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Probably, but I'm too old to consider that. Will stay here and take my chances. No point in voting in this deeply messed up country. Those other countries are worse by the way. Never trust politicians.

A few weeks ago I made a controversial comment on a BC Liberal MLA's Facebook page. Shortly after I made the comment, a spy bot came into my computer and started searching every word on the screen, highlighting the words in yellow as it moved. I shut the computer down. Within the next few days, he posted a photo of himself standing with an RCMP officer on his FB page. Were these actions meant to intimidate and terrorize or just a coincidence? Would this be classified as state-sponsored intimidation?

I think all types of psychological trauma can be overcome, but it requires help from God. Never accept the view that it is hopeless. Of course if one believes it is hopeless and nothing can be done, they will never recover. It might take a long slow process of recovery but hope and faith in God and his Word can help one. Trust in God, his written word, and look not to men or some other thing as the answer. There are many former alcoholics who will tell you they were once in bondage but have been set free. They realize they are susceptible so they stay away from liquor and certain people and situations because they know it is a lifelong battle to remain free of it. This principle would apply to many things that enslave people, almost anything you can think of that can be an addiction or stumbling block. Sometimes, one must get out of the circumstances that contribute to the enslavement as well as take other measures such as seek spiritual help. That help should be sought from someone who has faith in Christ and a good knowledge of the Bible. It may require trying more than one person until one feels confident that they have sound support. We live in troubled times with many different beliefs and errors around. Even a solid counseling service through the internet might be preferable if nobody qualified can be found locally. The following healing centre might be something worth investigating. I have not investigated it but only mention it as a possibility worth looking into. Five Things the Scriptures Teach Us about Trauma and Suffering - By Dr. Matthew S. Stanford - Hope and Healing Center and Institute

Some say trauma cannot be overcome or lasts for generations. This is a hopeless, defeatist attitude. It does not help the victims. Trauma can be a spiritual problem or illness that can be overcome with the help of God. There are even resources right on the internet that go into details about this help and how to obtain it. The tragic part many of the people who are protesting the treatment of FNs, are fighting against any spiritual help and some are busy blaming all churches, or even vandalizing and burning down churches. These people are certainly not helping any natives who are caught in the cycle of trauma, drugs, alcohol, domestic abuse, etc. It is as if the Devil is working to drive the people who need help further into trauma and encourage them to continue to be victims instead of seeking help and recovery. Of course this would be the Devil's objective. He doesn't want anyone healed. He wants to keep them in bondage and destruction. The Devil's message is there is no hope, you are a victim, and you need to blame others for your condition. Stay away for anything spiritual or Biblical. The irony is mainline churches were involved in residential schools so this plays into the hands of the Devil who now uses all religion and Biblical truth as the cause rather than the cure for trauma. Five Things the Scriptures Teach Us about Trauma and Suffering - By Dr. Matthew S. Stanford - Hope and Healing Center and Institute

Apparently the Charter of Rights does not apply in every situation in society. One legal company says it applies with regard to the federal government. The same source says private companies can censor comments and that they are under the jurisdiction the CRTC (federal government). This sounds very Marxist or authoritarian. People are worried about C10 and C36 controlling speech on the internet, but it sounds like the federal government is already controlling speech through the CRTC. So where exactly freedom of expression in the Charter applies is not absolutely clear. There may be a lot of situations where Canadians are not protected by the Charter, which is kind of concerning. Canada may be on a path of steadily taking away the freedom of it's citizens by ever-increasing regulations, bureaucracy, laws, and tribunals. This problem is made worse by many people who think other people's freedom of expression should be curtailed or banned if they do not agree with them.

"According to the UN Population Division, a total fertility rate (TFR) of about 2.1 children per woman is called replacement-level fertility. If replacement level fertility is sustained over a sufficiently long period, each generation will exactly replace itself." - wikipedia

Canada has given billions over the years in grants, compensations, and various support and continues to do so. At some point, drug addicts, alcoholics, domestic abuse criminals, etc. must take responsibility for their own actions like everyone else should and not expect others to take the blame and coddle them with cash and special treatment forever. Wrongdoers claiming victimhood and being mollycoddled forever doesn't solve anything and just perpetuates the problems and criminality. The government already provides assistance in every way possible, including sending mental health professionals to places where there are a lot of suicides. The endless accusations by activists and radicals about genocide, abuse by society against them and denial of rights, blah blah blah doesn't cut it any more.

Nobody said they can't have their traditional cultures, providing they do not break the laws of Canada. Canada is sovereign over the whole country and all people are subject to the laws and authorities that govern Canada. People are free to have their own traditions as long as they don't run afoul of the laws which are designed to protect everyone. As far as I know laws against potlatches were abolished long ago. But potlatches can cause serious problems if you look into it. In non-native society, everyone has to work in a regular job in order to pay for the cost of living. This was a change that many natives found hard to accept or adjust to. Their old way of life disappeared and it was necessary to adjust to the times. Their tradition was only to work when it was needed for harvesting food, while the women did much of the day-to-day work at home. Money was not a part of life as I already explained. In modern civilization, most people must work in a steady job 8 hrs a day and five days a week to earn money to support their families. Some never did accept that and live in poverty or on welfare and government handouts. Add drugs, alcohol and domestic abuse to that and you end up with the mess many found themselves in and prisons with an excessive number of aboriginals in them.

The problems they have with drugs, alcohol, and domestic abuse, are largely of their own making. They have been told all along that drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence are the wrong way to go, but many just choose to ignore the warnings. You can't force people not to do those things. Blaming white man for all the problems is the the way of shifting the blame, but not everyone buys it. The government spends billions of dollars every year to help them. But there are corrupt leaders among them to have helped themselves at the expense of their own people. Yes there are many things they have to accept responsibility for and stop blaming others. Also, they could not support themselves on their traditional ways of making a living for a variety of complex reasons. They could not survive by just working when they wanted to. The world changed and the old way of life was no longer sustainable. Why are you in denial? If you really want to know the answers as to why they could not remain in their old way of life after the arrival of Europeans and settlement, you can do some research yourself. It is simply a fact of how history developed.

It was obvious that traditional native culture was not going to work in Canada. We are not talking about the culture of dressing in masks and native clothing or native dancing. That is not the problem. The problem was natives believed in only working when they needed to. They did not work an 8 hours day for five days a week on a certain scheduled starting and ending time. They did not use money. That's where the phrase "Indian time" came from. They also wanted the modern conveniences of civilization brought by the Europeans, such as houses, appliances, and various other conveniences. That requires a person to work in a regular job and earn money. Who was going to pay for or provide all these things? Also, if they could not read and write, they could not function in modern civilization. There were only three choices. 1. Leave them on their reserves to try to live the way they always did. 2. Totally support them with government funding and grants. or 3. Bring them to residential schools and educate them so they could function in modern society. Number 1. and 2. were not viable. Number 1. was not very practical because their traditional ways of supporting themselves was disappearing and they could not afford to buy homes, and all the conveniences that white man had. White man's civilization worked on the principle of work to earn money. That was not the principle of native culture. The government had to change them to the system of work for a living to support themselves and use money. These things were alien to native culture. Number 2 was not acceptable to the government and taxpayers because of the huge cost of supporting every native in the country forever. That leaves only one alternative. To educate them so they could support themselves in society, the same as non-natives did. They would have to learn to be able to get a job and work for a living in the new world. Just leaving them uneducated was not a viable choice.

If anyone watched the Manitoba aboriginal chiefs in full headgear on CBC this morning on the steps of the Manitoba legislature, they will know what I am talking about. They sound like they have tremendous hate for white man and want to see Canada become decolonized. They sound like they are living around about 200 years ago. Right out of past. The way they talk, there is no rational discussion with them possible. They demand Premier Pallister and his aboriginal affairs minister resign. They forget or ignore the fact that the government was elected by the people to govern for the whole province, not just a tiny minority of radicals. They admit native bands have huge problems related to alcohol, drugs, domestic abuse, poverty, etc., but really don't sound like they would be interested in finding any rational solutions. Their ridiculous demands do nothing to help find solutions to the problems they have, but will turn Canadians off. It is a sad situation.

It seems it is OK for the CBC and aboriginals to constantly talk about race but if a white person were to even begin to do that, there would be a torrent of outrage by the media. But everyone accepts it as normal when an aboriginal or black person emphasizes his racial status and how it has negatively affected him in some way. We get a steady diet of this on mainstream media like the CBC. I wonder what this means for the future. Instead of working toward eliminating race as an important factor in life, the mainstream media and many politicians and others seem to be relishing and promoting differences in race as something to be exalted. How about we promote our shared humanity and stop emphasizing our racial differences as the central factor of life?

Check the Republic of Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa history to see how well the white Europeans survived with the African cultures being 98% of the population. It was like trying to mix oil and water. It simply did not work. How liberals think it will work in Canada is a mystery. They somehow think saying the word "multicultural" will mean the future will be bright and everyone will be happy for the European founding people in Canada while they bring the third world into Canada who will eventually take over along with the rise of the aboriginal race. What is even stranger is the liberals love of and trust of the United Nations (UN). If anyone thinks the UN has any love for the Caucasian people, they should think again. The UN has turned around and given Canada UNDRIP, the UN Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People. If you examine UNDRIP and take it literally, it is saying that Canada basically must be handed back to the indigenous people. That would mean the decolonization of Canada. Not sure how that will work. But it gives enormous political power to a handful of people in Canada, the aboriginal red power activists, who are already using UNDRIP for all they can. They have even got the BC NDP government to adopt UNDRIP into law in principle if not in reality. What this means is hard to fathom. Makes one wonder just how closely connected the NDP is to the Marxist U.N. in ideology. What liberals and the woke don't understand is that the U.N. have no love for the Caucasian European founding people in Canada (or anywhere for that matter). The U.N. is controlled by mainly Marxists and dictators from the third world. Yet Canada blindly trusts them and follows along with whatever they wish. The W.H.O which is an arm of the U.N. is run by a former Marxist revolutionary from Ethiopia. Yet Canada cow tows to the W.H.O. and follows it like an obedient child.

It's obvious that the Liberals with Minister Guibault want to control all speech on the internet with C10 and C36. If these don't pass the bills in the current Parliamentary session, you can be sure the bills will be forced through in the next. This is a mark of a very authoritarian, top-down, controlling government. They want to control what you say and how you think. What makes them think their ideology and way of thinking is superior to everyone else in the world and worse that their way of thinking should be imposed on everyone? Isn't that what the Communists and Fascists in the world thought?

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.