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  1. I don't go by leftist ideology which is your religion. Thanks.
  2. Your argument is false. Human rights have been recognized in Judeo-Christian society for ages. That is how western Parliaments came to be, how slavery was abolished, how the west developed fair justice systems, how people are innocent until proven guilty, and how basic freedoms were established. These rights did not just appear out of the blue. They developed because certain people believed in God and believed God would hold them accountable for how they treat their fellow man. There was that motivation. Communists and atheists don't understand it. "No. 1: There is one God. That God is the God introduced to the world by the Hebrew Bible — the source of one universal morality. No. 2: The Hebrew Bible (the only Bible Jesus knew and which he frequently cited) introduced the most revolutionary moral idea in history: that there are objective moral truths just as there are mathematical and scientific truths. Without God as the source of moral standards, there is no moral truth; there are only moral opinions. No. 3: Because there are moral truths, good and evil are the same for all people. No. 4: God — not man, not government, not popular opinion, not a democratic vote — is the source of our rights. All men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,” declares the American Declaration of Independence." Dennis Prager: What are Judeo-Christian values? (bizpacreview.com) Your argument is baseless and as an atheist, you have no foundation for claiming human rights
  3. This is why atheists, Communists, and heathen are dangerous people to allow into Canada. Since they don't understand basic human rights are God-given, they don't respect humans have inherent rights.
  4. The BC NDP is setting up a First Nations Justice Council in B.C. Any FN person that is arrested and comes before a judge in B.C. must now be treated according to the Gladue report: "What are Gladue factors? Judges have a duty to apply Gladue principles, irrespective of the charge and regardless of which court the offender appears in. This is not an exhaustive list but covers many of the most common Gladue factors: Impacts of colonialism Feelings of loneliness, abandonment, dislocation from culture, community, and family Loss of access to ceremonies and healing practices Racism and systemic discrimination Lack of opportunity and isolation of community Housing shortages and homelessness Foster care, adoption, 60s scoop Victimization/offenders of violence Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls High rates of incarceration Lower education levels or irrelevance of education Lower-level employment, unemployment, and poverty Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Substance misuse Mental health" Information for the Public - BC First Nations Justice Council (bcfnjc.com) Everything must be considered except the crime and danger to the public. The question is how does that address the larger per capita number of FN offenders in the justice system? Supposedly offenders will not receive the same sentences as non-native offenders and instead be referred to some kind of FN cultural or aboriginal healing system. Why has the NDP not released any studies on how this will work? Where is the evidence that offenders will be rehabilitated and be able to return to society without danger or harm to others? What kind of alternate treatment will they actually receive? What about the concept of punishment for crime? Is the idea of punishment for crime totally non-existent in left wing thinking? How is this kind of system going to be just and more importantly what kind of message will this send to young people who may be potential offenders? How is it going to protect society? What exactly will they be doing with offenders that will make society safer? We have already seen years of repeat offenders committing crimes, assaulting people, breaking into businesses, being arrested, and immediately being released by the courts and going out to repeat their offences again. Is this the NDP solution to stop crime? In addition are NDP and Liberals bent on creating two different systems in every department of government, one for aboriginals, and one for everyone else? That is how it is beginning to look.
  5. So how is the left wrecking Canada from a tax point of view? "Canada is on an unsustainable fiscal path as governments, particularly the federal government, expand existing programs while adding new ones without being honest with Canadians about the ultimate need for broad-based tax increases to pay for them. The Trudeau solution from day one has been to borrow, which simply defers the tax bill to the future. And the bill is already starting to come due. Ottawa expects to spend $43.3 billion next year solely on interest on the national debt. That’s more than it spends on employment insurance, the Canada Child Benefit or the Canada Social Transfer, and almost as much as total health transfers to the provinces ($49.3 billion). The financial pressures from new spending, coupled with increasing debt and interest costs, will eventually force a decision on governments and Canadians more broadly. If we want larger government, we’ll have to pay the price in the form of higher taxes. As Nobel laureate Milton Friedman often reminded us, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, not even for advocates of socialism." Opinion: Four in 10 Canadians prefer socialism but not higher taxes to pay for it (msn.com) It appears most Canadians are not very concerned by government spending. That would explain why a core 29% of Liberal supporters continue to support Trudeau according to polls. Even if Trudeau and his cohorts in the government travel abroad in large contingents of hundreds of people and one or more spend $6000 a night on a hotel, it doesn't seem to fizz on his core supporters. They can do no wrong it seems.
  6. Any FN person that is arrested and comes before a judge in B.C. must now be treated according to the Gladue report: "What are Gladue factors? Judges have a duty to apply Gladue principles, irrespective of the charge and regardless of which court the offender appears in. This is not an exhaustive list but covers many of the most common Gladue factors: Impacts of colonialism Feelings of loneliness, abandonment, dislocation from culture, community, and family Loss of access to ceremonies and healing practices Racism and systemic discrimination Lack of opportunity and isolation of community Housing shortages and homelessness Foster care, adoption, 60s scoop Victimization/offenders of violence Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls High rates of incarceration Lower education levels or irrelevance of education Lower-level employment, unemployment, and poverty Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Substance misuse Mental health" Information for the Public - BC First Nations Justice Council (bcfnjc.com) Everything must be considered except the crime and danger to the public.
  7. Turpel was appointed a couple of years ago by the BC NDP government to investigate racism against FNs in the health care system in BC. Now we hear she was no native. The NDP fell for it and thought they were appointing a native to investigate the health care system. We went into the ER (emergency room) last fall and waited six hours to be seen while a young native came in half way through that time, sat in a chair playing on his smart phone, and was taken in to be treated after about 20 minutes. Didn't seem to be suffering or in pain in any way. I suspect Turpel may have instructed the health care system to give natives some kind of priority in ERs. The BC NDP seems to be bending over backward to look like they are giving natives special considerations. They passed UNDRIP and gave a large piece of land to natives up in northwest B.C. The NDP are giving natives their own justice council. Home - BC First Nations Justice Council (bcfnjc.com)
  8. "But Socialist leaders get extremely wealthy off the stolen plunder. Karl Marx himself never worked an honest job and lived off the efforts of others while going deep in debt to finance his lifestyle.' Our government took hundreds of people to attend the Queen's funeral and some of our representatives stayed in a $6,000 a night hotel in London. That's how much they care about the taxpayer's. Trudeau constantly gives millions of dollars away around the world while running up billions of dollars in debt for Canadians to pay for.
  9. I don't think he was a true Minister. There are lots of false ministers. The Bible warns us about them. Wolves in sheep's clothing. People claiming to be ministers and then preaching Socialism or Communism. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” (Matthew 7:15 KJV)
  10. "Socialism is the theft of capital, human rights, and more -from entire nations, leaving the masses in poverty and darkness." What Does the Bible Say About Socialism? – Faith Founded on Fact "Collectivisation was launched in the Eastern Bloc countries after the communist parties seized power as part of the transformation of the economic structure. With several exceptions (Yugoslavia, Poland) it was conducted in a very similar way, on the basis of the ideological notions applied by Stalin in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. In an effort to increase agricultural production in the Soviet Union, Stalin initiated collectivisation as a ruthless fight against the class of wealthy farmers (kulaks), who, according to Stalinist ideology, exploited poor farmers and prevented the building of collective ownership in the country. The killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of kulaks immediately resulted in a significant decline in agricultural production." 1950s - Collectivisation of Agriculture - Socialism Realised Doesn't this sound similar to Jagmeet Singh and the NDP ideology condemning greedy corporations? If the Socialists had their way, there would be no private enterprise or corporations, no energy industry. We would all be living in poverty like Venezuela and many other countries.
  11. The social gospel is a false gospel. It is anti-Christian. Socialism is evil and already explained.
  12. I never said I don't mind public healthcare. You are inventing things that I never said. Public health care is inefficient and wasting billions of dollars. Unions are causing lots of problems. Some employees are being paid a fortune. Lots of waste and excessive administration. Inefficiencies common. Yet long waiting in emergency rooms and long waiting lists for surgeries. Public health care is failing and Canada gets a failing grade.
  13. The truth is you are paying whether you believe it or not, unless you are living off the government. Everybody pays through taxes. If there was no public health care system, you would theoretically pay less taxes and pay for health insurance instead. The health insurance would then pay for you to see a doctor. You might pay so much a month or possibly pay a small deductible plus monthly premium payments for insurance.
  14. OK. Sorry I found the link you are talking about and you are correct. It takes you to a different subject. Obviously they made a mistake with that link. Just ignore it. No big deal. Stay on the main page. There is lots to read there.
  15. I scrolled down the page and can't find that link. I'm not saying you are mistaken; just that I don't see it. Not sure where you found it. Anyway, the link I gave you has a long page of information about Socialism.
  16. That's strange. I looked at it just now and it is about Socialism and mentions it frequently. You must have gone to some other website. What Does the Bible Say About Socialism? – Faith Founded on Fact
  17. I don't write definitions. These are from internet dictionaries: Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. no.2 socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members.
  18. "The Bible tells us that Socialism is slavery and thievery. And anybody who has lived under Socialism can confirm it. Socialism destroys the Biblical work ethic and confiscates assets earned by producers and gives them to non-producers. This de-motivates producers and creates a cycle of sloth, poverty and dependence." What Does the Bible Say About Socialism? – Faith Founded on Fact Have you investigated the King James Bible and learned about Jesus Christ, the Savior? He came into the world, suffered and died for your sins and mine. Call upon Jesus Christ to be your Savior and believe the gospel that he died for your sins and rose from the dead and you will be saved.
  19. " The authorship of the New Testament books is one of the most contested matters of all time. But Christians mostly concur that the apostles and their disciples wrote the books. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote the Gospels. The Apostle Paul wrote letters to the different early churches. Then John wrote the Book of Revelation from a vision he received while in exile. Matthew and John were some of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Mark and Luke were evangelists who wrote down the recollections of other Christian leaders in Jesus’ time. For most biblical scholars, the undisputed letters of Paul are the Letters to the Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Thessalonians, Romans, and Philemon. The rest of his epistles are believed to be dictated by Paul. But written by his scribes and disciples. For the other epistles, scholars believe that these workers come from scribes and followers writing down the oral teaching of the apostles." The New Testament: Overview and its Importance - FaithGiant Do you have any better information from a trustworthy source?
  20. Have you investigated that or just being contrary?
  21. Yes, the gospels have evidence as to who wrote them. It is not difficult to find out who wrote them. Google will also help.
  22. Sorry, I think we are going down a rabbit hole on that subject with no clear objective.
  23. What is that supposed to mean?
  24. You said there were more amendments in the U.S. I replied that is because the U.S. is far larger with far more governments. So what would one expect? That's not rocket science.
  25. Slavery was very minimal in Canada and Britain ended it around 200 years ago. Old history is being exploited by the extremist red power, Commies, woke, left, and ignorant minorities.
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