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The forest industry has provided good-paying jobs for tens of thousands of B.C.ers Sadly now, 18,000 will lose their jobs, and many may not be able to afford to keep their homes, and raise their families, properly. They won't be able to switch to some other good-paying jobs easily because there are none. The forest industry was it. There are many towns in B.C. built strictly on the forest industry. Government cannot simply kill that industry in an area and expect a new industry to just appear out the blue. It doesn't work like that. Most will probably receive unemployment cheques and may have to sell their homes, vehicles, etc. and move to who knows where. When that runs out they will have to go on social assistance, but that is not enough to support families and pay for their mortgages. So I don't know what will happen to those people. A small number might be close to retirement age and be able to collect a pension. Some small towns will probably die off because of the economy being killed in their area. They are one industry towns. The government proves they do not really put people first, but they listen to special interest groups like environmentalists and ignore the working people and general population of B.C. They forgot one thing. The NDP received much of their support from the union movement and the forest industry workers who they are now turning on savagely. This may be why the NDP governments in B.C. have always been very short-lived, maybe a couple terms at the most and then decades in opposition. I think we see why. They seem bent on self destruction. There is a BC Liberal MLA, Ellis Ross, who was a native chief councilor in the native Kitimaat Village, who has been running to become the next leader of the BC Liberal Party who strongly defends the resource industries (forestry, LNG, mining, pipelines, etc.) that the NDP government are hell bent on shutting down. I believe he is getting a lot of support in his campaign for the leadership of the party but it closes at 5PM PST today. If you are a BC resident and interested in supporting him, Google Ellis Ross Campaign and sign up for membership before 5PM PST today. This will give you the right to vote on the next leader of the BC Liberal party in February. I think he has a good chance of becoming the next Premier of B.C. and defeating the NDP. He and his party will be able to reverse this law but it won't be for at least three years.

"At the onset of surgical restrictions in March of 2020, all ten Canadian provinces and three territories confirmed that, despite elective surgeries being pushed back, abortions would continue without any restrictions or impediments in place." Thousands of Canadians died in 2020 awaiting surgery amid COVID-related healthcare restrictions - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) Over 2,300 Canadians who were put on surgery waiting list during Covid in 2020 have died LifeSite news reports. But tens of thousands of abortions were performed and nothing slowed that down. Shows where Canada's priorities are. Many many people are being executed in North Korea for such things as watching a western made video or disobeying the dictator in other ways. But Canada is not far behind in killing people and maybe far ahead.

"July 5, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Over 2,300 people placed on surgical waiting lists during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Canada died between January 2020 and December 2020, a report from Canadian thinktank SecondStreet.org confirmed last month. Thousands of Canadians died in 2020 awaiting surgery amid COVID-related healthcare restrictions - LifeSite (lifesitenews.com) "Overall, between April 2019 and December 2020, the report found that over 10,000 people had died “while waiting for surgery, a procedure, diagnostic scan or appointment with a specialist.” SecondStreet.org President Colin Craig, who authored the report “Died on a Waiting List,” explained that “[p]atient deaths occurred after waiting less than one month to more than eight years. Patients passed away while waiting for procedures that could be linked to their cause of death (e.g., cardiac surgery), as well as procedures which could have increased their quality of life during their remaining years (e.g., cataract surgery, knee surgery, etc.).” Craig noted that his report demonstrates “that Canada’s rationed health care system ultimately fails many patients – either by letting them spend their final days with a reduced quality of life, or by leaving them to die.” Looks like dying on a waiting list is a normal part of our public health care system in Canada. Why have we not heard about this on the mainstream media and from our politicians? Looks like this has been going on for years, but became particularly acute during the pandemic since people requiring life-saving surgeries have been put on waiting lists so the system in general could concentrate on Covid patients without having to deal with surgery patients. Everyone is not being treated as equals.

Yes of course they should both be accommodated. Everyone has as much right to urgent health care as anyone else in a public health care system. And political leaders letting the health authorities shut down surgeries for thousands of heart and cancer patients will probably save the health care system millions of dollars. So there is that advantage to it. Why they couldn't pump more money into health care in this pandemic, convert more beds into ICUs and open more facilities to keep the surgeries going is hard to understand. People who have surgery would stand a much better chance of survival and maybe not have to be put in a fully equipped ICU than not receiving the urgent surgery at all. What they are doing just doesn't make sense. They seem to have billions of dollars for everything else.

Quote Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict as well as a dialectical perspective to view social transformation. It originates from the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. As Marxism has developed over time into various branches and schools of thought, currently no single, definitive Marxist theory exists.[1] Unquote - Wikipedia So basically Marxism is an anti-Bible, anti-Christian, materialistic ideology that allows it's followers who are in control of a situation to do whatever they feel like doing to suit the immediate demands facing them. There is no requirement to follow any human rights principles or Biblical principles of compassion or fairness. It is basically an atheistic system where cold, brutal means can be used. Communism developed out of Marx's theories. If following a certain policy such as giving the highest priority to Covid patients and shunting everyone else off to a holding list pleases their political bosses, satisfies the media attention which is focused on Covid, and makes the public think they are doing things the best way, then that will be the way they follow. Since people requiring surgery do not appear to be in any immediate emergency, giving all the attention to Covid patients seems like the most popular thing to do. Those awaiting surgery who die quietly in the background one by one will not be in the media anyway and nobody will be much the wiser. That is atheistic Marxism.

quote After the Cross a new entity came into existence—the church that Jesus Christ promised He would build (Mt 16:18). As a result, there are now three divisions of mankind: Jews, Gentiles and the church. Paul tells us that we are to "Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God" (1 Cor:10:32 ). It is absolutely essential to understand that these three groups exist side by side in today's world, to distinguish between them, and to recognize that God deals with each differently. Unquote Jews, Gentiles, and the Church | thebereancall.org Wrong. I do not dislike Muslims. I disagree with the religion. Big difference. Your other comments are not worthy of a reply.

Marxism exists within our system. The system is not black or white. Many think the system can do no wrong. Many people in Marxist-Leninist/Communist China think their system is perfect too. One's perspective depends on whether you have been a victim or not. If you have been thrown in prison in China because of your beliefs, you will have a certain perspective about the system. If you are one of the ones needing urgent heart surgery and are sitting at home (in effect on death row) you will have a certain perspective about the system. If you are not in that situation, you may think everything is going as it should be, but you are totally wrong. Yes, it can be a form of Marxism within such a system.

Depends whether you are one of the one's in need of heart or cancer surgery to save your life and you have been sent home and put on a list for the undetermined future, or one of the one's in the ICU with Covid trying to stay alive. One's particular situation determines one's perspective.

The definition of heathen also depends on who is defining it. Each of three groups you mentioned would technically say the other two are not worshiping the true God and therefore would fit into their definition of a heathen. heathen definition 3. 3. Informal a. One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened. b. Such persons considered as a group. A religion that considers people outside it's religion as worthy of death would surely not fit into a definition of being civilized or enlightened and therefore would meet the definition no. 3 (a) above. A religion which believe people should receive the death penalty for blasphemy surely could not be considered as civilized and would therefore fit into that definition. The Bible also divides the world into three groups Jews, Gentiles, and the Church of God. So if the definition of a heathen is someone who is not a true believer, then anyone outside the Biblical definition of Christian (or Church) would fit that definition. Also, anyone who Christianity would consider as unconverted or unevangelized would fit into that category. Yes, I know the ten commandments pre-date Christ. I never attempted to give you a running history from 400 A.D. to 1500 A.D. What would be the point?

Of course the Jews are part of the culture. I never said they were not. Pakistan is not heathen???? Are you serious? 86.3% Muslim with blasphemy laws and the punishment is death or life imprisonment, death being the first choice. Heathen assumed to mean people who are not Christian. I realize some define it as anyone who is not Jew, Christian or Muslim, but I go by the definition which refers to people who are not worshipers of the one true God, Jesus Christ. The would make the eastern world in general heathen with the exception of there being pockets of people scattered around who are Christian. Of course the ten commandments are Christian principles and have been used as a basis for many laws. Of course the Reformation was part of the change in society. It was a major factor in western civilization from being under a complete dictatorship of Rome to individual freedom of conscience and freedom of religion. Prior to that we had the 400 years of the Holy Roman Inquisition which was brutal for people who deviated from Rome's teachings. The Inquisition did continue through the Reformation period in some countries. It was used to stamp out any opposition to Rome.

Nice diversion from the central issue of the criminal death of thousands of Canadians.

I am not talking about strict Marxist doctrine. I am talking about brutal dictatorships, which you would find in Marxist type government, that steamrolls over human rights and leaves large numbers of people dead it's wake. This also happened in Fascist, Socialist/Communist dictatorships in the world. People are so accustomed to benevolent government handing out cheques to millions of people, they do not see what is happening to many victims around them in their benevolent country.

1. The term Judeo-Christian has to do with the historical evolution of development of western culture. It refers to the morals, laws, democracy, human rights, as having come from the belief in one God who gave ancient Israel the ten commandments and which was later passed onto the western world in Europe in the early centuries. There were also some christians in the early centuries and down through the ages in the western world who did later influence laws and culture. That is what made the western civilization different than eastern civilization and the rest of the world which remained totally heathen. Later christian principles such as the ten commandments and respect for the individual were used as a basis of western morality, laws, etc. beginning around the time Christianity spread in 300 A.D. That is why the west has democracy and claims to have human rights and much of the rest of the world does not. Much of the rest of the world are dictatorships with no human rights. See the difference? 2. I don't think Canada will become a "Christian state". As a believer in Jesus Christ, I am called to point out what the problem is and maybe God will open someone's heart to believe in his word. One more person believing in God, Jesus, and the Bible is better than none. I don't expect Canada will change in general. I believe in pointing out truth which comes from God (the Bible which is God speaking) and perhaps someone or a few will be led by God to agree. Mankind needs to change. We live in an evil world. If you can't see that, you need to take your blinders off and look around and examine your own beliefs. I know this is an old cliche that many false religionists use, but there is some truth in the saying one is on the side of God, or on the side of the Devil. If I am not mistaken, the Bible divides humanity into three groups: the Jew, the Gentile and the Church of God.

Marxist ideology in a general sense is when government or those who are making decisions, make blanket decisions that affect whole populations without taking into account individual cases and circumstances. An example would be the blanket decision to triage people on the basis of treating only Covid patients because they need immediate treatment and not treating heart and cancer patients simply because they are not in an immediate emergency. But this hides the fact that just leaving them means their condition would just get worse and they would eventually die and never receive their surgeries to save their lives. This is what happened. It is sort of a Communist or Marxist state ordained brutality.

Canada was more of a Judeo-Christian society in it's earlier history. In fact, in the a long time ago, I think churches were the people who started education. Public schools read passages from the Bible to students every day. Then about 50 years ago things started to change and Canada adopted multiculturalism. Then they banned Bible readings from schools and declared schools would be secular. Since then public schools have gone completely into liberalism / progressivism. Young people are brainwashed with the liberal, leftist ideology including sexual orientation and gender identity ideology (SOGI) and now cancel culture.

Just an example of how bad the judiciary is. In B.C. a man went on a wild rampage with his car from the city of Richmond into Burnaby, wreaking havoc all the way. He smashed into parked cars and knocked signs down, and managed to do at least $28,000 of damage to various things. He barely missed hitting some pedestrians. After all that, he was given a thousand dollar fine and six months probation. That is liberal soft-on-crime justice. Not protecting the public. Common in Canada. He should have received a real jail sentence.

I am not whining about losing or saying I don't want democracy. I am saying the system we have produces much evil and immoral laws and practices. Democracy has not solved that problem. But we live in an evil world and no other system would produce anything better and likely worse as in Communist countries. I don't see the conservatives as much different or better than the liberals.

You talk about independent judiciary and fundamental freedoms as if that solves everything and created a godly nation. In fact it failed completely because the people running the system do not believe in many Biblical morals. They are more in line with liberal ideology. This means the courts, particularly the Supreme Court had made rulings that in effect condone murder of the unborn and condone murder of people who choose MAID and in fact chastise the government for not hurrying up to bring the process in. So you're wrong; I do know what's going on in the system and find it abhorrent.

Liberalism is not a part of the Protestant Reformation and never was. Liberalism is antithetical to Protestant beliefs and Biblical teachings. Take for example abortion on demand. That is murder because human life according to the God of the Bible begins at conception. Similarly medical assistance in dying (MAID), another law that liberals are proud of is also murder. Then there are the great bywords of inclusiveness or diversity, which are standard liberal talking points which mean they support Islam and oppose Islamophobia, whatever that is exactly is not clearly defined. Liberals have gone so far as to recently ban any kind of free speech between consenting adults if an adult LGBTQ person wants to seek counseling from a church minister or counselor. This kind of liberalism is antithetical to the beliefs of people in the Protestant Reformation. So don't tell me to educate myself. I know all about liberalism and what is going on in the liberal mind and it's not good.

It is a huge tragedy that should never have happened. One example is a woman in Alberta who had cancer was scheduled for surgery and brought into the hospital. At the last minute she was told she could not have her surgery because there were no ICU beds available for her. She was then put on a waiting list. Then she was later told that her cancer had progressed too far and she was no longer a candidate for surgery because she is terminal now. This is the kind of thing that has happened to thousands of heart and cancer patients across Canada during the pandemic. Covid patients are given top priority and other people in need of life-saving surgeries are put on waiting list indefinitely. I believe this is a result of a uncaring public health system which operates in a very clumsy, un-compassionate manner. It decided that Covid patients were all that mattered in hospitals and basically rejected everyone else that might take up a bed in an ICU. This is a kind of Marxist ideology. What the exact reason for this policy is I don't know, but it is obviously wrong and is not providing proper life-saving health care for many Canadians. It is a brutal ideology of mass production using tunnel vision which makes no allowances. Once the pandemic emergency became widespread, all other people were just wiped off the radar. Shocking.

Yes, Canada is still somewhat mired more deeply in false religion and paganism than America. In Catholicism you can be pro choice (look at Trudeau), you can be a Socialist (look at the Pope), and support liberalism. It's a free for all. Many Catholics have little to do with their church except at perhaps Easter and Christmas, but they are all in for evil progressivism, Socialist ideas, liberalism. Many American have much less use for all that garbage and realize it will destroy their fundamental freedoms.

Where did I say that? We all know your modus operandi. Get help.

There is no evil in God and God does not create evil for his pleasure. "Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version reads, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” How does Isaiah 45:7 agree with the view that God did not create evil? There are two key facts that need to be considered. (1) The word translated “evil” is from a Hebrew word that means “adversity, affliction, calamity, distress, misery.” Notice how the other major English Bible translations render the word: “disaster” (NIV, HCSB), “calamity” (NKJV, NAS, ESV), and “woe” (NRSV). The Hebrew word can refer to moral evil, and often does have this meaning in the Hebrew Scriptures. However, due to the diversity of possible definitions, it is unwise to assume that “I create evil” in Isaiah 45:7 refers to God bringing moral evil into existence. (2) The context of Isaiah 45:7 makes it clear that something other than “bringing moral evil into existence” is in mind. The context of Isaiah 45:7 is God rewarding Israel for obedience and punishing Israel for disobedience. God pours out salvation and blessings on those whom He favors. God brings judgment on those who continue to rebel against Him. “Woe to him who quarrels with his Master” (Isaiah 45:9). That is the person to whom God brings “evil” and “disaster.” So, rather than saying that God created “moral evil,” Isaiah 45:7 is presenting a common theme of Scripture – that God brings disaster on those who continue in hard-hearted rebellion against Him." Why does Isaiah 45:7 say that God created evil? | GotQuestions.org It sometimes helps to read what different expositors have to say about different subject in the Bible in order to understand the context. Search engines are useful for that.

Well, there was a talking serpent in Genesis ch3 that talked to Eve in the garden of Eden. "1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? {Yea…: Heb. Yea, because, etc.} 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:1-5 KJV "According to Numbers 22, the Moabite king Balak had sent for Balaam to come and place a curse on the Israelites, who had escaped from Egypt and were in the wilderness. As Balaam was riding on a donkey to meet Balak, the angel of the Lord blocked their path. The donkey saw the angel and kept stopping, but Balaam did not see the angel and struck the donkey three times trying to get it to keep going forward. At this point the narrative reports a conversation between Balaam and his donkey:" The Talking Donkey in the Bible: Balaam’s Donkey in Numbers 22 | Biblical Christianity (irr.org) " 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? 29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee. 30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. " Numbers 22:28-30 KJV "Let’s first understand that the Bible was not suggesting that donkeys can naturally talk. People in the ancient world understood just as well as we do that donkeys do not have the capacity for speech. In the New Testament, Peter actually makes this point when referring briefly to the Old Testament passage. He speaks about wicked people who “have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with the voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet” (2 Peter 2:15-16). Peter states that the donkey was “mute,” meaning of course that donkeys are naturally incapable of speech." So if the donkey talked, it was God who made him to do so. Nobody says donkeys can normally talk. But this may have been a miraculous event or supernatural event. The Bible is full of supernatural events. It is a Bible of the supernatural. The last sentence is not worth answering as it is nonsense. Nobody sings Adam's sin was a happy event. Just your invention.

I do not see Trudeau removing the pervasive influence of China and the CCP in Canada. Many Liberals are in business relationships as well as many business people in Canada. There are also strong cultural ties to the motherland held by many people who immigrated or of Chinese descent. (over a million in Canada) That is not to say all of them are supporters of the CCP. Many support the Hong Kong democracy movement. But I suspect many are. China's CCP expects loyalty from it's diaspora and reportedly uses lots of pressure and influence on them. The Chinese benevolent society in Vancouver held a gala dinner in 2019 I believe to celebrate the 70 years of CCP rule in China. Guess who attended? The liberal Minister of Defence, Harjit Saijjan. There are deep ties between Canada and China that have evolved over the years. The Liberal government has struggled for three years on what to do about Huawei even though they have been warned by our allies in the Five Eyes. Ordinary Canadians seem to have little say and are generally ignored. Trudeau appointed MP Joly as our new Foreign Affairs minister but an article in National Post points out she has no experience at all and no understanding of countries like China and the situation in the world. Yet she is in a key position. One reason put forward in the NP is that Trudeau appoints people like that with no experience so that he can run things himself. The cabinet in general are inexperienced. Who knows.