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How exactly does it 'neutralize' drones? Spotting them is great, but shooting them down is another thing.

Build more PMQs?

No, he didn't plan on being one. When the opposition forced him to put out that huge economic incentive program, thus running deep into deficit, he then had to spend the rest of his time in office getting back to balance. But he was at best capable and competent. There was nothing outstanding or special about him. He didn't make any big, important changes. He believed in incrementalism. But like all other PMs he ignored the big, nasty problems that couldn't be solved quickly, like healthcare, interprovincial trade barriers, the native issue, and our creaking judicial system. He's my choice for best PM in recent times but the bar is very low.

The lines were drawn to separate the Jews and Arabs, as much as possible. And if it makes you feel better, within a year of Israel's birth the numbers were reversed due to so many Arabs leaving the Israeli section, and a million Jews moving in after being expelled from surrounding Arab states.

The government is getting ready to bring thousands of Sudanese here due to the fighting Sudan, and the ones here want a big refugee program. But the refugee program was originally intended to help those fleeing persecution due to religion, ethnicity, etc., or political persecution by the government. It excluded those fleeing war for the very good reason that such a number could easily overwhelm everyone. Canada has widened its definition of refugees to the point virtually anyone in the third world qualifies one way or another. Or can pretend they do. After all, how can you question someone who says they're fleeing because they're gay. Or trans? You can't ask them to prove it. Nor would it be politically acceptable to demand evidence. As for the Sudanese, from what I understand almost none of them will ever be able to support themselves, and will wind up on welfare for life. It's notable the Globe immediately closed their comments section on this story. https://archive.is/YDY8w They didn't They should. Move them to the West Bank and force all the Jews on the West Bank to go to Gaza. Then give the West Bank back to Jordan.

What about a foolish child with a Trumpesque ego?

And make it impossible for young people to buy homes, or in many cases even afford rent. You write like a smug old boomer content with his pension and his paid-off house. LOL If you hadn't stopped there you might have read that just 4.3% of it is arable land, but it's clear you're not interested in taking in new information much less putting any thought into your answers.

European foreigners. Yes, that has been our past experience. There is no evidence we're good at assimilating Asians. Especially Muslims. Or, for that matter, people from the Caribbean or Africa. We are experimenting here. Also, in the past, we assimilated people by isolating them far from their homelands and making it pretty much impossible for them to prosper in their own language. That's no longer the case. For the past forty years we've encouraged them to NOT assimilate, and done our best to accommodate their separate cultures and languages. Thus, according to an Immigration Canada report, dated 2014, assimilation was beginning to fail in the face of continuing high numbers. Naturally, we did nothing about that other than to double the numbers coming in.

Don't look at me. I've been opposed to immigration for decades. As I've written before, I can find no way in which Canada has become a better place to live with 40 million people than it was with 20.

Because that would be unpopular. Trudeau's only motive for anything and everything he does is to make himself popular/look good to his base.

I have to wonder at someone old enough to have been in the Air Force and yet still has the mind of a child.

I think what you mean is he reduced taxes. Saying he 'blew it' is for when someone inherits a balanced budget (or very close to) like Trudeau and then HUGELY increases spending. I have to smile at a liberal who complains about Harper's deficits then his austerity. We certainly haven't seen any austerity from the Trudeau family! The splurging by Trudeau senior was what begat the austerity as Mulroney and Chretien tried to work their way back from the mess he created. Harper's austerity was trying to clean up his own mess. And no doubt the next government will have to clean up the legacy of debt Trudeau's ill-begotten son gave us. LIke it or not, we can't have everything we want. That's not something people like Trudeau ever understood. You don't get to borrow indefinitely without hitting a wall. We don't want to become Argentina. Of course, there's always raising taxes, but that carries its own penalty in the form of lower economic activity.

I don't know if you've been paying much attention to military matters, but the West ain't no bear. Germany, for example, had, at one point not that long ago, about four fighter aircraft that were fully functional, and barely enough missiles to equip them. Their tanks are mostly not working. All of their units are greatly understrength. The British have hugely reduced the size of their infantry, and meanwhile their air force was involved in a huge scandal when it emerged that part of the reason they were short of pilots was they were refusing to recruit white men. All of the Nato countries (except the Americans) have let their militaries run down. And right now only the Americans have much ammunition stored. Canada has almost none, and I doubt more than a handful of our tanks are fully functional in working condition. Same goes for our fighter aircraft. Our subs spend most of their time at dock, and there's not enough crew to man our frigates. A country that can draft in several hundred thousand men and equip them can rebuild and rearm and take a lot more punishment than European countries can right now. Of course, I haven't mentioned Turkey, but then, Turkey isn't exactly a reliable ally. Yes, agreed. Which is why I think Canada's military should be better equipped and positioned up north. It needs to rearm. Fast. The Europeans are starting to do that, but in typical western fashion for many of them. Almost every nato country but Canada has voted big increases in spending but it will take a while for that to show up in increased military abilities. Ie, the Germans hugely increased their spending two years ago but haven't really spent anything yet because the effort to buy new weapons is tied up in procurement and contracting. Sweden reinstituted the draft, but I doubt many Western countries would stand for that.

A lot of corrupt and incompetent generals have been quietly shot, or sent forward to die bravely at the front, while companies that made hugely overpriced gear are now making free gear to make up for it. And they have drafted in hundreds of thousands of replacement troops, and are trying to make sure that, unlike the cannon fodder they used in year one and much of year two, they are properly equipped.

Just a point of fact: Harper's first two years had surpluses. Also, the Liberals have been playing accounting games with the deficit for years. Like pretending we have a lower debt to GDP ratio because our ratio is impacted by our national pension plan being considered an asset due to it investing in the stock market while other nations national pension schemes only invest in safe bonds and other instruments. Perhaps the cut in the GST helped cushion the enormous worldwide financial recession we barely felt that occurred a couple of years later. I give Mulroney a pass due to what he inherited from Trudeau and the economic times he was in. Chretien wasn't able to balance the books for the first four years either until those times ended.

Seems to be a pretty well-thought-out list, together with reasoning and evidence behind each. For example: Farmland loss. Despite having the second-largest landmass in the world, just 4.3% of Canada is arable, and 90% of Canadians live in a winding line of settlements within 160 KM of the U.S. border. Most immigrants settle in this same strip, which drives urban expansion: 15 million acres of farmland have been lost since 1976. Ontario loses 319 acres of farmland every day. Since 2001, Canada has lost the equivalent of seven small farms per day. https://dominionreview.ca/10-reasons-to-oppose-mass-immigration-to-canada/

How obsessed is Justin Trudeau's government with gender and diversity? So obsessed that they insisted a part of the $3b guarantee funds to Uklaine be for “a gender and diversity working group to promote gender-transformative mine action in Ukraine.”

I agree, actually. No more economic immigrants who don't have sufficient skill, education, AND language skills to immediately or very soon be earning a superior income should be allowed in unless it's in a field where we're desperately short of people like the medical industry or tradesmen. No more Indian coders, half of whom have fake degrees anyway and wind up working at Tim Hortons after they get fired from their first job.

You won't vote for Poilievre because he's not a Quebecer. That's the first, last, and only thing that matters to you. At least have the honesty to admit it. This old clip you dug up where he wants more economic immigrants and that thing where he said websites should keep kids out are ridiculous excuses.

Because while progressives are in a minority in Canada they are in the majority in the media, as well as among our academics, senior union leaders, and an unfortunate number of political positions. And they think tokenism and paternalism toward black people shows their virtue. Black women are about 1.5% of the population and given every second commercial has a black woman in it and every news show features multiple interviews with black women I imagine a very large percentage of them have already been featured in advertisements or news stories. Btw, you forgot the story of Canada's greatest Black heroine, Viola Davis! She owned a beauty parlor, and got a ticket for sitting in the wrong part of a theater meant for whites only and refusing to move when told to because her feet were sore. The end.

This might surprise you given what appears to be a tremendously oversized ego, but I don't read every one of your posts. I don't believe I've ever written anything on this subject that suggested any particular expertise in helicopters. You seem to be confusing me with other people again. I didn't even know they were unique, you silly twat. You can't see my face, and no one can see yours. Which is why you feel free to act like an antisocial Ahole. And if you think your attitude is impressing anyone here you're sadly mistaken.

Google already does that. Not only does it know where I go it knows whether I'm in the front of my house or the back of my house. Once a month it sends me a little map of where I've gone during the previous thirty days. Kind of nifty. I'm pretty sure my cell phone provider tracks all this, too. Google says it does not share your private tracking information nor allow app developers to do it. Where would it concern me? If that information was widely available, I guess. Or if I was doing something I didn't want tracked and couldn't turn it off (I do know how to do that) I don't know. I think it's situational. For example, if I go to the Best Buy website to look for phones and then leave, I'm going to start seeing ads for phones, and not just any phones, but the one I've been looking at when I go to other websites. If I go to Mazda's website the same thing happens. That doesn't particularly bother me, but I know it's all automated. If it's in a public places with no expectation of privacy they can already do that. And btw, I have cameras around my house, including a few of them that give me views of the street out front. Never seen anything I'd want to post anywhere except the video of the crazy lady who came knocking on my door one day (I didn't answer). I'm not really cancelable. But again, anything you do in public is fair game according to present law. And everyone has a camera on them at all times. I'm generally in favour of risk management, but my assessment doesn't show any particular danger to me at this time.

You realize that analogy is ridiculous, right?

I'm trying to figure out why I should care about this. Machines and stores wanting to find merchandise I'd be more likely to like and buy doesn't sound like a nightmare.