Dougie93

1.3.1. Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, s. 96 - meaning of "Convention refugee" 96. A Convention refugee is a person who by reason of a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion, (a) is outside each of their countries of nationality and is unable or, by reason of that fear, is unwilling to avail themselves of the protection of each of those countries, or (ii) not having a country of nationality, is outside their country of former habitual residence and is unable or, by reason of that fear, unwilling to return to that country. Not seeing anything in there that says they must be fleeing conflict zones. Just says reasonable fear of persecution from where I'm sitting, where are you finding a mandate of conflict refugees only?

Indeed, the cabals are the Socialist Nanny Police State of the left propped up by the unions and the Prohibitionist Nanny Police State of the corporations. Perspectives are not silenced tho, I have a fringe perspective, fringe at this juncture at least, and nobody ever bothers me, don't be afraid to exercise your rights, the more you do, the more they are entrenched and inviolable.

Refugees don't just emanate from conflict zones tho, they also emanate from despotic tyrannical governments, which, outside the protection of the Americans and their Empire of Liberty, are legion.

Fool's errand, Canadian Confederation is inherently flawed resulting in de facto dictatorship by collusion among the entrenched interests which control all three major political parties, so all roads lead to Rome, and no matter how you vote you will end up with the same result with only the most modest of tweaks at the margins. The only vote which would count against this status quo would be to exercise your constitutional right to withdraw from Confederation as sovereign jurisdiction, under the Clarity Act. Not saying that would be a panacea, that is only the first step, to free yourself from the effective dictatorship and scale it down to size, then the votes you cast in your new state, while still subject to a Liberal Party of some sort no doubt, would at least be free of their dictatorial rule.

You can enter the markets without regards to your RRSP, that's just a tax delaying mechanism. There is risk, certainly, but there are ways of managing those risks, otherwise known as hedges, which allow you to sleep at night, and while they can be confounding at first, once you educate yourself as to how they work, then you realize it is a simple concept and not actually intimidating. If you are want to hedge against currency devaluation, being the only reason to put money in a mattress, in that case I would recommend that currency be gold and instead of a mattress you just keep it in a safety deposit box. Don't worry, the bank doesn't have access to that box, they are just renting the security of the box, what is inside remains yours no matter what.

I drank from the speculative cup, mea culpa, market capitalism is fun and profitable from where I'm sitting, and also, no crime where I come from, all my activities are legit and above board. Just hedge for eventualities, short as you like into the downside, then buy low, sell high, what's the big whoop?

I am privileged, pretty sure I'm one of the privileged, moreover a monarchist living in a monarchy is the height of privilege, monarchy being the ultimate expression of privilege. Doesn't bother me, I mean, obviously, so what is it that you think I am afraid of? You're not making any sense.

Companies would simply evacuate Canada and set up in the USA and trade with the Chinese from there, then ship their goods and services into Canada from the USA under USMCA /shrugs

I agree, although I would insert the caveat the Canada's as nations will never go bankrupt because a nation state in the Westphalian sense is not an economic entity. The Government of Canada could very easily go bankrupt and could for all we know be bankrupt right now, as bond traders can turn on a dime and bankruptcy can be incited by them in a trading day. The Americans might bail them out, but either way, austerity would be imposed from without and it would cripple their ability to conduct the activities that bother me, that would really chop them down to size, can't have a functioning Nanny Police State when you can't afford so many nanny police. Still haven't answered the question as to how it is you think that I am coward tho. I'm not clinging to this failed state, as I said, I'm hedged for its default and prepared to take a leap of faith into status quo in the wake of it, that is the opposite of cowardice, no?

As I said, my strategy is to adapt to market forces in order to profit from them so I can maintain my comfortable lifestyle, and the silly people of the Post National State, the absurd Orwellian contradiction masquerading as a government propped up by the Americans on their northern frontier, can do what they want. I am for obvious reasons duly hedged for a Canadian economic crisis. What is cowardly about that? I am not afraid, bring on the economic collapse of Canadian Confederation I say, it's of no consequence to me anymore, and the only way to be free of this nonsensical governance, is for it to go bankrupt, doesn't crimp my style, markets are international.

I merely said I make no economic proscription, proscription as in; prohibition, to prohibit being me trying to stop you from doing what you want, so how does that amount to cowardice on my part? Do you not speak the Queen's English?

How so?

Pretty sure Canada is not of particular significance to a twelve trillion dollar economy.

I make no economic proscription from internet soapbox, merely articulating the market forces at the core of the problem for Canada, as I simply live by adaption to market forces rather than pointlessly swimming against the inexorable tides, I'll just keep on doing that, Canada and its nonsensically silly failed state Confederation be damned. /shrugs

I'm a classically liberal limited government conservative in the tradition of British Westminster Parliamentary Democracy and associated Parliamentary Supremacy. Which is obviously opposed by nature to big government nanny police state overreach to solve problems not actually subject to.

So Argus goes on internet forums and publishes to the World Wide Web in perpetuity, vociferously and bombastically advocating that Canadian Confederation in right of the British Crown should commit Crimes Against Humanity by waging Genocidal Aggressive War of annihilation upon the First Nations, who are also subjects of the British Crown by solemn treaty, without regards whatsoever for national and international law and the laws of armed conflict, nor restraint, nor proportionality, nor humanity. Noted.

When those are subjects of the British Crown and so enjoy the protection of the Crown, as all the First Nations are and do, their resistance would be in the face of unlawful action taken against them, every nation has the right to collective and individual self defense UN Article 51, which mean the resistance would have legitimacy under national and international law and the laws of armed conflict, which makes them lawful combatants, and since they would have a case, launching into a battle of annihilation upon them would also violate the law of proportionality under the Hague Convention.

Ah, no, the indians have AK-47's and AR15's, they've also got heavier weapons like .50 sniper rifles and the like, there is no effective gun control on native land, they are armed to the teeth, they just buy guns in America, and America has it all. In terms of waging Genocidal Aggressive War against the First Nations, as they are subjects of the Crown as much as any other Canadian sub jurisduction, they enjoy the protection of the Crown, and as such I would join the indians and fight on their side, as I am bound to, by solemn oath to my Commander-in-Chief, HM QE II

That would likely result in charges of Crimes Against Humanity for waging Genocidal Aggressive War, to be tried by international military tribunal, and the Canadian judiciary would be bound to issue warrants from the bench to arrest and detain all involved in the incitement of such a war, pending extradition to the Hague

Pretty sure it would blowback into a widespread native apprehended insurrection against the Crown nationwide imperiling Confederation itself, because Canada doesn't have the troops to deal with that and is crippled in terms of mobilization, by government corruption and associated incompetence imposed shambolic military dysfunction. /shrugs

The Mohawks are actually a Military Hegenomy under a Matriarchy, so the women are ones in charge, but they are none the less warriors too, they do shoot move and communicate as necessary, to include close quarters combat, they will fight you and they know how to fight too. In terms of the elderly, they're tough too, and the kids will fight as well. It's a warrior culture, and everybody there in is a warfighter as necessary. Never mind if you try to crush them, things are going to kick off with the natives are we will a full on insurgency on our hands from coast to coast, how bad it would be based on how hard we hit the Mohawks.

The final straw for Chretien was when the operation was in the mounting process, secret level classification, and the duty center got a phone call from the Mohawks saying "yeah, we know you're coming, come on down, we're ready for you", which of course indicated they were infiltrated into our lines of communication and so the operation was compromised before it even rolled out the gates.

We trained for this back in the 90's when Chretien was considering going in to disrupt the Mohawk untaxed tobacco conglomerate, we war gamed it six ways from Sunday, never came out well for Canada, so Chretien cancelled the operation and decided to lower tobacco taxes instead to try to compete with the Mohawks.

Would require CANSOFCOM, and would involve significant attrition, as the Mohawks are entrenched and dug in on the Res, it's actually a de facto battle position, and they dominate the approaches to as well.

The only law which can imposed on the Mohawks by force, is the law of armed conflict, but the Mohawks are a match for CANSOFCOM, the police can't handle the Mohawks, the Mohawks could and would run circles around civilians, to include peace officers.