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That's going to fix things is it? Ok, so we'll just start pointing fingers and see if that works. And while were at it, pretend the feds policies have nothing to with anything.

It's going to be a much larger shock (for the vast majority) when they find out that Auntie Emm needs an operation to live and can't get one.

Comparing Japan's healthcare system with Canada is flawed to begin with. We have a policy of mass immigration while Japan's immigration is in the single low digits. Why can't we just copy some European country's healthcare system that works? We have too many bloody ideologues running things, and change is almost impossible. And that's with just about everything and not just healthcare.

That's pretty much it. I'd like to see us as a country become at least totally self sufficient. The failure of Energy East to materialize was a big mistake. Now much of eastern Canada is totally dependent upon oil from the U.S. and other places like Saudi Arabia. It's going to be awhile before we weed ourselves off of fossil fuels and we're putting our economy at risk. Wars change things as Europe found out after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what seems to be unfolding today.

When Chavez took power in Venezuela he subsidized the price of gas at the pumps to the extent that people were paying about 10 to 15 cents/gallon. The price at the pumps is what it is.

The price of oil is set globally by futures markets just like most other commodities. If the price gets too low and oil producers in Canada are strapped by carbon taxes and a bunch of other regulatory hurdles then profit margins come into play, and there's little incentive for investment by the oil companies or private investors. The world price for oil does play a part in what we pay at the pumps but it doesn't count for everything.

I'm left wondering what the price of oil, natural gas, rare earth minerals, or even basic metals, has to be before we finally ger our act together. We found out the hard way how a pandemic can cause havoc with supply chains which we all took for granted. Undoubtedly war would even be worse with the purposely targetting of a country's supply chains. We could be self sufficient in energy but we chose not to, and it puts all of us at risk. Right, so let's blow a $100 billion on high speed trains which only a small percentage of Canadians are ever going to use. I get it, high speed trains are sexy, building infrastructure to get our resources out of the ground and off to foreign markets (never mind domestic markets) is not. And let's not forget the predictions by a number of different government agencies that we have to at least double our capacity to produce energy by 2050 or our entire economy could suffer. But nobody's listening.

It would be nice to see the country win for once. I'm not blaming Carney but the Liberal Party is not the answer. They win because their policies are based on polls and promises that sound good but never materialize. After 11 years of Liberal rule this country's a mess. Completely unrecognizable in so many ways. But yeah, you won.

A regime that is a threat to world peace and murders its own people, has got to go. It's a case of where you just say... fuk international law, and do whatever has to be done. And while you're at it... fuk any principles you think you might have. You have the doers who stand up against tyranny, and those who criticize and like to throw big words around as if they mean something.

Australia has 10 LNG export terminals while Canada has 1. If we're going to achieve anything close to net-zero by 2050, and double our current electrical power generation at the same time.... we're going to need a lot of new infrastructure. The extra revenues that governments receive from the exporting of LNG can be used in helping to build and fund that new infrastructure. This should be a no-brainer. New Brunswick also imports a lot of gas from the U.S. which is likely fracked, but it can't frack the gas it's sitting right on top of. Totally insane.

As Charles Lammam goes on to say... "It’s not that we lack answers or that we’ve exhausted all the policy options and come up short. It’s that we lack the political will to act on the answers we already have." So the question is... why do we lack the political will to do what must be done? My best guess is that like military spending, it won't amount to a lot of votes at election time. It may even cost you an election. Until we get a government that is prepared to do what must be done... one would be foolish to expect anything to improve or get any better.

I'm so sorry. Do you feel discriminated against? Are the wiberals being mean to poor widdle you? Poor thing. Maybe you should get some counseling. Or better yet, why don't you just get off you fu*king arse and change your life. Every means is at your disposal. Or maybe you can just p*ss off with your bullshit.

As far as I'm concerned a person's chromosomes define gender. But if a man or a woman want to define themselves as something else, why should I care? I support the women who don't want biological men in women's restrooms or being forced to compete against them in sports. I don't have the answer on how to try and make things fair and balanced for everyone. I'll leave that up to the court's to decide. That's what they're good at.

Ok, fair enough. But sometimes a little bit of tolerance can make a difference or even go a long way. Just accept people the way they are. It can't be that hard. I draw the line with any form of compelled speech as it's a violation of one of our most basic rights. I don't believe I've ever met one of these people but I would at the very least show them some common courtesy and perhaps a bit of understanding.

According to the Mayo Clinic, 'those with gender dysphoria and don't receive the support and treatment they require, are at a higher risk of thinking about or attempting suicide'. Now include the likely possibility of being harassed, ridiculed, or picked on, or not having a supportive family... and you don't need much imagination to see how one could possibly go from attempting suicide to the next step of something far worse. This is so sad indeed. I just hope we can all learn from this tragedy how ever it played out.

It's not the ability but the will to do great things. It's like were stuck on mediocrity. What we need in this country is no more Trudeau's but an FDR. Is Carney that man? I don't know, and talk is cheap. This is a huge undertaking and the costs are only going to go way higher as the price of materials grows exponentially with the expected supply and demand. There's no excuse to fu*k around with this. The time is now. Now you know how I feel.

Interesting. Even hydro electric can have its ups and downs. I'm wondering that if the government plans on doubling its net zero power generation by 2050, how much of that would have to be baseload? Nuclear is more reliable, but then hydro electric is safer. But then again you can't stick a hydro electric generating plant just any old place and then there's the drought thing. I wish I would have read this before replying to Treebeard's post.

My bad. Yes, Canada is a net exporter of electricity with the U.S. Then in 2024 and 2025 something changed where Canada was only a net exporter for 8 months of both years and a net importer for the other 4 months of both years. I realize it doesn't change the fact that Canada was indeed a net exporter of electricity for both 2024 and 2025, only that something changed. Whether these changes are permanent, temporary, or a sign of things to come, I really don't know. https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commodities/electricity/statistics/electricity-trade-summary/index.html#a1

No it's not too impressive. Especially giving away our car market when we're sitting on a pile of resources that China desperately needs. Perhaps if we were better equipped to market those resources we would be negotiating from a position of strength rather than weakness. Great post!

What we've failed to do in the past is now coming back to haunt us. Canada is a resource rich country full of the kinds of resources most of the rest of the world is scrambling for more than ever. Yet we have no plans to extract the resources out of the earth or the infrastructure to get them to market. And on top of that we have all these fu*king laws which makes it almost impossible to do so. Sorry, but Carney flying around the world signing MOU's isn't going to replace losing the U.S. as a major trading partner all by itself. To put it simply, our economy is on life support, and GDP indicates we're close to being in recession. What we have to do should be glaringly obvious to any observer.

To my surprise, Canada is actually a net importer of electricity. Here's how the plan is likely being set up to unfold....first they'll force all of us into buying EV's (which I don't really have a problem with), but then they'll ration electricity usage so it won't really make any sense to buy one. They're also discussing about doubling the power grid and making it net zero by 2050. Hah! I'll believe it when I see it.

Corruption in my opinion has become more widespread in all parts of government and our institutions. It always begins at the top and spreads downwards. It will be difficult to weed out once it has become acceptable which seems to be the case. Politicians get caught in the act of doing certain things and they just don't care. As with the Trudeau government there is no accountability.

One thing I've learned about the typical Canadian Liberal voter is that they're far more likely to approve of anything a Liberal government does as long as it does not affect them directly. When it does begin to affect them directly.... well ask Trudeau. Poilievre at least deserves a second chance because his policies were sound. You know, the policies that the Liberals stole from the Conservatives to win the last election. The only difference of course is that Poilievre if elected would have enacted those policies. But with democracies everywhere, the people vote and get the government they deserve.

All I want to know is ..... when are we going to start putting shovels in the fu*king ground and start using the common sense that God gave us? Because this country is going right down the fu*king drain if we don't. But we're stupid that way. We re-elect the same fu*king government that created the mess in the first place and expect a different result. We've had enough blah blah blah from Carney. It's time for some action.

Carney is sort of right about a few things.... 1) 'Canada has what the world wants.' (true) 2) 'We are an energy superpower.' (well sort of, but we could be) 3) 'We hold vast resources of critical minerals.' (true) But the problem is we have a government that wants to keep all that good stuff in the ground. The first pipeline built in this country was in the 1860's. Do we really need China to come over here and help us build a freaking pipeline??? God help us.