blackbird

I had a quick look at your link and could not see anything that proved man causes climate change. You referenced some experiments in labs, but that does not represent the real world or earth atmosphere. Seems you put a lot of trust in man-made claims without any real proof. 97% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is natural. Man only contributes 3%. So it is impossible to prove man is the cause of global warming. It is therefore just a unproven assumption.

97% of atmospheric CO2 is natural. CO2 is an essential component of life. There is no proof that man is causing climate change. So all the fear-mongering is just that, fear-mongering. Nothing anyone can do to affect climate change. But we have been hammered for years with the carbon taxes and it has done nothing for the climate. It never will. All it is doing is making Canadians poorer. Man's contribution is 3% of the CO2 in the atmosphere. All the efforts to reduce CO2 emission is not likely to change that 3% one iota. There are 8 billion people on earth and hundreds of millions using fossil fuels for transportation, ships, aircraft, buses, automobiles, home heating, agriculture, etc. It is fiction to think man can reduce his total CO2 emissions without seriously harming mankind. And there still is no proof that man's tiny contribution is affecting the climate.

You have bitten and swallowed the globalist elite's lie of climate change alarmism, hook, line, and sinker. What I spend on this book is pocket change and nothing compared to what I have been scammed by way of carbon taxes, the price of groceries and everything else as a result of the globalist's policies and carbon taxes hitting everything in life. Do you think Trudeau and his ilk will ever suffer the lack of anything. They have tons of money stored away and will never suffer like the people he has hurt. The pain from the increasing poverty, homeless people, and food bank people is causing more suffering than climate change will ever cause. Controlling the climate is pure fiction and is just a tool of the globalists for more control of everyone. Out descendants have already been saddled with a massive debt of tens of billions of dollars and a massive shortage of housing as a result of years of Socialist government lunacy. Our descendants will likely never own a home because of Trudeau and his gang including his NDP puppets.

There is a hot book on Amazon called: "O CHINADA, The Manchurian Canadaian: Communist Patsy of Canada, CHANNELING CASTRO" O CHINADA, The Manchurian Canadaian: Communist Patsy of Canada, CHANNELING CASTRO eBook : Rosenberger, Richard Abram: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store "We are witnessing the globalist hostile takeover of Canada through Justin Trudeau. Following the World Economic Forum playbook, Marxist powers of this age have "penetrated" the Liberal Government of Canada by the Queen's Royal Assent. Foreign actors and interests currently control the Prime Minister, all under the guiding eye of the Monarchy. An autocoup has already dismissed our Constitution, mandated tyranny, holding many nations. Treaties are signed, but you were NOT at the table!" Is this for real or is this some kind of scam? I don't know. We do know the Trudeau government puts a lot of trust in what the U.N. says and parrots them on some things like Covid vaccinations, climate change and now the war between Israel and Hamas, and mass immigration into Canada. Canada already seems to be less of a sovereign country and more of some kind of property of the U.N. We know Canada also sends billions of dollars to other countries. Four billion to Iraq. And we know Canada is spending tens of billions of dollars on EV battery plants as part of their war on climate change and the U.N. has been banging the gavel about the war on climate change along with COP28. We need to ask why Trudeau and his minister Guilbeault need to using Canada on the war against climate change likely more fervently than any other country in the world. Why are we paying such a heavy price for this war on climate change? Maybe I will get the book on Kindle or get the paperback. It is hard to judge a book by its cover.

That is exactly what I said. " Didn't you hear that one in ten now depend on food banks in some places? "

Do you seriously believe you can impose your idea of the way government should be on the rest of the world? Good luck with that. Nobody is going to change the system in Israel. They have a democratic government now in Israel. They are also a Jewish state which is their right to be. If you don't like it too bad. They are surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims who want to eliminate them and of course they have to do what they require to protect themselves from being wiped out. That likely requires certain laws as well. No country is required to change their system so that their enemies can come in and destroy them.

Pure fiction! Didn't you hear that one in ten now depend on food banks in some places? Or that Canada is short millions of homes? No, I don't think people who can't afford $50,000 for a down payment or can't afford $3,000 a month for a 2 BR apartment are running two cars. Your problem is you are a senior who has lost touch with reality. You have tunnel vision and only see the rest of society as like yourself with a pension, own a home with no mortgage, and possibly have two vehicles. You don't have any idea how there are millions of others who don't have all that and many are struggling to put food on the table or pay for a shelter. What made things this bad is what you should be asking. But you don't bother to try to find out. If you looked into it, you would find the Liberals and NDP spend, spend, spend ideology and their control, control, control ideology has a lot to do with it. That has made things a lot worse. Just the war on climate change and carbon taxes has driven up the cost of living. It will get much worse if the Liberals and NDP have their way and shut down the energy industry.

It's funny how some posters who lean to the left are still in denial. They would never admit the truth even though it stares them in the face. As an example of the "denial syndrome", I wrote that the failing health care system in Canada was also being harmed by the Liberal government throwing over 4 billion dollars to Iraq. Yet some lefty still managed to deny it and question how spending money on other things would affect our health care system. He evidently doesn't understand the money all comes from the same source, the Canadian taxpayers who only pay a specific amount. The money tree is not endless. I just noticed the brilliant writer, Conrad Black wrote an opinion piece about the Human Right's Commission's moronic attack on Christmas. Can you believe it? These people should all be fired. What a useless organization. "It is illustrative of the nonsense that now chronically afflicts our country and much of the Western world that the Canadian Human Rights Commission recently reported that statutory holidays for Christian celebrations, including Christians, are “a form of discrimination” that is “deeply rooted in our identity as a settler colonialism state.” It is more accurate to say that the Human Rights Commission is a form of idiocy deeply rooted in our woke, politically correct foolishness." Conrad Black: The Human Rights Commission's moronic attack on Christmas (msn.com) This surely is proof of how unhappy the progressive left/liberals must be. How could anyone be happy going around hating Christmas holidays and celebrations and thinking Christians or Christianity is a form of discrimination that is ruining their life. How sad could such people be. Their mind is twisted and demented. Very tragic.

If millions want to destroy Israel, what difference does it make if a few want peace? They have no influence or say. The terrorists and anti-Israel radicals run the show. You are in the same camp as the anti-Semites that existed for 2,000 years and led to the Holocaust.

"The Trudeau Liberals have spent $4.7 billion on their Middle East action plan, tackling extremism but also building “post-conflict strategies,” Hussen said." "What in the actual holy hell is this????” one person asked on X. “Canadian taxpayers are supporting everyone in the world except Canadians. While food banks are feeding Canadian families, these traitors are giving our money to other countries like there’s no tomorrow. This is treason.” Another commented, “Canadians (those fortunate enough to have decent jobs) work their asses off & send half their earnings to Ottawa so they can … give it away to Iraqis? We need to focus on Canadian youth, not foreign students and not those who have no connection at all to this country. What a mess!” In another reply, a user posted, “That’s the Iraqi government’s problem, not the Canadian taxpayers’ problem.” Trudeau and the Liberals are squandering taxpayer money on everything imaginable under the sun. Billions of dollars have been spent on the so-called Middle East action plan. Canadians have no say in all this. Yet the health care system is failing, there is an acute housing shortage, and they are bringing in 500,000 immigrants in the next year and thereafter. Trudeau government to spend nearly $10M to support unemployed youth in Iraq (msn.com)

Socialists and Socialist politicians in Canada seem to believe a bad public health care system in Canada is better than a good private health care system. In Canada the public health care system is failing with long waiting lists, over-crowded emergency rooms to the point some of them are ready to collapse and millions of Canadians with no family doctor. How could anyone call that a public health care system? It is certainly not providing equitable service for everyone. The Socialist politicians that have the responsibility to run it are failing miserably. One of the problems is that the politicians are pressured from all sides to provide services of all kinds and solve all problems for everyone. There is not enough money in the pot to solve everything so they end up giving every cause a small piece of the pie. So health care gets a limited amount of funds, not enough to run properly. One of the characteristics of Socialism is bureaucracy grows like mad and becomes unmanageable. Everyone wants a piece of the pie or the public money source.

Anyone who thinks Jesus was a Communist or supporter of Communism really has no idea of what Jesus taught and what Communism is. Many rich people give a lot of their wealth to charity. In B.C. Jimmy Pattison, who owns many companies, gives a percentage of his wealth to charities every year. He is known for building a health centre which is named after him. There is also reports that he once put a cheque for a million dollars in a church collection plate.

Half of Canadians believe in Socialism. They obviously don't know anything about God's written revelation, in English, the King James Bible. If they knew anything about it, they would have some knowledge about the ten points I posted at the top of this subject, ten reasons why Socialism is wrong. If they were born again, they would be opposing Socialism. But because they are not, they are contributing to the fall of Canada. Socialism could well destroy our country or turn it into a basket case as it is doing now with the health care system, the housing crisis, and cost of living crisis for millions of Canadians. " Half of Canadians think socialism is okay©Provided by The Daily Digest Canada is often thought of as a country that is steeped in socialist policies because of its free healthcare and robust social safety net, and if you ask those living in the country, nearly half would say they support socialism." Support for socialism in Canada is strong, but no one wants to pay for it (msn.com)

Why get educated and get a profession, occupation, or trade? Why work, and why manage your money when Big Brother will take care of it all and provide everything? Some tent encampments are now taking the local governments to court to demand better services such as electrical outlets, garbage cleanup, toilets, etc. etc. Soon they will have their own municipal governments and become incorporated.

You haven't figured it out. Globalists all believe that government is the answer to everything; more government, more bureaucracy, more taxes, more control in everyone's life. Globalist believe in more power to Big Brother. They want to turn humanity into a kind of top down controlled assembly line of people. They will decide how many and who should live and under what conditions. They are planning on building a one-world utopia.

Surprise! The government can't provide two things at once. The won't fund a public health system properly and now are adding another thing, dental care. You can be sure that won't be funded or managed properly either. Just like the Canadian Forces are being completely underfunded and understaffed. Has nothing to do with conservatives. All this Socialism, welfare state, is being provided by the liberals and left, or at least they are trying. The ideology is spend the money and don't worry about the debt or how Canadians are going to pay for it. The trouble is they don't actually spend the money required. Just promise it and provide it at least give the appearance. At least if one is going to promise something to someone, complete the deal and actually provide what is promised or get out of the way and let people who will do things honestly run the government. Do you even know how the system works? I doubt it.

CTV just reported doctors on the news saying that the healthcare system is in a very unsatisfactory condition. There are terrible staff shortages and long waiting times. This is not acceptable. Yet the Liberals and NDP are pushing ahead with a dental care plan while they don't even fund the health care system adequately and can't seem to manage it effectively. A man just died because he required urgent heart surgery and it would have been two more weeks before he could get it. That is just one example of thousands of disasters going on.

Why give up the established system of one person one vote and may the one with the most votes in a riding win for some complex undemocratic system that gives elite party brass the power to determine who wins. The best way to lose your democratic rights is to start fiddling with the system and make it so complicated that nobody knows what is going on.

Perhaps you don't really understand how the Proportional System (PR) works. Each political party chooses its own candidates. The votes for a party are added up from all ridings and that determines how many candidates can be chosen by the party to be MPs. The electorate do not elect the MPs that are chosen this way. The party decides who their MP will be. So a certain number of MPs are chosen by the parties, not the electorate in each riding. The only indirect voice a citizen would have is if he is a member of a particular party, he might be able to participate in choosing a candidate for that party, but that is not the electorate making the choice. The whole system is a convoluted process and means the end of simple basic elections or the end of democracy. The theory is if a fringe party gets 5% of the votes nationally, then they can appoint 5% of the MPs. That is just a basic idea how the PR system works. Fringe parties might not elect any MP in the FPTP system because they only have 5% of the vote across the country and would lose in any particular riding under the FPTP system, but they are allowed to still appoint 5% of the MPs in the Parliament. That's how it works in a very rudimentary way. So none of their MPs are actually chosen by any particular riding. The MPs chosen by the party are unaccountable to any particular riding and only accountable to the party that chose them.

When the balance of power is held by a small number of MPs, they have far more power than they deserve. We see that in Canada with the NDP able to force the government to do what it wants even if it is against the will of the majority of voters. We see the NDP forcing the Liberals into big spending programs when we are already billions of dollars in debt. More expensive programs will just add to the debt and mean more taxpayer money must be allocated to pay the interest on the debt. But the NDP could care less about debt and interest. It is beyond their ability to understand.

Australia has a PR system. Here are some of the negatives about it from an Australian source: "Disadvantages of the Proportional Voting System It is complicated, costly and time-consuming to administer and count. By allowing minor parties and candidates to win seats, it promotes instability in Parliament. The balance of power can be held by a number of members elected by a small minority of the electorate. Until the advent of the Group Voting Ticket system, it encouraged a high level of informal voting. " It PR system can be very complex. I doubt most people would even understand how it works. That is a problem. The FPTP system is simple and everyone understands how it works. I think there could be far more distrust of a system that people don't understand, particularly when the parties have a hand in selecting winners or MPs, who do not represent any particular riding.

You are being disingenuous. You do realize I meant in a PR system the political parties choose who the winners or MPs are for a certain number of seats. Do you acknowledge that?

That post is confusing. Not sure what you are trying to say. The PR system means political parties choose some of MPs. I know in the FPTP system the parties choose who will run in each riding. Nothing wrong with that. Then the voters decide who will be the MP for that riding. That's how the present system works. But the PR system destroys that and gives the parties the power to choose who the winner is for a certain number of MPs. That deprives the voters of their democratic right to choose all of the MPs.

The PR system results in more fringe political parties having MPs in Parliament at the expense of the major political parties. That results in more minority governments. The party with the most votes is forced to form a coalition with smaller parties. This is not good. It means more instability and more difficulty in government doing it's job. It also means more elections as minority governments generally do not last their full terms. More expense to the taxpayers.

Sorry, I meant political parties choosing the winners for a certain number of seats in Parliament. That is what the PR system does. The parties themselves choose a certain number of the MPs. That takes away the democratic rights of the voters in a riding to choose the candidates. Since such candidates were chosen as the winners by the parties, they are not accountable to any particular riding.