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I have no problem with Quebec having their own language and culture. After all, that is how Canada developed from the early settlers 500 years ago. I don't have much use for politicians trying to make the rest of Canada bilingual though. I don't see the point in forcing people to learn a language which 95 or 98% of the people in an area or province do not speak. That is a kind of social engineering or big brother ideology. If people want to learn French in other provinces, fine. I have no problem with that. That is by choice. People should have the freedom to learn to speak whatever they wish. I have had a couple close friends who were francophone. They contributed a lot to my life and we had some fine times together.

"Entering the United States without approval from U.S. immigration authorities is illegal. So is staying in the U.S. without permission after a visitor visa, work or other visa, or other authorized stay has expired. Even violating the terms of a legal entry to the United States can make a non-citizen's stay illegal." How Can Undocumented Immigrants Stay in the U.S.? | AllLaw Coming across the border without approval is ILLEGAL, period. They have already broken the law, making them lawbreakers. No need to change the law. Just enforce it.

Your problem is you believe in fairy tales like man-made climate change and you think man can control the climate but you don't believe in God's revelation, the Bible. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Sleepy Joe has embraced the fraud climate change agenda and is costing American billions in lost jobs, lost oil production, lost wages, and higher cost of living. Destroy the economy and prosperity of hundreds of millions of people to "save the planet" from climate change. It won't work. Man cannot control the climate. It is a fairy tale. It is tragic how one political leader can destroy a nation. Hitler did it to Germany and Europe, and many others did it to their countries.

I don't see it as an improvement. He stopped or killed the production of millions of barrels of oil/gas for Americans which is driving the price up for ordinary Americans (and Canadians). He promotes this LGBT stuff, teaching perversion to school children. He allows about 5,000 illegal migrants to cross the southern border into America per day. He promotes and defends abortion which is killing millions of babies. He is a sleep-walking disaster. Definitely worse than his predecessor who wasn't perfect but at least he was better in these areas.

I have sympathy for the old and walking dead. Biden should be in a care home. How can people be so dumb to make him the leader of the most powerful nation on earth?

If Sleepy Joe fell asleep in a United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow I don't blame him. I would do the same thing.

"Approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe in 1933, the year Hitler came to power. This number represented 1.7% of Europe's total population and more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population. By 1945, most European Jews—2 out of every 3—" Jewish Population of Europe in 1945 | Holocaust Encyclopedia (ushmm.org)

Saying Jews believe they are chosen of God is a meaningless comment and is used as part of a Nazi anti-Semite's talking points. The truth is Christians do in fact believe they are chosen by God as the elect as well as Muslims. There are 1.9 billion Muslims in the world. " 20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days." Mark 13:20 KJV Many religions likely believe the same thing. I suspect Muslims believe the same thing and there are 1.9 billion Muslims in the world. It is a phony talking point to say the Jews believe something unusual by believing they are chosen of God and it is a phony excuse to be anti-Semitic. The truth is the Jews have endured 2,000 years of anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere. Read the book "God's First Love" Christians and Jews over two thousand years by Friedrich Heer. This is a complete history of anti-Semitism in Europe and the mass murder of Jews over the past fifteen centuries.

We can't make this stuff up. This is a news item from an hour ago. Joe Biden appears to fall asleep during interview (msn.com) "Sleeping or just resting his eyes? It was nearly a year ago that U.S. President Joe Biden earned the nickname “Sleepy Joe” on social media after he appeared to fall asleep at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. Biden’s latest apparent nap took place during an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart – or, at the very least, when the president became lost for words for several awkward seconds. When Biden was asked if First Lady Jill Biden would support him running for president again, he sat in seemingly stunned silence. “I have not made that formal decision but it’s my intention to run again and we’ll have time to make that decision,” Biden told Capehart."

Why Do They Call Him "Sleepy" Joe Biden? Does He Take Lots of Naps? (distractify.com)

Biden's energy policies hurting US, Europe: Here's the fix | Fox News "We don’t have to speculate about the extent of future consequences affiliated with anti-fossil energy policy. They are literally playing out among our European allies. Overreliance on inferior energy technologies like wind and solar, while becoming increasingly dependent on Vladimir Putin – who wrote about using energy as a geopolitical weapon for decades – was an obvious recipe for disaster. Objective energy experts regularly raised concerns about Europe’s green energy plans and commitments toward becoming "a climate-neutral society" by 2050. In 2018, President Trump directly warned Europe’s leaders about the looming consequences."

Tragically Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau have declared war on the energy industry and have been attacking our domestic oil and gas industries and the people who use them. The shortage of oil and gas in America has a direct correlation with the high rate of inflation because oil and gas is used for everything in the supply chain. All in the name of fighting climate change. Man cannot control the climate and never will but they have helped deceive millions of people into believing that mankind can control the climate. This is like believing man can build a tower to heaven as in the account of men trying to do that in Genesis. Might have more success building a stairway to the moon. Joe Biden killed the Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his first actions in office. This would have supplied 400 million more barrels of oil per day. He is increasing regulation against the oil and gas industry in America making it more difficult or impossible to produce a good supply. Instead he is trying to increase the oil supply from Saudi Arabia and hopes to negotiate a deal with Communist Venezuela to get oil from them. Where is the rationale in killing north American oil production and pipelines and increasing the purchase of oil from human-rights denying dictatorships? There is no rationale. He is getting too old and senile as he approaches eighty. Joe Biden has hampered domestic energy industry while pleading for more foreign oil | Fox News

quote Second Thessalonians 3:10 reads, “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.’” This verse is set in the context of 2 Thessalonians 3:6–15, which warns believers against idleness and laziness. The focus of the command is against those who refuse to work rather than those who are unable to do so. The verses preceding the instruction to those unwilling to work relate a positive example: “You ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate” (2 Thessalonians 3:7–9). Paul and his companions did not come to the people of Thessalonica to take food or money from them but to share Christ with them. They were willing to work a side job to provide for their food. In contrast, if any Christian worker came to a church and refused to work, Paul says not to offer him food. This instruction also had application to people within their congregation. Verses 11–12 note, “We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat.” This is the Christian work ethic. Believers are to be known for working hard, not for a lazy attitude. Scripture often addresses sloth or laziness as sin. For example, Proverbs 18:9 says, “One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.” Proverbs 19:15 adds, “Laziness brings on deep sleep, and the shiftless go hungry”—there is a clear link between not working and not eating in this proverb. Ecclesiastes 10:18 also notes the negative consequences of laziness: “Through laziness, the rafters sag; because of idle hands, the house leaks.” Again, the admonition that “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” concerns unwillingness rather than inability. There is a difference. James 1:27 describes true religion, in part, as “look[ing] after orphans and widows in their distress.” Needy children and widows, the disabled, those with special needs, the elderly, and others who cannot earn a living are deserving of much help. As believers, it is important that we be known for our strong work ethic and helping those in true need. We should “let [our] light shine before others, that they may see [our] good deeds and glorify [our] Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). unquote What does it mean that the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10)? | GotQuestions.org There is a difference between unable to work and unwilling to work. People who are unwilling to work should not receive much from government. There are many of those. Street people are no exception. Many of them are unwilling to work. We see them all the time. Perhaps it is time to think about putting them in institutions. But we have to get past the Supreme Court which gives more rights to criminals, addicts, and mentally ill than law-abiding citizens. People with mental illness who break the law should be in mental institutions or prison with a mental illness department or section. They should definitely not be on the street sleeping in doorways or living on the streets in tents. Drug addicts should be in an institution and on rehabilitation programs. If they refuse, they should go to a prison. I have absolutely no sympathy for drug addicts being on the streets or free to commit more crime.

Give criminals and mentally-ill dangerous offenders a mansion to live in, all the food they want, loose women, and free high quality drugs and maybe they will be happy. Right. That's your modus operandi. Nobody has responsibility for themselves or their own behavior. The rest of society is responsible for the crimes they commit and responsible for providing everything for them. Give us a break.

The political leaders responsible for this mess are tone deaf to what is going on. As I said before, the ignorance of voters is widespread and is corrupt from bottom to top. I would add in my view the Supreme Court, and other courts and many politicians are immoral and place the rights of a convicted criminals and accused ahead of the safety of citizens or society.

Covid 19 is still with us. The question is why have provinces like Ontario pulled away from issuing updates on Covid-19 spread and statistics? We still need to be aware of the possibility of catching it and be cautious on what we do. The notion that the pandemic is over is pure fiction. Television news reported this morning that there have been 107 deaths in Ontario in the past seven days due to Covid. N.S. also reported a number of deaths. But this information apparently is coming from other sources and the government is not being forthcoming. They are changing their policies also about long-term care homes and creating a less safe environment. It is the older people who are most effected by Covid and it puts their lives at risk. Provincial governments already failed to protect old people earlier during the pandemic as well as they should have and thousands died as a result. “The (Doug) Ford government has ceased regular reporting on the spread of COVID-19. Public Health no longer publishes daily and weekly epidemiologic reports and it has become steadily more difficult to get accurate numbers,” the OHC statement says. “Not only are the government and Public Health not reporting much of the data previously available, they have also cut testing and abandoned trace and isolation measures. Regardless, there is some data available and infectious disease specialists have taken up the challenge of identifying transmission of the virus using wastewater, serology and other evidence.” Public in dark about COVID-19 spread: Ontario Health Coalition (msn.com) The conclusion I draw from this is we who are most vulnerable must do what we can to protect ourselves. Obviously the political leaders are not protecting us in the way they should. I also know of a young man who caught Covid somehow and was told he should come to work as soon as possible. He also started a course in a Vocational School in Winnipeg and because he lost eight days of school due to Covid, he was told he was going to lose 2% on his examination marks for every day he was not in class. This could work out to a reduction in his marks by about 16% per examination. This sounds unbelievable but it is a fact. Is there any rational thinking in these vocational school administrators/instructors or whoever makes these kind of decisions?

BC has a bleeding heart NDP government. Combine that with the federal liberal's soft-on-crime laws and courts explains the mess in B.C. This is a big issue for the new incoming Premier in B.C. who has recently made a disastrous decision while he was attorney general. He heard the complaints from mayors of B.C. cities about the widespread numbers of repeat offenders being arrested and immediately released and decided to send the matter to a committee for investigation months ago, further shirking his responsibility to take real action. I don't hold out much hope that he will take real action when he becomes Premier shortly. Vancouver threw out it's mayor recently because of the daily crime and assaults and elected a tougher-on-crime mayor, Ken Sim. He will hire 100 more police plus a large number of mental health workers. But it takes the provincial government to make meaningful changes such as keeping offenders behind bars or placed in mental institutions if there are any. Cities cannot do that.

We just heard on the BCTV news that the man charged with 1st degree murder of an RCMP officer at his tent in a Burnaby park has a record of violent assaults and yet he was out on conditions. Just another example of the failed justice system that cost this young RCMP officer her life.

No, you are off base again. This is an example of another attempt to remove the tax exemption of churches by anti- Christian atheists. This is just another part of the heathen direction Canada has been heading for decades. Haven't they already done something like this in Inuvik? Churches are not a money-making or a for-profit business. They depend on donations by people who have already paid taxes on their donations.

This is just a group of lefty, progressives who hate God, churches, and Christians. It is just another case of persecuting Christians which is common in the world and has been throughout history. There was one group, which had some leaders who abused people, and now someone is accusing all churches of being in the same category. This is a common tactic. If one doesn't like churches, they find one isolated church, which is doing something wrong, and use it to smear everyone. If we went by that logic, what about the sexual abuse in the RCMP, the sexual abuse in the Canadian Forces, or in Hockey Canada. Do we then abolish the RCMP, abolish the armed forces, or abolish all hockey. No, of course not. Authorities deal with the specific group that is causing the problem. Leave the rest who did nothing alone. Churches are tax exempt because they are non-profit organizations. The people who contribute their money to churches have already paid income taxes on those donations. When you use your money to buy things in the store, you have already paid income taxes on that earned money. Churches use that money to pay the mortgage, pay for utilities such as heating, upkeep of the building, and the salary of the minister. Churches also often donate money to worthy causes and in general provide a place for people who need support or counseling for difficult situations in life. They are protected by freedom of religion in the Charter of Rights. They cannot be treated like a profit-making business because they are non-profit and not a business.

No, I never said all scientific understandings are false. You make amazing assumptions. I agree with genuine science and always have. Some things that were discovered centuries ago were later found to be false and newer science has corrected them. There are some things that are called science which are not really science, which I have already explained....like evolution for one. You apparently don't know anything about the history of the Bible. The Old Testament was written by the Hebrew prophets over a long period, possibly 1,200 years and completed several centuries before Christ. The Old Testament we have today was translated directly from the Hebrew manuscripts which the Jews carefully copied and carefully stored. The whole Bible (O.T. and N.T.) was written over a period of 1,500 years and completed by about 100 A.D. The New Testament was written and completed within the first 100 years after Christ lived on earth and was originally written mainly in Greek. The New Testament was translated into English in the 1500s and finally into the King James Version in 1611. The translators used Greek manuscripts dating back to the early centuries and also a compilation of the Greek manuscripts which was produced by Erasmus in the 1500s. Some of the translators of the KJV knew many of the ancient languages. What the New Testament says could also be verified by many sermons and writings from the early centuries. But the O.T. and the N.T. was not translated from one language into other languages before being translated into English. The Roman Catholic bible, the Latin Vulgate, was not the basis of the KJV. It would have been examined and compared. The basis of the King James Version N.T. is called the Textus Receptus or Received Text. The accuracy of the KJV N.T. is absolute because of the thousands of early Greek manuscripts behind it. The accuracy of the O.T. is absolute because of the Hebrew manuscripts it was based on. The fact is biological scientists have found there are many things that are irreducible in complexity and could not have evolved to what they are today. Things like the eye or even a cell with it's incredible amount of DNA information. quote Argument: ‘Irreducible complexity’ Evolutionists say, ‘Examples of supposed “irreducible complexity” (such as the eye, the complex cell and the flagellum) can be explained.’ First published in Refuting Evolution 2, Chapter 10 This chapter will examine how evolutionists respond to the ‘irreducible complexity’ argument in three areas: the eye, the complex cell and the flagellum. Scientific American states the problem this way: 14. Living things have fantastically intricate features—at the anatomical, cellular and molecular level— that could not function if they were any less complex or sophisticated. The only prudent conclusion is that they are the products of intelligent design, not evolution. unquote Refuting Evolution 2 ch 10: Argument: 'Irreducible complexity' - creation.com

Many scientists would disagree and reject the theory of evolution. There is no evidence that life came from some accidental chemical mixture. No evidence life evolved from the scum in the pond. No evidence man evolved from some animal. Science which you don't seem to accept has found in the last fifty years that the cell is very complex. It is not something that can come into existence by accident or random chemical reactions. That is pure nonsense. It's complexity proves it required an intelligent designer Creator. It's just simple logic. The Pope knows nothing about the history of the world or creation. The Pope does not even believe the Bible so what would you expect him to say? He leads a false religion based on inventions of men. I suggest you try to find out where the Pope gets his ideas. You might learn something. Probably from some lying school textbook teaching the fake theory of evolution.

The statistics Canada wide do not deal with the problem of increasing daily assaults, break-ins in businesses, and other daily crimes in cities across B.C. It has been on the news daily. One reason they might not be in the national statistics is because the courts continually release offenders after the police arrest them. They are not being prosecuted and sentenced to prison. That is the problem and they would not be included in the statistics if they are not prosecuted and sentenced. The statistics are not giving the true story of what is going on in B.C. Repeated stabbings and assaults in Vancouver, Victoria, and other towns in B.C. The people are getting tired of the daily reports of these crimes and just voted out Mayor Stewart Kennedy in Vancouver and voted for a tougher on crime mayor, Ken Sims. He plans to hire 100 more police officers and take other measures as required. We will see if this helps Vancouver because it is a real mess now. But he will be fighting an uphill battle if the courts just keep releasing offenders onto the streets and if the BC NDP does not take action to stop the catch and release program. The B.C. NDP is paralyzed and seems unable to deal with it. The opposition party BC Liberal leader says this situation is going to end. Glad we have some politiicians in B.C. who see the problem and are determined to do something about it.

That is a rather simpleton way of trying to smear Creationism or belief in God. Some of the comments sound puerile. "religious leaders have always hated science". Whether that is factual or not, I have no way of knowing. However the point is that proves nothing. I know there are many scientists who believe in God. Professor Phillip Stott, a mathematician who is extremely knowledgeable on Creation versus the theory of evolution and has made presentations in various countries in the world. He understands the mathematical laws of probability and explained how the law of probability indicates that there is not enough time in the universe for a living organism to form by random chances. It simply cannot happen and has never been demonstrated or repeated in a laboratory. If you look at creation.com and read articles and watch videos you should learn there are many scientists who believe in creation and have shown Darwinism or evolution is NOT science. You will learn they do not "hate science". There is a difference between empirical science and false science. Evolution is not science. It is actually an ideology or religion pretending to be science. The Big Bang theory is another dogma which is purely speculation and cannot be claimed as science. Science is something that has been proven by the scientific method, a well-established procedure that demonstrates the truth of a hypothesis or claim. If it can't be proven beyond a doubt in a repeated according to the scientific method, it is not science. Evolution is called a theory for the simple reason it is not proven and is only a theory. Therefore to claim it is "science" is false. Of course things occurred in history such as putting Galileo under house arrest because we don't live in a perfect world. Popes were false religious leaders and not actually leading biblical Christianity. Again because the world is not perfect; as the Bible says all men are fallen or corrupt and must be born again to be forgiven and get on the right path. That is the reason we have wars, crime, evil, sickness, disasters, etc. in the world. So there are people who often do not think logically and clearly. There are many cults in the world too. So what does that prove? I think it is more likely you are saying religious leaders reject science is because some of them reject false teachings like evolution or the big bang. They are smarter than you think. The reject those things that have been proven as false science or are unproven. Things that are unproven and doubtful cannot be claimed to be science. Many ministers likely believe in medicine and medical procedures. All ministers I have ever met over 42 years believe in medicine. There is the odd person who does not believe in vaccination, but that is uncommon. But the Covid vaccine has had it's deniers in the non bible believing world too. In fact there are many of them, even on this forum there are people who are non-Christians who doubt Covid vaccine. So what does it prove. Nothing really, because it all gets back to what I said that the world is an imperfect place with many different views and ideas about things. But there is an absolute truth and that is God's revelation, the Bible and a Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God. He is the only Savior and is the one you should be learning about.