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Here is an interesting article on how authoritarianism has been advanced in the world by the pandemic. Authoritarianism advances as world battles the pandemic (msn.com) This would be another reason why the Coronavirus could have been deliberately released. Authoritarian regimes like the Communist countries want the rest of the world to reject democracy and liberalism and become authoritarian like themselves.

Well, when the people have only one of two parties to vote for and there are many things in political party's agenda that people did not actually vote for, the people don't have much choice. You use the term "elected" very loosely as if the people chose everything a government or elected person does.

I can tell you in the area I live, if you do not drive above the speed limit on certain main roads, you actually will face angry people behind you. I face this all the time because I try to drive at the speed limit. Some are on the verge of road rage. I don't think there is anyone in authority one can speak to about this that would listen or care. We have become a lawless society.

Communists kill their opponents in Communist countries or when they have revolutions simply because their opponents do not agree with them. Castro did that in Cuba. Mao did that in China. Stalin did that in Russia. Many people persecute and kill Christians around the world simply because of hate or their religion teaches them to hate and kill people who disagree with them. In many countries in the world, it is a dangerous thing to be converted to Christ and one is not allowed to preach or proselytize others. Pakistan, Iran, and many other countries are examples of dangerous places where there are laws that carry the death penalty. Canada and America is are still relatively free, but Canada is drifting toward authoritarianism.

In case someone doesn't know what Communism means, this describes it quite well.

Thousands of people in Cuba are protesting in the streets of Cuba about poverty. Yet the Trudeau government will not stand with our key ally, the U.S. government and speak clearly against the Communist government in Cuba and defend the human rights of the Cuban people. This is very tragic. There is a similarity with the Trudeau government's refusal to condemn the Chinese Communist genocide of Uyghurs. Why is the Trudeau government so sympathetic to Communist governments and opposed to defending human rights in the world? This is a sign of Marxism in Canada.

The European founding people in Canada are heading for near extinction while the third world immigrants and aboriginal population is increasing at a comparatively high rate. This is a demographic fact. The Caucasian race in Canada is not reproducing at the minimum of 2.1 children per family, the minimum for a race to survive. This will please all the woke, liberal and left people who believe white supremacy is a fact and believe the European founding people should be punished for colonialism. Eliminating the Caucasian race is also helped by medical assistance in dying and abortion on demand, which kills about 100,000 babies per year. Caucasian women also are putting off having children until an older age which also contributes to a lower number of children per family. Of course the government and activists approving of and encouraging LGBTQ lifestyles adds to the falling birth rate. These factors are all part of the freedom to do your own thing in a liberal society.

We will never hear or read the true stories of the 100 or 150 years of residential schools because that history has been hijacked by the radical red power activists and their supporters, many of whom are politicians, some time ago. Senator Lynn Beyak tried to question their narrative which came from the so-called Truth and Reconciliation committee of the Senate, but was shot down. The residential school policy of forcefully removing aboriginal kids from their homes was a mistake. But not everyone working in residential schools were criminals or abusers I am sure. There were likely many normal people who sincerely tried to do a good job. All that has been undercut by the abusers and the forced removal of children from their homes. In the TRC hearings only the worst accounts over a 130 year history were allowed. The bad things that went on (cases of sexual / physical abuse) have been exploited to the extreme to discredit the whole of white man's society and government by the activists. Yet it is known many natives died from diseases. A large number died from tuberculosis (TB). Unfortunately, Europeans did inadvertently bring diseases to north America and natives had little or no immunity. That is one reason many died. They also had very poor hygiene and a lack of sanitation. This contributed to the spread of disease and death. It is unfortunate disease was spread from Europe to natives in north America but mankind has always migrated and there have always been diseases around. Also, little was known about diseases in the earlier period. A large portion of Europe died from the black plague in the middle ages. I think there are reports that was carried from the Orient. That is part of the history of mankind. We can't change it. Now the activists have developed their propaganda tools and the unmarked graves have become the latest tool in their arsenal against colonization and white supremacy. Trudeau has described Canada as a country of systemic racism, but will not call the burning down of churches a hate crime. What would he call it if it were mosques that were vandalized or burned down? Of course it would be a hate crime. The unmarked graves are portrayed as proof of genocide without a shred of evidence. It is all about increasing their power for land claims, compensation for all kinds of things and reparations for white man coming to north America.

You of course would believe the red power activists and their non-native woke supporters. You will likely never know the details about these so-called unmarked graves because that is not what the red power activists and woke people want. Many probably had wooden markers or crosses that just rotted away.

Trudeau's borg only allow questions from approved mainstream media that are under the control of the Liberal party. Every public appearance is very tightly controlled. This is not democracy but it is Marxism.

The whole man-made climate change argument originates with the U.N. which makes it purely a political operation. Since they frequently lied, you need to give your head a shake.

The media and red power activists (aboriginal and white Caucasian) are generally not telling the truth today about colonization. They only talk about the bad things that happened and nothing about the good the white man brought to natives. The history of Canada is not perfect but it wasn't all bad. I am reading a history book called Skeena: River of Destiny by RG Large. This is about the history of the first settlers around the mouth of the Skeena River in northwest B.C. and also settling up the river. A lot of it is about the missionaries from a couple of the Protestant church's missionary societies who first settled in that area and up the Skeena River in the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s. It tells about their experiences taking the Christian gospel to the natives in the various native villages in that area. Later a missionary - medical doctor decided he wanted to go see what he could do to help. The missionary society did not want to spend the money on a doctor, but he felt he should go anyway and financed it himself and later was able to get some help. But in one year he treated 5,400 people. The natives suffered a unusual amount of diseases and illness because of their lack of hygiene and ways of life. The missionaries led such things as the building of small sawmills in some places and establishing other businesses that brought many benefits to the natives. The sawmills provided lumber that was used to build houses and churches in their villages. This is how things gradually improved and many were converted to Christianity from heathenism. Sadly today the efforts by early settlers and missionaries is scorned as a bad thing that deprived natives of their "culture". This is a false and destructive narrative. They actually did much that improved the lives of the native people on the coast and along the river in northwest B.C. Some natives become ministers themselves and helped with the work.

The idea of white privilege and the victimhood of minorities is pushed by liberals and left as a tool to gain votes. If you are born white in Canada you are automatically a suspect.

Depends what stuff you are referring to. We know there is such a thing as gravity, heat, radiation, microwaves, radio waves, etc. although we cannot see them. They have proven they exist even though we might not be able to explain them in absolute terms. Science can only go so far and a lot of science is theoretical. Scientists cannot actually see sub atomic particles, but have given them names and described how they operate. I believe they say particles are basic energy (protons, electrons, neutrons) but they described only in theoretical terms. They don't really know what this energy is. It is all described in a theoretical manner. Mathematics can even put numbers to it and describe things mathematically, but still it is not something we can see or describe in human terms that clearly explain it. Nobody has seen energy, gravity, etc. and knows exactly what they are. But I believe they exist. Gravity is a tough one. Nobody can see it. Nobody really knows what gravity is and what makes it operate even through the vast distances of outer space. What is it that holds the moon in it's place as it circles the earth? What holds the earth in it's place as it circles the sun? Yet we have given these phenomena names and know there is something there we call gravity. Same as God. God exists and the evidence is all around us in the creation and beauty of the universe. Scientists who claim to be atheists are really irrational if you look closely. Where did all these sub atomic particles, radiation, gravity come from if not by God? Of course they would have to have a designer and creator. Since they exist, someone (a rational being we call God) had to have designed these things and how they operate and bring them into existence from nothing. Some things we accept on faith but it is not a blind faith. It is based on reason or rational thinking. Things do not create themselves out of nothing.

I never said there was no climate change. Why do you assume I said that? Climate change is real, but it is not caused by man. If you want to know what causes it, Google and find the right websites. But the U.N. predictions about the effects of climate change have been false. I don't swallow the U.N. claims about man-made climate change. They are proven to be untrustworthy.

An article says "In 1989 the UN said, “Entire nations will be wiped out by the year 2000 if sea level rises are not stopped.” Did this happen? No! Tuvalu, a Pacific Ocean nation of atoll islands, is a favourite poster child for this claim. However, Tuvalu has increased 3% in land area over the last 40 years." the statement comes from an article on climate change at the website creation.com A different source says "United Nations “Climate Refugees” In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned that imminent sea-level rises, increased hurricanes, and desertification caused by “man-made global warming” would lead to massive population disruptions. In a handy map, the organization highlighted areas that were supposed to be particularly vulnerable in terms of producing “climate refugees.” Especially at risk were regions such as the Caribbean and low-lying Pacific islands, along with coastal areas. The 2005 UNEP predictions claimed that, by 2010, some 50 million “climate refugees” would be frantically fleeing from those regions of the globe. However, not only did the areas in question fail to produce a single “climate refugee,” by 2010, population levels for those regions were actually still soaring. In many cases, the areas that were supposed to be producing waves of “climate refugees” and becoming uninhabitable turned out to be some of the fastest-growing places on Earth." Embarrassing Predictions Haunt the Global-Warming Industry - The New American Since there are various websites that show predictions by the U.N. and other organizations were false, how do you deal with it? Since the U.N. is the central and biggest proponent of man-made climate change and is religiously followed by our Liberal and NDP government as the last word on the subject, how do they reconcile the big lies from the U.N. in the past with their claims today? Or do you cherry pick which claims you will believe based on whether the Liberals support it or not? Or do you look at the hot weather lately and say yea it must be man-made?

You are correct. Nobody gets into any high position in the federal government unless they can speak English and French, which means people from Quebec or French speaking enclaves in N.B. or Ontario get those choice jobs. Also, the equalization gravy train mainly flows toward Quebec which means they receive subsidized government services that the rest of Canada does not receive.

Obviously you don't listen to facts. The fact is the UN made ridiculous predictions before that have proven false. OK so anything they say you believe. We are on two different schools of thought. You accept fake claims. I accept scientific facts if it can be proven, not false claims by people that have no facts or science to back it up and have proven to be liars in the past.

On the question of fear mongering bias of the media, a good example is their use of emotional arguments and fear-mongering to con people into believing their narrative that man is the cause of climate change. They would destroy people's livelihood and the economy of the country to further their objectives. Their belief that man is the cause so what's wrong with punishing him is their thinking. The media practically never allow experts with a counter view to speak or make presentations. The media seldom just presents views and counter views. They simply make no attempt to be unbiased and fair. It is always strongly biased with only a certain narrative. This is why many refer to them as "fake news". The use of a young girl, Greta Thornburg, is a good example also. "Polar bear numbers, it was predicted, would decline, and were even threatened with extinction due to a shrinking area of Arctic sea ice. Such dire predictions were used by Al Gore, Michael Mann, and others to play on the emotions of the public to support radical action on climate change. Mann even published a children’s book in 2018 using polar bears to capture the imaginations of children. Since 2005, the global polar bear population has been stable or likely risen.19 Even so, we wonder why a typical evolutionist would be at all concerned. If polar bears go extinct, so what? Something else will evolve to fill their place, or not, but it does not matter either way if life on earth is nothing more than a cosmic accident. The fact that they are trying to make emotional moral arguments when they have no basis for doing so only shows that this is more about manipulation of public opinion than about science." A biblical and scientific approach to climate change - creation.com School children in public schools are constantly being brainwashed too. That's why we sometimes have seen thousands of them demonstrating on the streets. They have obviously been given or heard only one side of the issue.

Quote: Failed predictions are a major fruit of climate activism, justifying skepticism. Anyone who remembers the 1970s will recall that we were all going to freeze in another ice age. Of course, ‘we’ could do nothing about that, so some of the same ‘experts’ who were running with that switched to ‘global warming’ and then, when the temperature data did not match the models that gave the dire predictions, it morphed into ‘climate change’. Also popular were ‘acid rain’ and the ‘ozone hole’. In 1989 the UN said, “Entire nations will be wiped out by the year 2000 if sea level rises are not stopped.” Did this happen? No! Tuvalu, a Pacific Ocean nation of atoll islands, is a favourite poster child for this claim. However, Tuvalu has increased 3% in land area over the last 40 years.18 A survey published in 2018 of 30 Pacific and Indian Ocean atolls, including 709 islands, revealed that no atoll had lost land area in recent decades. Unquote A biblical and scientific approach to climate change - creation.com So the UN, the central brain for the man-made climate change claim said entire nations would be wiped out by the year 2000. What happened to your trusted UN source of knowledge? Why should the UN IPCC now be believed? Please tell us so that we can all know.

Well said! Strong evidence that it is far more complicated than most people realize.

So what? Mankind migrating from one place to a better place is the history of mankind. Nobody has an exclusive claim to a large uninhabited area which is what most of Canada was. Someone having an ancestor who hunted and gathered over a hundred or thousand square kilometers does not give anyone the right today to claim ownership of that land. It is ludicrous but is how many left wingers think today. They need to get educated about how the history of world was and is. The history of the world is such that the strongest controls the land. That won't change. An advanced civilization cannot hand control back to previous occupants. That is not how the world works and never will. There are bigger things in the world to worry about such as Russia, China, and N. Korea who have nuclear weapons or are trying to get nuclear weapons (Iran). The west better wake up because China has imperial ambitions to control much of world and they will if the west does not resist and keep them back.

No, the colonizers didn't bring any particular climate or cause any climate to happen. The early settlers actually traded with aboriginals. The big industry was fur trade and white man sold them guns and various things that they never had before. Unfortunately they also sold them some fire water that caused a lot of problems. Climate has nothing to do with mankind. The temperatures are determined by the radiation from the sun and amount of water vapour in the atmosphere. There have always been periods of warmer weather and periods of colder weather. That is a historical fact. The aboriginals benefited greatly from colonization. Many of them drive pickup trucks, cars. They own boats with gas engines and all the modern advances that white man gives them. They own houses, drive snowmobiles, and ATVs. They have medical care that they never had before. They wear clothes bought in the stores. They have televisions, computers, and smart phones. I don't think they want to go back to living off the land and being hunter-gathers.

Get your mind out of the gutter. Sure. Maybe learn how to do a little war dance and take a few scalps. So some people should be superior to everyone else and we should all bow and become their slaves. You are the biggest racist around here.