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1. I appreciate that. But we're not talking of "isolationism". We're talking about international trade that does not destroy the jobs of our own citizenry. International commerce that does not destroy entire industries. Case in point, Apple. Many years ago...about 20 I would say...Apple moved its line production to China. This made the manufacturing jobs in the US redundant and they were cut. Hundreds, if not thousands of employees...cut loose. Future manufacturing jobs eliminated. It also made the cost of manufacturing many times cheaper and provided Apple with a huge increase in profit margin. Yet Apple didn't lower the price of their products. Instead, they've steadily increased consumer costs and have been literally raking in profits. This is an American corporation, screwing Americans...and everyone else except...the Chinese. It is a natural progression of raw Capitalism. Yet raw Capitalism is not an ideal state for any economy. Just as in politics, there must be equal and opposite forces at play, in order to properly harness Capitalism for the benefit of the populace. The visa versa scenario also being equally true. 2. Agreed. Without a college education, it is harder to get to many higher paying careers. However, today a plumber makes a very good wage. Electricians and carpenters as well. Cops and Firemen don't need a degree. Along with selling out our manufacturing industry, we also made it easy for foreign interests to purchase our own land. This has driven housing and land prices to dizzying heights. My own daughter complains that she simply can't afford to buy a house. Its not that she can't raise the down payment, but that she could never afford the insane size of the mortgage. "Reality" is what we make it. If we make a "reality" where Canadian citizens and their well-being are considered ABOVE those of other nations, and in said "reality" Canada decides to re-make the manufacturing industry, that "reality" would exist. 3. Fast food, along with a surprising number of other industries, have opted for near all part-time employment. No benefits. This is also Capitalism unregulated and should not be tolerated. 4. Baby steps in the right direction for a change.

Did Jesus really exist? Sure. Why not? Was Jesus "The Son of God"? Well...if you believe there is a God, then yes...as we are ALL sons and daughters of God. My family were Catholics. We did the church thing until I was about 6. I will never forget looking up at the pulpit and thinking how frightening the image was of this poor bugger unceremoniously nailed to a crucifix. Do I think that image is there to remind us that this Jesus person supposedly died like that in order to cleanse humanity of sin? LOL...no. That's what we tend to call...silly. The Abrahamic religions..."The Dirty Three". The use of a Gawd-like power, or entity, to scare the populace into submission. These three "religions" (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) are responsible for horrendous acts of inhumanity...in the name of a Gawd? Hmmm...and which Gawd might that be? The Gawd of creation? Or the Gawd of chaos and hatred? The answer is...of course...rather obvious. I do believe in a Gawd. A source of creation and of the soul that all living beings have to some degree. I also believe this Gawd has some interesting plans for a goodly number of the clergy of these three..."religions". And should I have the opportunity to commune with the soul of Jesus some day... I will apologize to him profusely for the unbridled greed and destruction that has been inflicted on the soul of man...in his name.

I know you will argue till hell freezes over, that Globalism is a "good" economic track to take. But you are wrong. We have created such a mess that now people consider adults working in fast food joints and food delivery drivers, to be "good jobs". It is most certainly one of the primary concerns of any government, to create an environment where jobs are plentiful and gainful. Flipping burgers at McDonald's is not gainful employment. Its a summer job for high school students. Such crap demeans people and pushes them towards crime. I have never said we should not have imports and exports. But nice try.

1. Fine I'll repost it for you. 2. Yes. Again...I'm not against trade. I'm against UNFAIR trade. We have ~50 BILLION dollar trade deficit with China. Frankly...I would rather not trade with China at all. 3. It was not a good decision for the Canadian labour markets. 4. All our elected leaders are bought and paid for. 5, 6, 7, 8. Selling out the Canadian labour markets is in no way a good thing.!

https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-confirmed-in-new-york-times-report/ Oh...I'm afraid The Kracken is alive and well...thank you very much.

BINGO! And now...the NYT has finally admitted that Hunter's laptop is real and not some Russian hoax. Had that news been readily available at the time, Trump would be POTUS in spite of all the Democrat cheating.

And I'm not opposed to international trade. I'm opposed to stupid trade deals that benefit nobody in Canada.

1. Did you purposely leave out the following sentence from my quote? 2. IDK...putting out well fires? 3. Open season? 4. The FTA was not "open season". 5. If you believe that, then I'm sure glad you don't have the power to declare "open season". 6. Impractical? How? 7. Services? We make very little here now. We have created an economy without any realistic base. A house of cards. 8. There was originally a mask shortage, then a vaccine shortage and now a microchip shortage and of course...the self inflicted oil shortage. 9. I disagree. Building back up our manufacturing would make us less dependant of other nations and greatly improve our economy. I'd rather my tax monies go to building new manufacturing plants, than to these self-destructive green taxes.

1. LOL 2. OK 3. OK 4. Automation will and is making many jobs redundant. So what? We should help the process along with self-inflicted wounds? Any services we cannot provide, we can easily contract out for. But there has to be a real vacuum of said service locally other than...its cheaper over there. The reason for such outsourcing must be justifiable. I believe there are already laws in place to govern this. 5. Globalist ideology has only been in full swing for about 20 some odd years now. That's when the offshoring gold rush really started. That's not an "orthodoxy". Economic "orthodoxy" has always been to use taxes and tariffs to protect the working people of any given nation. But we've given that all up for this globalist ideology. Shut down all the manufacturing plants and create dead cities. Move all manufacturing offshore to exponentially increase profit margins. Move all possible labour offshore for the same purpose. Thus reducing all of North America to a purely consumer based market. No manufacturing. As little labour as is necessary. Then...when your nation needs something...let's say...medical masks...you'll have to wait till the offshore operations can make them and send them to you, because this "new orthodoxy" has robbed us of the ability to make things. I don't want to "reshape" anything. The "shape" is still there. We ignore it for your "new orthodoxy". Thus my purpose is to bring lost jobs back to Canada...and the US if at all possible. To re-build the manufacturing plants. To bring work TO Canadians...not send the work to other nations as doing so would be so "unorthodox".

I don't understand why you do this all the time. If you're lost, its because maybe you're what...stupid? Or are you just throwing monkey wrenches at things in hopes of quieting opposition to the holy globalist agenda? Let's review: Now... 1. Importing good and services in NOT a "Globalist" practice until you remove tariffs and taxation. Then it becomes an example of point 3 of the definition. Unfettered trade across borders takes jobs from one nation and transfers them to another. The jobs are being removed from North America. 2. See point 1. 3. READ the definition. 4. If a Canadian owned and based company decides to offshore...let's say...IT support for instance...because support in Canada costs $50/hr and offshore it costs only $5/hr, that company has destroyed the gainful employment of a number of Canadians in order to increase profitability. Thus to counter that, the company should be taxed in a manner that removes the additional profit. Once companies realize they can no longer squeeze Canadian labour out of the equation, they'll either stop the offshoring, or can fold the company and give up access to Canadian markets. This is applicable regardless of the nationality of ownership of the company. 5. The benefits are outweighed by the drain on our own labour force and markets. We need to protect OUR people...not enhance the lives of people in other nations at the expense of OUR people.

LOL...well I say this for ya...you are at least consistent. You really should have that TDS treated though.

Why is that racist? The parents are given a CHOICE. The same should be true for White History Month...oh wait...there isn't one...is there.

Food we can grow and/or import. Clothing we can make and/or import. Same for technology. I'm not against "fair" trade. I'm against "unfair" trade. I'm also completely against Canadian based companies, manufacturing outside of Canada. If they choose to do so, there needs to be tariffs and taxes to protect Canadian labour.

There's that too. I'm a nationalist...obviously...and want to protect and grow Canadian labour and manufacturing.

Not deaf...blind. Be that as it may... Technology does not require this sort of goings on. It can and does aid with communications for shipping. It does not require tax and tariff incentives to do so. For instance, Apple may make their iphones where ever they like. But in order to sell them in Canada, there should be enough tariffs in place to make it cheaper for Apple to make the phones here. PLUS, if an American or Canadian company wants to off-shore labour of any kind, there needs to be a tax scheme to level the playing field for American or Canadian labour.

Because...Star Trek?

Yup. That data from 2007 is sure relevant. I can live without Wallymart and the Dollar Store. So could most people if they were employed making things instead of on public dole.

Definition: This ideology has been openly discussed since the end of WWII and took hold once transportation and communications made it viable. About the mid-80's. The "greed is good" days. Throughout the 90's, China had opened to the idea of semi-free markets and looked like an inviting place for manufacturing, for corporations who wanted to take advantage of cheap labour costs. In 2001 China was brought into the WTO. What ensued was an exodus of manufacturing and IT jobs to...China. This exodus also moved labour to India, the newly independent Central European states and a bunch of others. This move literally bled North America of jobs. As a result, when The Rona hit, we couldn't even outfit ourselves with Gawd Damn masks. We have a microchip shortage. Ships are still floating about off the California coast, waiting to deliver their load of goods that are made in China...or Korea...or anywhere but the USA or Canada. Hell as a Canadian, take a look at where your Bauer hockey equipment is made. Globalism has raped North America and it was done by our own bloody citizens. This has to be stopped before we gut what's left or our economies and manufacturing must be brought back to our shores.

IMO... Brown went after Poilievre over the niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies. As far as I'm concerned, NOBODY should be allowed to wear face coverings that hide their identity, when swearing allegiance to Canada.! That also goes for pictures being taken for official documents like a driver's license or a passport. But Canadians are prisoners of their own media...and the media is willing to virtue-signal 24/7. So I say fuck the Canadian media. Its a bad joke. A cesspool of destructive little tweenkies who hate Canada and want this once great nation to be culture-less. If that means I must vote for the PPC...so be it. I am at the end of my rope with these tweekies and their anti-Canadian bullshit! I AM CANADIAN and proud of it. But if Canada insists on this soggy crap, I will leave.

Is Canada now a totalitarian state? Its getting there. I have to wonder if the elected officials and judges can read? The Rona gave liberals a perfect opportunity to clamp down on individual freedom. But they have crossed the line of public safety and ventured out to the realm of Soviet style governance. Canadians will regret this. But by the time the public realizes it, it'll be too late. Irrational fear. I refuse to live in such a state of perpetual panic. Will the courts do their duty for Canadians? Or will they cave to the globalist agenda? That decision is with the supreme court's now. I pray they uphold freedom.

I wonder...were I alive back in ancient Rome, how would I have felt about the games? Everyone digs a bit of ultra-violence once in a while but... Besides...are you saying you figure the adult kid did this to himself for the value of his visage?

I am not sure Zelenski is the problem here. He's apparently already said Ukraine will drop any designs on joining NATO and I think that's both wise and courageous. Now if he's a good negotiator and has some foresight, he might "trade" NATO membership for very favourable trade deals with Russia AND the EU. To be the "keystone" to Russo-European relations. That would necessitate the removal of all Russian military personnel and operations and the removal of NATO personnel and operations. No missiles...no grunts...no ships...no planes. Ukraine must finance its own military, should it choose. It can freely purchase both military and civilian goods from either side...for as long as NATO and Russia insist on this endless dick-fight. Strategically speaking...the Comedian has the Spy and the Senate Lacky by the short and curlies. Let's see if he realizes this...

LOL...OK...point taken. But this. This is insanity. The whole idea of this is...repulsive.

Yet he acts like a 10 year old. Poor parenting.

Hmmm... Is Russia a dictatorship? I think the answer would be "yes, of sorts". I think Russia, under Putin, has become a corporate dictatorship with Putin at the top of or near the top of all the major corporations. However we know that under Putin, the Russian economy has flourished and in all actuality...its population does not live in crushing poverty. There's also something I haven't read anyone discuss yet...so of course...I will. When the Soviet Union fell, the IMF and World Bank rushed into the broken states and offered to bail them out of their economic woes with huge loans. Part of the overall deal was that the nation's infrastructures needed upgrading and proper management. Thus...in came the Germans and the French and the Brits and the Americans...and the Canadians...to the rescue. Then came the EU and more Germans and French and Brits and Americans...and Canadians. Before they knew what had happened, they'd sold off all of their infrastructure. But Russia told the IMF and the World Bank to go suck rocks. Putin said he'd rather make Russian oligarchs, than to make the Western oligarchs even richer...or something like that. Now...a lot of what happened was a pre-condition to NATO acceptance. I believe that Ukraine is into the IMF for quite the wad of cash as well. Just a few more rocks to suck on...