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LOL... Unfortunately popes and Romanism do not teach the truth from the King James Bible which is God's pure word. What do you think the Reformation was all about? The very existence of Popes and the Papacy is not supported by the Bible. Neither is the mass, confession to a priest, absolution, purgatory, salvation by works, and Mary worship. You better do some studying.

Digging a little deeper, I found the following info. " While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world’s richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada’s borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada’s aid reported to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development last year benefited refugees and Ukrainians within Canada. “Most Canadians would not think that counts, because when we think of foreign aid we think of something happening in other countries, not costs that we have here,” said Elise Legault, Canada director with the One Campaign, an anti-poverty advocacy group. Canada ranks seventh for dollars spent on foreign aid, according to the OECD, a group of mostly rich countries. Last month, the organization released its analysis of aid spending in 2023. It shows Canada spent just over US$8 billion in aid last year, of which $1.5 billion went to supporting refugees, asylum claimants and Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion, during their first year in Canada." Canada ranked 7th in foreign aid spending among richest nations - National | Globalnews.ca "Canada pledged to gradually increase international aid for women's health to $1.4 billion annually, with half dedicated to ensuring women have access to safe abortions and reproductive-health services worldwide1. In 2021, Canada's investments in sexual reproductive health and rights funding rose to $170.4 million (3.5 percent of total bilateral allocable aid)2." " In March, U.S. President Donald Trump expanded his government's ban on funding for any organizations that perform abortion services, referrals or advocacy related to abortion — a policy known as the "global gag rule" that his predecessor, Barack Obama, repealed. Since then, Trump has twice expanded the policy, most recently to include non-governmental organizations that fund or support other groups that provide or discuss abortion. Trudeau says deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls amount to 'genocide' Trudeau to bring up anti-abortion laws in U.S. during meeting with VP Mike Pence Trudeau has been vocal in criticizing what he called a "backsliding" on women's rights in some American states that are severely restricting or outright banning abortion. Alabama's state legislature passed a law last month banning virtually all abortions, but the rules don't take effect until November. Other southern and Midwest states are poised to make similar moves. Trudeau said he would "always be unequivocal about defending a woman's right to choose." Trudeau pledges more funding for reproductive health services worldwide | CBC News Sadly Trudeau has been using the Canadian taxpayers to increase and fund the killing of preborn babies in other countries. This is nothing to boast about. Somehow in his warped mind, he thinks this is promoting equality and human rights of women, totally ignoring the rights of preborn babies, who are also humans with the right to life. I can't help wondering why he has such an obsession with abortion rights throughout the world and with accusing Canadians of genocide. The real genocide is the killing of the pre-born babies. It is revealing "The RCMP has conducted studies and investigations regarding missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada. The 70% of perpetrators in these cases are indigenous". So who is he accusing of genocide? Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women: A National Operational Overview | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

I don't see that Carney accomplished much if anything. He was only there to listen, not talk. We know Trump is not interested in listening to anything. We remember Zelensky's visit. They could have done it on a video conference call. Same results except it would have saved taxpayers thousands of dollars.

I see the troll is back.

I am not sure why you say Conservatives are on the "path of division, rage and hate". Maybe you have been believing everything the mainstream media says which tries to paint the Conservatives that way. Conservatives simply state their position which is disagreement with the Liberals and NDP. Stating those facts succinctly is not rage or hate. It is simply stating the facts. In politics there will always be divisions, because that is what democracy means. Everyone has the right to their own beliefs. Liberals believe in liberalism and progressivism. NDP believe in Socialism, and Conservatives believe in conservatism. Every party speaks out against the other party. Some lie, some tell the truth as they see it. But your claim that the party you oppose is on the path of division, rage and hate is a false claim. They simply state their position and what they oppose about the other parties. All parties do the same thing.

That sounds bizarre. I don't think you understand Canadian politics or Conservatives at all. Conservatives in Canada have nothing to do with MAGA and their ideology. Conservatives around the world simply believe in free enterprise, less government, lower taxes, and respect for individual freedom versus big brother control of everyone's life. There is a fraction of conservatives that believe in respect for the lives of pre-born babies, respect for the sanctity of life, and oppose sexual orientation and gender identity ideology. Those beliefs are just historic Judeo-Christian beliefs common in the western world. MAGA did not originate those beliefs and has no patent on them. So to allege conservatives in Canada or anywhere else are MAGA doesn't make sense. Trump's ideas are contrary to what conservatives in Canada or elsewhere believe. Trump believes that trade must always be one-sided, i.e. benefit mainly his country. He thinks that is the "art of the deal". Canadian conservatives believe in a negotiated, fair, free trade deal that benefits both sides. Trump's ideas are totally alien to Canadian conservatives.

I hope you're wrong. We go to fast food places for a burger sometimes. The thought is sickening. But we never know.

If the U.N. has its way, yes. This is the kind of thing we are paying the U.N. to do. It should be noted that PM Carney was a prominent leader on the U.N. climate change bureaucracy. He may still have the U.N. war on climate change on his agenda. Canada has been a loyal supporter of whatever the U.N. decrees, so be aware. That's why we had years of carbon taxes under Trudeau while much of the world had no carbon taxes. Insects could be on a Carney hidden agenda. "Countries have to rapidly shift to restorative forms of agriculture and dramatically reduce meat production to save the planet from catastrophic climate change, according to a leaked version of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on land, the Guardian reports. " The Planet Is Doomed Unless We Stop Eating So Much Meat, UN Warns

So if you don't believe in the established environmental laws and regulations to protect the environment, what do you believe in?

That's your false claim. I never suggested in any way that man destroy all things on earth. Developing or mining our natural resources within the framework of environmental laws is not destroying the environment. So you are making things up. I couldn't answer that. Nobody knows why God gave eternal life to them. The Bible says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. All I can tell is what the Bible says. I don't have any other special source to knowledge than what God has said in his word. No, I don't think bickering is very productive. I believe in discussion. How about you? Are your comments somehow not bickering while mine are bickering?

Really. What about PM Carney, a prominent globalist and U.N. climate change representative who now became PM of our country?

The Bible was the most important source of knowledge, but I studied many things in my life time. Maybe you could correct me and tell me where I am wrong.

Some people say the WEF wants to decrease the world population and control what is left to suit their own agenda. PM Mark Carney was a major power in global world organizations such as the U.N. climate war. This video shows PM Mark Carney speaking at the World Economic Forum. His speaking begins at about the 11 minute mark. DAVOS LIVE: U.N. climate envoy Mark Carney speaks at the World Economic Forum Bing Videos

This article from the World Economic Forum (WEF) promotes the eating of insects. Is this our destiny under the control of the globalists? " The World Economic Forum is committed to publishing a wide array of opinions. Misrepresenting content diminishes open conversations. Our consumption of animal protein is the source of greenhouses gas and climate change. Insects are an overlooked source of protein and a way to battle climate change. The consumption of insects can offset climate change in many ways. We've been conditioned to think of animals and plants as our primary sources of proteins, namely meat, dairy and eggs or tofu, beans and nuts, but there's an unsung category of sustainable and nutritious protein that has yet to widely catch on: insects. Before you say "yuck," hear us out. Most of us aren't accustomed to regarding insects as food. But, the nutritional difference between sources of protein is relatively small. For instance, plant proteins lack some essential amino acids that animal proteins possess, but the major differences between insect and other sources of protein exist largely in the cultural and environmental realm." For the five reasons go to their website: 5 reasons why eating insects can reduce climate change | World Economic Forum

What was yours? What I learned since I finished high school would amaze you. I learned some things you refuse to learn, from the King James Bible. You seem to be lost in the globalist, environmental mother earth worship ideology. God gave man dominion over all things on the earth. "4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; {All…: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them} 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! " Psalm 8:4-8 KJV If you want to be saved and have eternal life, you need to start reading the King James Bible, New Testament.

That is your own imagination. Did you watch the news tonight on TV about the BC Mining Association report? "Mining benefits all British Columbians, supporting more than 35,000 jobs and nearly 4,000 small, medium and First Nations businesses in every region of the province. The industry accounts for $18 billion in annual economic activity and almost 30 per cent of the province’s goods exports. There are currently 11 metal mines, five steelmaking coal mines and two smelters operating in BC. The province has long been a key global mining jurisdiction, and home to one of the largest concentrations of mining and exploration companies and industry expertise in the world." 2025 Economic Impact Study - Mining Association of BC

So how many billions of dollars do you think Canada should be sending to the rest of the world? Why don't you think there should be detailed accounting to prove what happens to any money that is sent abroad? What about taking care of Canadians first since this is Canadian's tax money? Shouldn't Canadians have a say on how their money is used?

You are just a commie troll.

Forestry is the major industry in B.C. It generates prosperity and allows the people of B.C. to raise their families and have a good life. Do you also support the World Economic Forum idea that the world should change from eating meat to eating insects? Sounds like that is the kind of thing you support to fight climate change. Bizarre. Maybe you are more of a troll than a reasonable debater.

If manufacturing was a money-making industry in Canada, why don't we have it other than the auto industry which is government subsidized and under threat by Trump now? There is not much manufacturing industry in Canada because it can't compete with the less expensive goods from the rest of the world. You don't create a country or prosperity by wishful thinking.

You live in the liberal left fantasyland. Prosperity and jobs are built on private enterprise and investment in things that make money. In Canada that is natural resources. You don't seem to understand simple logic. Government doesn't create wealth by simply wishing or trying to start some other industry that doesn't make money. That's not how economies work.

Sorry we have to disagree about this one. This is not a black and white issue. Even if one thinks the general policy of removing alleged illegal migrants is in order, a President and country must respect due process, and respect lawyers that defend the accused. You can't just crush the rights of lawyers who defend these people and just ignore the due processes and procedures that respect human rights. We need to think deeper.

The only reason you don't care about Canada wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money in foreign aid is you don't give a hoot about the people struggling in Canada to make ends meet, that go to food banks, can't afford a home, and live in tent cities, out of control crime, etc. You don't even know where the money goes and don't care. You believe Christianity means Communist global wealth redistribution, which is as far from Christianity or what the Bible teaches as you can get. When are you going to abandon Romanist popery and become a Christian?

Ge·sta·po [ɡəˈstäpō] definition the German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe, and sent Jewish people and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler. "Last month, Clay Jackson was at a gas station near his home in Dallas when an attendant asked if he could offer up some legal advice to an immigrant family in the neighborhood. A father was caught up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, and the mixed-status family with a U.S. citizen child wasn’t sure what to do next. Jackson agreed to give them informal pro bono support in his personal capacity, not as an in-house lawyer for Fidelity National Financial, a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 title insurance company. “My goal was to try to find somebody just to be a conduit for them, to alleviate their immediate concerns and fear, give them just some basic understanding of what this is and how this may play out, and then try to find them with a good lawyer,” he told The Independent. Then two people he says appeared to be federal law enforcement agents visited Jackson himself. Two plain-clothed agents appeared at his home and accused Jackson of obstructing an investigation, he said. Jackson talked to formerWashington Post columnist Radley Balko about the people he believed were ICE agents arriving at his door. That article, which did not mention where Jackson worked, was published April 23. That same day, Jackson was fired. The incident follows a series of actions from Donald Trump’s administration targeting individual lawyers and firms that provided work for his perceived political enemies. Jackson fears ICE’s threats and his abrupt termination could send a “chilling” effect preventing lawyers from pro bono work or even informal advice." A Texas lawyer gave advice to an immigrant family caught up in an ICE raid. Agents visited him, and then he was fired

Most normal Canadians would oppose if asked by the Liberals to give a thousand dollars to the Liberal government to spread around the world. Charity is an individual thing, not a government mandated scheme where the money is taken by force from the people and doled out in the billions of dollars and no accounting of how it is used. People donate to various charities to help the poor. That is voluntary giving, not government mandated. They do not willingly give to the Marxist U.N. to spread around in an unknown fashion.