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Canadian judges are becoming too activist and doing things that ought to be in the area of government control. Who says this? Some radical right-winger? Well, no, a member of the Supreme Court of Canada. And the problem with that is none of them are elected. Most of them never could be elected. The people have no say in what they decide from their lofty perches, and no way to hold them responsible for the consequences. Judges in Canada have been “hard-wired” by four decades of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to wield “enormous authority,” and they are making decisions that are “increasingly governmental in nature,” according to a sitting Supreme Court judge. Judges increasingly make governmental decisions: Supreme Court justice | National Post

The CPP is self-funded. You pay into it. That money is invested. And then you collect when you retire. The real problem is the unfunded pension plans like the GIS and OAS. These come straight out of yearly budgets, and increase as the numbers of people taking them increases. You pay nothing into them. Even if you've never had a job and never paid a penny of income tax you can still get them. Immigrants who are sponsored over and never work can start collecting them ten years later. The amount the government pays increases every year. They ought to be reformed and the age at which you can collect raised, but don't expect either under Trudeau. Like, once you reach a certain income level the government starts to claw back these benefits. For the OAS it's $80k. Why is it so freaking high!? That's bloody ridiculous! At least drop it down to $40k-$50k! Edit. Coincidentally, this is in the Globe and Mail today. Globe editorial: Subsidies to rich seniors make no sense - The Globe and Mail

You have a group of people dedicated to killing you. What other choice do you have other than 'subjugating' them? I mean, the other choice, the one the Arabs would make, is clear. But I don't think the Jews want to go that way.

Name one of these 'reasonable conservatives', please. Well, other than me.

One of the reasons we're not taken seriously by the rest of the world, and why the US is presently dismissing us is because our military is collapsing and no longer fit for purpose. This shows itself in a number ways, from the way other countries speak of and about us, to the way they deal with us. It shows in the US not including us in various economic and defense agreements. It shows in the dismissive way others speak of us and treat us. As for what guns do. Guns are a threat. Guns are a warning. If Ukraine had been as strong a year and a half ago as it is now Russia would never have invaded. If Taiwan wasn't armed and wasn't under American protection it would already have been invaded. Canada has no means of protecting its interests nor its people around the world. It has no means of even living up to the military treaties we've signed, like NATO. More importantly, because it's become obvious we not only can't live up to them we have no intention of even trying, we're looked down on by other nations. What is our word even worth?

And many millions died deliberately, lined up and shot, worked to death in concentration camps, or gased in special chambers. All to be dumped into mass graves. That's not war. That's something else again. Because you've locked yourself into a little box that says anyone who doesn't agree with you is the far left, or a communist or something like that. And as such nothing they say can penetrate the powerful cone of dumb that surrounds your views. You simply dismiss them all without thought.

Because it always is. Did you not read his teary-eyed post condemning the Jews for forcing some Palestinians off the land? Did you see him mention the other side? Did you wonder about the millions of Arab Israeli citizens who didn't leave and weren't killed despite that? They're the freest Arabs in the world.

That was the way the world was back then. The natives who came into contact with the settlers did their best to keep other natives away. They got guns from the settlers and used them on the inland natives. It's how the Iriquois managed to force the Hurons off their lands. I am completely dismissive of the idea we have 600 'nations' whose primary motivation has to be preserving their 'culture' and independent status. These are villages, mere hundreds of people for the most part. Their children would be infinitely better off if they just moved out and forget about their native past.

No. There's a difference between war focused on an enemy where you take as much care as you can to avoid civilian casualties, and deliberately seeking out civilians to kill. If this point is too complex for you then maybe you should be asking for disability payments due to mental impairment.

And a million Jews were forced out of their homes and villages at the same time. But I know you don't give a shit about that. I've already said I don't support the settlements. I don't think most Israelis do either. But the small, religious parties often hold the balance of power and are the tail wagging the dog. But let's not forget the Israelis forcibly repatriated the settlers in Gaza and the Gazans then destroyed the farms, greenhouses, etc. that they had put up there, then voted in a terrorist group that pledged relentless war against Israel and has carried it out ever since. As I pointed out, the standard of living in the West Bank is similar to Jordan. Are Palestinians living in the land of freedom like Canada? No. Just who else in the Middle East is? And what kind of 'freedom' do you expect in an independent Palestine? You think there'll be equal rights for women? You think there will be an independent court system? Independent police? Free speech? Free elections? No. It'll be another brutal autocratic shithole run as either a military dictatorship or an Islamic state. I mean. have you paid no attention to how Hamas and the Palestinian Authority treat their own people?

Oh, not so brutal as all that, and certainly not for 75 years. Things were much more laid back before the Intifadas launched by the Palestinian leadership. Forty percent of Palestinians actually worked in Israel, and Israeli companies were starting to invest in Palestinian businesses. Then came the Intifadas, and one outrageous terrrorist act after another. Buses blown up, cars driven into crowds. People gunned down or stabbed. Hundred of Israelis killed. The results were quite predictable. It became much harder for Palestinians to leave the territories. IDF monitoring and oversight grew much heavier. Walls and fences started going up. When the Palestinians started building or aquiring rockets to fire into Israel the blockades became much more stringent, witholding cement to make it harder to build their tunnels, withholding metals and other items needed to build rockets But if you weren't building rockets or attacking Israel or planning attacks you were probably okay. You'd suffer some day-to-day indignities at road blocks from IDF people who had come to hate Arabs (with just cause) and who had to be extremely careful with every person because anyone might pull out a knife and throw themselves at them, heedless of whether that was suicidal. The standard of living in the West Bank is roughly equal to Jordan now, but it used to be much better. Gaza is, well, a lot worse because Israel has a really tough blockade there due to it being governed by a party commited to murdering Jews.

Woke is a term for people who care about style over substance, who care about how things look, not how they are, who say they care about justice, but don't, who are rabidly intolerant, don't believe in freedom - except their own - and absolutely demand the pretense of diversity and inclusiveness without actual diversity or inclusiveness and are more than willing to sacrifice equality in the name of equity. They're zealots and they hate more deeply than anyone but the far, far right, the real nazis you guys are always on about as if there are hordes of them but in reality couldn't fill a rural diner on a sunny Sunday.

I understand the bitterness. But I disagree. They simply vote for their own economic reasons. The other stuff they care about, be it the military, policing, immigration, healthcare, it's important to them. But all of them take second place to what they think will be best for them economically. Of course they are. The government doesn't respect them. Their equipment is crap, both of which damages pride, and esprit de corps. And a lot of the rules and regs are rigid holdovers from another time. This all dissuades newcomers from joining (along with a recruitment and training system that takes second place for incompetence only to procurement). And this puts extra pressure on those there because the generals can't bear to tell the politicians they can't do it anymore so have people doing extra work (without pay), with extra pressure, and little in the way of thanks. If it's made a priority it can be fixed. I don't know if Poilivre will do enough for the military, - or anything, for that matter. I know the conservative base wants him to. There will certainly be more pressure on him to than there is on Trudeau or Singh from their base. But if Poilievre doesn't care and just figures "Who else are they gonna vote for if military preparedness is important to them?" then I guess we'll have to wait for a crisis to hit Canadians in the face to move that priority right up. Like another Oka. Only this time the military can't handle it.

These were not people killed in war, in battle, or even incidentally to battle as in when starvation or disease sets in. These were civilians who were cold-bloodedly murdered because they were considered racially inferior. Why? It was going to be the thousand-year Reich. They felt they were doing the right thing, and needed to ensure they got credit for the high numbers they exterminated. I'm pretty sure you know as little about communists as you do about any other political ideology. Or what a girl feels like.

Only partially. The first nations were primitive savages without any written language who had no future in a land without horses, sheep, pigs, goats and cattle. Not to mention the wheel. The newcomers were much more worldly, sophisticated and enlightened. They brought science, the wrtiten language ... the wheel, to the primitives. Having a sophisticated people overtaken by more primitive people is a rather different thing.

The problem with the Western Left is that since they don't believe in religion they simply can't understand or get into the skin of those who do, much less those who do so fiercely. So they discount its importance and try to reduce things to a secular argument they can understand. But it IS about religion. If they weren't Jews there wouldn't have been a war when the country was born. If they weren't Jews, the Arabs wouldn't have fled. A number of countries were being created around that time. Israel was just one of them. And sure, the majority of people would be Jews. But no one said the Arabs had to leave. Yeah, everyone knows. This is mostly because Netanyahu's party relies, in a divided parliament, on the votes of extremist Jews. But the Muslim world didn't care when Syria bombarded whole cites into rubble. How many people were forced from their homes or killed? Nobody cares. And how many Jews were slaughtered in that war? And in successive wars? How many Jews would have survived if the Arabs had won any of those wars? But trying to excuse barbarism of the present by protesting about barbarism of the past is a lame and stupid thing to do. The past WAS barbaric almost everywhere. Do you want to bring that back to life?

I love how everything Hardner opines becomes brilliant wisdom to him and he's baffled when others don't immediately accept it. Of course, antisemitism in Quebec is not recent! Of course, it's been there a long time! The exact same thing can be said for Ontario. But when the author points out that everyone arrested for hate crimes against Jews is a Muslim immigrant that is something anyone interested in actual discussion would take notice of.

I love how Hardner pretends others are tribalists, but you can see how ferocious he and his progressive friends behave (online) toward anyone who isn't of their tribe. Anyone who doesn't buy their beliefs in uncontrolled immigration, uncontrolled transgender proselytizing to children, uncontrolled ideological conditioning in schools, and the glories of Islam are reduced to some kind of sub-human category only good for hurling insults at. Uh, YOU are a keyboard warrior. As is Hardner.

Progressives love to put everyone who isn't at least a Liberal into a box they variously label as 'far right', 'white nationalist', 'neocon', or, if they're of a particular troll-like smugness 'chud'. They're fiercely attached to their beliefs with an almost religious intensity and can't stand the idea anyone disagrees with them. Anyone to the right of Trudeau.

Because virtually all the reporters and editors working for the major media in Canada are progressives like you and support transgenderism everywhere without constraint - like you do. They don't report on things like this much, any more than they'll report on the oddity of how many criminals are clearly immigrants. Or how many of the hate crimes being committed against Jews and Gays are coming from Muslim immigrants. I found one report from notorious columnist Barbara Kay in the Post over the weekend mentioning that virtually every incident of hate crime against Jews where the police have caught someone in Quebec has been someone from North Africa. But don't expect the media to echo that or even investigate it. Like you, they feel this is the sort of thing people should not only not know about, but not be allowed to know about.

If the fly is in your culture or nation and grows bigger every day it becomes rather difficult to ignore. Why is Trudeau reportedly having so much trouble with his cabinet over the Gaza-Israeli issue? How many members of Trudeau's cabinet are not from Canada?

Unlikely. Because when those in the majority have no strong cultural attachment to freedom of speech or expression, no cultural history of compromise, little attachment to western ideals of democracy, well, things can change rapidly. Laws are rewritten, and judges of the same mentality are appointed and promoted.

Only a minority of the population is a university graduate, and an even smaller minority of progressives controls virtually all public forums, and thus the public 'message', and mocks and shuts down those who disagree with their narrative.

He likely means the left wing attitude that immigration is an unconstrained good. That it does incredible, wonderful things for our economy. That huge numbers of immigrants are absolutely necessary for a wide variety of reasons for which no proof is ever offered. And that anyone who questions it, regardless of how high the numbers are, is a racist, xenophobic white supremacist. This is the attitude a lot of people give out on the internet in support of the Trudeau-Singh-Laurentian-Elites viewpoint.

LOL. Who do you think you're playing games with? No one here thinks much of the settlers, who are, in the main, religious zealots. But you've changed the goal sticks quite a bit from them acting the same as Hamas to asking if Palestinians don't get injured, killed or arrested. I'm sure they do. But if you can find me a few cases of settlers descending on a Palestinian camp and raping, torturing and murdering everyone they find, be my guest.