Aristides

Reducing everything to cheap partisanship is just another excuse to not present any real solutions.

California has the 4th lowest gun homicide rate in the US.

Who wants to start a pool on the next school massacre? Kids must be ecstatic that the adults they depend on to protect them can only come up with excuses for doing nothing to keep them from being hunted like game in their own schools.

As they say in Texas, all hat, no cattle. Just a big mouth.

No they don't so let's make sure guns are easier for them to get. ?

We are are all bound by laws whether we like them or not, most of all the people who make them. Her constituents no longer have a representative in Parliament because she puts herself before them.

If you travel anywhere you will find that filling out a pre entry forms is very common. One of the few exceptions is entering the US by land.

Only 4 states have lower firearms homicide rates than California. None of them are red. But if stealing $950 equals one dead kid in your world, that's on you.

Tell us genius, how does a city keep guns outside its city limits when the rest of the country is saturated in guns?

Well hopefully the Conservatives won't shoot themselves in the foot and will offer an alternative that enough Canadians can vote for.

Problem is we don't pay it off over time, politicians just babble on about debt to GDP and just keep carrying the debt. Future generations end up paying for two bridges, then three etc, because none of them are paid for.

I don’t have Trudeau Dementia Syndrome

Maybe but we get the opportunity to change dictators every 4 years, max.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like Trudeau either but he doesn't rate the Great Satan status you guys give him. He isn't a heavyweight.

Ja, Mein Fuhrer

Unless a leader says it is a free vote, MP's are expected to vote with the party, or else. It doesn't matter where the party is governing from. Every PM in recent memory has turfed MP's from caucus for voting against the party position, including Harper and Chretien. MP's regularly vote against the party line in the UK but discipline is pretty iron in Canadian politics. It's a shame really but it isn't unique to JT. Our PM's have too much power because enough MP's won't stand up to them.

The current Republican (Trump) party gives conservatives a bad name.

I'll ask one more time. Why are Senate Republicans stopping a vote on HR8 which is intended to correct shortcomings in the current federal background checks? The US has 45K firearms related deaths and 36K traffic fatalities every year Canada has about 800 firearms related deaths and about 1,800 traffic fatalities yet there are some fools in Canada who think we should copy the US.

So why are Senate Republicans blocking a vote on HR8 which is a bipartisan bill passed in the House, designed to correct the deficiencies in the current federal background check?

So you are saying the US is a basket case and that is why it needs so many more guns than any other country.

Why are you surprised, the same people are OK with 45,000 firearms related deaths in the US every year. 40,000 to Covid in two years is peanuts.

That's the way Canadian parliamentary democracies have always worked. Governments legislate, oppositions oppose. Vote against your party leadership and you risk getting turfed from you caucus.

If they acted illegally, it would be up to Crown to charge them and another judge to convict them. You would have no say in the matter. Victims have zero rights in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system is about criminals, not victims. Kadhr sued the government because of what it didn't do for him when he was in Guantanamo, he was never charged, tried or convicted in a Canadian court.

Why are you so against countries trying to form organizations intended to prevent conflicts, do you love wars?

In 2019 there were 45,000 firearms related deaths in the US. There were 36,000 traffic fatalities.