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Who gives a shit. It's the number on the bill that matters, not the picture. I liked the ones with the bird pictures. As my Dad used to say: they remind you how fast it flies away...

What makes you think they'd have to stay in a camp for six or seven years? I said, until proper accommodations are found pretty clearly. You seem to think what 3rd world countries do is the only way things can be done, just as you assume the worst offenders are common examples of refugees. You also think we can 'just send them back' before we even find them ineligible. If you actually think taking in refugees is a "leftist" idea, you're so far to the right you're shouting at clouds.

Again, what makes you think choosing a life of drugs in NOT a mental health issue?

And the only person in the world dumb enough to label me a Nazi. Look it up in a dictionary, your picture is there.

Thank you CdnFox for actually discussing the subject. The idea was just the quickest 'solution' I could think of that was actually doable. Kind of obvious 500,000 housing units are not gonna be built every year to accommodate anyone let alone the people already here needing them. And if no one is gonna make them live away from major cities to earn their citizenship/landed immigrant status, we're completely hooped. But we need more people to fill and grow the country and no one's gonna promote a $1000 a month 'baby bonus' either.

Good example of how to make an incident about someone with Mental Health issues into one about race.

Do you want to see govt run refugee camps instead? That would seem to be a workable solution, obviously not the first choice, but a safe, properly run place outside the downtowns where they can be until proper placement is found. They don't have to be like 3rd world where they remain for generations, more like for months. Or is impossible to manage such a system?

And some people are so deluded by right wing dogma they'd outright dismiss previous generations of anti-nuke and anti-Vietnam protesters as mere 'virtue signallers'.

Never been aware of what goes on in the seniors home? Jeez, sit down and have a coffee with my S-I-L sometimes, she nursed in one for 30 years. Or talk to someone who lived there. One older fella was bragging of his exploits - Ecstacy & Viagra.... course it might kill me, but I'm 75... who gives a shit, gonna die soon anyway! FFS I had more women when I was divorced in my 50s than I did before I got married in my late 20s... age doesn't mean you don't want to have some fun.

Like a lot of people who claim to be on the right, pointing out their culture, dress and religion rather than their skin colour does not make one less of a racist.

Bullshit it is. As is your dystopian racist fear mongering. You saw 2 ladies carrying Happy Ramadan signs in December? But didn't notice the many in turbans and saris buying presents or Christmas trees? Your brown neighbour hasn't invited you over yet? Maybe it's you, not them. Like the natives say: You don't like immigrants? Good! When you leaving? You're 50 years too late to still be whining about multiculturalism.

So require them to reside 200km north of where you have no room for 5 years before they get landed or citizenship status and send as many as you can. And pray tell us racist pig, what are the "right places"?

One person, just one who can see the point I was making and respond to that point. What Churchill or Truman did 80 years ago or if some other country didn't sign the treaty isn't relevant to 'if we have a duty to speak up cuz we agreed to it'.

Oh yes... Bomber Harris and Curtis LeMay would've never overstepped those terms would they... everyone can "justify" any behaviours at any time. Even I said such in previous posts. Even to keeping your mouth shut when others do things you don't like, bur that doesn't make what they're doing moral or "right" (as in correct - not as in politics). They spoke up. That it didn't matter isn't the point, that they should have and did is.

I know, and I agree with what you're saying. How many allied lives were save by the atom bomb? How many US lives saved by the use of napalm? My objection are entirely to those who think we have to STFU and not speak objections to what others are doing? Do we STFU about Russia targeting daycares and hospitals, to Saddam using mustard gas or to Syria using fuel-air on its enemies because "war is war"? Of course we don't! Not like there was zero opposition in the US House over sending cluster bombs to Ukraine either. I already stated that if it were a last resort weapon for us, in deperation we'd ignore out own signing. Just like Hiroshima and Dresden, but this Ukraine war doesn't yet meet the terms of a "total" war

Well I just pointed out someone who won't abide, didn't I? So belittling any attempts to make rules by anyone else must be the way to go. Who dares defy King Shit? Lucky the Geneva Convention was done by previous generations who held common sense above assholiness.

Do you know what a bench warrant even is? You can ignore it all you want, it's an order for the cops to pick you up and drag your ass in front of a judge! Not to give you a ticket and send you back on the street again. If you're out of the jurisdiction they won't transport you to another province unless it's a serious crime. Then you'll probably just get another failing to appear charge, that affects your final sentencing. Like WTF do you people want, triple the number of jails. quadruple the budget to haul petty criminals around the country, refuse bail to people because some of them might skip? You're just gonna have to wait for them to make new rules that abide by the Supreme Court and you must know by now the glacial speed of how govt works. No damn matter who's PM and what party.

Oh the USA is using cluster bombs, won't sign a land mine treaty, tore up nuclear proliferation deals and is militarizing outer space. Such honourable things! And as suckhole Canadians, we must emulate their every move?

In the southwest corner that is, the NW corner housing is much cheaper, food a little higher and gasoline much cheaper. But as a whole, it's huge area here so the economy is way more diversified. Oil, LNG, lumber, grain, cattle, mining, tech and commercial, fruit in the south and yes way more coal than WV, for steel and totally for export - therefore never a reliable pinion of the economy. And the most unionized workforce in Canada. The place where the 'free enterprise' party nationalized the ferries, the hydro and more long ago and brought in the first carbon tax 10 years before Canada did. No coal or oil fired power plants, LNG powered ones been on on standby for years. EVs are 20% of car sales, not because we're weirdo environuts, because they make common sense. 2/3 of the population can use those every day and save money. Maybe that explains why some of us can't see the whining of sticking to whatever ideology and ranting when things have, can and are being done and the population is growing not running away from phoney fear mongering.

Not quite that simple a comparison, the two things have nothing to do with each other. Aside from the USA telling others you must do this, but we'll do as we please. Only Russia and TRUMP are deplorable enough to just rip up treaties so callously.

Oh my, sexist too. It's supposed to be a discussion, not one to display how deplorable you can be.

Haha... how about for starters the one too stupid to know how to use MSPaint and change it to 2024 Liberal Platform? Or the one who must compulsively troll without ever having anything to say about the subject at hand?

Nothing more stupid than a man who works for a living and isn't upper management to hate unions. Nothing. Not on the whole planet. And if the cost of living is higher where you live, it makes you even stupider.

Trudeau's bail law? A bench warrant is not enough for failing to appear? We got a few people here doing their best to put the administration of justice into disrepute.