GritBusters

The mistreatment of Christians and of people from the "wrong" kind of Islam by rebel movements in Syria and post-regime change governments in Libya and Iraq is a major reason, but obviously not the only one, behind the refugee crises that we've been seeing in Europe and North America. Either way, those crises are largely the consequence of vainglorious "regime change" interventions in the region and will not stop until we learn to appreciate the dire consequences of allowing Riyadh and Tehran to hold all the cards through our undermining the most power secular Arab governments in the region. There would have been no Khomeini without Operation Ajax, friends.

Nobody outside of Ontario and Quebec's pro-Laurentian Consensus factions would seriously support something like this. Frankly, I don't feel it's imperative that we coordinate health or education policies beyond the provincial level. In the case of health, I'd rather give more latitude to right-leaning provinces to incorporate private actors and some two-tier programs if it would mean that provinces that are more prone towards electing progressive governments would have a freer hand and more resources to expand coverage to dental care, eye care, and sleep disorder treatment and to implement pharma care. If you do not have provinces and municipalities to devolve power to, you will have to rely more on stuff like gerrymandering and (especially) malapportionment to keep smaller provinces and rural Canada satisfied. Sometimes rural Canada has legitimate grievances about being under-represented in the halls of power, sometimes they're just assholes who want to use this lack of power as a bayonet with which to thumb Bibles and bash immigrants and queers. A decentralized Canada would prevent this problem form occurring and ensure that nobody is over-represented when it comes to our ability to address issues that are truly national in scope.

I'm shocked... The CCF, Social Credit, the Parti Quebecois, the NDP, the Calgary School, and the Liberal Party of Canada have always advocated proportional representation when it's suited their interests. And then when they've finally had their turn respective turns to feed at the trough, they ended up liking the taste so much that they refused to implement any reforms that would force them to share power with others, to decentralize power away from the executive, or to be held accountable to real Canadians.

That's kind of ridiculous when one considers that, in 1867, we had, among other peoples, Chinese railway workers, Aboriginal communities, and Black War of 1812 veterans among our compatriots. That's not including the fact that this country was founded as a compromise between High Church Tories in Ontario and Francophone Ultramontanes in Quebec, rather than as a monolithic bloc. There is a lot that I will criticize Pierre Trudeau for, and Justin is easily the worst Prime Minister I've lived through, but multiculturalism only recognizes the lived reality of our Confederation since before it has even become Confederation. The real threat comes from succeeding Liberal and Conservative governments that have been complicit in the spread of terrorism and far-right Islamic extremism throughout the world through their incestuous relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Al-Saud Crime Family.

That's not a valid argument. Not living in Canada does not preclude somebody from having valid options about (insofar as somebody daft enough to admire Bush and Cheney is capable of having well-reasoned, reality-based opinions about much of anything) or a personal interest in Canadian affairs. Moreover, it is possible for people to dislike both Justin Trudeau AND Donald Trump for different reasons, a position that you'll often see taken by left-wing critics of the Liberal Party of Canada. For instance, Mexico's equivalent to the Liberal Party, the disgustingly corrupt Institutional Revolutionary Party, has been back in power since 2012. The candidate best positioned to defeat them in 2018 is the National Regeneration Movement's Lopez Obrador, a former head of government in Mexico City and left-wing populist who is also a strident critic of the Trump Administration and of American foreign policy.

Like Bush and Cheney, all the Liberal Party of Canada ever does is lie.

That's a terrible argument. We already have hate crime laws in place -- which Tories and right-wing Liberal opposed -- that would ensure that the offending Imam is dealt with.

I'm a left-wing populist and a fair weather New Democrat. I identify more with Quebec Solidaire and the Pirate Party, but they are not viable options in Eastern Ontario. I support the following: Decentralizing powers to all provinces, not just Quebec, and limiting federal jurisdiction to the constitutional minimums outlined in the BNA/Canada Act. Full status of nationhood for Quebec and the Quebecois. Given that power will be devolved to the provinces and First Nations communities, it will be trivially easy to give Quebec nationhood without any corresponding special powers and privileges that other provinces would lack. Mixed member proportional representation for the House of Commons and Senate abolition. Decentralizing powers away from the Prime Minister, the Premiers, the PMO, and the PCO (and their provincial equivalents). No appointing judges, Senators (if we must keep them), or senior civil servants without full parliamentary oversight. Fixed parliamentary terms and by-elections within 6 weeks of a riding's going vacant. No more leaving people without local representation in Parliament to manipulate its make-up or to create omnibus by-elections to serve as litmus tests for the government in power. The right to referendums, popular initiatives, and the recall of elected officials. Eliminating private money from political parties: let the government take care of the data mining and the campaign financing, and let the parties become philosophically coherent vehicles, dedicated to governing, to being governments-in-waiting, and to serving as factories from which new ideas are generated. The creating of an 11th province, Outaouais, comprised of the current City of Ottawa and Ville de Gatineau. The current cities will be de-amalgamated (as the amalgamations were imposed by Queen's Park and Quebec City) and powers will be shared between the new provincial governments and the re-established cities of Ottawa, Gloucester, Nepean, Kanata, Vanier, Hull-Aylmer, Gatineau, and the smaller communities I've forgotten. The calling of a constitutional convention to correct the archaic, undemocratic processes through which our current one was crafted.

I'm a left-wing populist and a fair weather New Democrat. I identify more with Quebec Solidaire and the Pirate Party, but they were not viable options in Eastern Ontario. I support the following: Decentralizing powers to all provinces, not just Quebec, and limiting federal jurisdiction to the constitutional minimums outlined in the BNA/Canada Act. Full status of nationhood for Quebec and the Quebecois. Given that power will be devolved to the provinces and First Nations communities, it will be trivially easy to give Quebec nationhood without any corresponding special powers and privileges that other provinces would lack. Mixed member proportional representation and Senate abolition. Decentralizing powers away from the Prime Minister, the Premiers, the PMO, and the PCO (and their provincial equivalents). No appointing judges, Senators (if we must keep them), or senior civil servants without full parliamentary oversight. Fixed parliamentary terms and by-elections within 6 weeks of a riding's going vacant. No more leaving people without local representation in Parliament to manipulate the make-up or to create omnibus by-elections to serve as litmus tests for the government in power. The right to referendums, popular initiatives, and the recall of elected officials. Eliminating private moneys from political parties: let the government take care of the data mining and the campaign financing, and let the parties become philosophically coherent vehicles, dedicated to governing and to serving as factories from which ideas are generated. The creating of an 11th province, Outaouais, comprised of the current City of Ottawa and Ville de Gatineau. The current cities will be de-amalgamated (as the amalgamations were imposed by Queen's Park and Quebec City) and powers will be shared between the new provincial governments and the re-established cities of Ottawa, Gloucester, Nepean, Kanata, Vanier, Hull-Aylmer, Gatineau, and the smaller communities I've forgotten. The calling of a constitutional convention to correct the archaic, undemocratic processes through which our current one was crafted.

Trudeau is a garbage tier Prime Minister, but it was Harper that made Canada complicit in the exportation of terrorism and Islamic extremism through his government's authorizing an exponential increase in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the Al-Saud Crime Family.The more we help Riyadh and Tehran consolidate power in the Middle East, the more we empower those who seek to radicalize ordinary Muslims into terrorists and backers of terrrorism and the more refugees will come here because nobody reasonable, Muslim or otherwise, wants to be dhimmi to the far-right Wahabbi wackos running Saudi Arabia and Daesh.There were far fewer refugees coming out of the Middle East before the United States, the United Kingdom, and the war profiteers started making a mess out of Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Any Iraqi Christian will gladly tell you that Al-Sistani's goons are 1,000,000 times worse than Saddam and that, outside of Kurdistan, "democracy" in Iraq is just a facade for Shiite chauvinism.If we want to stem the tide of refugees, it's time to start taking out the Wahhabi trash!