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A 46 year old man was facing a charge for obstructing or resisting a peace officer. CBC Lite | News He unwisely decided to represent himself rather than hire a lawyer. He held the view that the courts have no validity or jurisdiction and took up the court time with frivolous arguments. Consequently the judge ruled against him for contempt of court and sentenced him to one year in prison. Do you think he was given too harsh a sentence? Was it even the right kind of sentence for a ignorant guy like that? It appears he was a kind of ignorant person and perhaps he is somewhat mentally ill. Makes one wonder what kind of education he had and where he got his nonsensical ideas. Perhaps the internet conspiracy websites. I am wondering if a shorter sentence and counseling might have been a better option. He may be put in with hardened criminals now. He made a grave mistake in that he did not seem to understand the justice system is legitimate and judges must be respected. He sounds like he was completely ignorant. I don't even know if he should have been given the option of representing himself. That may not have been right especially in his case. He is a bit of nut case. I am not sure the justice system can function properly by letting mentally-challenged individuals represent themselves.

As much as you yourself are in denial about God, the evidence for God is all around us. The fact that Canada is not a loving, caring country was always a fact. Many people became worse during the pandemic, but mankind has always been a fallen, corrupt being with a wicked heart. The level of crime was high before the pandemic and new problems were created by the pandemic. That's why man needs to read or listen to the Bible and repent and believe the gospel. There is no other solution. You cannot command people to change their attitude or heart which is corrupt. It doesn't work that way. Everyone needs to be born again.

There are lots of examples in history where the majority thought a certain way and then later it was found out that they were wrong or mistaken. Millions of people believe all sorts of things that have been proven wrong. Why do you blindly accept the climate scam? It was claimed that people are born homosexual. But it was later found that was false. There is no evidence in the genes. Yet you believed that lie too. Millions of people worship Mary and other saints. Yet the Bible condemns that as idolatry (Maryolatry). We have had 50 years of false climate predictions. Yet you claim man-made climate change is the problem. Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions - Competitive Enterprise Institute (cei.org)

I take it you are asking a serious question. The Bible is not meant to be a scientific encyclopedia. The Bible is God's revelation to mankind. It tells how we are all fallen sinners and need to be born again. As long as we are unregenerate or not born again, we are at enmity with God and destined for eternal damnation. By believing on Jesus Christ and what he did for us personally, we are born again and have our sins forgiven completely. Have you considered that?

It is a fact that the scientific method has nothing to do with the climate change fear-mongering scam. It is pure speculation. It is impossible to prove the claims. Do you even know what the scientific method is for establishing a fact?

So in effect you now admit you have no links or proof of all your claims. Just what I thought. All speculation.

Do you have any proof that such a thing happened as a result of the rail blockades? Any links giving details? What pipeline was that? The Northern Gateway Pipeline project was cancelled seven years ago by Trudeau because of his war on climate change. Nothing to do with rail blockades. I was talking about the rail blockades when I said they didn't have any effect. Do you have any links to show the blockades affected anything? You seem to be just throwing in everything but the kitchen sink claiming they the blockades had something to do with it.

"Aderonke Pederson: “What I’m seeing is pent-up tension and emotions, whether it’s the recent road-rage incidents, more aggressive behavior reported on airline flights and fans at sporting events being really aggressive or spitting at or throwing things at players.” Crystal Clark: “I am seeing a lot of increased anxiety, depression, irritability and decreased stress tolerance. I see this in my patients, and when I am at the grocery store or even driving on the road; there seems to be more road rage.” Lori Post: “We are seeing huge increases in homicides, suicides, domestic violence and overall gun violence.” What is the cause? It seems like we should be feeling joyous as life starts to return to normal. Pederson: “Following traumatic or grief-inducing events, people tend to enter into a survival mode and may suspend self-care, in addition, extenuating circumstances beyond our control like the financial pressures of the pandemic, lack of child-care, closure of schools, uncertainty, missed events and family gatherings and for many, actual loss of family members and friends to the virus will take a toll on our mental capacity/reserves. “As we emerge from the pandemic, there may be pent-up emotions and feelings that people may not be conscious about. While on the surface, there may be excitement around re-engaging with others, for so many of us, we have to re-learn basic social norms while also acknowledging that we may have been affected very differently by the pandemic. People still have differing perspectives on when and where to wear masks even when around fully vaccinated adults, especially in the setting of unvaccinated children. These underlying tensions may lead to hypersensitivity — people easily being triggered — to people around us or increased irritability towards others.” " Why is violent behavior spiking as pandemic ebbs?: For Journalists - Northwestern University So the question is what is one to do in the middle of this behavior in society. The answer is a Biblical one. We may not be able to change other people's behavior, but by being born again or becoming a son or daughter of God through faith in Jesus Christ, we are then protected by God. How so you might say? The answer is those who become part of God's family are with Him forever and He is with them no matter what happens around us or to us on earth. This is not a fairy tale as some claim. The Psalms assure us what being a child of God means: "4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. 5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me. 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about. 7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah." Psalm 3:4-8 kJV "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. 6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." Psalm 23 KJV

So what you're saying is illegal actions are rewarded in Canada. I don't think the railway blockades achieved anything for the blockaders. "Rail lines across Canada have been paralysed for almost two weeks after being blockaded by indigenous protesters and their supporters. The blockades were put in place in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en First Nation hereditary chiefs who oppose a natural gas pipeline in their traditional territory in the province of British Columbia (BC)." The Wet'suwet'en conflict disrupting Canada's rail system - BBC News The pipeline is around two-thirds completed now. The protesters failed to stop the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline project. Blockading the railways failed to stop it. A terrorist attack at the worksite destroyed tens of millions of dollars worth of machinery but did not stop the project. It is going ahead.

God is the foundation for all morality. If you don't believe in God, you don't have any foundation upon which to determine the difference between right or wrong, moral or immoral. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." Psalm 14:1 KJV Man is basically a fallen, corrupt being and needs to be born again. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? " Jeremiah 17:9 KJV "5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit." Jeremiah 17:5-8 KJV

Contrary to what you claim, the Supreme Court did not say they own the land they claim as "traditional territory". The only land they have a chance of claiming is theirs is if they can prove they lived and used a particular piece of land. They claim thousands of square kilometers as "traditional territory". They have no proof, no occupancy, and nothing to give any credence and the courts did not give them that land. Your claim is a general claim that is fiction.

OK, I was mistaken on that point. But you don't seem to understand how Canada works if you think natives can blockade railways and have a valid claim. Many native rights activists claim traditional territory is theirs. But that is complete nonsense. As Dougie pointed out the most of the land belongs to the Crown. Aboriginals claims of traditional territory does not mean anything. That is just a bargaining ploy. You seem to think they own the land. Don't know what kind of education you had or where you learned that. It is rubbish.

There is a moral vacuum in government because many of them are Romanists which is a man-made religious system contrary to Biblical Christianity. Romanism is very flexible and allows its people to believe and do almost anything and if something is specifically contrary to the system, they can always confess it and receive penance and absolution. Say a few Hail Mary's and you are good to go. But many don't even practice their religion and instead follow the religion of liberalism which has no morals at all. It is basically a free-for-all.

Most of the province does not belong to aboriginals. There is the odd small piece of land that the government has given them, but that is a tiny part of B.C. The idea that they own or are entitled to huge parts of B.C. is propaganda nonsense that you seem to believe. You came to Canada but don't understand what Canada is or how it works. Yet you are telling Canadians we don't own the land. Wow! NO wonder you think I am intolerable. I stand for Canada belonging to Canadians. You think it belongs to aboriginals because you came from somewhere else and listened to all the red power nonsense and never learned anything about Canada.

No, there is lots of wood. But NDP are creating more forest preserves. They don't care about our main industry in B.C.

No, the indigenous do not own all the lands. Why do you think we have laws in Canada? They do not own whatever they claim as their traditional territories. If they did, there would no be no industry and no Canada. Do you even understand how Canadian laws work? But the main reason mills shut down is because of provincial NDP policies and costs that make it too expensive to log and run mills

That's because we have a lot of ignorant, uneducated people in Canada that support extremists and radicals. Canada is a mess. These are law breakers. They break the law and you support them?

Why is the federal government not bailing out the towns in B.C. where mills have shut down? Taxpayers should not be forced to bail out or build EV battery plants.

Only because the federal government lets them get away with it. Trudeau panders to them and is afraid to enforce the law. They should have been arrested and thrown in jail.

This article helps to show why the push for fast transitioning to EVs is misguided. Canadian towns and cities do not presently have the electrical infrastructure to accommodate large numbers of EVs. This fellow found in his neighbourhood, the electrical company does not even have adequate wiring to be able to install 200 amp panels for EVs in his home. The underground wiring to accommodate that higher current is simply not there. So not only do homes and apartment buildings not have the facilities available for charging stations, but it appears in some cases at least, the electrical companies do not have the street power lines to be able to accommodate the change. But it appears the federal government doesn't care about that. They are pushing ahead regardless. People should be very careful before they buy an EV and make sure they can have a charging station at their home to be able to charge it overnight. In many cases it may not be possible. GUNTER: Entire federal push for EVs and eco regulations a scam (msn.com)

"Traditional chiefs" are a small group of unelected self-proclaimed hereditary chiefs that claim to speak for everyone else. The actual band councilors are elected by each band and speak for the bands across the region. In the case of the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline project now being built, as far as I know, all the band councils have approved of the project. Only the unelected chiefs oppose it and they do not speak for the great majority of the bands. It would have been the same situation with the Northern Gateway Pipeline if the process had been allowed to continue through the consultation process to completion. Most of the elected band councils would have approved it and the unelected chiefs would have opposed it. That's just how it works in B.C. The unelected chiefs are part of an archaic aboriginal system that has no place in Canada or modern society because they are living in the past and using it as a way to try to block any development, claim the whole province for themselves and extort everything they can out of white man. If people listened to them, there would be no Canada.

The federal government, Trudeau specifically, killed the Northern Gateway Pipeline project and the Energy East Pipeline project after he was elected in 2015. Since there was only one pipeline to the west coast from Alberta, the Trans Mountain Pipeline, already in existence for over 50 years and it needed expansion, the government had no choice but to take if over to get it built. It is the only pipeline there is to ship Alberta oil to the west coast. So they had no choice. But aside from that the federal government is opposed to the energy industry and is working on transitioning away from fossil fuels, which is unrealistic because they will be with us for the foreseeable future. Trudeau and company live in an alternate reality and are imposing their ideology on the rest of Canada at our expense.

Strange how the federal government claims to be opposed to sexual abuse while they paid 35 million dollars of taxpayer money for the Pope's visit to Canada recently. "There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the cases have involved many allegations, investigations, trials, convictions, acknowledgement and apologies by Church authorities, and revelations about decades of instances of abuse and attempts by Church officials to cover them up.[3] The abused include mostly boys but also girls, some as young as three years old, with the majority between the ages of 11 and 14.[4][5][6][7] " Catholic Church sexual abuse cases - Wikipedia The allegation is often made by defenders of the Catholic church that sexual abuse is just as bad or worse in Protestant churches. However, this is doubtful because it ignores the reality that the Catholic church forbids it's priests to marry. They are required to take a vow of celibacy and remain unmarried. That is completely unnatural and is a major cause of temptation. Priests are also in the position where their congregants are put in a position of trusting them as they confess to them privately. People go to the confessional and are required to confess all their personal sins to the priest. This gives the priest a certain power over every person under them. This is not a part of the Protestant churches belief system. In fact there are no priests in Protestant churches. Ministers are permitted to marry and have families which means they are in a completely different situation.

" Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science. More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science. While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited. 1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’" Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions - Competitive Enterprise Institute (cei.org)

The federal government just announced they are giving 13 billion dollars to the multinational corporation, Volkswagon, over ten years, to subsidize the building of an EV battery plant in Ontario. The Canadian taxpayer's federation and the opposition party are opposed to this and say according to their calculations this will cost taxpayers about 1.6 million dollars per job to create 8,000 jobs. Here is a classic example of how liberals and left are Socialists and use taxpayer's money to promote their Socialist ideology. Government has all kinds of regulations and interfere constantly with private enterprise in Canada but spend billions of dollars for things that they favour which fit in with their ideology. Is this part of the great "transition" away from fossil fuels to EVs? If green energy is a sensible investment and electric vehicles are such a great thing, why does it take so much taxpayer money to develop it? If it is a profitable industry, why are we forced to subsidize a multinational corporation to do this? In the meantime the feds are hammering the energy industry in Alberta and the west and have been blocking the construction of pipelines in Canada. Even refusing to help ship natural gas to Europe and Japan. $13B for an EV battery plant — and that's just from the feds | Watch (msn.com)