Zeitgeist

Actually you, ExFlyer, and it seems Contrarian are displaying ignorance and denial on the most important issues of our day. You don’t make important connections between the way business is influencing and benefiting from government policies that will hurt most people financially and in terms of democratic freedom. You don’t connect the rising cost of food due to largely human-made crises such as inflation (due to overspending, bad geopolitical moves, carbon taxes, etc.) and Bill Gates buying up land everywhere or Blackrock winning reconstruction contracts in Ukraine or vaccine companies depending on government contracts and stoking fear on what has devolved into a relatively minor illness. You don’t have any problem with the fact that so much of our policy, increasingly, is being influenced (dictated?) by unelected wealthy and powerful people from international organizations and fora like the WEF. You basically want to remain ignorant and you shame those who do not. Your complete selling out of protesters against government overreach and support of the Emergencies Act is more evidence of denial and suppression of thought.

Your moral cowardice is getting worse and worse. The important point that blackbird is making is that legislatures and courts in Canada routinely violate constitutional rights such as religious freedom. Where this has landed us is in a state where children can’t be protected from transition surgeries that they may regret a few years later; assisted suicide is touted for people who aren’t of sound mind or who are poor or deemed burdensome, which is eugenic murder; and severe restrictions are imposed on freedom of movement, employment, medical discretion, and other constitutional rights whenever the state decides we are in a crisis. At the same time as basic constitutional and human rights are subverted in Canada, people who are clearly threats to Canada such as volunteer fighters for ISIS are given a light touch by the courts in some twisted notion of equity. In fact we now see more racist discrimination in Canada than in the past half century as “racialized-only” job postings appear to which whites need not apply. I have co-workers who are quietly saying that they will lie and say they are gay in order to get a job. Pierre Trudeau’s dismantling of the military and push towards official multiculturalism sounded progressive at the time but has ultimately stripped us of our ability to have foreign and domestic policies based on common values, including the foundational Judeo-Christian values upon which our system was built. We’re seeing the results in a lost generation with confused identities and ethics. What’s the value of a Charter that’s constantly undermined and a system that gives a pass or preference to certain permanently-designated victim groups? I won’t even get into the ruination of Canada’s esteem under Justin’s overreaching, endlessly shaming, overspending government. Pierre’s “just society” now sounds ironic.

You missed the memo: The Dems are now (once again?) the establishment of privileged elites. The Republicans are mostly the same. The Liberals are illiberal now.

Who crafted the ranking criteria? I’d love to hear his/her/their political perspective.

Go back to fly fishing. Politics is hard.

As time passes I see more and more how dangerously uncritical much of the population is towards oppressive government policies. It starts to make sense of the idea of mass hypnosis or the power of persuasion through propaganda from the state and state-funded media. It’s how dictators get and maintain power. The climate change fear machine is already a tool of oppression and we should be very worried about future “solutions” from these “young global leaders”.

The excuse of fighting climate change is being used to justify an all out assault on the poor and middle class. Carbon taxes and all “climate action” charges on energy and fuel are evil. Carbon taxes are existence taxes that impact the costs of all goods, not just home heating and transportation, but food and other necessities. The WEF’s rich ideologues are willing to sacrifice the health and prosperity of billions to achieve their deluded dream of climate purity.

They did say that raising the price on natural gas in Europe where home heating prices are extremely high and unaffordable to many, especially the elderly, reduced natural gas consumption by 20%. Duh. Basically they’re saying people should risk their health and be reduced to poverty in the name of saving the planet. Cruel and sick.

You only like compliance.

Everyone who disagrees with your politics is a conspiracy theorist. This is your attempt to shut down discussion.

Billions of tax dollars and countless shaming and apology have resulted from much conjecture and very little evidence. No evidence of mass murder. I’m sure there are rare examples of extreme abuse. Abuse by today’s standards was commonplace in all schools until about 25-30 years ago, and I’m sure it was worse in boarding schools. Racism would likely impact this for the worse. I don’t think that most people working in these schools were any worse than today’s educators. I’m sure they thought they were helping provide opportunity and I’m sure the overall public sentiment at the time was supportive of this education. Illiteracy was seen as a great scourge and the conditions on many remote reserves were poor. It was misguided by today’s standards to separate kids from parents without family supporting such an education.

Freeland must provide recordings of her meetings with these unelected people. I’m going to agree with Eyeball here. Why are Canadians paying for Freeland’s Alpine vacation so she can plot the next phase of unaccountable government overreach? All government employees are there on the public dime. Really they shouldn’t be there. We certainly shouldn’t be funding these cabal meetings. Freeland can go on her time off at her expense, though I don’t think she should be permitted to attend as long as she holds public office.

They’re sick control freaks who think they deserve to micromanage populations. The WEF is an unelected mob of kleptomaniac disaster capitalists who use the cover of solving world crises to commodify every aspect of human existence in order to accumulate more power and money for themselves. Trudeau and Freeland are ardent supporters to the degree that they will foist policies on the public without a public mandate then give us a sell job. It’s gross but most people are simply too removed, gullible, exhausted, and/or disempowered to do anything about it. Make no mistake though, the fascist ESG alignment of big business with government is overriding national constitutions and sovereignty. People generally aren’t getting it and are toeing the party line by calling anyone who calls attention to the undermining of democracy a “conspiracy theorist”.

The naivety abounds unfortunately. I also find it humorous getting lectures about fighting climate change from people who have no idea how personally invested I’ve been in green tech. It’s hugely problematic to see so many Canadians accept policies and unnecessary taxes blindly. We really are suckers. Canada’s emissions continue to climb and they’re minute compared to what’s coming out of Asia. Carbon taxes are just taxes that add to our cost of living and encourage more government spending and mismanagement.

The Liberals have emphasized that there are different qualities of humans. They think Indigenous are infants who need to be taken care of by the state and that they can’t handle fair treatment under the law. They apply the same logic to black people. I guess the thinking is that as long as people can be convinced that certain groups can’t earn their own money and think for themselves they can be controlled and manipulated to vote Liberal.

Canada will benefit from climate change as northern sea trade expands through an ice-free Northwest Passage. There are things we can do cheaply to reduce climate change: tree-planting, painting sun-facing surfaces white, integrating solar, deep-water cooling, and geothermal into the building codes, giving tax breaks for improved energy efficient furnaces, weather stripping, and insulation. Cutting energy use cuts costs, an incentive of its own. More hydro and nuclear over time, where cost effective, helps. Much can be done locally through smart urban planning to reduce commutes and make communities more liveable and self-sufficient. Having reliable local food supply is also important. None of this requires carbon taxes or restrictions on our freedom of movement. I’m suspicious of any attempts to reduce our rights and add costs in the name of fighting a “crisis.” Pollution is at least as much of a threat as climate change, and it’s clear that many activists haven’t thought through the environmental impacts of mining rare-earth metals and lithium or the life cycles of batteries.

I don’t think there’s much conclusive evidence about the level of human impact in terms of how much human made climate change is accelerating or decelerating naturally occurring climate change patterns, certainly not enough evidence to make people pay more for the necessities of life to pay for “climate action” that may make no quantifiable difference to climate change. Having said that I don’t think our current climate policies will make any measurable difference to climate change, I think it’s a good precaution to make changes to the building code and energy policies that will reduce emissions over time without adding to the cost of living for consumers.

Are you a rational thinking human? The Emergencies Act was justified? All I need to know about your views.

Poilievre will have achieved much better results for Canada in one year than Trudeau did in 7 years of hemorrhaging money and national pride and sucking up to leftist dingbats if he does what he announced: -scrap the carbon tax -defund the CBC -ban caucus members from participating in the WEF and other Dr. No organizations -de-regulate the energy sector

You think you know more about the constitution? You don’t want to have that pissing contest. If you knew the constitution so well and how the courts interpret it you’d know how weak it is. We have no 1st Amendment, no property rights, and our Notwithstanding Clause basically makes our rights highly conditional. The excuse of a crisis has been demonstrated as capable of suspending most rights indefinitely.

I don’t care if you think I’m a conspiracy theorist for stating facts and pointing out dubious policies. You should know by now that I’m triple-vaxed and that my support of the protests has everything to do with constitutional rights like freedom of speech, protest, and medical discretion. Yes you supported the mandates so I consider your views as dangerous and basically bad. Don’t worry, Hardner, you, bcscapper, Treebeard, Jack9000, and a few others are also on the side of Moonbox and his Liberal-NDP sycophantic parade. You need to start calling out government overreach to earn respect. You make a virtue out of accepting and enabling BS.

I just think you buy everything you’re told by Liberal media like most Canadians. You’re scared of other viewpoints and label anyone who tells the truth about government overreach a “conspiracy theorist”. It’s how you’ve been trained. Don’t worry, you’re going to get even more insane tranhumanism, MAID for the poor, mentally ill, and elderly, higher taxes on basic necessities, curtailment of free speech, and general mindless left-wing radical compliance.

How can you be such a sell out? Thank God for the trucker protest. They literally liberated Canada from restrictions and mandates. They were heroic. I like Poilievre because he was brave enough to stand up to the Liberal-paid legacy media. My only concern with Poilievre is that he is at risk of sliding into copying the Liberals. Polilievre isn’t a social conservative. He’s barely conservative. You fear him because your whole ethos is Liberal like all of Canada. The Liberals run Canada permanently.

Webb articulates our current predicament very well:

Canada has become a grotesque quasi-totalitarian shadow of its former self. It could take decades to clear out the influence-peddling, grift, outsized influence of unelected individuals/groups, and so on. Canada is a socialist dictatorship where one set of political views are okay. All other opinions are “unacceptable” or “alt-right” or “misogynist” or “colonial”, etc. Pluralistic Canada is fast-tracking to Chinese-style totalitarian hive mentality under Trudeau. Climate change is just another excuse for more oppressive policies. Our Conservative Party are barely conservative, yet somehow they are “scary” to most Canadians. The Liberals will hold office forever, even if the “Conservatives” manage the odd win.