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Today's report by the Ethics Commissioner that Liberal minister Mary Ng (or her department) is guilty of conflict of interest should come as a reminder about the ongoing ethics failures of the Liberal government. She or her department apparently gave contracts to a public relations firm in Toronto called Pomp and Circumstance and her friend in the firm is Amada Alvaro, the founder and president. Alvaro has been a pundit on CBC's Power and Politics for a long time.

Did you ever consider prioritizing everything means giving no priority to anything, especially the failing health care system? That is exactly what the NDP have been doing all along, prioritizing everything which means giving no priority to anything or to the health care system which is in a crisis.

If anyone doubts my belief that government cannot be trusted just take a look at two more of today's articles: Offering euthanasia to struggling veterans is government policy: Full Comment podcast (msn.com) How did firm with ties to China get RCMP contract? MPs vote for committee probe (msn.com) Then there is the fact that dangerous offenders are constantly released on parole or on bail by the federally-controlled parole boards and go on to re-offend. Innocent people repeatedly victimized and suffer.

Why is NDP leader Jagmeet Singh calling for an emergency debate on the health care crisis involving children? Where was he the past number of year when health care has been in a crisis for years with long waiting lists for essential cancer treatments, etc., people dying on waiting lists, people waiting in emergency rooms for many hours, and people dying waiting waiting for emergency treatment? There are millions of people who do not have their own doctor, yet he made a deal with Trudeau to keep the Liberals in power in exchange for getting a dental care program for children. Somebody should tell Singh there are a lot more people in this country than children who require essential health care, as much as it is a deplorable situation. MPs and parties are supposed to be representing all people, not just the feel good little children who I also love. All people in Canada deserve proper health care. Very few children have actually died from the viruses in the present crisis, although any deaths are unacceptable. The fact is many adults have died because of the failing health care system. Singh needs to wake up as do the rest of MPs and government and fix the health care system for everyone. The main thing that Singh talks about is the immediate health crisis for children. He is obviously doing this because it is a feel good, vote getter line. This is one of the problems with so-called "democratic" Socialism. Politicians favour certain demographics or bases of people and can ignore everyone else because calculations are made on how many votes it will earn. Adopting feel good and sound good policies become the norm while the major problems are ignored. Democratic Socialism becomes a popularity contest. NDP crying about how the health care crisis is now affecting children, but the NDP are the big supporters of teaching sexual orientation and gender transitioning ideology to school kids which destroy kids and people's lives. They appear to want to save their bodies but in effect destroy their minds. The NDP are so mixed up, I don't know where to start.

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I don't defend Conservatives that followed along, but what Conservatives might have done regarding China pales in comparison to the Liberal gang. They were the champions of cozying up to China and they have a lot of friends who are capitalists too. Trudeau attended cash-for-access fundraiser with Chinese billionaires Trudeau attended cash-for-access fundraiser with Chinese billionaires - The Globe and Mail RICH CHINESE ARE FUNDING THE LIBERALS, TRUDEAU DEFENDS Rich Chinese are funding the Liberals, Trudeau defends | The Siver Times No wonder Trudeau has dragged his feet all along and refuses to do anything that might offend his friends and China.

It was the Liberals who have been leaders is naively trying to establish close relations with Communist China all along. It finally has come home to bite them. Everyone knows who cozied up to Communist China for many decades. It was mainly liberals. First with former PM Pierre Trudeau who made Canada the first country to recognize Communist China under chairman Mao in 1970 and then PM Justin Trudeau tried to cozy up to China a few years ago. He even said how he admired their system. But they rejected him as a useful tool, which he has been. The Liberal government has been a disaster in almost every way.

I had forgotten about the golden calf story. Must have read it a long time ago. It teaches that only the true God must be worshiped. They made a golden calf and were worshiping it which caused God to be very angry and punish them. Moses interceded for them or it could have been much worse. Yes, many people struggle in life in various ways some more than others. It would be a huge mistake to think that biblical faith or that the Bible was invented to provide emotional relief for people. The Bible was written by prophets and apostles who actually experienced what they wrote. Many of them died for their faith. People don't die for a lie. This is where you need to determine whether what the Bible is telling us is true or just an imaginary story. The Bible was written by about 40 different authors over a period of 1,500 years yet it all fits together like a puzzle. An extremely important issue to settle in one's mind is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. If he was crucified, died, and was buried or placed in the tomb, and then the third day was resurrected from the dead as the Bible prophesies and as he predicted, then what the Bible says must be accepted as the truth. Quite a number of people are recorded as having seen Jesus Christ after he was resurrected. Jesus spoke about the Holy Scriptures. If he was raised from the dead, then what he said about being the Son of God (and being God) must be accepted and the whole Bible is then validated. A lawyer once decided to do a serious investigation of this and after much consideration and study, he came to the conclusion that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead. It would hold up in a court of law because eye witnesses are considered as the major determining factor. This is what each of the four gospels give an account of. Each wrote in his own way.

You say you don't have time? The most important thing in life according to biblical revelation is to be right with God and ready to meet your Creator. The notion that many are travelling the same way but on different paths is a very simplistic, false idea. The fact is most people are on the wrong path and heading for hell. But many make their own choices. Jesus came to save people. That is the central message. One should consider that the top priority and that should be resolved before spending any time on anything else. But like you said it is a free country and everyone makes their own decision about spiritual matters and where they want to spend eternity. quote The Bible in (less than) 300 Words In the beginning, God created the heavens,the earth, and mankind. Adam and Eve disobeyed God, resulting in a broken relationship with Him. Not giving up on mankind, God established covenants, including those with Abraham and Moses. In the Promised Land, God provided for judges and kings, yet over the long stretch of their history the Israelites remained discontented. Unfaithfulness finally led to alliances that resulted in the exile to Babylon, during which the prophet Jeremiah told of God’s passion for reconciliation: a new covenant, through the coming of a Messiah. An angel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would be with child, the foretold Messiah of David’s lineage. John, the Baptist, prepared the way for the Messiah and baptized Jesus. Jesus claimed to be the son of God, preaching God’s love and forgiveness through faith, not laws: fulfilling and supplanting the Mosaic covenant. His teaching, especially his parables, included messages of salvation and love. He also performed many miracles. Jesus’ ministry threatened the Pharisees’ status as well as Roman control. He was crucified. After his resurrection, Jesus came to his apostles and told them to preach his words to all mankind. Jesus’ death and resurrection became the source of eternal salvation. When the disciples were empowered by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, they began to share with everyone the good news of God’s redemptive work in Jesus. The new church struggled to understand how Jews and gentiles could be united as followers of Jesus. In this united church, God made a way for all people who follow Jesus to be brought back to the relationship God desired. God had been seeking to restore this relationship ever since it was first broken. unquote The Bible in (less than) 300 Words | The Dilettante's Dilemma (thedilettantesdilemma.com)

All I can say is read the King James Bible and study it, particularly the New Testament. There is so much in the Bible, one must concentrate on the real core of message which is in the New Testament. If you went to a big cathedral, I am not sure if you would learn anything about biblical Christianity and the actual gospel. I doubt it is clearly preached in cathedrals. For one thing Romanism which has been the dominant religion in the west for 1,700 years does not teach or preach the true gospel. I am not interested in "pointing the finger" but I must defend the truth from false accusations and claims. The forum is simply a place where one makes a comment and someone else replies. I agree the large cathedrals in Europe do not really represent biblical Christianity. But that has been the way of Romanism for 1,700 years. We had the Holy Roman Inquisition for 400 years where heretics were burned at the stake. Anyone who did not tow the line was considered a heretic and at risk of being hauled before the Inquisition tribunals and punished.

You obviously have not studied the Bible, particularly the New Testament or you would not talk like that. There is a world of difference between Islam, the Koran, and biblical Christianity. Biblical Christianity does not teach that anyone should be beheaded for blasphemy or for being LGBTQ. Nobody is to be punished or persecuted for their beliefs or behavior. For you to equate Islam/Mohammed with Jesus is absolutely ridiculous. The lesson here is you have no idea what biblical Christianity is and need to settle down and do some study. The King James Bible is the foundation and there are lots of websites that would help understand it. Atheists have a serious problem in that they are alienated from our Creator. They are sinners just like everyone else and need to believe the Bible, repent, and ask for forgiveness from God through his Son Jesus Christ and accept him as their personal Lord and Savior. If one fails to do that, he is not going to punished in this life for his decision although he may suffer terrible consequences for making the wrong decisions in life, but he will be judged by God. Its a personal decision. I know there are lots of compassionate people that do plenty of good in the world who are not Christians and may be atheists. Being compassionate does not give them a free pass because the fact is according to the Bible "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". That includes all the compassionate do gooders in the world and those worshiping in false religion. There is only one God and one Savior Jesus Christ who died for the sins of mankind. He is the only Savior. Sure there are lots of pharisees in the world. But just because someone professes to believe in Christ and the Bible does not necessarily make him a pharisee. Since you don't know anything about people on the forum, you are jumping to conclusions and falsely accusing others. Its quite dumb. You open yourself up to being accused of throwing around false accusations and there is no defense for you. Just lumping Christians in with Mohammed and Islam is not very smart.

That is true but it is necessary or there would be no forum. Its the same with voting. That's why we have Trudeau, Liberals and the NDP in control. You have to accept everyone's input or accept a dictatorship like in Afghanistan or Iran. That is why I don't have much faith in the system. I trust in God and his written revelation, the King James Bible. When you have a government that promotes and supports assisted suicide, killing unborn babies, and same-sex marriage, gender change ideology taught to kids in schools as normal, cozying up with China for decades, you know you have a serious problem. What we see happening is ample proof the world is a fallen, corrupt place and largely under the control of the Devil. The lesson is don't put your trust in mankind and his systems. Trust Jesus Christ and his word, the KJV.

How about sticking to natural gas or oil to produce power instead of windmills? I saw those windmills in southern Alberta and they are ugly and ruin the appearance of the landscape.

The COP15 and their U.N. backers are calling for 30% of a country like Canada to be set aside or preserved. Trudeau and his cohorts are going along with this. Preserved for what? God has given man dominion over the earth. That does not mean prohibiting man from using 30% of a country's surface area or water. How does that serve the well-being of mankind? It doesn't. All it does is eliminate that area from being used to extract or develop natural resources, grow food, and provide a place for humans to live. This makes no sense. People like Trudeau, Guilbeaut (minister of environment or similar) and environmental radicals simply pulling a figure like 30% out of thin air and saying this is the solution to the problems of the environment make no sense at all. It is a very childish, simplistic way of looking at the environment and man's place in it. If waterways and land areas are being polluted with garbage, then stop polluting them. Stop dumping plastic into the rivers, lakes, and oceans. That is the approach that should be taken. Not locking up 30% of the country and saying we can't live on it or use the natural resources. That is more harmful and an easy way out of their responsibility to do things properly.

"Desertification cancelled: Climate Change won’t make the deserts grow After a thousand headlines told us Climate Change would make deserts grow, a new study suggests it won’t. It’s a finding that shocks no one who knew that climate models have no predictive skill with rainfall, and that a warmer world means higher global precipitation. Plus there’s the awkward clue that for the last forty years the arid regions of the world have been getting greener instead of more deserty." Desertification cancelled: Climate Change won’t make the deserts grow « JoNova (joannenova.com.au) "Does a warmer climate mean more dry land? For years, researchers projected that drylands—including deserts, savannas and shrublands—will expand as the planet warms, but new research from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) challenges those prevailing views." Climate change may not expand drylands (phys.org) The fact is the climate changes over time and always has. Man cannot control it. When the climate changes there may be some changes on earth. Man cannot stop that. The U.N. is a denier and thinks otherwise. They want the developed nations to send their money to the third world to allegedly compensate them for the changing climate and they blame the west for the changing climate. This is why we see all these COP conferences which include protesters of all sorts. They want to make you and I pay for the changing climate. The U.N. discovered this clever scheme some time ago and is exploiting it for all its worth.

"Trudeau announces $800M for Indigenous-led conservation initiatives" Where does Trudeau get the authority to just throw out nearly a billion dollars for his personal pet projects without Parliamentary approval? Sounds like a total dictatorship. Trudeau announces $800M for Indigenous-led conservation initiatives (msn.com) Notice he is doing this at the start of COP15 as a purely virtue-signaling initiative. 800 million dollars could go a long way to help the failing health care system.

The government website which would have up-to-date figures says: "About 89% of electricity in Alberta is produced from fossil fuels– approximately 36% from coal and 54% from natural gas. The remaining 10% is produced from renewables, such as wind, hydro, and biomass." CER – Provincial and Territorial Energy Profiles – Alberta (cer-rec.gc.ca)

Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless. There are likely quite a few people driving around Toronto carrying illegal loaded handguns and maybe in Vancouver as well. The police found a pile of guns when they stopped one car in Toronto the other day. Just be very careful when you are driving in Toronto, Vancouver or other places because if you cause road rage with some thug with an illegal gun or accidentally have a fender bender, you never know what could happen. Trudeau and the left don't believe you have the right to defend yourself. But the criminals are allowed to have guns and the courts give bail to people charged with gun offences.

What? Where did you get those figures? I think you need to check into that further. According to this website Alberta generates 16,330 megawatts. Alberta is the third largest producer of electricity in Canada. You stated 10,000 megawatts which is quite a bit less that the actual amount. "Alberta is the third largest producer of electricity in Canada and has an estimated generating capacity of 16 330 megawatts (MW). About 89% of electricity in Alberta is produced from fossil fuels– approximately 36% from coal and 54% from natural gas. The remaining 10% is produced from renewables, such as wind, hydro, and biomass." This is from the Canada Energy Regulator CER – Provincial and Territorial Energy Profiles – Alberta (cer-rec.gc.ca) Wind, solar, hydro and biomass combined generates only about 10% of Alberta's power. According to a 2020 CBC news article, Alberta produced about 1.9 GW of power with wind and solar and was expected to rise: "According to the data that Rystad tracks, Alberta's current renewable capacity includes 0.1 gigawatt (GW) of solar and 1.8 GW of wind. By 2025, it expects that to grow to 1.8 GW of solar and 6.5 GW of wind. " Or 8.3 GW. Now 1.9 GW is equal to 1,900 MW. Alberta generates 16,330 MW (megawatts) mainly from fossil fuels. The amount of wind and solar electricity generated would appear to be 12% of what Alberta generates which is mainly from fossil fuels. This 12% figure may be at the peak time of wind and solar power. We know it varies greatly depending on sunshine and how much wind is blowing. It would not be consistent. It would appear Alberta is nowhere near 50% with wind and solar. More like 12% and perhaps only at peak times when the sun is shining, and the wind is blowing.

I don't think that all the provinces are a creation of the federal government. B.C. for instance was a British Colony. They joined confederation in 1871, four years after confederation began or Canada was formed. They joined under the agreement of the division of powers with the province having jurisdiction over its natural resources and other things. Canada is a confederation with a division of powers between the provinces and the federal government. There is nothing that says the federal government can unilaterally change that constitutional agreement or transfer provincial powers to the federal government. Any changes to the constitution must be by the agreed upon formula. The withdrawal of a province from the confederation is an unknown matter. Quebec came the closest to starting that process and the vote to separate was very narrowly defeated if 50% was the deciding number. But that would be the beginning of the process and I am not sure how it would work out. The separatists might not get all the land they think they could have. The geographic area of Quebec was surrendered to the British crown in 1759 or 63. Perhaps that is why the Bloc Quebecois don't want to swear allegiance to the King. Prior to 1867 the land was part of British North America and under the jurisdiction of the British monarchy. I am not sure the forming of Canada changed that because Canada is still a constitutional monarchy. I would not be too anxious to abolish the monarchy because that could make it easier for a province to say they are not under the authority of the crown.

Possibly the public service was told to get the pandemic aid out to everyone who needed it ASAP. But the civil service was not set up properly for such a task and perhaps did not have the framework to check on every applicant to see whether they were really entitled to aid or not. The need to get it out to those who really needed it was paramount of course. This was an expensive lesson to be better prepared for these events.

CTV is just reporting the auditor general said the federal government paid 4.7 billion dollars in pandemic aid to people who were not entitled to it. They are reportedly having trouble getting it back. Another 27.4 billion dollars is under investigation. That a lot of taxpayer money. Seems they at least were fast in sending out aid, but not very good at determining who should receive it. There should also be scrutiny of the millions of dollars Trudeau doles out every day or two. When are they going to fix the failing health care system?

Unfortunately, this COP15 cult conference will be just another brainwashing session supported by the Liberal-NDP government to brainwash more people into the radical agenda they have of opposing Canadians and the world using the earth to live on. The thing that makes it even worse is Canadians will be paying millions of dollars or tens of millions to pay for this gathering of radical environmental cultists. When the governments of the world gather in something like this sponsored by the U.N. and governments who are member states, many people automatically believe whatever they say. This is how climate change alarmism works and became such a big deal. It was constant propaganda by the U.N., and their obedient liberal left governments led by people like Trudeau. Who in his cabinet would even think of questioning his carbon tax agenda or net zero goals when they were appointed to the cabinet by Trudeau himself? The result is they are continually brainwashed with the line that man is to blame for the changing climate and must be made to pay. Nobody has ever actually seen any evidence that would support this assumption. The whole thing is just a cultish dogma. These COP cult conferences are like a snowball rolling down a long hill. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger and picks up more naive followers along the way. We should not forget there will be many Marxist-leaning, environmentally radical professors and claimed experts present to help spur and motivate these followers and government representatives along. After all they believe they are out to save the world from mankind. A rolling snowball is a good simile of how brainwashing and propaganda is spread by these conferences and governments. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=picture+of+giant+snowball+rolling+down+hill&&view=detail&mid=EC17F24E6DD546E7E53EEC17F24E6DD546E7E53E&rvsmid=44BFE2D8026E73D5830944BFE2D8026E73D58309&FORM=VDQVAP

What lefties and liberals don't seem to understand is our economy and life operates on the principle of free enterprise capitalism. Corporations and investors don't just drop what they are investing in such as the oil sands and natural gas extraction and put their money and resources into solar power, wind power, or nuclear power at the drop of a hat because a group of environmentalists say they should. They have to invest in things that give a reasonable return and today that is the existing oil and gas industry. Most of the world runs their vehicles on oil products. Most of the goods require oil in the manufacturing process. Aircraft, ships, transport trucks almost all use oil to operate. Corporations cannot make money if they simply stopped investing in the existing energy industry because Liberals and NDP think they should do something else. That is not how the free world operates. Liberal and NDP governments solution is to put heavy regulations and carbon taxes on the energy industry and on the general public thinking this will force them to stop producing and using oil and gas. When there is no ready alternative to oil this is not going to work. All that is happening is the price of oil and gas all other goods is increasing. The price of everything simply goes up. Companies have no choice but to pass the costs on to the consumers. Investors and corporations must continue to earn a profit or they cannot exist and society cannot function. Unfortunately for the populations that depend on these products, governments do not understand and will continue to punish everyone for using oil and gas.

When most of the countries of the world send representatives and Canada sends hundreds of people in its delegation to the U.N. sponsored COP conferences, then you know the world has been infected by the radical environmentalist cult. You also must be aware that a large part of the world's population as for example in India, and some neighbouring countries do not believe in eating meat. They worship countless gods of Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. and allow cattle to walk the streets untouched while vast numbers of people are starving and living in poverty. That example proves how easily hundreds of millions of people, maybe billions are so easily deceived by cults such as the environmental cult and Mother Earth worshipers. Yet the British Conservative government elected a practicing Hindu as their PM and statistics tell us the number of Christians in Britain has now fallen to less than 50% of the people. This is just one example of why more and more people are falling for the environmentalist cult of Mother Earth worship. In Canada there are people who want to bring native spirituality into the public school system now. That means smudging ceremonies, and worship of spirits of the creatures and Mother Earth would be taught to school students. When a Christian mother in BC went to court over her daughter being forced to be in a classroom when a smudging ceremony was being held, the judge ruled the smudging ceremony was not a religious practice (if you can believe that).