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And how pathetic is that? Supply a couple of thousand people with often barely functioning equipment basically takes up the whole available resources of our 'army'.

"Up to" 2200 is not "2200". AFAIK isn't 2200 just about half our entire infantry?

Our productivity suffers because business doesn't invest. It doesn't invest because 1) we have too many protected oligopolies, 2) governments are in the habit of rescuing incompetent businesses rather than letting creative destruction do away with them, and 3) business has come to rely on a continuing stream of cheap labour, either from heavy immigration or from that plus the temporary foreign worker programs (including foreign students).

Agreed. How about Tim Horton's workers? Do we really need to replace them? Because there's a couple of things about this replacement which need mentioning. First is the CD Howe Institute, which supports immigration, said we could deal with the aging workforce most easily by just pushing back the retirement age for a couple of years. That's what Mulroney then did. Trudeau reversed this. Also, if the purpose of new immigrants is to replace our aging workforce should the government have increased the number of elderly immigrants who can be sponsored sixfold? Not coincidentally, this was done after each of the last three elections during which Trudeau promised ethnic/immigrant communities to make it easier for their parents and grandparents to come over. Again, the Harper government had frozen the numbers back in 2013 because of the tremendous healthcare resources these elderly immigrants used, as well as that 25% were winding up on welfare. These were obviously not considerations for Trudeau. Now add in AI and the number of jobs that's going to do away with over the next couple of decades. Do we really need to double immigration? I don't think so. We should, in fact, have been lowering immigration.

There was a time every major institution and every media organ was 100% behind immigration. It was the third rail. No one dared gainsay it. Not a single politician in English Canada ever dared suggest we lower it. Well, the universal love from the media and institutions went out the window this year. Now we just need the politicians to follow suit. “Now, in the context of Canada’s affordability crisis, take a look at the accompanying chart and ask if supply is really to blame here,” says BMO economist Robert Kavcic. Adding, “Despite many commendable efforts, in no version of reality can housing supply respond to an almost overnight tripling in the run-rate of new bodies. This is (still) the case of a demand curve running loose.” The industry is currently pushed to the max trying to churn out 220k homes per year. That’s a significantly higher number than previous years, but still roughly a quarter of the amount that would be needed to accommodate the supply-side plan. It’s easy to say, “we just need to build more houses.” However, demand for materials is already so high it’s inflationary. Trying to scale building, even if the skilled labor were available, would still require competing with global commodity markets for the materials needed, driving the cost of construction higher. https://betterdwelling.com/canadas-immigration-plan-is-not-viable-in-any-version-of-reality-bmo/#google_vignette

This is from a few years ago when Cameron was prime minister of the UK. He was echoing Angela Merkel and French prime minister Nicolas Sarkozy He said the doctrine of state multiculturalism" had encouraged segregation. A genuinely liberal country "believes in certain values and actively promotes them", Mr Cameron said. "Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Democracy. The rule of law. Equal rights, regardless of race, sex or sexuality. It says to its citizens: This is what defines us as a society. To belong here is to believe these things." He said under the "doctrine of state multiculturalism", different cultures have been encouraged to live separate lives. "We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values." I believe he's absolutely correct. Unfortunately, while the UK, France, Germany and other places in Europe have abandoned multiculturalism Trudeau has doubled down on it. And the national media still embraces it with such enthusiasm that anyone who questions it causes a national scandal. Note that while Cameron also said the state had to create a national vision and ensure that all newcomers spoke the language and were educated in elements of our common culture. Trudeau, meanwhile, was proud to say we have no 'core identity'. He somehow thought that was a good thing. Though I bet he'd never dare say it in Quebec in French.

These scum were in malls in BC and Ontario, including Bayshore shopping centre in Ottawa where they took their damn megaphone over to where Santa was seeing kids and started shouting at everyone. And when someone said they were scaring the kids they replied that kids in Gaza were scared too. Focking loonies. If they came here from somewhere else they should be forcibly returned there, regardless of status. I hope the tories get in and reverse Trudeau's change in the law there so their Canadian citizenship can be revoked.

It's not a combatant. And from what I'm hearing the RCN doesn't have enough crew for these things anyway.

Yeah, because a lot of the members of the majority are getting tired of being discriminated against on behalf of people who are neither grateful nor deserving. If it weren't for colonialism the natives would still be making war on each other, freezing their asses off in their wigwams and believing the canoe was the most technologically advanced form of transportation.

How many trans men do you think there are anyway? Damn few compared to the reverse. Perhaps because you can call yourself male all you want you're still gonna be a weak-assed female. Only difference now is that if you mouth off to a guy he can kick your ass guilt free.

Herbie, don't get offended but I have to ask... have you ever seen a woman naked?

72% of Palestinians polled support the Hamas Oct 7 attack. https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/most-of-palestine-approves-of-oct-7-terrorist-invasion-of-israel-poll-shows-middle-east-conflict-terrorism-gaza-strip

Usually the ones who aren't professional reveal their bias very early in any article or opinion piece, which lets' you take what they say with a grain of salt - or several. And not all the professionals are free of bias by any means either. Reuters was raked over the coals by one of its own data scientists over their biases about BLM in a now very famous article. But if you read multiple contrary sources you can usually get an idea of what's going on.

But I LIKE war! And I will continue to make war on all who oppose me!

I find my news online, in various social media forums and news outlets from around the world.

Given most Israelis have lived their entire lives surrounded by hostile, fanatic Arabs, knowing that every day they're trying to sneak through, around, under or over Israel's fences, walls, and borders just to kill a Jew it's not really a surprise some Israelis absolutely despise Arabs. And given the nature of Israel's pizza parliament and the necessity of including very tiny parties in their coalition it's hardly a surprise you get the same kind of statements from some of them as we routinely hear from Palestinian and Arab leaders.

Pretty sure that when Hamas and its supporters use it they mean 'we're gonna kill all the fockin Jews and take their land".

I hardly even bother to watch the news anymore. My local news reports very little actual news. They seem to prefer long human interest stories. As for the local paper, I can usually skim the online in a minute or two at most because there's usually so little to it. As for the national news, half of it is just American video on American stories because it's cheap for CTV and CBC to buy it and reuse it here. It's almost used as filler. If there's a snowstorm, hurricane, tornado or heat wave in the US it'll make our national news instead of whatever the hell might be going on with our various governments and provinces. I don't know what the hell they're doing with the hundreds of millions of dollars the government is paying them but it doesn't seem to have resulted in anything useful.

My understanding is the Trudeau government has mandated this for all federal government buildings.

They have documentation. They just flush it down the toilet before arriving. We've also removed the need for visas for certain countries due to political pressure (Ie Romania, Mexico). On top of that we've greatly expanded the reasons for a valid claim. They now include claims impossible to verify or dispute, such as being gay or trans.

Women are more likely to be progressive. You can't get hired if you're not progressive. So right there that would give them a big edge.

The Irish, mostly. Sure. But a million people ... you know, quantity has a quality all its own. That's silly. Of course there would be. You think if the Europeans arrived and found no people here they'd have just left/ Come on. Got any evidence of that? Lots of places have a federal/state/provincial type government. All that's very nice, of course. But Canada was founded in 1867 by white people and developed almost entirely by white people. At the turn of the 20th century, the Chinese population in Canada was 17,312. That's not all that many, really. The railroads were mostly built by the Irish. There was an awful lot of them around.