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What can be said? He was elected as a Conservative but betrayed his party.

What's new is Canada is getting into massive debt and will be unable to provide the services Canadians need because so much of the revenue will be going to pay the interest on the debt. The federal government and provinces are getting in way over their head and I don't think they know what they are doing. Even the BC NDP government is dragging BC far deeper into record debt.

"Overall, Ottawa has now accumulated 1.27-trillion in debt, almost half of it within the last five years. With Tuesday’s deficit forecast for this year, the federal government is now on track to have amassed $593.1-billion in debt over the last five years, or 46.7 per cent of the total debt from throughout Canadian history. More than half of that debt, or $327.7-billion of it, can be traced back to the fiscal year 2020-21 that included the start of the pandemic and the various policies that followed." With nearly $80B in red ink, Carney racks up largest ever non-pandemic deficit

" Federal and Provincial Debt-Interest Costs for Canadians 2025 The federal and provincial debt-interest costs for Canadians in 2025 are projected to be significant, with the total amount expected to be $92.5 billion. This figure represents the combined interest payments made by the federal and provincial governments. The costs vary by province, with Newfoundland & Labrador having the highest combined federal-provincial interest payments per person at $3,432, followed by Manitoba at $2,868. The federal government is projected to spend $53.8 billion on debt servicing charges in 2024/25, which is more than the expected spending on the Canada Health Transfer and childcare benefits. The interest payments on government debt are substantial and will impact the availability of funds for essential programs and services. Fraser Institute+4 This tells us that there is no free lunch. Everything the government spends money on has to be paid for by Canadians. We are sinking deeper into debt and the interest costs on this debt are staggering, now at 92.5 billion dollars. That is money that will no longer be available to provide services for Canadians. It is tragic that many if not most voters do not understand what this means. They heard that the deficit is going up to over 70 billions dollars, but I don't think they really understand what this means or the consequences. Canada is in serious trouble and the government does not seem to concern itself about getting us out of this mess. We have ever-increasing public health care costs, and many other public services that are demanding financial support, but there will be less money available for all these things because more money will have to go to pay the interest on the national debt. It's as simple as that. The left leaning parties seem to have less understanding or could care less about debt. They are constantly demanding more money be spent on every conceivable service.

Just a side point but related issue. quote James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and laws, ruled by James in personal union. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland, and thus a potential successor to all three thrones. He acceded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother was forced to abdicate. Although his mother was a Catholic, James was raised as a Protestant. Four regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583. In 1589, he married Anne of Denmark. Three of their children survived to adulthood: Henry Frederick, Elizabeth, and Charles. In 1603, James succeeded his cousin Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, who died childless. He reigned in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean era, until his death in 1625. After the Union of the Crowns, he based himself in England from 1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself "King of Great Britain and Ireland". He advocated for a single parliament for England and Scotland. In his reign, the Plantation of Ulster and English colonisation of the Americas began. unquote James VI and I - Wikipedia King James authorized the making of a new translation of the Bible called the King James Version or Authorized Version of 1611. This Bible is believed by many, including myself, to be God's inerrant, preserved word of God. It is based on the Received Text or Textus Receptus which is a Greek New Testament produced by Erasmus earlier in the 1500s. This is the Holy Scriptures handed down from the Apostolic age and is the true New Testament given by God through the apostles 1,900 years ago. This King James Bible has been a blessing to millions of people throughout the western world and other places for the past 400 years. It was a major instrument that brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to the United Kingdom, British North America, the U.S. of America, Australia, New Zealand, the colonies, and many other places in the world. This history is an important part of our connection to Europe and the United Kingdom. It is also a major part of the Reformation which brought freedoms and democracy to Europe and the west in the 16th to 20th century. That is an important historical change that occurred over hundreds of years. Without that we would not be where we are today, living in democratic and free countries in the west. Beware there are many forces and powers in the world that want to take away our freedom. One of their ways they work toward taking away our freedom is to disconnect us from our glorious history and symbols. Below is the Coat of Arms of Canada, which shows our historical ties. God save the King!

One of the big problems that really damaged Canada was the ten years of Trudeau's green economy. That means the Trudeau Liberal government intervened in the economy with laws and regulations that favoured a green economy and hampered the energy industry and anything that might be blamed for climate change. That resulted in carbon taxes, heavy regulations on the energy industry hampering resource development, no more pipeline laws, tanker ban on the BC north coast, squandered billions of dollars of taxpayer money on the EV battery plants, etc. That is how Trudeau made Canada much worse. That had nothing to do with Trump or the pandemic. The government intervened to give favour to green industries and oppose non-green industries. This cost Canada a fortune and really hurt Canada. Read the Fraser Institute article on how this was done. Whenever you have government intervening and controlling investment, you have negative impacts on the economy. Private enterprise knows best how to invest and build industry, not government. The whole thing was a waste of time and a scam. Canada only emits 1.5% of global CO2 while China emits about 32% and the U.S. emits 12%. All these taxes on Canadians and the regulations on the energy industry and other taxes did absolutely nothing for the environment or climate change.

That's not correct. He was brought to the U.S. when he was 9 months old legally. He was charged for an LSD delivery offence when he was 20 but spend 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. So the U.S. owes him a lot for that false imprisonment. He more than paid many times over for the LSD charge. Two judges have agreed and his deportation has been put on hold now while his appeal against deportation proceeds.

quote PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two separate courts have ordered immigration officials not to deport a Pennsylvania man who spent four decades in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. Subramanyam Vedam, 64, is currently detained at a short-term holding center in Alexandria, Louisiana, that’s equipped with an airstrip for deportations. Vedam, a legal permanent resident known as “Subu,” was transferred there from central Pennsylvania last week, relatives said. An immigration judge stayed his deportation on Thursday until the Bureau of Immigration Appeals decides whether to review his case. That could take several months. Vedam's lawyers also got a stay the same day in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania, but said that case may be on hold given the immigration court ruling. Vedam came to the U.S. legally from India as an infant and grew up in State College, where his father taught at Penn State. He was serving a life sentence in a friend's 1980 death before his conviction was overturned this year. He was released from state prison on Oct. 3, only to be taken straight into immigration custody. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking to deport Vedam over his no contest plea to charges of LSD delivery, filed when he was about 20. His lawyers argue that the four decades he wrongly spent in prison, where he earned degrees and tutored fellow inmates, should outweigh the drug case. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said Monday that the reversal in the murder case does not negate the drug conviction. A photograph of Saraswathi, 6, and Subramanyam, 2, Vedam posing for a photo in their State College, Pa., home in 1963. (Saraswathi Vedam via AP)© The Associated Press “Having a single conviction vacated will not stop ICE’s enforcement of the federal immigration law," Tricia McLaughlin," Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, said in an email. Vedam's sister said Monday that the family is relieved “that two different judges have agreed that Subu’s deportation is unwarranted while his effort to re-open his immigration case is still pending." “We’re also hopeful that Board of Immigration Appeals will ultimately agree that Subu’s deportation would represent another untenable injustice,” Saraswathi Vedam said, "inflicted on a man who not only endured 43 years in a maximum-security prison for a crime he didn’t commit, but has also lived in the U.S. since he was 9-months-old.” Courts order ICE not to deport man who spent 43 years in prison before murder case overturned The charge of LSD delivery when he was 20 years old should be dismissed because he spent 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit and more than paid for any LSD delivery charge. He didn't oppose the LSD charge at the time because he was facing the murder charge and I assume his counsel didn't believe it was worth fighting it at the time. Surely nobody could argue he paid for that offence many times over. It is hard to understand ICE's reasoning unless they are being paid for every person they deport, which could have something to do with it.

Did you even bother to read the article? You didn't comment on the information in the article. Rather you just spit out some useless comment that makes no sense and does not address the main points in the article. Obviously it is just too much for your mind to understand. quote There are ostensibly two approaches to economic growth from a government policy perspective. The first is to create the best environment possible for entrepreneurs, business owners and investors by ensuring effective government that only does what’s needed, maintains competitive taxes and reasonable regulations. It doesn’t try to pick winners and losers but rather introduces policies to create a positive environment for all businesses to succeed. The alternative is for the government to take an active role in picking winners and losers through taxes, spending and regulations. The idea here is that a government can promote certain companies and industries (as part of a larger “industrial policy”) better than allowing the market—that is, individual entrepreneurs, businesses and investors—to make those decisions. It’s never purely one or the other but governments tend to generally favour one approach. The Trudeau era represented a marked break from the consensus that existed for more than two decades prior. Trudeau’s Ottawa introduced a series of tax measures, spending initiatives and regulations to actively constrain the traditional energy sector while promoting what the government termed the “green” economy. The scope and cost of the policies introduced to actively pick winners and losers is hard to imagine given its breadth. Direct spending on the “green” economy by the federal government increased from $600 million the year before Trudeau took office (2014/15) to $23.0 billion last year (2024/25). Ottawa introduced regulations to make it harder to build traditional energy projects (Bill C-69), banned tankers carrying Canadian oil from the northwest coast of British Columbia (Bill C-48), proposed an emissions cap on the oil and gas sector, cancelled pipeline developments, mandated almost all new vehicles sold in Canada to be zero-emission by 2035, imposed new homebuilding regulations for energy efficiency, changed fuel standards, and the list goes on and on. Despite the mountain of federal spending and regulations, which were augmented by additional spending and regulations by various provincial governments, the Canadian economy has not been transformed over the last decade, but we have suffered marked economic costs. unquote Under Chretien and Harper, the economy did far better and Harper left office basically with no massive debt. Now look at the mess caused by ten years of Trudeau liberals. Lower standard of living for millions of Canadians, out of sight real estate costs, rent costs out of sight, grocery bills that many cannot afford and must go to food banks and all kinds of people living on the streets and rampant crime to boot. Will Carney follow in Trudeau's steps by picking winners and losers in the economy, continue massive government spending, and continue the decline of Canada's living standards? We will find out on Tuesday with the budget which direction he is going.

That would be a huge loss for Canada. quote The history of the monarchy of the United Kingdom and its evolution into a constitutional and ceremonial monarchy is a major theme in the historical development of the British constitution.[1] The British monarchy traces its origins to the petty kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England and early medieval Scotland, which consolidated into the kingdoms of England and Scotland by the 10th century. The Norman and Plantagenet dynasties expanded their authority throughout the British Isles, creating the Lordship of Ireland in 1177 and conquering Wales in 1283. In 1215, King John agreed to limit his own powers over his subjects according to the terms of Magna Carta. To gain the consent of the political community, English kings began summoning Parliaments to approve taxation and to enact statutes. Gradually, Parliament's authority expanded at the expense of royal power. History of the monarchy of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia Our monarchy goes back a thousand years. King Charles III comes from a royal line of monarchs. Why would anyone in their right mind want to abolish such an interesting and marvelous history and replace with some politically appointed person, maybe some DEI person such as an Inuit appointee? Do we really need to have a liberal-appointed progressive (woke) DEI person as head of state? No, it would be senseless and destroy the wonderful historical significance of having a King or Queen with a real royal bloodline. That is what makes the monarchy fascinating. It has history behind it. Nobody wants just some joe blo appointed to such a position. Canada originated from British North America and we speak English. British North America rejected being a part of the 1765-1783 American revolution which chose to dump the monarchy in favour of a Republican system long ago. Canada rejected that. Why do we have to trash our European and British historical symbols and history to appease the anarchists who want to make Canada into a multicultural third world dump? No thanks.

The Governor General is the person who acts as head of state in Canada. That's how it works. We don't need the King to be visiting us regularly although it would be good. Canada is such a large country it is not possible for a lot of people to see him. There are other countries he is king of too such as Australia and New Zealand. I think it benefits Canada to belong to the Commonwealth which has a number of countries that still have the King as their monarch. Without that, we would be much weaker and less influence in the world.

How is that even relevant as you're are making up a purely hypothetical situation? Andrew never was in line to be the king. Charles was in line and his son William will be next in line. Plus the fact that Andrew's behavior likely would have excluded him from even being a possibility. That's the beauty of having a royal family. The family would not have approved of him becoming the king because of his reputation.

You're talking about a Republican system. Who decides who the head of state will be? The Liberal party? That's not what Canada has. That is the American system. Many countries are republican and many are not democratic. They often have revolutions of one sort or another that overthrow the leader and another party or leader takes over. They are unstable and are often very bad for the people. Haiti is a total disaster. Even the U.S. now has a President who seems to think he is like a King. How is that working? Our system is stable and works reasonably well; changing it to something like the American system could be a disaster.

You don't really understand the historic system of Constitutional Monarchy. God ordains kings and queens. That is how the world has always been. The alternative is Communism which never has worked anyway. Communists claims everyone is as you put it a common person, but in the Communist system we have seen how those in the upper ranks of the party are in privileged positions just like Kings. Remember Chairman Mao, under whose rule, millions of people died. Same with Communist Russia under Stalin and others. But they are actually also dictators because they don't believe in democracy. Communism cannot be democratic. The communist system is the opposite of democracy. You have to compromise and give up the idea that everyone has to be a "commoner". The world doesn't work that way and never did. Our system is the best because of all the controls in place to keep things democratic as much as possible.

Kings used to be absolute dictators, but that gradually changed over the centuries. You can google it and learn. The monarch today does not have the power that monarchs had 500 years ago. Today they have very little power, only enough to dissolve Parliament and call an election when a government loses the confidence of the people. In Canada that isn't even done by the King. It is done by the Governor General of Canada in Ottawa. The King does not rule Canada. We are an independent and self-governing country. Practically everything is done by the elected government and Parliament. The King is no problem to Canada. He is a figurehead that unites the country. In the U.S.A. they have no such head of state. In their Republican system, the elected President is the head of state. Presently half of the people strongly oppose what he is doing. It is not a good system because it gives more power to the President that in our system is reserved for the King to protect democracy. Our system is better because the monarch is supposed to be removed from everyday politics. He is not permitted to interfere with government. He does receive advice from the PM and they have a little meeting once a week, but it is more of a ceremonial role. The power the king has is very limited to those kind of situations when the government should not be making a decision such as I mentioned. The RCMP and Armed Forces swear allegiance to the King, which is a good thing. That creates a kind of unity which is necessary for a country to survive. But in Canada the King is represented by the GG, although allegiance is still made to the King as head of state.

I went through a similar experience but not exactly the same. I went to the ER with pain in my lower right side and the ER doctor sent me home and told me to come back the next morning, I think because the lab was closed during the night or weekend. (small town) When I went back the next morning the surgeon was there. He did some test and told me I needed an appendectomy quickly and he booked me into the operating room within a few hours and I had it removed. Fortunately I didn't get infection and it went smoothly. He was a very good surgeon. I told the other doctor some time later she shouldn't have sent me home. Perhaps she should have called someone in to the lab or whatever it takes to diagnose my pain. Could have been dangerous to send me home without treating it.

"NAVARRO-GENIE: Carney’s budget risks another costly EV bet Every age invents new names for old mistakes. In ours, they’re sold as investments. Before the Carney government unveils its November budget promising another future paid for in advance, Canadians should remember Ingersoll, Ont., one of the last places a prime minister tried to buy tomorrow. Eager to transform the economy, in December 2022, former prime minister Justin Trudeau promised that government backing would help General Motors turn its Ingersoll plant into a beacon of green industry. “By 2025 it will be producing 50,000 electric vehicles per year,” he declared: 137 vehicles daily, six every hour. What sounded like renewal became an expensive demonstration of how progressive governments peddle rampant spending as sound strategy. The plan began with $259 million from Ottawa and another $259 million from Ontario: over half a billion to switch from Equinox production to BrightDrop electric delivery vans. The promise was thousands of “good, middle-class jobs.” The assembly plant employed 2,000 workers before retooling. Today, fewer than 700 remain; a two-thirds collapse. With $518 million in public funds and only 3,500 vans built in 2024, taxpayers paid $148,000 per vehicle. The subsidy works out to over half a million dollars per remaining worker. Two out of every three employees from Trudeau’s photo-op are now unemployed." NAVARRO-GENIE: Carney’s budget risks another costly EV bet

I suggested ways such as looking at the systems in Europe and see how they're run. Our system is a failure and we need to accept that fact and change it. But that could only be done by the powers that be at the central command structure, that is, the federal government in conjunction with the provinces. It takes leadership but we don't have it. Show me any sign that the leadership is willing to change the system and I'll believe it. Our system in Canada is actually made up of 12 systems in 10 provinces and two territories. That will be hard to get them to change. It would take strong leadership.

The long OP just shows there is a long list of problems with the public health care system. It is wise to know what is going on in this country with the health care system. Hopefully someday enough people will demand something be done to fix it.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. I and my family have had personal negative experiences that seriously affected our lives, which I won't go into here.

Get real! Millions of Canadians would strongly disagree with you. Google and see all the serious problems with the health care system. For starters millions of Canadians don't even have a family doctor and ERs are closing regularly in different towns. Thousands die every year on long waiting lists. Rural areas can't even get enough doctors.

According to Herbie, the free market should never have anything to do with it. It doesn't matter if the system is failing and millions can't get a doctor or proper care. He is scared to death of trying something new like one of the models in Europe which have mixed systems. It would be necessary to mix some private care with the public care in a way that fixes all the problems we presently have, but that is anathema to socialists like herbie. The system will continue to get worse because ideologues put their ideology above everything else. It is impossible to fix the present failed system without a major change is thinking. So what is your solution is fixing a failing system herbie? I know, you just don't care as long as it remains 100% socialist and under the control of unions. What a disaster!

You don't understand how the world works. Hydrogen could never replace oil. Everyone would need a new vehicle including ships and planes. It's just not feasible. We also use oil for manufacturing and millions of other things.

There is nothing that could replace oil. There are millions of vehicles, ships and planes. Unless you have a magic wand.

We could give up oil and cease to exist.