I am Groot

The cost of the new frigates the government has ordered continues to rise even as doubts about their worthiness do too. They are large, heavy, slow and absurdly expensive compared to any other ship we could order. We could get US frigates for half the price and use the saved money to buy subs. I don't think we will ever get the 15 ships announced, not at this price. The government is just waiting until after the next election to cancel or reduce the order. Our Navy sinks toward impotence because Ottawa can't procure ships | National Post

I read this in the Globe and it was solidly sensible so I decided to gift you with it. In Liberal World, you believe that we should strive for a society where every person is treated as if they are endowed with equal rights and dignity, regardless of race. You may think of race as merely skin colour, a thin mask covering our shared humanity. You can recall Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speech, about a “dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character,” and think, yes, that’s it: That’s the opposite of racism. Liberal World holds to classical liberal values that, when they were lived up to, fought slavery in the 19th century and segregation in the 20th. But expressing such ideas today risks getting you laughed off campus, or chased off. The new dominant ideology, the one professors and students know they must to some degree pay lip service to, whether they agree or not, is DEI World. DEI World has a very different conception of race. It does not want to transcend race; it finds the notion absurd, even racist. Instead, it wants to see everything through the lens of race. Its judgments about reward and punishment, merit and demerit, justice and injustice, and even whose speech is protected and to what degree, are filtered through a particular, and particularly American, conception of race. Race is its Rosetta Stone for divining many things, including who is oppressor and who is oppressed. Why did a fight over universities’ response to antisemitism quickly evolve into an argument over DEI? Because Jews don’t fit into the racial hierarchy of DEI World. https://archive.is/3TYZp

A wedge issue will be Trudeauj and the Liberals finding some Conservative somewhere, maybe a candidate, maybe a spokesthingee or a fund raiser or someone associated with security - doesn't matter - someone they can point to and say "He's a racist!" Then they'll wave at the entire party and say "See!? They're white supremacists! Or... sort of like white supermacists... or anyway, they tolerate white supremacists! Be scared! Vote Liberal! Be scared visible minorities! They hate you! Save yourselves! Vote Liberal!" Did it last election. Did it the election before that. They'll do it again. Because it doesn't matter if most people dismiss it. All they need to do is sow doubt among people who are fairly new to Canada and whose English isn't all that good and whose knowledge of politics here is even worse.

Let them get ahead in their own country. Because the way it's working here is they come in and provide cheap labour to employers to stop them from having to increase wages and benefits and invest in training and technology. It's one of the big factors, along with oligopolies, helping to push down our GDP per person. We're getting less productive because we're bringing in millions of less productive workers. I'd rather not. Man has survived where other creatures have not because of our adaptability. And if our economy remains strong we can adapt to a warmer planet. But we need the money to build flood walls, or maybe irrigation systems, depending on where. We need the money to build stronger buildings and to figure out how to best adapt our agriculture to things. We need money to build nuclear plants to provide the power for more electric driven cars and buses and more power to heat and air condition buildings. No, we're not going back into caves and lower our expectations. We're going to do research and figure out how to improve things everywhere, which is what we should've been doing for decades but don't because we leave that to other countries.

These people? Do these look like immigrants who came here due to their skills or refugees? Btw, anyone notice there isn't a white face on the page? https://www.tps.ca/organizational-chart/specialized-operations-command/detective-operations/investigative-services/homicide/most-wanted/

Is this exercise in paleoanthropology at an end?

There is no Raytheon. United Technologies merged with them and they're now RTX And their stock was down 14% last year so if politicians invested their money in it they probably regret that.

I'm not sure what the police could do about hate unless the protesters are shouting 'death to Jews' or something similar. An individual saying it to someone else privately is not, afaik illegal. And trying to persuade a judge to jail someone over 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free' is probably futile as the phrase is arguably about two different things. I know, I know it's calling for the end of Jews in Israel, but knowing and proving aren't the same thing. What the police could and should do is clear the bloody streets. Allowing people to basically occupy roads, highways and bridges without going in and dragging them off in handcuffs is a dereliction of their duty to enforce the law and maintain order. At first, they could be forgiven for standing back as tempers were hot, but it's been months now and they're still shutting down highways and bridges and trying to shut down roads to airports and other major roads. Enough is enough. You should be able to hold a demonstration in a specified area for a specified time. You should not be allowed to just parade up and down a major artery during rush hour while the citizens fume. Anyone who does that should be arrested and charged and released only on a peace bond. If they go back and do it again they go to jail for thirty days or so. The crowds will dwindle rapidly. As it stands the only ones getting the slightest penalty are the ones in Ottawa being fined for using megaphones, but from what I understand they don't have to pay the fines anyway as their supporters take care of that. I might add that there's evidence the Chinese are helping organize these things as a way to further divide Canadians. If we had a government that didn't cringe away at the thought of taking the slightest action against China someone would have done something about THAT by now.

I went back a number of posts between you two and I still have no clue what you mean by 'reversing it'. I never saw AG mention reversing anything and the post you're replying to just suggests change, which I gather you are in favor of anyway. Btw, if our dollar was worth $1.05 American I don't see how an outboard motor would cost so much more here than there.

We want the numbers to come down in both areas. Most refugees are just immigrants who jumped the queue anyway. They're economic migrants looking to go to a better country just like immigrants.

Regardless, his point that you have to keep staring at a man and pretend he's a woman is spot on. I seem to recall posting a long piece with the very words of those who came up with the idea of drag queens reading to children which completely supported the accusation of grooming. But I believe you've said before you don't like to read long pieces so maybe you didn't read it.

Oh please. You've been very pro trans for years here.

https://www.tps.ca/organizational-chart/specialized-operations-command/detective-operations/investigative-services/homicide/most-wanted/

A reminder that the majority of the population of Gaza has gone through the school system with a curriculum designed by religious fanatics who believe in Islam dominating the world. By force if necessary. Hamas kindergarten graduation ceremony. Hamas takes military training to schools.

Does that mean the refugees will respect our laws? And after that they go on welfare. There are no legal penalties for hating Jews. And if you attack, say, a Jewish school and kill a lot of kids and die when the police arrive you go to heaven as a martyr and get 72 virgins as payment! God wills it! You know this is part of the school curriculum and has been for 17 years, right? Who needs an arsenal? Just rent a car and run over Jews outside a synagogue!? Then go on to run over people until the cops stop you and kill you! Presto! 72 virgins in paradise for you! These people will be divisive, and will never integrate.

What did he say in the post you quoted which should give rise to that statement?

Respect as people who back up their beliefs with actions. We have absolutely no influence with them anyway. And they will target Canadian interests at any time it seems useful to them. They both already have agents in Canada targeting our interests, and Russia, at least, is, I'm quite sure, working on increasing divisions among us and helping Trudeau get re-elected. Obviously we should re-equip and expand the size of our military. Perhaps the next government will do that when Trudeau is hauled off to his well-deserved obscurity. I'm not talking about isolationism. I'm talking about actively making our disapproval known with more than words.

China's fantasies are not related to our realities. I see myself as a sexy, wealthy eighteen-year-old. No one else is required to respect that. Taiwan has not been in any way a part of China for over a century. It is a free, democratic country and we should support them against the vicious tyrant who runs China. Canada can't fight anyone, however. It has no military to speak of, and they have no equipment to speak of. And even if it had weapons we have no ammunition.

Meh. Russia and Iran are terrorist states in addition to having abysmal human rights records at home. We should ban Canadians from going there and ban their citizens from coming here (except as refugees). We should also ban all commercial relationships with them.

Canada's GDP per person is up 1% or so in the last 15 years. The US GDP per person is up about 14% And yet, strangely, the US has reduced emissions by about 20% since 2005 while Canada is down a bare 8% So you're saying it's better to have a climate plan that doesn't work than to not have a climate plan? So what? So is the Liberal party's climate reduction plan, it's plan for EVs, and it's pretense that it's going to achieve net zero. Or even the belief that it SHOULD.

Or maybe not.

The devil is in the details. They do not do a background check as we think of them. Their background check consists of checking your name against a list of known terrorists or terrorist associates and a criminal records check. That's it. Nobody is going to go interview your employers or friends and family. With five hundred thousand immigrants coming each year, not to mention over a hundred thousand refugee claimants we simply do not have time. Nor do we have time to check much on the million foreign students or the million plus foreign workers.