blackbird

I thought we were talking about the hypothetical possibility of a province separating. Within Canada, it depends what FN matters you are talking about. They are under the authority of the federal government in some matters. Some FN issues fall under the authority of the province they are in. If a province did separate, what authority do you think the natives in that province would fall under?

A number of provinces in central and eastern Canada joined together to form the country in 1867. B.C. did not join until a number of years later. You are a just trying to stir up the pot. The first step is Alberta would decide whether it wants to pursue separation and the negotiations would have to begin from there.

Separation would require complex negotiations between the separating province, the federal government and other provinces according to what I've read. So there is not much to debate. That's how it would have to happen. As a keyboard warrior you don't get to decide the details.

I've read far more than you. For example, B.C. was British colony before it joined Canada. If Quebec has the right to separate so does every other province.

It's that attitude that stinks and contributes to the wish to separate. No, the province decides. Is that all you can come up with?

FNs are under the authority of the provincial government and do not tell the province what they can do. They are 5% of the population. The majority decides, not 5%.

I doubt it. Provinces are a defined geographic area with one provincial government representing and sovereign over their own province. I think most provincial governments would agree their own boundaries are sovereign and unchangeable. What applies to one province applies to all.

What makes you think BC would want to deny Alberta access to ports or pipelines? I live in BC and would welcome pipelines and give them access to ports. We have much more in common with Alberta than Ontario, Quebec and eastern Canada. We get our oil, gas, agriculture, and beef from Alberta.

What about the fact Alberta would not have to pay Quebec and the eastern provinces billions of dollars in equalization payments and would not have the federal government blocking the development of the oil and gas industries with their emission caps and carbon taxes?

The natural resource industries such as oil, gas, mining, forestry create hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs as well as hundreds of thousands of spin-off jobs. That is what makes Canadians prosper and own everything they do. What would you replace that with and how? Jobs are not created out of blue just by wishful thinking. Jobs are created by people who invest in companies that start businesses. They don't invest in something unless they know they will make money. That's just how the world works. Tell us how you would create this new world with new jobs and who would invest in it. What kind of jobs would they be?

If you don't think the real money making industry for Canada is natural resource extractions and selling, what kind of business do you think Canada could make good money in? What high end goods and services could Canada produce and be able to compete with China, Asia, and Mexico?

How could that be? Give some examples. I thought criminals were claiming they acted because of their mental illness and couldn't help what they did when they killed a lot of people.

We need to learn that many people with mental illness should not be on the street at all. Medical hospitals are not for the mentally ill patients. There have always been places for the mentally ill that have staff that are properly trained to deal with them. You probably wouldn't believe if I told you there is no one kind of mentally ill person. There is a wide range or spectrum of types of mental illness. There are some who are dangerous to others in varying degrees and it is often impossible to tell what kind of danger these people represent. That is proven by the fact that mentally ill people have been released for outings on day passes and have committed assaults on other people. There are some mentally ill people who are so dangerous even to themselves they must be kept in a fully padded room or they will harm themselves. They may even need to be restrained with straight jackets that keep their arms tightly controlled. They also may need endless injections to keep them calm. These kind of people are not something that normal hospitals are equipped to deal with either. They may need to be in a padded cell and physically restrained for the rest of their life. They require very specialized staff to handle them. Doctors or science cannot necessarily change a defective brain in that state.

"The mayor said the man accused of the attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival was under the care of a mental health team and on "extended leave," a term referring to leave from involuntary treatment." What on earth does that mean? Mental health trouble leads to public safety issues, Vancouver's mayor says Meanwhile Premier Eby says there may be a public enquiry. Do we really need more studies and enquiries? How about some action?

PP is the greatest. He brought the party to 20 pts ahead of the Liberals. Then they brought in the banker World Economic Forum globalist and climate change U.N. guy and Trump scared a lot of the people into falling for the banker. Even after that PP brought the number of seats of the Cons up by a significant number. He deserves credit for that. PP lost his own seat because his opponent spent the last couple years door knocking while PP was busy doing all the hard work leading the party and the Cons campaign and didn't have all the time in the world to spend knocking on doors. He sacrificed his own seat for the good of the party.

Never said that. I said there should be capital punishment for murderers. I also gave you a long list of Bible verses which say capital punishment for murder. It mentions nothing about escaping capital punishment for murder because of mental illness or NCR. I respect what God has said in his word above what misguided humans say. What we have today in our cities is anarchy. Do you recall a man by the name of Robert Pickton? Between 1995 and 2001, Pickton is believed to have murdered at least 26 women, many of them prostitutes from Vancouver 's Downtown Eastside." Last Saturday eleven people were murdered by a car ramming in Vancouver and around 20 people seriously injured. Secondly people with mental illness should not be left on the streets to commit crimes, assaults, robberies, and take drugs. This is what is happening now in the east side of downtown Vancouver. It is a complete disaster area with these people sleeping on the street in alleys. Going to the bathroom on the streets wherever. Do you really think they are better off than they would be in a mental institution? It is not safe for anyone to walk through that area. People have been assaulted and even murdered. Perhaps we can agree that these people on the streets with mental problems should be in an institution to prevent them from committing crimes. They would have a good warm place to live with a proper bed, regular meals, clothing, TV, and be taken care of. Since they would be under supervision, they just wouldn't be able to shoot up with drugs and do harm to others. I think that would be very charitable way to treat the mentally ill. Much better than prison.

You think it's remote. Maybe you live in a small village somewhere where there's not many mentally ill people. Maybe ask the Filipino relatives who lost loved ones in Vancouver last Saturday if they think there is nothing to worry about. Ask some of the business people who have to deal with shop lifting every day in some of the cities.

Thanks for the tip. I will keep the doors locked. I thought the forum is the place to post real ideas to solve some of the problems we have in the world.

TreeBeard said: He blew a 25 point lead on the Libs. He couldn’t even win his own riding!! No, he didn't blow it. Trump scared many voters into voting for Carney and Liberals. PP did a very good job in the past few years building up the Conservative support and that was reflected in a large increase in the number of seats they won in the election. But you know as well as I that the voters were stampeded into voting for Carney by the Trump tariffs and 51st stuff. They missed their chance to obtain real change that PP talked about.

You are not a conservative and don't know anything about it. PP did an excellent job and it would be hard to find someone nearly as good. It would be crazy to boot someone who worked like he did and achieved as much as he did. OToole was more of a liberal and changed his mind after he became leader. He changed to keeping the carbon tax. That was a betrayal of the members who wanted to axe the tax.

The world is using more oil every year. Oil is one of the richest drivers of prosperity for Canada. " In recent years, global oil consumption has shown significant trends: In 2020, the world consumed approximately 88.7 million barrels of oil per day2. In 2023, consumption reached about 100.2 million barrels per day3. In 2024, the global demand for crude oil was reported at 103.75 million barrels per day6.

Afraid you're completely wrong. The world is using more oil than ever and will continue to do so. There is no such thing as renewables that could possibly replace fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. We need fossil fuels for aircraft, deep sea shipping, passenger ships, and millions of motor vehicles, large trucks, and buses. Only radical environmentalists live in the imaginary world of renewables. They don't have a clue about the real world. How old are you anyway?

All we have to do is look at the title and who posted it to know it is worthless and contributes nothing to serious discussion.

I don't have much hope for Canada under the Liberals. The Bloc Quebecois is also a problem. They are very similar to Liberals, just a Quebec version. Quebec receives billions of dollars in equalization payment from the west, much from the energy industry. Yet they oppose a pipeline being built through Quebec. What is wrong with these people? They don't believe in give and take. It's all take. One of the problems in Canada is the liberal justice system. I posted this comment under my OP on the compassionate problem with the justice system. Canadians don't feel safe in many cities and areas of Canada. " We need to build many mental institutions and start committing mentally ill people who have interactions with the police and the mental health department. It is time to put the protection of society first and stop this madness of allowing dangerous offenders to go out and kill eleven people at a time and seriously injure another twenty. As it is, authorities are releasing dangerous offenders such as the Greyhound bus passenger who decapitated the guy sitting next to him and was later released. Who can predict the future as to what these people might do? Nobody; not the best psychiatrists or doctors or committees can predict what a mentally unstable person will do if they are released. It is impossible. The so-called not criminally responsible (NCR) defence should be abolished as well. Stop this madness and bring back true justice. Canada is sending the wrong message to would-be killers that they can get away with anything they wish. Stop the beheadings, the car rammings, the stabbings and assaults. Eliminate the NCR plea. Bring back capital punishment for murder without an escape hatch. Put fear into the equation."

Yes and many of us will be watching closely to see what Carney does. I don't have a lot of confidence that he will reverse the unfair laws that harm the energy industry and reverse other bad liberal laws.