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That's about how I feel. Even at a time when the majority of Canadians - and certainly the vast majority of voters who are even considering voting Conservative want immigration strongly cut back not a single MP in any party has the balls to represent that view publicly. They're too terrified of being called 'racist' or 'anti-immigrant' since the majority of people in our largest cities are immigrants. And you're only allowed to publicly stand up for Canadian culture and values if you're French. Otherwise, you get dismissed as a bigot refusing to accommodate newcomers. All those demonstrations are led by Muslims, many of them newcomers, but not a single media outlet dares to talk about that. They're being funded and organized by foreign interests hostile to Canada, like Iran, Russia and China, but there's hardly a mention of that, either except an occasional piece in the NP. Our universities are turning into dens of antisemitism which the universities refuse to address because it would mean taking strict action against the protesting students for their blatantly illegal occupation of university territory. And they won't do it. Nor will the police. who are, in both Ontario and Quebec, doing their best to imitate the Ottawa police during the convoy occupation. It's ridiculous.

I don't expect a troll to agree with me. I'm simply countering your bullshit. I just posted a cite that showed how hard they're trying. Do you not understand how links work? Do you need someone to hold your hand to show you how or do too many words deter you from even trying?

Oh, sure. I get that. It's like, accuse someone of being a Communist and people laugh. Accuse them of being a Fascist or Nazi and there are gasps of horror and immediate cries for investigations. Everyone believes it. But no one seems to think there even is such a thing as a Marxist or a Communist. Why is that? They're not hiding. Especially not in universities. They make no secret of their beliefs and sympathies. It certainly wouldn't harm them in getting hired or their chances of promotion. It's like nobody realizes how many tens of millions have been murdered by Communist/Marxist governments over the past century or so and they just laugh such people off as posing no danger. They're just quirky, you know! We get constant, daily cries of 'alt right', far-right', fascist, racist, xenophobes, nazis" from the Left and liberals but if anyone on the right dares to suggest anyone is a Marxist or communist people just sneer and jeer as if this is just an incredible, unbelievable, or unimportant thing. Why is that? Good. FOX news has damaged American unity more than any other organization in America's history.

Found this in another forum. Rather oddly, it says the number of applications to join the military is way up. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean they're actually hiring more people. Despite taking in 70,080 applications in 2023-24 — a five-year high — the military actually enrolled just 4,301 new recruits, according to new figures provided to the Star. That’s just a small uptick from 2022-23, when 3,930 recruits were enrolled and far fewer applications — 43,934 — were received. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/the-number-of-applicants-to-join-canadas-military-is-soaring-why-hasnt-that-resulted-in/article_83828744-0c81-11ef-be0f-57acf65e1452.html

Meaning the almost two million Muslims in Canada. Too late. Anyone from a region which is absolutely seething with intolerance is going to be less tolerant than someone born and raised here. Add in Islam, which is the least tolerant of the major religions, and you have a group that is devoted to values which are completely divergent from our own. People who hate the West, hate Western culture and values, and want to destroy the whole thing in favor of some imagined colorful rainbow of people from around the world with different cultures, values and beliefs - who they somehow seem to believe will share their own very left-wing views but don't. The reason the Left sides with Muslims, for example, is because they both hate the West, and the Left has this starry-eyed belief that the Muslims don't really believe that 'silly' religious stuff, or that as soon as they get here and experience our wonderful land of tolerance their intolerance will fade away. With few exceptions they appear to be mostly venal, self-serving nobodies of little substance, vision, or intellect who simply spout whatever words they're given by the party, and vote however they're told to vote. I like to think a Conservative government will push back on this, but doubt it will push very hard. I was just listening to an interview with a British conservative who said that their party was further to the Left than most British people, leaving those people feeling helpless because there's nobody to vote for that will represent their will. I'm not sure that's not the case in Canada, as well.

Iran is helping to fund and organize it. And I'm sure China and Russia are helping it along. And we don't deport people in this country unless they start raping babies (One raped baby not being enough to show they shouldn't be allowed here.) We can't even get police to break these occupations up, even when universities and premiers ask them to. Our police are wholly uninterested in breaking up illegal demonstrations of any kind. Their policy appears to be that a demonstration can go on as long as it wants unless people are being beaten and buildings trashed fairly regularly, or until the political pressure builds up to the point they have to put down their donuts and go do something. You know none of that will happen, right. None of these people will pay any price. The university administrations don't believe in discipline except for those who say or write something considered offensive to a protected group. And Jews are clearly, not such a group, being perceived by the Left as 'white oppressors'. But the Liberals, NDP and media succeded in portraying those people as being racist and holding 'deplorable' views, so the media was fine with whatever actions were taken against them. But the protesters/demonstrators hold views shared by a lot of the Left and almost none of the Right, so they're all good people.

Debate is not what will help. The 'progressives' are in full control of the education system as well as almost the entirety of the media. They own the public forums. They control what is being fed to kids. What is needed is to start electing conservatives who will push back against that, force the education systems back into simply teaching facts, and not their Western hatred and twisted Marxist interpretation of reality. There also needs to be a law brought in similar to the Fairness Doctrine that used to be in the US.

Inciting violence and praising terrorism should definitely be illegal. We have to remember that thanks to fools in the elite class, we're no longer a largely homogenous country. We have millions of people here from places where political and religious violence is the norm. We can't have people shouting praise for terrorists here and calling for more.

I agree entirely. But I think we both know that is vastly more sensible than this government is capable of. Not to mention a large percentage of it probably agrees with her.

TIL that using words is 'playing word games' Would pictograms make you more comfortable?

Thanks for providing more examples of the way the far left catastrophes everything. Like if someone tells a slightly non PC joke they're now as bad as Hitler. It's like you people are all a bunch of over emotional teenage girls. Your every post shows you despise western values, and everything about the West and its culture and history. That's why you want to tear it down and replace it with... well, you really don't know but you know it will be better because you and yours are just so incredibly noble and selfless! The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology][note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Everything about what Iran does and how it identifies is aligned with the middle east. That's why so much that's going wrong there is funded and organized by Iran. But I recognize reality is anathema to your types. Honestly, leave. You'll be happier away from evil westerners. And especially away from white people. You don't belong here anyway. You don't like Canada. You don't believe in Canada. You want to destroy it. You'll be happier somewhere else.

Want to know what the civilian casualty rate was in Aleppo? How about Grozny? Seoul? Beirut in the Lebanese civil war? How about the civilian casualties when the Canadian military fought its way through Sicily and then up through Italy? Urban war causes civilian casualties. There is no way to avoid them.

With the aim of destroying that nation or group. Well, to start with, there is no nation to destroy. As for the people, if Israel wanted to destroy them they could have already killed every man, woman and child in Gaza ten times over. The casualties are actually quite low for urban warfare. When the US went into Fallujah there were four civilians killed for every 1 dead guerrilla. In Gaz it's more like one for one. That's incredibly low because Israel has been making enormous efforts to minimize civilian casualties.

No, I said what I mean. Your lies don't change that. Those are more of those words you people on the far left like to stretch out. Opposing mass immigration makes you a 'wacist'. Caring at all about your country's culture and values makes you a 'bigot' and a 'xenophobe'. That kind of anti-intellectualism flourished a few years back but thankfully is on its way out the door, along with the politicians who embraced it. You're free to leave, too. I'm sure you'll be much happier in the middle east, where people are more to your liking. Might I suggest Iran?

I've been assuming its taken from some army camofloge pattern. The best comparison I saw online was a bear f*cking a moose from behind. https://imgur.com/RXAjCmV

When the SC handed down the Singh decision years ago it said that we had to give a hearing to people, and an appeal process. It didn't say it had to last five years. It didn't say there had to be multiple appeals and appeals of the appeals. We need a new system to give people a hearing within a week or so of arrival, then one (1) appeal hearing, and then out the door. That's assuming we didn't just reject them out of hand, which we should do for anyone who comes here from a safe third country. There were 86k asylum applications in the UK last year, and that's with people making their way across the channel in small boats. Why do we have almost twice as many? Because we're considered big suckers and people go through other safe countries to get here to apply. Anyone who comes here through the US, or any European country should be rejected out of hand.

Is English your second language? You apparently are incapable of understanding basic words. Maybe it's that it's three long syllables that is proving too complex for you. Here's a hint for you: Don't say 'by definition' when you have no idea what the definition actually is.

But I DO care about the western idea of universal human rights. I just don't care about the way the term has been stretched out by the left lately. For example, our supreme court says that imprisoning a mass murderer without giving him a chance at parole after no more than 25 years is a violation of human rights. The Supreme court can go suck a bag of dicks as far as I'm concerned.

Apparently, you have very low standards for immigrants. This is the problem with our immigration system; the low standards. We would be far, far, far better off with a lot fewer immigrants, but higher quality ones. We want people with high skills and also whose values line up with ours. We don't want to bring in potential rapists, thanks. I'd love to see our crime statistics broken down by who is and who isn't born in Canada. And what region the foreigners came from. When Sweden used to do this their stats showed a huge proportion of their criminals were born elsewhere. So the liberals stopped keeping such statistics. I'm sure ours would be similar. It stands to reason if you bring over millions of people from violent places with violent cultures of intolerance and misogyny you're going to see an uptick in violence. Especially sexual assault. Yeaaaah, that's BS. We can deport anyone we want to. It's just that our judges seem to be specifically selected for their empathy and sympathy for violent criminals and their lack of interest in the damage done to victims or the danger the criminals pose to society.

I think it's sad but I don't really care, no. It happens all the time, every day, all over the world. Tragedies, slaughters, murder and rape, villages destroyed, people driven off to roam the streets in search of safety. That's how much of the world is outside the West. I found what happened on Oct 7 particularly disturbing because unlike most of the rest of the world where such things happen, Israel is a Western country. I feel more kinship with such countries. As far as I can tell, the Palestinian territories are made up of people whose ferocious hate and barbarism has been cultivated by their leaders, including religious leaders, for decades. There seems to be little in the way of civilization among them. The sympathy I see and hear from people in the West towards a group who hold everything you claim to value in utter contempt and would do their best to destroy it if they could is just another example of how brainless and self-hating much of the Left is. People like you want to destroy Israel. But like the Palestinians and much of the Muslim world, you also want to destroy the rest of the West, including Canada.

You're the one showing how excited you are about what happened, and hoping for more of the same, you antisemitic little c*nt.

If someone had a megaphone and led the convoy protesters down the street and started shouting "Adolph Hitler had the right idea! Death to the Jews!" how many people do you think would have cheered? Anyone? Probably everyone would have been so gobsmacked they'd have stopped in their tracks. When the Muslims leading these protests say similar things they are cheered. Large cheers, too. Do you see the difference that justifies thinking of them differently?

An established Palestine would be an Islamic dictatorship, would immediately load up on weapons from Iran, and then launch another Oct 7 attack on Israel, this time with a far larger, better equipped military. How many hundreds of thousands of Jews would they get to kill before Israel gave the Palestinians the martyrdom they all crave?