the shuttle Challenger blew up 73 seconds into its scheduled six-day flight on January 28, 1986, at 11:39:13 a.m. The rocket was traveling at Mach 1.92 at an altitude of 46,000 feet as it incinerated all seven astronauts aboard. According to the presidential commission that investigated the accident, the explosion was caused by the failure of an O-ring seal in the joint between the two lower segments of the right-hand solid-rocket booster. This failure permitted a jet of white-hot gases to ignite the liquid fuel of the external tank. The O-ring was known to fail in cold temperatures, but the launch had been delayed five times. Darsee and Slutsky and Fraud, Oh My! Following the "greed is good" mantra of the 1980s, some scientists could not resist shortcuts. "The psychological profile of these people is interesting," says Mario Biagioli, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. "You usually get B-plus, A-minus scientists who get into hyperproduction mode." Take, for example, former Harvard researcher John Darsee. In 1981 he was found to be faking data in a heart study. Eventually investigators at the National Institutes of Health discovered that data for most of his 100 published studies had been fabricated. Or take the case of cardiac-radiology specialist Robert Slutsky, who in 1985 resigned from the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine after colleagues began to wonder how he turned out a new research article every 10 days. University investigators concluded he had altered data and lied about the methods he used. To establish verisimilitude, Slutsky often persuaded scientists more prominent than he to put their names on his articles. The Debendox Debacle William McBride, an Australian obstetrician, was hailed as a whistle-blowing visionary in 1961 when he sounded a warning about the dangers of thalidomide, a sedative prescribed for anxiety and morning sickness. In a letter to the journal The Lancet, McBride suggested that the drug was causing infants to be born with severe limb deformities. Although McBride's hypothesis was based on limited anecdotal observations, subsequent studies proved him right. Thalidomide was removed from the market, and the drug became almost synonymous with pharmaceutical malfeasance. Two decades later, in 1982, McBride published a report about a morning-sickness drug called Debendox that, he claimed, clearly caused birth defects in rabbits. Merrell Dow took the drug off the market amid an avalanche of lawsuits. But there was a problem. McBride had altered data in research carried out by assistants. The results showed Debendox had no ill effects. After years of investigation, McBride was found guilty of scientific fraud in 1993 by a medical tribunal." Read some of the other failures. 20 of the Greatest Blunders in Science in the Last 20 Years | Discover Magazine

I did basically answer your comments. You just didn't read and absorb it. You like to post lists of numbered comments that don't really address things. You claim globally it causes temperature to change. But that is very broad unproven claim. I gave you a clear reason why it is unlikely human emissions will have any affect on changing atmospheric temperature changes, but you ignored it. Again the amount man emits and the miniscule amount Canada emits will likely have no affect on climate change. There are most likely other causes of climate change but the U.N. and liberal-left loves to blame man for everything as if man is god. It is Mother Earth worship and part of it is to blame man for everything bad. Again you repeat the same nonsense about Canada emitting more than some other small country. Canada only emits 1.5% of global man-made fossil emissions. Why do you not understand that?

First there is no proof human-caused emissions are causing any climate change. Carbon dioxide is a trace gas in the atmosphere. It is 0.04% of the atmospheric gases. Of that 0.04 %, nature contributes 97% of the 0.04% and mankind contributes 3% of 0.04%. Wow. Time to wake up and realize you are beating a dead horse. The amount man contributes is so miniscule it is almost unbelievable that anyone would blame that for climate change. But we do have those kind of people in the world. Blame man for anything and everything. Man supposedly has intelligence and therefore he must be responsible for everything that is happening. It's completely nuts. So lets consider it from the point of view of parts per million or PPM. The fact is human emissions are so small as to be miniscule. Out of the approximately 400 PPM of the CO2 in the atmosphere man only contributes 12 PPM or 3% of the total. Out of that 12 PPM, Canada only contributes 0.18 PPM. So really anything Canada does is not going to make any difference to the total. This is particularly true when other countries, like China and India, are increasing their emissions far beyond any reduction in emissions that Canada might make. And we are doing that at great harm to ourselves and our country. That's the first important point which you seem to ignore. Secondly, where is the proof that reducing the 400 PPM by a few PPM is going to affect climate change? Give us the proof, not the speculation by the idol worshipers of Mother Earth. Thirdly, it makes no difference how much CO2 per capita is released. There is only one atmosphere around the earth. So we are talking about the total CO2. That is what the alarmists claim is affecting the climate, not the per capita amount. Using per capita as any kind of argument sounds more like a political ploy. Canada's emissions are only 1.5% of all human emissions, which again is only about 0.18 PPM (parts per million) of the total CO2 in the atmosphere. Finally, CO2 is only a very small, miniscule gas in the atmosphere. It is natural and required for life. Did you ever consider there could be some other reason the United Nations and the leftists are big believers in man-made climate change? Maybe a political reason. How about using it as a fear tactic to gain more votes and control? Did you ever consider that? Did you ever look at the agenda of the U.N. called the SDG or Social Development Goals. They do have a global agenda whereby they think they are going to create a global utopia. Of course they would strongly believe the only way they could hope to achieve that goal is by gaining political control over the world. People like Trudeau and liberals/left believe in that too. What better way than creating a global crisis with climate change that only they can solve?

"CO2 in the atmosphere is a trace gas. 97% of that trace gas comes from nature. The total CO2 is about 400 PPM. Man only produces 3% of this trace gas or about 12 parts per million out of 400 parts per million. Out of that Canada only produces 1.5% of the 12 PPM that man produces. That is about 0.18 PPM, a tiny, minuscule, almost insignificant amount. If we used an Olympic swimming pool to represent the earth's atmosphere, Canada's CO2 emissions wouldn't quite fill a medium Tim Horton's cup. So tell me again why Canada's CO2 emissions are such a problem." -unknown author

" — an estimated 8,000 to 15,000 Canadians are dying each year as a result of hospital overcrowding. “It is remarkable that this excess death rate is rarely discussed in Canada,” emergency physicians James Worrall and Paul Atkinson wrote. “Physicians, politicians and the media often describe hospital crowding and prolonged wait times for ED patients as an inconvenience, but not a killer.” Yes, how tragic that thousands are dying unnecessarily in hospitals across Canada and those people most responsible won't acknowledge it or care. 'I don't think I'll last': How Canada's emergency room crisis could be killing thousands (msn.com)

While he was speaking to Jews in that particular conversation, the meaning of the term Pharisee in a Christian context today is someone who follows the impulse to be seen as righteous by obeying certain laws, while ignoring more important matters of the heart. Therefore the term Pharisee could apply to anyone in today's world of any race, nationality or ethic group.

Canada needs a completely new immigration department and policy. The present policy is not working and is a disaster. But to do that we need a completely different type of government that respects historic Judeo-Christian beliefs and culture.