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If you want to wear symbols of LGBTQ+ that is your personal choice, but I disagree with taxpayer money being used to post symbols in public places, like rainbow crosswalks paid for by taxpayers or rainbow flags being put up on public buildings at taxpayer's expense and using public property to promote that ideology. Churches are private property and therefore have a right to exist. There is a difference between using taxpayer money and people paying for something themselves.

Just as a matter of fact, Christians are among the most persecuted people on earth in many countries. "In the top 50 World Watch List countries alone, 245 million Christians in the world experience high levels of persecution for their choice to follow Christ. " North Korea is rated as one of the most dangerous places on earth for Christians. Christian Persecution by the Numbers - Open Doors USA - Open Doors USA

One consequence of bureaucracy is the case of the fire a year ago that burned town the village of Lytton, B.C. Most people that owned homes there are still waiting for something to be done. The rubble still has not even been removed. It is estimated it could take five or ten years for it to be rebuilt. Many of the older residents might not even be alive to be able to go back after that length of time. The whole thing is buried in bureaucracy of environmentalism, regulations for contamination of the sites, and aboriginal questions about historical matters. This is an example of the betrayal of the people by their government that is supposed to be looking after them.

I have answered that above. You lump everyone who calls himself a Christian into the same pot. I told you Biblical Christianity supports freedoms and human rights. That means we support everyone's right to believe what they wish as long as they do not break the laws or interfere or try to force their ideology on other people. We also have a right based on our biblical beliefs to disagree with LGBTQ and the woke ideology. That does not mean we think they should be eliminated or discriminated against in any way. Bible-believers simply do not believe in their point of view or accept their lifestyle. Beyond that, they have the same rights to live and work in society without being mistreated. I hope you understand that and quit making false accusations claiming we think they should be burned at the stake or mistreated in some other way. Everyone should obey the law and treat everyone with respect even if we disagree with what they are advocating.

You are inventing many false accusations and assigning them to all Christians. There have been many false Christians throughout history who did many evil things such as what you referred to. (burning witches) You forgot that people who did those kind of things and things like the Inquisition, tortured heretics, etc. were not bible-believing Christians. It was the Bible believing Christian groups who were killed by the main religion of Rome. They were considered heretics by the Papacy and targeted for genocide. Biblical Christianity led to the Reformation 500 years ago which brought freedom of the tyranny of totalitarian control by Rome. It also brought freedoms and eventually led to the end of slavery in the UK, Europe, and America. The principles of the Bible were held by a small minority of people but they had a big impact on society. Governments realized that there were such things as human rights and the need for democracy. These civilized ideas arose out of Biblical Christianity and Judeo-Christian thinking. I think you have been listening to the anti-Christian propagandists who follow the Devil. True Christianity is not intolerant of other people living and working in society. We realize not everyone is going to agree with the Bible or Christian beliefs but we still have to exist and work together. That is the difference between intolerant Islamists in Islamic countries and free countries which live by Christian principles of peace and respect for human rights. That is why the western civilization in Europe struggled to keep Islam out of Europe. They understand they would lose their freedom to believe what they believed. While most of what Europe believed was not true biblical Christianity, there were still pockets of true believers and many more after the Reformation. But if Islam had it's way or atheists had their way, there would be no freedom of religion or beliefs. We saw what atheistic Communists did in the Russian and Chines revolutions when they killed 100 million people. It is a lie to say true Christianity is responsible for all the evil. It is false religions and atheism that is responsible for the wars and evil in the world.

More evidence in the report at the link below. quote When Quebecers are thinking about the federal government these days, they are not impressed. How come a G7 country is not able to issue passports in less than three months? Why can’t it deal with an immigration file in months rather than years? How is it that the government can’t ensure there are enough security and customs agents at major airports to process travelers within an acceptable time frame? Unquote André Pratte: Federal gridlock is a threat to national unity (msn.com) Bureaucracy has a natural tendency to constantly add new rules and procedures for every little thing they do. That is why the size of government tends to grow and grow and grow with more procedures, rules, and involving more bureaucrats in every step of a process. This slows the whole process down for the smallest project. Then when people are off work for reasons such as Covid, files pile up and are not dealt with in a timely manner. The process just drags on and on. Of course government unions like more bureaucracy because it means ever increasing numbers of employees and union members. It easily gets out of control and politicians can do little about it because the problems and roadblocks are buried deep in bureaucracy, which is out of reach of politicians. They must depend on their subordinates who are often outside the actual workings of the bureaucracy themselves. So on and on it goes as the problems are unresolved.

Trying to accommodate every heathen religion and woke ideology is turning Canada into a cesspool and you support that. Promoters of that destructive ideology promote it by using weasel words like "inclusive". Anybody who disagrees is called a racist or exclusionary or intolerant. The word inclusive is very deceptive because it means including every evil ideology and belief system.

It would not be brainwashing because Christianity is biblical and therefore true. You forgot to mention our society is based on Judeo-Christian culture and beliefs whether you like it or not. If you lived in the western world the last 1,700 years you would have found that is the way it was. If you live in other parts of the world like the middle east you will be forced to conform to Islam's laws and rules with no basic human rights. Be thankful you live in the west which has freedoms and rights that are a result of it being historically a Judeo-Christian society. Such freedoms and rights do no exist in much of the rest of the world.

One of the consequences of an extreme bureaucracy such as Canada has is the long lineups when arriving at an airport from outside Canada. They have something called the ArriveCan app which you must have on your smart phone (if you have one). This is a bureaucratic requirement which you must use when you arrive. It has been found to contribute to the slow processing of people arriving from outside Canada. The government refuses to remove it even though countless mayors and other authorities have been begging for the government to remove it so travelers can move at a more normal rate. Another example of bureaucratic bungling is the rescuing of Afghan refugees who worked for the Canadian Forces. The government claimed they would take in 40,000 Afghan refugees but so far it is only a fraction of that. There have been endless reports of very slow government processing of paperwork and difficulty of Afghans obtaining a VISA. Of course we see the horrendous problems people are having trying to get passports where they have been lined up for days at a passport office. Another example of bureaucratic bungling and inability to adapt the system to the circumstances.

This interesting article pretty well describes Canadian government as well as American. Canadian government may actually be more bureaucratic and intrusive on everyone's life. They seem to pride themselves on being leaders in so-called "progressive" legislation. The Canadian government are leaders in such things as same-sex marriage, medical assistance in dying (MAID), (over 21,000 people have died by MAID in the last few years since it started) and making abortion a part of health care although it is about as far from health care as anyone who thinks about it could imagine. Around 80,000 to 100,000 abortions per year. A description of government that suits Canada. quote “A big, bumbling, generous, naive, inquisitive, acquisitive, intrusive, meddlesome giant with a heart of gold and holes in his pockets, an incredible hulk, a ‘10-ton marshmallow’ lumbering along an uncertain road of good intentions somewhere between capitalism and socialism, an implausible giant who fights wars, sends men to the moon, explores the ends of the universe, feeds the hungry, heals the sick, helps the helpless, a thumping complex of guilt trying mightily to make up for past sins to the satisfaction of nobody, a split personality who most of his life thought God helps those who help themselves and only recently concluded God needed help, a malleable, vulnerable colossus pulled every which way by everybody who wants a piece of him, which is everybody.” Unquote From AM to PM, the fickle force of government is with you (msn.com)

The rainbows/pride ideology goes against many people's religious beliefs and we still have freedom of religion. The whole pride movement has more to do with pushing their belief system and trying to normalize it and silence any naysayers and less to do with equal rights.

I don't see a pride parade or rainbows on crosswalks or on CBC, CTV news as anything to do with "equal rights". I see it as forcing a perverted ideology or lifestyle down everyone's throat. It is state-sponsored brainwashing. Not everyone agrees.

We are being bombarded daily with the rainbow accompanied by a mad drumbeat on CBC and CTV daily. What next? If anyone thought the CBC and CTV were unbiased or neutral media not under the control of the liberal left, radical progressives, think again.

Horgan's NDP MLA Josie Osborne was made a minister and her department just gave a grant of 15 million dollars to an environmental organization. She is under the microscope and being examined now for possible conflict of interest because her husband sold some land to the organization a few years ago. The environmental organization is called MakeWay which changed it's name from Tides Canada. This organization was the target of the Alberta government as a oil/energy industry opponent. The organization distributes money to various other environmental organizations across Canada to fight various "social justice" causes. So in effect our taxpayer money is being used to fight for radical environmentalism and against the energy industry and other industries that Canadians depend on. How is it our tax dollars can be used for what are essentially political causes while the health care system is in a crisis and gas prices are out of sight? Tides Canada rebrands following ‘smear campaign’ - Environment | Business in Vancouver (biv.com)

After years of doing nothing about the failing health care system in B.C. and 900,000 people without a family doctor, it is time he retired. All I have heard him do is blame the feds for not contributing enough money for health care. But he doesn't seem to realize it is the B.C. provincial government who has the main responsibility for health care. Since Ottawa was not contributing enough money for B.C.'s health care, Horgan should have acted and properly funded it in the meantime until the problem with federal financing is solved. Socialists want to promise every kind of service but they are failures when it comes to financing their promises. Since the Socialists ban private health care they have a responsibility to provide the necessary care, not just ignore the needs of the people as they have done.

Why should Canada or western NATO countries stop funding and supplying weapons in Ukraine, which wants to be part of the democratic western nations? Without NATO and the west's help, a brutal, authoritarian dictatorship may completely destroy and take over the Ukraine and then what is next as it would have expanded it's size and control of the world? Russia, China, N. Korea, and Iran are the great Axis of Evil that are in fact a real threat to freedom in the world.

This situation at Babine Lake with the federal and provincial NDP government signing an agreement with the Lake Babine Band to hand over 22,000 hectares of crown land in the coming years is not unique. There are other similar deals that have been made without the consultation or approval of Canadians. Ostensibly this land will be used to create a logging industry for FN. But how much study has been done to find out if FN will in fact be interested in working in the logging industry and actually doing a professional job of utilizing this land? If they do and it results in them getting off government support, then that would be a good thing. But I am not so sure that will be the outcome. Secondly, why is it necessary to give them absolute title to the land instead of just granting them timber rights for a certain number of years to see what they actually do with the land? FN people are traditionally enthusiastic hunters and fishermen, not loggers. Hunting and fishing is seasonal and does not require the white man's work practice of working 8 hours days for five days a week for around 49 weeks per year not counting statutory holidays. That has always been the stumbling block for FN people. They prefer their own work schedule and only seasonal for the men. The women must work all the time of course maintaining the home and family. So I am not sure how trying to get FN to start a logging industry is going to work. This is just a fact of life and one of the obstacles white people have faced in settling and trying to employ some FN people. Not all of course, but some have trouble adjusting to white man's ways. They no doubt see white man's work ethic as a form of slavery as you must admit it does infringe of one's freedom to some extent. On a smaller scale, deals are being made periodically to hand over control of certain areas without consultation or approval of Canadians or even the non-native populations that live in the region or area. These areas are not FN reserves but are part of what natives claim as "traditional territories", a ambiguous term that covers 150% of B.C. It is a useful term for FN activists who claim the land as their own. Local and provincial politicians (particularly the woke) seem to be aiding and abetting them by their repeated land acknowledgements which are made at the beginning of meetings by mayors and public announcements by politicians at all levels of government. Where will all this take us? To compound this dilemma is an American-controlled forest industry company recently made a deal to build a commercial campground around a tiny lake on Vancouver Island with the cooperation of a FN band and gave the campground an unpronounceable FN name. It now appears that a forest company is acting like a government and creating campsites and handing them to FN. I am not saying the campsite is not a good thing; it is a wonderful campground and camping is a reasonable price, but ordinary non-native Canadian citizens have absolutely no say in this. In essence a foreign company is taking over our land and doing with it whatever they please. It is the principle that is at stake here. What is happening to our land we call Canada and what is happening to the rights of the 95% majority of Canadians who have no say in these things?

The resource extraction is not out of control. It creates thousands of jobs and contributes billions of dollars to pay for your health care, welfare, pension or whatever you live on. The Indian rights/reconciliation industry produces nothing but takes from the taxpayers who will never escape paying and paying with no end in sight.

It might have an impact on me if the federal Liberal and Provincial NDP governments are giving large areas of land to FNs as part of their vision of "reconciliation". It might impact a lot of people in the area who have lived there for all their life and their ancestors also lived there. Also that handover of large tracts of crown land might be repeated closer to where I live and could have an impact of me and my relatives. Everything government does sets precedents that can be repeated elsewhere. So yes, I think it is a reasonable concern. All Canadians should be interested and involved in what is happening in their country at the present time whether it is next door to their town or a thousand kilometres away.

Immigration is just life. Nobody has sole claim to the land. God created it for everyone. You just need to learn there are finer details of how everything must work. Everyone has a right to life, and to the fruits of their labour. Nobody has a right to expect some other demographic to support them forever and give everything to them on a gold platter simply because they had ancestors in a province or country before Europeans arrived. FNs lost most the land long ago when Canada was formed and were given reservations. Now since then there have been agreements to give them more land, but that is not an unlimited process. There are limits how far that can or should be done.

Nothing happened that I was aware of or approved of or had any part of. Lots of my tax dollars have gone to support FNs but I don't complain about that. I just think there has to be a limit and your NDP, Liberal friends are not rational or reasonable about the subject.

The Smithers area is a very advanced town of thousands of people and they produce a lot of lumber, mining in northwest B.C. and lots of dairy farming in the valley. If you whine about them being there, you should prove your sincerity by stopping drinking of milk products and stop living in homes built with lumber from white man's sawmills. Also stop reading and using paper that comes from pulp mills and stop using other products that were produced by white man in B.C. because it was all produced on what natives claim is their "traditional territory". In fact what are you doing here living on their traditional territory?

Again, why should Canadians living today have to pay for mistakes made back in history? I don't agree with a lot of the things that were done to FNs back generations ago, but I and my parents and grandparents had nothing to do with it. How is giving chunks of crown land and millions of dollars to native bands going to be fair to generations of non-natives who live in the areas and work going to solve past mistakes? I don't think it is solving anything. Just creating a new set of problems. We should not forget that reparations for specific harms done in residential schools have been paid and continue to be paid. How far do you carry that? If you go by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations, Canada must give the land back to the natives and pay billions of dollars for everything imaginable. Hardly a realistic proposition. People have always migrated from one part of the world to another. That is the history of the world. Endless generations should not burdened forever with paying compensation for what earlier settlers did. Have you ever heard of the Norwegians, Scandinavians, paying Britain for the Vikings invading the UK and all the atrocities they committed? I didn't think so.

The local people are the non-natives who live around Smithers Landing which is on Babine Lake and others who own cabins or vacation homes there. Also, the people in the town of Smithers and surrounding areas. Nobody knows how this large land grant in the Babine Lake area along with self-government for the Babine Lake band will effect everyone else. I lived in the area for nearly 30 years and know the area fairly well. Lots of non-native people hunt and fish in the whole area as well as guide outfitters work in the area. Lots of Americans and Europeans travel into the area to fish and hunt and stay in one or more of the fishing / hunting lodges. Not exactly sure how this self-government thing will work and whether non-natives will be prevented from using or entering certain areas. Lots of people feel we are all Canadians and the distant governments in Ottawa and Victoria and their bureaucrats should not be dividing people up and creating certain privileges for certain people without consulting with and giving the local people any say. The non-natives get along well with the natives. But distant political outsiders are dictating or creating a new kind of order for political reasons. There are thousands of non-natives who live in that part of the northwest who should have had a say in all this and know exactly what is being proposed. This area is part of the provincial and federal riding area for NDP politicians who seem to have their own agenda and not interested in consulting the local non-natives in their riding.

God is not hiding his existence. God makes his presence clear in two ways. The first half of Psalm 19 makes that clear. quote 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. unquote Psalm 19: 1-6 kJV The clear evidence of God is the creation all around us. In the second part of the Psalm God has spoken to us clearly through his inspired Word, the Bible. quote 7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. {law: or, doctrine} {converting: or, restoring} 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. {true: Heb. truth} 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. {the honeycomb: Heb. the dropping of honeycombs} 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. {the great: or, much} 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. Unquote Psalm 19:7-14 KJV