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If it is extreme environmentalism, it is a religion. It's called Mother Earth worship. God created man and gave him dominion over the environment. Not to sacrifice man on the alter of environmentalism as environmentalists want to do. You can't sacrifice our resource industries to try to save the planet. It won't save anything and only destroy our economy and way of life. Do you want to make Canada a third world country? Canada has a lot of rich natural resources. We can't compete very well in manufacturing because many countries manufacture goods and they pay very low wages and benefits. Out wealth is in the natural resources. That is where we can make prosperity for Canadians.

What attack? Is this just hyperbole? Where have you been? You must have had your head in the sand. The Trudeau Liberals have blocked the building of pipelines, put caps on the energy industry, put carbon taxes on it, and carbon tax on the people. All those things did nothing to affect the climate or the environment. All it did was kill thousands of energy industry and spin off jobs. Reduced the tax income for government and increased the national debt and cost of living for everyone. What specific laws are you talking about? It certainly hasn't been in the news. Heard no such thing. The Conservative government might have changed some laws that shouldn't have been there. They would have done that to restore natural resource development. If you are against natural resource development or against the energy industry, you are wrecking Canada. Where do you think most of the good-paying jobs come from? They are in the natural resource field.

You are obviously obsessed with the wrong thing. The environment is not going to be worse under the Conservatives. There are countless laws and processes that already protect the environment. The attacks against the energy industry is preventing Canada from developing its full potential and keeping Canada crippled. You ignored the need to develop our economy and stop the crime. Sad. You wrongly believe the environment is somehow in great danger. That is a totally false belief. There are serious issues to do with the economy that Canada needs to deal with. However, you're free to believe what you want. Get out your Greta costume and hit the streets.

Is that it? What about eliminating the barriers to resource development and creating a large number of good-paying jobs, building a massive number of affordable homes, apartments, and stopping all the terrible crime? Seems to me the environment is fairly clean in this vast country and there are many regulations protecting it now. The oil and gas industry is a potentially a huge high paying industry that could really contribute a lot of good-paying jobs and taxes for health care and building the military, etc. But the liberals/NDP are blocking the building of pipelines and preventing the extraction of vast resources underground of oil and gas. Why don't you want to help build Canada and prosperity? If the economy is made to boom, there will be lots of tax money to provide good health care and other services. Do you really think my vision is a losing one?

What are you hiding for? Why don't you state clearly in a couple sentences what your vision is and why you disagree with the Conservative's vision?

Many of us have been saying this all along, but usually ignored by the Liberals and left. Canada is in a crisis with the average person unable to afford a home or the high rents, tent cities and homeless people in every town and city, failing health care system, increasing numbers of people relying on food banks, and a soft-on-crime justice system that almost all the time catches and releases dangerous offenders who then go out to stab someone. "For nine years, Canada has been on the wrong track. We’ve pushed away investment through excessive regulation, long approval timelines, and an unpredictable policy environment. We’ve discouraged risk-takers and entrepreneurs. We’ve punished the industries that built our economy — energy, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing — under the banner of climate virtue and political optics." KLEIN: We’ve got bigger problems than Donald Trump So why are some former conservative campaign advisers talking about changing the focus of the campaign to Trump? What is there to say about Trump? Most politicians know what we have to do. Counter tariffs where sensible and build our economy back. The disastrous past nine years is still the main problem in Canada. It appears Liberals and media are using Trump for talking points. That's all it is. Carney just said resource projects can only proceed if they have free and informed consent of FNs. There is the same old problem. No federal leadership. Rather bending over to a small handful of radical FNs, environmentalists, and leftists who oppose the progress and prosperity of Canada. This proves nothing would change under Carney.

Do you get paid by the Liberals or NDP for inventing fake claims?

There is more to it than that? Did you vote for the BC NDP, now proven as absolute dictators in sheep's clothing? "In the face of extreme and mounting pressure against their proposed anti-democratic Bill 7, David Eby and NDP backed down on Friday . The damage to Eby and the NDP, however, has been done. The attempt to sideline the B.C. Legislature using the Trump tariff threat as cover was as naked a power grab as we have seen in this province and confirms the current NDP and Eby instinct to find ways to exclude not only parliament from the decision making and legislative process, but the public as well. No decision B.C.’s NDP government makes now can be taken at face value and must instead be viewed with suspicion as to its true intention." Adam Pankratz: B.C. NDP prefers autocratic governance Maybe the sky is falling.

How childish can you get? You need to read what your beloved BC NDP has been up to. They evidently have been working on taking away democratic rights and land use rights of all citizens. Their latest attempt with Bill 7 was not the beginning. They tried that before the last election. They have no respect for democracy. Adam Pankratz: B.C. NDP prefers autocratic governance "In the face of extreme and mounting pressure against their proposed anti-democratic Bill 7, David Eby and NDP backed down on Friday . The damage to Eby and the NDP, however, has been done. The attempt to sideline the B.C. Legislature using the Trump tariff threat as cover was as naked a power grab as we have seen in this province and confirms the current NDP and Eby instinct to find ways to exclude not only parliament from the decision making and legislative process, but the public as well. No decision B.C.’s NDP government makes now can be taken at face value and must instead be viewed with suspicion as to its true intention." Is this what half the voters voted for? Looks like it. A sad commentary on human intelligence and gullibility.

I think there is a lot of BS and lies coming out of mainstream media. We know the media has no love for the Conservatives and the Conservatives don't have much use for them. The media is slanted to being liberal because they have received grants in the past and the CBC receives billions from the Liberal government. So all this is no surprise. Many people in the Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto triangle are very gullible and automatically fall for the Liberals. In Quebec, voting Liberal is a part of their religion because they have always pandered to Quebec. That is old stuff.

If you want overbearing, control freak government, vote Liberal. They will not enable Canada to harvest its potential. They will continue their old practice of taxes, regulations and blocking resource development and impeding home building and over burdening business. If you want the opposite and want to see Canada move ahead, overcome many of problems of the past including stopping the catch and release of criminals, vote Conservative. I am tired of watching Canada shot itself in the foot. I will try to find better things to spend my time on if this Liberal government continues in Canada. This is a no-brainer.

Let's stop right there and look at the LNG Industry in Canada. Canada had the chance to build a pipeline to the east coast and ship oil or gas to other countries, but chose not to because of Trudeau's radical war on climate change. If you don't think that has harmed Canada a lot in the last ten years, you must be blind. The Trudeau Liberals turned their back on building the Energy East pipeline and the Northern Gateway Pipeline to the Kitimat terminal. They did nothing about the offer from some European countries to buy our natural gas. They passed bill C69, the no pipeline bill, and passed a bill to ban tankers from the B.C. north coast. How much more do you need to know? Trudeau was obsessed with fighting climate change while the rest of the world moved ahead and built pipelines, shipped their oil and natural gas. We were left behind. Why does Canada have to be sacrificed while the rest of the world develops their resources and creates jobs and prosperity for their people? It is really suicidal and self destructive to have Liberals and NDP which are opposed to resource development and against the energy industry. Carney has a history of being a climate change representative on the world stage. He will be the same anti energy PM as Trudeau.

Unfortunately, the way our system works is first of all the party that gets the most seats forms the government and the Prime Minister is automatically the leader of that party. He in effect becomes the dictator for the next four years. There are so many different issues that people vote on that the PM can pick and choose which issue he is going to pursue and can neglect whatever issue he chooses. He can do almost anything he wants on the general claim that the people elected him. For example, the PM can ignore developing our energy industry and there is nothing anybody can do about it. He has the position for four years and that's all he needs. He is under no obligation to do certain things. Our system gives the elected party the power to do whatever they choose. So yes he is a kind of dictator.

He still has to win the election to be the new Liberal authoritarian. Liberal and left voters are very gullible, especially in the Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto triangle. Quebec blindly supports Liberals and always has. You are the ridiculous one. You are off in some weird way of thinking that makes rational conversation impossible.

Carney and the Liberals didn't really have any choice. As soon as he recalls Parliament, there will be a non-confidence motion as quickly as possible, which would bring down the government and there would have to be an election. Trump's tariffs have become a central issue and many undecided voters believe that Carney can somehow be the savior in the face of Trump. It makes many people also forget the past ten years of Liberal harm done to Canada. So if course at a time when the Liberals have had a big improvement in the polls because of Trump, Carney would call an election. People forget easily about the past ten years under Trudeau and somehow think Carney will be a total change. He won't be though. That is the problem. He has the same old liberal gang in the cabinet and in the caucus. Things won't change under Carney.

So what? That has nothing to do with Carney being an authoritarian. Having elections doesn't make Carney any less of an authoritarian. We had ten years of Trudeau's disastrous governing. It will be the same with Carney if he wins. We have seen the corruption of the liberals. Carney's team are the same old liberals.

One need only to do a little internet searching to find articles that show the Liberal NDP policies have often been against resource projects while Conservatives support them. It often also takes many years, possibly 15 years or more, to get approval for mining projects from Liberal governments. What does that have to do with what we're talking about? Nobody said Carney was exactly like Trump in every possible comment. We all know Trump makes bizarre comments continually. Trump is not someone Carney should cozy up to. He is not our leader. Carney's writing shows he is some kind of interventionist, authoritarian who thinks government's job is to meddle in the economy and try to control things to fit the mold he thinks it should be.

You need to do a little reading. Liberals and NDP are more against resource industries and Conservatives are in favour of them. With liberal / NDP governments this has had a devastating effect on the resource industries in Canada preventing the creation of jobs, tax revenue and the GDP. I thought as a former union guy you would favour more jobs, not less. Free enterprise would create far more good-paying jobs in Canada. The Liberal left would block them. " Whereas resource sector planks run over four pages in the Conservative Party of Canada platform – with a full page dedicated to energy alone – the only planks in the NDP platform that deal with resource industries appear to be ones with negative consequences. On fisheries and aquaculture, the NDP pledges to “support the transition to land-based closed-containment systems.” This differs little from the Liberal plan, which is to shut down open-net salmon farms in B.C. and instead encourage investment in land-based aquaculture systems. On Canada’s nascent liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, only the Conservatives have a specific plank. It calls for a national LNG export strategy. The Liberal and NDP planks are silent on LNG. On forestry and mining, the NDP platform is also generally silent. On mining, the Liberal platform pledges a ban on thermal coal exports from or through Canada by 2030. About half the coal mined in Canada – mostly in Alberta and Saskatchewan – is thermal coal. Most is used in those two provinces in coal power plants, which are due to be phased out by 2030, though some thermal coal mined in Canada is exported, mostly to Asia. Muir said the ban may not have a big effect on Canadian mining jobs, but would have an impact on Vancouver port jobs." Resource-development sectors get little love from Liberals, NDP - Business in Vancouver

Only if you're on LSD. His writings tell what kind of leader he will be. Authoritarian. That is the difference between Liberals on the left and conservatives on right. Conservatives believe in freedom and free enterprise. Liberals don't. That is why the country is in such a mess after ten years of Liberal Trudeau rule. Carney will be a continuation of the liberal mess. Canadians have a choice. They could choose the path toward increased prosperity, increased resource development, and vastly increased jobs working in the resource industry and building homes. Better paying jobs and reduced taxes. They must vote Conservative to do that.

One can deduce that from his comments. First, he is a globalist climate change, net zero radical and so opposed the oil and gas industry. He describes himself in his book that he is a government authoritarian and interventionist. In other words, he just another Trudeau type control freak. Secondly, Trump claims to be a radical anti free trade person and he loves Carney. quote That said, Carney goes far beyond the usual central-banker misgivings about the functioning of free markets, preferring instead to subscribe to narratives widely shared by the Left. In Value(s), Carney rewrites his own account of past events to fit today’s liberal narratives. A prime example is 2008’s Great Financial Crisis. At the time, he diagnosed its origin as “a fundamental repricing of risk,” suggestive of a severe but isolated malfunction in markets. However, today Carney shifts the blame to “a crisis of values” and a misalignment of incentives, which fits his narrative that the heart of capitalism is fundamentally rotten because self-interest blinds us to broader social problems. unquote He has ideas of government intervention in the economy. This is just more of the liberal control and will not fix the problems Canada has. Investors do not like government control or Socialism and will go elsewhere where there is freedom from authoritarianism.

That sounds like a oversimplification of the subject. It does not acknowledge the many serious problems we have with the public health care system in Canada. It just kind of sounds like a cover up.

Life expectancies cannot be strictly determined by the health care system. Most western countries have life expectancies around the upper 70s to low eighties. There are many factors that affect life expectancy. Things such as the climate, the population, the standard of living of people, the type of environment they live in, the type of work they do, the number of people dying from drug addiction, alcoholism, smoking, over weight, the level and type of crime, the number of motor vehicle accidents, education etc. There are many reasons why people die and these deaths for any cause are included in the calculation for life expectancy. The kind of health care is just one factor out of many. Even medical assistance in dying (MAID) which is more than 16,000 people per year in Canada now will be another factor that lowers the overall life expectancy calculation of Canadians.

I am glad you had good care and are recovering well. May God bless you as you continue to recover. Unfortunately not everyone has the same good experience with our health care system. Thousands of Canadians have died on waiting lists in Canada in the last few years. Millions do not have a family doctor. I know someone who went into the ER with heart attack who should have been given a clot buster right away but the doctor didn't give it and the person's heart was seriously damaged and only pumps about 50% of the blood of a normal heart. This has affected the person's life in a serious way. I know someone else who went in for a heart procedure whose heart was damaged in the procedure and this has had serious negative affects on the person's life. I know of someone who was sent across the border into the U.S. for cancer treatments because they do not have enough treatment facilities in the province. This is common. It is common to see ER closures in various towns around the province for one or two nights and people needing emergency care having to be driven an hour or two to another city. Not everyone receives the good care that they should. In the town I live in, many people cannot get a family doctor because of the shortage of doctors. They must either go to the walk-in clinic or the ER. If they go to the walk-in clinic, they must arrive at least an hour and a half before it opens because the clinic is only open for two hours, twice a day, M - F. IN that two hours they will only take in 12 patients. The visit is kind of brief and feels like you are being rushed. Twelve patients in two hours means you have typically ten minutes in to deal with the problem. Usually you can only be seen for one problem. If you go to the ER, you could be required to wait for eight hours to see a doctor in some occasions. The system is certainly not providing equally good care for everyone.

I don't know about that. Funny how people who don't want to fix our failing health care system always claim those who question the public system want the American system. I never suggested we should copy the American system. There are some systems in Europe that are better than the failing Canadian system. If you want to talk about life expectancies, you should also consider the fact that thousands of Canadians died on waiting lists in Canada in recent years. Do a search and compare the life expectancies in various European countries. Maybe we should be trying a mixture of public and private systems. I know the diehard leftist NDP abhor that idea and fight against any kind of private health care being used alongside the public system. But that is blind dogmatism and is putting ideology before the welfare of the people. Costs of health care are enormous in Canada. Canada pays tens of billions of dollars in each province. You don't see how you pay it because the government pays for it out of our taxes. But we still pay for it. Can you prove we pay less than many other countries in Europe for example. Or are you just spouting a false claim? Yes I am. Just because you say so.

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh promises he would control certain food prices and rents and bring in various regulations to control things. This is pure Socialism. Socialism has proven to be a failure. This article explains why. " Here’s are some excerpts of my 1995 essay “Why Socialism Failed”: 1. Socialism is the Big Lie of the twentieth century. While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery. In the same way that a Ponzi scheme or chain letter initially succeeds but eventually collapses, socialism may show early signs of success. But any accomplishments quickly fade as the fundamental deficiencies of central planning emerge. It is the initial illusion of success that gives government intervention its pernicious, seductive appeal. In the long run, socialism has always proven to be a formula for tyranny and misery. A pyramid scheme is ultimately unsustainable because it is based on faulty principles. Likewise, collectivism is unsustainable in the long run because it is a flawed theory. Socialism does not work because it is not consistent with fundamental principles of human behavior. The failure of socialism in countries around the world can be traced to one critical defect: it is a system that ignores incentives. In a capitalist economy, incentives are of the utmost importance. Market prices, the profit-and-loss system of accounting, and private property rights provide an efficient, interrelated system of incentives to guide and direct economic behavior. Capitalism is based on the theory that incentives matter! Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally. A centrally planned economy without market prices or profits, where property is owned by the state, is a system without an effective incentive mechanism to direct economic activity. By failing to emphasize incentives, socialism is a theory inconsistent with human nature and is therefore doomed to fail. Socialism is based on the theory that incentives don’t matter! 2. The strength of capitalism can be attributed to an incentive structure based upon the three Ps: (1) prices determined by market forces, (2) a profit-and-loss system of accounting and (3) private property rights. The failure of socialism can be traced to its neglect of these three incentive-enhancing components. 3. By their failure to foster, promote, and nurture the potential of their people through incentive-enhancing institutions, centrally planned economies deprive the human spirit of full development. Socialism fails because it kills and destroys the human spirit–just ask the people leaving Cuba in homemade rafts and boats [and those waiting in long lines today in Venezuela struggling, and often failing, to buy food]. 4. The temptress of socialism is constantly luring us with the offer: “give up a little of your freedom and I will give you a little more security.” As the experience of this century has demonstrated, the bargain is tempting but never pays off. We end up losing both our freedom and our security. Socialism will remain a constant temptation. We must be vigilant in our fight against socialism not only around the globe but also here in the United States. The failure of socialism inspired a worldwide renaissance of freedom and liberty. For the first time in the history of the world, the day is coming very soon when a majority of the people in the world will live in free societies or societies rapidly moving toward freedom. Capitalism will play a major role in the global revival of liberty and prosperity because it nurtures the human spirit, inspires human creativity, and promotes the spirit of enterprise. By providing a powerful system of incentives that promote thrift, hard work, and efficiency, capitalism creates wealth. The main difference between capitalism and socialism is this: Capitalism works." Why Socialism Always Fails | American Enterprise Institute - AEI We see the failure of Socialism in our public health care system. That is a prime example of the failure of Socialism. I don't think many people realize that there are many people in Canada who are on long waiting lists for special medical care and many have died on waiting lists. There are also millions of Canadians that don't have their own family doctor. Emergency rooms often close. People also don't realize that many emergency rooms are not properly staffed with qualified doctors. It is just not possible to staff them properly, especially in smaller communities. Many small communities do not have enough doctors. All of these problems are the result of Socialism. Government trying to provide free services for every individual fully funded by taxpayers. But government is under tremendous political pressure to fund all kinds of things. Therefore what they budget for the health care system is a political decision which is weighed against all the other demands for funding; not a what is required decision.