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Yeah it would. That's not how Parliamentary democracies work, the leader of the party with the most seats is the Prime Minister. His party elects him, and voters must elect him(or her) to a seat in Parliament. That's what a Prime Minister IS. Now if you want to make the Governor General, the Head of State (like a President), I'm with you on that. So long as they have no more powers than the GG does now and is unable to be a genuine King Shit.

Because they were all just snivelling, Negative Nellie... Of course there's problems to overcome. But you don't try to make people believe not worth doing.

Because Joe Average is a freaking dimwit and 'average' means half the people aren't even that bright, so the taxes make you stop and think about it. Why, you want to buy a car that gets worse gas mileage or a used 1954 Kelvinator air conditioner?

To put it bluntly, every American has a toilet so they should be beaten even harder for shitting on the floor... and everyone who was awake in Grade 4 knows the climate can change into ice ages and warm cycles, it's the ignorant adults who think we can't and shouldn't do anything about getting f***ed up by it and just want to sit on their asses and watch it happen. Everyone is supposed to die, it's natural. therefore it's stoopid to seek treatment if you get ill, right?

More to the point is when are you guys (tiny minority with loudspeakers to convince themselves they're not) going to accept reality? Like major sales of Cdn lithium ore that didn't even exist as a marketable product a few years ago, battery plants, tons of tower jobs and electrical workers...

If you have ever looked at any media that isn't a whiney anti-climate rag, you probably don't know that ALL the auto manufacturers are already converting their main production to EVs and hybrids. Major countries and US states already have these target deadlines so if you want a legitimate anti-Trudeau rant you should be criticizing him for being so late to the game. Look at some legacy media and you'll see gas prices are rising again and predicted to hit even higher levels than last time, and use your head to decide if this is a last gasp gouging effort by oil companies or will you believe some market mumbo-jumbo is causing prices to rise as demand falls. How many new refineries are under construction? Why are they buying up alt-energy and rare earth stocks? Do the oil companies know something you refuse to acknowledge? Are the auto makers building EVs because they're forced to, or because they can make money at it? The transition is happening whether you like it or not, and assistance to deal with that is a positive response.

Waah! Cancel Culture! Wokeness! Virtue Signalling! They're coming to get you, Barbara. They're coming to get you!

Well you could start by telling us just how you think the gov't is 'running' this? In a much better way than just claiming that buying and building an oil pipeline to export oil is 'killing' the oil industry. Nobody told Elon Musk to build EVs or Ballard to build fuel cells.Or ordered those wind and solar farms be built. Or lives on past reputation as a reporter to claim pointing out opportunities and incentives is a causal and therefore negative thing to do. Times are changing and Trudeau did not make them change, so if he wants a buzzword and plan to make change easier WTH? Good politics. Much more so than "Dump the Carbon Tax" as your opponents sole Climate Policy

Is Trudeau's "just transition" going to be a national disaster? So absolutely no discussion on how, why or if? Only the usual climate denier babble, Trudeau hate and berating over what TV station people should watch? Grow up FFS

Maybe Biden should threaten everyone with lawsuits like the Orange Oaf until he gets a $1M fine too! Come back after you take your anti-psychotic meds for the day, boys.

Of course ALL weren't. Some were stolen from legal gun owners in Canada. Only like 96% were smuggled across the border, if that makes you feel better. They're trying to get rid of handguns and ALL the one that would scare a little old lady because they look like military grade weapons and most Canadians don't have an issue with that. So that if we do even see one, we'll stop and point and screech like the Pod People until the cops come and arrest you.

Spewing absolute nonsense again are we? We know you can't describe a single lost freedom, so we'll give you a chance. From a Christian prospective, explain to us how wealth redistribution and graduated tax scales are diabolical. Hell from the prospective of any religion on Earth explain how helping the needy and regarding greed as a sin is bad.

And PP may well become the 3rd Tory in a row to lose because they have no legit climate policy. And hopefully people are just smart enough to know Trudeau isn't the guy who sets the prices on the grocery shelves, SaveOn & Loblaws do, and that PP is totally beholden to them and their like. Not brainfart dumb like a certain country that thought a billionaire con-artist would work for betterment of the Working Joe...

Jeez I just opened another quarterly cheque for $329 GST rebate. I don't think I've spent more than $50 in GST-able things in the last 3 month. I guess that's just so unfair to the billionaire that paid $50K on a million dollar yacht and didn't get so much as a penny back! Or is it just too complicated for Trump puppies to figure out.

Of course I do. We'd have had no pandemic if we chopped up Covid Karens into tiny pieces and sacrificed all their generations in ozone furnaces, advanced on the Freedumb rallies with flamethrowers and ripped babies from unvaxxed mothers to raise in laboratories. But you're right, what would a Judge know about law? He's just a Judge. and we're plumbers and truck drivers and welders!

Watch it there! My ex was a Scot, she couldn't wait for summer to go to the beach and show off her latest sweater...

FTFY

So you're going to play semantics that they can't "control" it so therefore they shouldn't do anything about affecting it, knowing well that we do? The extent deniers will go to...

Then why is there an international ban on using military weapons to affect the weather? You know damn well they did massive studies and test and actually used them in the 1960/70s don't you? So when the proof that "man" can control the weather, how can you possibly deny that "man" could inadvertently, over the long term not affect the climate? Especially after we realized it, endorse continuing to do so?

Correct. But the entire auto-response that criminals that won't obey laws won't obey laws is pretty moot. As is the gov't claim they will. So it's pretty obvious they can only rule against the supply and choice of guns for everyone. There are laws on the books for actual gun criminals, but they're the one always bargained away in plea deals. Unfortunately the truth is that if there was an outright 100% ban on handguns, 3/4 of Canadians would support it and most people aren't going to change their votes over 'assault' style weapons if their normal hunting rifle isn't affected. The entire issue boils down to lacking a consensus on what constitutes an 'assault style' weapon. Not too many are going to back the right to own Uzzis, M16s and AK47s are they?

Discussing anything with the clinically insane... yet 1/2 the threads are from his absolutely convoluted interpretations of events and issues.

The USA is the one country that will not even consider taxing discretionary spending - a GST/VAT tax. Passing over a lot of revenue from yachts, private planes, mansions, Ferraris, etc....

Gun laws here have sure as hell stopped 6 year olds bringing Daddy's loaded gun to work and shooting their teacher and 14 yr olds from using Dad's to shoot their friend over a lost game or internet post, haven't they? They nailed the guys who thought they could go all Yellowstone and shoot someone for crossing their property? Like it's a lame ass excuse that they won't stop criminals because criminals don't obey laws just like I said. All we can do is enforce the laws against criminals we catch. No one wants a land of idiocy with loaded weapons laying around the house and making any excuse whatsoever as justification to use one. No one will put up with 'open carry' and 'concealed carry' BS like in the land of y'alls.

Laws against murder are useless because murderers won't obey them. So we shouldn't have laws against murder either, eh? Having laws on the books mean NOTHING if the population is too stupid to follow them. I really enjoyed you admitting that....