Dougie93

That being said, I would submit, Canada plausibly has more leeway to buy its own bonds than Venezuela does, in the event of major financial crisis, and I think they would do that in the event of.

Fair enough, but as you say, the largest economy country on earth is doing pretty much whatever it pleases vis a vis its money supply, as I said, entirely political, based on nothing more than the vague assertion "Full Faith and Credit of the United States", although I didn't say Canada couldn't Venezuela itself by Quantitative Easing run amok.

Well, I'm certainly prepared to accept the United States governments assertion that AQ and associated splinter groups are a legitimate national security threat subject to application of military force, but when it comes to counterterrorism, you have to be precise, under international law and laws of armed conflict, the legal definition is called Direct Participant in Hostilities (DPH) and in the case of Kadr specifically, they've failed to convince me that Kadr was in fact a DPH prior to him being swept up in a raid, and of course it doesn't lend them credibility when they have extracted confessions by torture, at that point I was pretty much forced to throw their case out of my court, prima facie.

According to whom? The United States government? Please.

Oh, and as for the genocidal war, you invoked that not I, that being said, I was an infantryman by trade, and as such state sanctioned mass murder on behalf of the British Crown was technically my job description, but as I say, I don't foresee genocidal war, as that is prohibited by national and international law and the laws of armed conflict, but, if they do decide to go Oka all over again, that's a dangerous game which I would caution them against. Go to that well too many times, some people gonna get shot eventually. It is what it is, but that's how it is, realpolitik.

Once my taxes are paid, my obligation to the state, short of national security issues, is fulfilled. "You" can do whatever "you" want with that money, but the government ain't gonna be giving much to the Indians, if the government was the answer to the Indians problems, they wouldn't have any after 150 years. After 150 years of being treated as wards of the state, you'd think the Indians would be wary of entering into these sorts of arrangements. For over 150 years, the people of Canada has decided that Indians ain't that high on their list of priorities, if you and the Indians think that's going to change, you and them are typically deluded Cantards. It's really only you tho, the Indians aren't so naive. In terms of equal rights, they actually have their own sovereign governments as per the treaties, the agreement therein includes the agreement for me not to tell them how to run their governments for them nor tell them what their rights are on their land. Again, I'm not a paternalistic do gooder, as the road to hell is paved with good intentions, particularly where the British Crown is concerned. The Indians know.

Bear in mind, this does not mean I am opposed to honoring the treaty obligations of the British Crown, I advocate for returning vast tracks of Crown land to the Indians as per the standing agreements. But that land doesn't come with a big NDP boondoggle government hand out festival on top. They get the land, and anything else they are entitled to as per the treaty, but so far as I know, the British Crown never signed a treaty guaranteeing them government jobs for life.

If someone is in immediate distress, medical emergency, being victimized by thuggery, what have you; acute, incidental, emerging situation, I will render aid to a Canadian, or anybody else, foreigners too., but in terms of political "prioritization"? Nah, fuck that,, I don't do that. I am autonomous from the state, free man in a free country, I am not the keeper of Canadian sob story cases. Moreover, everybody in Canada has a sob story, and their hand out for taxpayer funded largess therein. Like I said, that's the Canadian scam, people in this country have been indoctrinated to think that the government is responsible for everybody all the time, particularly as to their "jobs, jobs jobs." But as this not a Communist country quite yet, that ain't actually so, the role of government is not actually to be the job mommie for every sob story case that comes along. Lots of people need something to build on, but it's not actually my job, nor the role of the state, never mind that its a fools errand, even I wanted the government to continue the over 150 years of paternalistic treatment of the Indians as helpless children, which is very reason they are dysfunctional now, it doesn't work, the Indians aren't going to get anywhere waiting for that, been a 150 years, time to stop the misguided Victorian era do gooderism, its actually done the the Indians grave harm at the strategic level. And yet the white guilt Lefty nonsense blubberers cant seem to stop themselves. Now, as to killing them all? Well, if it was a binary choice, you and your ilk keep scamming me? Robbing me to pay Indian Paul on the Res? I don't think mass murder is warranted, none the less, you and the Indians you claim to represent will be making an enemy of me and millions like me, and if it ever came violent conflict, I could see some indians getting shot in that paradigm.

Which might make logical sense if the Indians were little children and the government was their mommie, but since they're not little children and the government is not their mommie, let them work it out like every other adult in this land does all day everyday, I don't get a handout job from the government , don't see why the Indians are entitled to one. Paternalistic white guilt blubbering about the Indians; the original Canadian scam. Want an education and a job from the government? Join the army. Otherwise, fuck off.

1. Wait, what? Why is that, again? I'm not the keeper of the Indians, fuck the Indians, they're not my problem. 2. They seem to making their own decisions just fine, and the ones who are deciding to commit crimes are ending up in jail, no interference from me at all. There ya go, done and done. Indians being prioritized by the state for taking the decision to commit crimes of their own free will. Problem solved.

I fail to see how this is my problem. Lawless indians running amok? Isn't that what Mounties are for?

Nah, I'll pay, I can afford $3 a liter, bring it on, side benefit; runaway socialist intervention to drive the prices of everything through the roof in the name of Cultural Marxist Malthusian Doomsday is an excellent way of bringing Confederation down to break up the country. Then you would be free of me, and I would be free of you. You could move to the Peoples Republic of British Columbia and I would be free to take a giant dump on the environment back here in the east. Compromise!

As I have come to favour the non violent dissolution of Canadian Confederation by sheer government ineptitude and associated insolvency, I too would like to see a referendum on this. In fact, the government should hold a referendum at the end of every week, lets have a referendum on everything, let the delusional quasi Bolshevist Canadian public decide, Canada would be bankrupt and I would be freed of this abominable Federal Government in a matter of months! Referendums all round! God save the Queen, death to Confederation!

Pretty simple, the oil from Alberta is not the oil we put in our cars. The oil we put in our cars comes from Saudi Arabia and then gets refined in New Brunswick, so that oil is not subsidized. The oil from Alberta is for export, so that domestic oil industry is being subsidized for said purpose. Not that I'm advocating for corporate welfare mind you, but Canadians in general insist on it, so the government is simply bending to the will of the electorate, which, according to the constitution, is their job. /shrugs

Yes they do. Money is entirely political, the Bank of Canada can "print" as much money as they see fit. Money is just an IOU, they can issue as many IOU's as they please.

Not to mention that, even if Omar Kadr threw a hand grenade at American pers in the act of launching a no warning no notice raid on an objective in Afghanistan, which is an unproven allegation, that doesn't actually amount to terrorism. Everyone has the fundamental right to individual and collective self defense, even civilians. When you launch a raid like that, the onus is entirely on the raiding force to avoid such confliction. Under national and international law and the laws of armed conflict, the Americans assumed all the liability by launching the raid. You're actually bound to give warning and allow non combatants to flee the area. If you don't, that's not a crime, but if a civilian shoots you because you kicked his door down, no notice, no warning, that's your problem, it's not on the non combatants to figure out who you are when you breach. If you're going around foreign countries lighting the civilians up as all being "terrorists" by default, that's actually Nazi Germany's definition of "terrorism", to wit, anybody behind the lines who we light up and fights back as a result, is a "Terrorist" said Adolf Hitler on 22 June 1941

If you are bitter about Omar Kadr being compensated by the Canadian government, you should direct your anger at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. They were well aware that the Americans were committing technical war crimes in running an extra judicial concentration camp outside the bounds of national and international law and the laws of armed conflict, and as such they shouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole. Instead they went down there and made the Crown of Canada complicit in said crimes, wherein we the Canadian taxpayers were implicated by default. If they had just stayed away, then we the Canadian taxpayers would be off the hook, but because they had to stick their noses into America's crimes, and we didn't stop them, we're on the hook, and rightly so. The price of total Canadian apathy vis a vis national security and what it being done in our name. As to why they gave him $10 million? They asked the lawyers, the lawyers told them they were busted, dead to rights war crimes committed by the Crown of Canada, and as such he was going to win, and since he was suing for $20 million, that was what he was going to get, so they settled for $10 million to cut their losses and make it all go away. /shrugs

The thing to understand about Canader, is that it was not really born on 1 July 1867, that's a post modern Canadian myth. 1 July 1867 is simply Confederation, wherein the squabbling colonies here were forced to enter into a legislative union in fear of an invasion by the bloody Fenians (American Irish Catholic Civil War veterans attempting to seize Canada to ransom it for Irish Freedom) because the British Crown would not, or rather could not defend it from London. Canader was actually born on 13 September 1759, at Quebec, when Hanover (The British Crown) seized it as a war prize, formally transferred to Hanover (The British Crown) in the Treaty of Paris 1763, prior to, it was (Nouvelle) France. The British Constitution as of 1763 was the baseline, then, as I said, the devolution progressed in stages, although 1 July 1867 wasn't all that significant at the time. If you asked those "Canadians" what they were, they would have said they were "British". The 1 July which was much more significant, was 1 July 1916, at the Battle of the Somme, where the British broke their Empire once and for all time, rapid Canadian devolution from the United Kingdom accelerating in the wake of said military catastrophe, direct line to repatriation of the Constitution from Westminster to Ottawa in 1982.

The way to think of it is thusly; rather than having a revolution and severing the constitutional ties with the British Crown, Canada evolved out of Britain in stages, (we were actually about to have a revolution and join the Americans when James Madison invaded and in the process created a "Canada" as a reaction) but just because Canada is not the United Kingdom, does not mean that it is not the British Crown, this is still the British Crown here, and the Constitution flows from the Crown not the government, the Crown simply exists above the level of national governance, to wit. the government is not actually all that significant in the grand scheme of things, or at least things important as per going over the top into no mans land. My country is the House of Windsor, the Queen my Sovereign and Commander-in-Chief, never swore an oath to "Canada", tho I am bound to Her Majesty by a blood oath unto death as necessary. England, Scotland, Wales, Ulster, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc, not the same government, but the House of Windsor all, and all under the British constitution, Canada being the only one which added a Canadian Bill of Rights on top, Australia, New Zealand for example are still governed by the British Constitution without a domestic Bill of Rights of their own. More British than the British, more American than the Americans. Suck it, Aussies.

Or to be even more concise, all of the British constitutional law still applies in Canada, Magna Carta, Common Law, English Bill of Rights, etc, Canada has simply layered additional acts on top of that, most significantly an American style "written" Charter of Rights and Freedoms, since 1982.

The reason why the Canadian Prime Minister does not appear in the Canadian Constitution is that the Canadian Constitution is a continuance of existing British constitutional law, that is to say, the Canadian Constitution is layered on top of the already existing British constitution, the conventions which govern the office of the Prime Minister are the British conventions, at the time of the enacting of the Canadian Constitution in 1867, the British conventions were taken as a given, restating them would have been redundant.

Think of it like the Bush Administration; Trudeau is Bush, Butts is Cheney.

Can we all just dispense with the silly notion that Justin Trudeau is actually in charge? The man who is running the country is not actually Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is just a sock puppet, the guy who is actually running things is named Gerald Butts.

Which part of Canadian governance is not a mess? It's all a mess, thus is the nature of Canadian governance, it's been a bleeding open sore of boondoggles and bloated centrally planned nonsense since 1867, and yet somehow, were still here. It's just money, folks, and, newsflash; money is not real. Money is just a state of mind.

Refugees overwhelming social services? Its all debt financed, we don't even pay for it, so who cares? Throw another bond issuing on the pyre, problem solved. /shrugs