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Funny how the loons think government can save the planet by banning a few things. Would make more sense to teach people to recycle plastic.

Why not just stop throwing plastic into waterways and nature? Why not put it all in recycle bins and recycle it? We need to be cleaning up the oceans and waterways and removing any plastic. It would be pretty hard to ban all plastics. We have countless things we need it for. What about all the plastic bottles we use for water, pop, juices, and countless things? What about the plastic bags we use for food and many things? It would make more sense to just recycle it all instead of trying to ban things that we need. The Liberals and left's idea of banning plastic straws will accomplish nothing. What about the tons of other plastic things used for countless purposes? They didn't ban them. It was all show to garner votes much like their fake war on climate change.

Wow, were we ever fortunate. Went on Friday afternoon. They had five or six lines in the gym with each line in front of certain alphabetical letters referring to the first letter of the voter's last name. My letter/line had nobody lined up while some other lines had ten or fifteen people lined up. So it only took a few minutes and we were out of there. Very fortunate since in some cities I saw on the news there long lineups down the street.

That's a very broad baseless claim. It's easy to make false broad claims. Putin does it all the time. So does Trump.

Sounds like you have extreme bias. You are not willing to listen to all sides of a story.

Looking forward to plastic straws again. They are clean, smooth and don't crumble like paper straws. Whoever forced paper straws on people should be locked up. They are garbage. They get soggy, absorb moisture and fall apart. The problem is with the system of disposal. They should always be put in a recycling bin and never dumped into waterways or on land. They should all be recycled. That's all there is to it.

There's no "MAGA" in Canada. You must watching too much U.S. Trump news.

It's simple but I don't think you understand. Government don't give them for no reason. Subsidies are given for specific reasons. Reasons include the creation of many well-paying jobs in the energy industry and thousands of spin-off jobs. Generating tax revenue and royalties brings in vast amounts of money. Providing lower cost oil and gas to other industries and to the consumers. If it were not for subsidies of various kinds the costs to the consumers would be higher.

Do you really think forcing industries to spend a large part of their income on carbon capture and storage is going to save the planet or affect the climate? Who ends up paying for all this madness in the end? The consumer of course. This is one of the main reasons Canada does not achieve its potential.

Instead of banning plastics, which is a very difficult proposition when you consider bags and packing material, etc., why not stop dumping plastic into waterways. Who is actually dumping it all into the rivers, streams and oceans? That is where the government should be concentrating its efforts. Plastic should only go into recycling bins. It doesn't need to be banned. If it is all collected, it can then be melted down and recycled. Concentrate on stopping people from dumping into the environment. Simple.

" A Catholic in Name Only? Having a Catholic as Prime Minister will likely raise the hopes of some Reformed Christians that the federal government might finally take action of social issues. After all, the Catholic Church is opposed to abortion, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and medical transitioning. Wouldn’t it follow that a Catholic Prime Minister would follow the teachings of his own church? Unfortunately, that isn’t likely. Ten of Canada’s preceding 23 Prime Ministers have all claimed to be Catholic. Yet, their Catholic faith didn’t guide their political decisions. Catholic Pierre Trudeau legalized abortion and homosexuality. Catholic Paul Martin legalized same-sex marriage. Catholic Justin Trudeau legalized euthanasia. With respect to Mark Carney, the Catholic Register concludes that “his track record betrays a stronger alignment with the mores and allegiances of global markets than with Catholic sensibilities… Carney is undoubtedly a Catholic of a different stripe than the Trudeaus and all the prime ministers who came between… but the wait for a prime minister who will address some of the more glaring divergences of Canadian culture from a culture of life may yet be a long one. " Mark Carney’s Political Beliefs In his 2021 book Value(s), Carney isn’t shy about what he thinks is the duty of the state: “The most fundamental duty of the state is to protect its citizens” (215). That sounds reasonable, but the question is: protect citizens from what? He elaborates further: “An expansion of state duties has occurred over the centuries. The government’s role as protector now extends well beyond shielding citizens from violence and direct injury to cover areas as varied as promoting financial stability, protecting the environment and maintaining data privacy. Much of this growth has been a response to risk-averse populations that expect ever greater protections from government authorities. Moreover, the duties of governments today reach well beyond their traditional roles as protectors to include the provision of basic services, the promotion of the welfare and the fostering of culture.” Compare this with a Reformed view of the duty of the state. With Article 36 of the Belgic Confession, we confess that God “wants the world to be governed by laws and policies so that human lawlessness may be restrained and that everything may be conducted in good order among human beings.” These twin responsibilities can be boiled down to public justice and public order. Although both concepts could be stretched to include all sorts of activities like providing education, welfare, or healthcare, Reformed Christians usually maintain that public justice and public order are relatively narrow responsibilities. A third of Carney’s book is dedicated to discussing the “triple crises of credit, Covid, and climate” (416). In each of these cases, he frames the government’s responsibility in terms of protection. When it came to the financial crisis of 2008, the government’s job was to protect people from financial instability. In 2020, the government had to protect citizens from a pandemic. Today, the government needs to protect its populace from climate change. Carney uses just these three examples, but there is hardly a hint in the book that he considers there to be many limits to what the state can or should do. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Carney thinks the state needs to be huge or swallow up the other institutions in society. At numerous points in his book, Carney recognizes that businesses and markets are efficient and indispensable in a modern society. He recognizes that markets – not the state – are the engine of the economy. But if businesses and markets are the engine of the economy, Carney believes the state should be the steering wheel, guiding the generative potential of the economy in what it perceives is the right direction. As he puts it, governments must “use regulatory policy to frame the future direction of the economy” (471). Carney gives this power to the state because only “the state embodies collective ideals such as equality of opportunity, liberty, fairness, regional solidarity and caring for future generations” (517). In his view, business and other private institutions will always be selfish and self-seeking. Only the state is selfless and altruistic." Besides being our new Prime Minister, who is Mark Carney? | ARPA Canada It appears that PM Carney holds the same old liberal views that government (Big Brother) knows what is best for everyone and should intervene in every aspect of the economy, society and lives of the citizens. That is the classic liberal/NDP view. The conservative view is basically the opposite. Conservatism believes less government intervention in society and the lives of its citizens and less taxes is better and means more freedom for everyone. I believe this article gives a pretty good idea of what we can expect if the Liberals win this election.

They have to provide all kinds of equipment and various specialists in Scandinavian countries. That costs a lot. Yet they can provide good service, likely much better service than in Canada.

Beware of degenerates who constantly use insulting vile language on here. Put them on ignore.

No, I doubt there are thousands, but the point is it is a birth defect, not a new gender or sex. Someone born with both genitals apparently has some physical characteristics of both sexes, nothing more. No, they are not a new sex; it is a abnormality, that's all.

Haha. You are lying again. That figure was pure speculation and from an AMERICAN WEBSITE. Do you pay attention to what you look at? America has ten times the population of Canada. There is no 600,000 people in Canada that are born with that abnormality. Anyway that figure in the U.S. is false. Some speculated and someone tried to make it sound like a fact on their website. PUre BS. Then you read it and said it refers to Canada???? Of course biological sex is binary. An abnormal birth does not change basic biological facts. If a person is born with only one working eye, it doesn't mean there is a new species of one-eyed people.

That is a phony argument. It has nothing to do with it. It would be extremely rare, maybe one in a million. It is an anomaly and proves nothing. The subject is whether there are only two genders, male and female or more than that. LGBTQ+ and trans probably claim there are more, which you seem to believe.

So you believe in more than two genders? Does the Devil have fun with you.

Someone coming in illegally still does not give you the right to deny them their human rights and treat them in an uncivilized or inhumane manner. It is far more complex than your mind can understand.

Your claims are false. You are pretending he is a MAGA but what he has said has nothing to do with Trump or MAGA. What you are claiming is a pure Liberal/NDP lie that the gullible like you swallow. Pierre Poilievre has answered questions, has given his plan, has explained why he doesn't take a security clearance which would prevent him from speaking about foreign interference. That would mean a security clearance for a party leader is useless. He has in fact stated repeatedly his clear priorities. You're just willfully ignoring them and making up phony allegations.

And we will get more of the same with Carney. He has been a globalist climate warrior for the U.N., WEF, Vatican, and other organizations and was a close adviser to Trudeau.

I don't believe in man-made climate change because man's contribution to the total CO2 in the atmosphere is extremely small and not likely to be a contributing factor. There are other things that cause climate change as well. So Canada contributes billions of dollars to other countries to fight the war on climate change and to help them shift to green economies. What a farce! All of this won't make any difference to climate change. Canada could have been shipping liquid natural gas (LNG) for years to many countries to help them switch to cleaner energy. For example, many countries burn a lot of coal to produce electricity. This could have been replaced with liquid natural gas which is relatively clean, but our Trudeau government prevented Canada from building pipelines and various other infrastructure. That left Canada is a weaker position economically and deprived the world of a good source of natural gas. Meanwhile other countries developed their natural gas reserves and are selling them internationally.

We can agree on that, it is a "nobrainer". No brain that is to vote liberal. Sorry, I just couldn't resist that.

The years of Liberal reckless spending has compromised our ability to fight the tariff war. As this article correctly points out, Canada may face tax increases in order to deal with the tariff war and lay offs. "She said that having been overruled by Trudeau on keeping the federal deficit to $40.1 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year – it came in at $61.9 billion, 54% above the government’s own target – Canada lacked the fiscal fire power to fight U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on Canada effectively." GOLDSTEIN: Reckless Liberal spending compromised our ability to fight tariff war Trudeau did this to Canada and now he walks away scott free with a big pension.

Nobody is sinless except Jesus. If you think you're perfect and will go to heaven without being saved, you are sadly mistaken. If you are an unsaved sinner and think you can judge others, you are sadly mistaken. As the Bible says "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". Nobody gets into heaven or receives eternal life in the fallen state. The only way is to be born again so your sins are forgiven. That doesn't mean you will be perfect. Nobody in this world is. If you are waiting to see the perfect person, you will never see it. Determining what you believe on the basis of what you see in other people is a hopeless effort. Truth is not based on what you see in others. Truth is what God spoke in his word, the KJV Bible.

I assume you're talking about Trump and his MAGA supporters. You seem to be on a different wavelength. You are confused. I am not advocating Trump or anything to do with him. That has nothing at all to do with what I am telling you. Nothing to do with the Bible telling us all are fallen corrupt sinners and need to be born again. You ignore the Bible (KJV) at your own peril. The Bible and salvation has nothing to do with Trump or politics. "23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; " Romans 3:23-25 KJV