I am Groot

I imagine if it was their policy to bring people in the people of each tribe would have been consulted by their leadership.

Don't you think that the people ought to have at least been consulted for an effort that will make such enormous changes in our society? Actually, when it was first proposed that was the 'consultation' and the people were overwhelmingly opposed to it. So no more consultation. They're just doing it anyway. Screw what the plebes think. If we're bringing in people to work at unskilled, low-paid jobs they're not paying any income tax. They're consuming it.

Nobody cares what the poor have to say. The Liberals and NDP barely even care what blue collar workers have to say. Only the Tories pay any attention to them. Blue collar types, and the poor, don't have the right lingo down pat. They don't understand or even approve of intersectionality or critical race theory and disapprove of the the government giving preference to gays or visible minorities ahead of them for jobs and grants and other programs. They are our 'deplorables' because they don't approve of the progressive's obsession with identity politics and aren't willing to bow their heads in shame for the supposed crimes of their ancestors.

Progressives are a minority but they congregate in the media and arts, as well as academia. They can and have and do influence culture, and have done so on a wide scale in the US and the rest of the anglosphere. It's worked so well we have Canadian government types not wanting to celebrate Canada Day but to instead turn it into some kind of day of shame for our 'colonizing' the wonderful world of savages that was here before us. Over 40% in a recent poll liked the idea of changing the anthem to reflect this view, replacing "Our home and native land" to "Our home ON native land" as if we're not here as legitimate natives. Anyone who challenges the narrative is attacked as immoral and hateful by media and academics, and the politicians eager for their favour. They've turned the very idea of patriotism or nationalism into a synonym for white supremacy. And while doing that flooded the country with immigrants to the point half the population in cities like Toronto and Vancouver are foreign-born.

The Paris Accord has Western countries agreeing not only to reduce their Co2 emissions but to transfer $100B a year to the developing world - ostensibly for them to pay for their own efforts, but really it just goes into general revenues and into the pockets of the corrupt governments. It's income redistribution practiced on a world scale. Huge opportunities? Like the ones Dalton McGuinty said would open up to Ontario by hugely increasing the cost of power in the province?

I'm waiting for those details instructions on how to murder a nation. So far all I've got is 'elect Trudeau'. But I already knew that one. I would say that the plans should include allowing ideologues who despise your country, its history, culture, and traditions to take over academia and then allow them to change and slant curriculums and only hire their own kind so as to indoctrinate young people in their way of thinking. We definitely did this. Any number of government could have put a stop to that, at least in their own provinces, for the premiers, but none could be bothered. Not even the allegedly conservative ones. After you've got the indoctrination schooling in make sure your graduates are supported as they move into the media to take it over, and then into key parts of the corporate world - like HR organizations that hire people and make all the rules. With this done you can begin changing the culture of the country to incorporate your hatred and disgust for it and its history, people and values. Then you can get airhead politicians elected to help pass laws to change the country, to destroy its homegrown culture, values and institutions. All of which have been accomplished in Canada.

And you are ignoring it. The people at the Century Initiative are influential Liberals. The Liberal party floated trial balloons about this shortly after Trudeau's election and they were shot down by an overwhelmingly negative public reaction. So Trudeau simply decided to implement the wishes of the Century Initiative without admitting it. But it's clear that's what they're doing. Nothing else explains his insistence on continuing increases to immigration despite all the obvious problems that's causing. Here is a report of that time. OTTAWA – Imagine Canada with a population of 100 million — roughly triple its current size. For two of the most prominent voices inside the Trudeau government’s influential council of economic advisers, it’s much more than a passing fancy. https://globalnews.ca/news/3020783/influential-liberal-advisers-want-canadian-population-to-triple-by-2100/ And according to the Century Initiative, we're well on our way to achieving their goals. The chief executive of the Century Initiative says Canada “has reached the point of no return” when it comes to welcoming more immigrants, as its modelling shows Canada is on track to more than double its population to at least 100 million by the turn of the century. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-immigration-public-opinion/

It has been adopted by Trudeau and his party and is now firmly government policy. They simply haven't admitted it. But even the Century Initiative says in their latest spiel that Canada is now firmly on the path and on schedule to achieve their goal. So yes, this Liberal Party goal. What do you think of a GTA of 33 million people? Gonna have to completely eliminate the greenbelts for that. All of them.

It is? You mean world CO2 levels are dropping? Because I understand they're actually rising.

Ah yes. Better to have a doomed plan with no possibility of success which will cause heavy damage to the economy and the wealth and standard of living of the people here than to have no plan. Right?

A bit? You apparently don't understand the degree to which today's economies are reliant on cheap and abundant energy. The cost of meeting Trudeau's carbon neutral goal by 2035 has been estimated at $1.7 trillion. Which exceeds the total annual production of this country. It will unquestionably have a very damaging impact on our economy. We already see this in the slowdown in foreign investment and in our natural resources industries. The only way we can get anyone to build a factory here seems to be to pay them to do it.

Tory cost of doing nothing: $0 results: No change in world Co2 Liberal cost of carbon neutral: $1.7 Trillion results: No change in world Co2 I'll take the Tory plan thanks.

What do you think of the population estimates for the Liberal's Century Initiative? This includes increasing the population of megaregions. It suggests a population increase Greater Toronto Area from 8.8 to 33.5 million, the Greater Montreal region from 4.4 to 12.2 million, the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor from 2.8 to 15.5 million, the Greater Vancouver region from 3.3 to 11.9 million, the National Capital Region from 1.4 to 4.8 million, the Southwestern Ontario region from 1.2 to 2 million, and the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region from 800,000 to 1.7 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Initiative#:~:text=It suggests a population increase Greater Toronto Area,Winnipeg Metropolitan Region from 800%2C000 to 1.7 million.

I live in a newish development in Ottawa. The first some years after I moved in there were houses going up everywhere around me. But There hasn't been a new foundation dug the last year or two, even though there are empty lots still available on the next street over. Interest rates are a problem for both home builders and home buyers. The former have to pay much higher rates than normal since such companies tend to go out of business fairly frequently, and the size of the mortgage the latter have to pay has increased considerably since I bought my place. Not only has the price of houses around here nearly doubled in the seven or eight years since I've been here but you've got interest rates on top of that.I bought my place for just under $500k and now new houses the same or smaller are being sold for $1m and up.

Given nature is a winner-take-all sort of place, where the strongest survive and the weak, lame, and sick are eaten, I'd say you're quite mistaken. GIGO The first AIs showed signs of 'racism' according to the horrified media, and were adjusted accordingly.

Farm it out to the UK. Let BAE build them. They're already building the Type 26 (for $1.2b each not $5b each) so they can just build ours too. https://www.navalreview.ca/2022/11/uk-orders-second-batch-of-five-type-26-frigates-for-4-2bn/

A disaster? Fifteen years of the Liberals was a disaster. I don't like Ford and don't think he's all that good but he's still far and away above what we had before him.

When was he convicted and of what crime? Most of the appointments made by every government at all levels are political. So what? No one has suggested Ford or his minister got any quid pro quo from the developers so there's nothing there. And anyway, the Greenbelt has to go. If we're going to more than double our population the way Trudeau is insisting we'll need that land. All of it.

All of them are among the best paid people in their professions in the world. Few firefighters, cops or teachers make as much as Ontario teachers do in Europe, none in Asia, and only a few small areas of the US with very liberal governments like San Fransisco or Seattle pay as much as we do for all our public sector workers. Which is why I'm not happy at how generously (cowardly) successive governments at all levels have been to public sector workers.

Your view that 'the right' was all in on China is silly and wrong. Harper wanted nothing to do with China when he was elected TWO decades ago. You know who did? The Liberals and NDP. They harangued him, as did the largely left-wing media for not courting China. Before Harper Chretien went over there repeatedly, bringing over premiers, various ministers and businesspeople and did everything but give free blowjobs to every Chinese minister he could find to try and get deals. He's STILL a major proponent of Chinese Canadian friendship and business interests.

The problem is that China has a lot of power now, and a lot of ways to punish others who irritate it. It could, for example, restrict the export of chemicals needed to make our pharmaceuticals or restrict the export of the pharmaceuticals themselves. That would cause havoc in North America and Europe. Not to mention deaths. Punishing China requires the time to take back production of things like that so if they throw a tantrum we aren't too badly hurt.

China’s net-zero pledges are starting to look like a fantasy as the emissions of the world’s biggest polluter keep rising

Perhaps that was the case once. But now China is rich enough to pump hundreds of billions into a military meant to conquer others, not defend itself. It could have used that for nuclear power instead of weapons systems but preferred to build weapons systems - and coal plants.

Maybe we should have invited the Chinese to come build it. It would have been finished years ago at a far lower cost. Canada isn't capable of building anything remotely on time or on budget anymore. In 1952 we built the Trans Mountain Pipeline in eight months. Bang. Done. How long have we been working on the one that's supposed to run alongside it now? Probably ten years of legal fights and paper shuffling alone. And the budget is already gone 400% over estimates.

The purpose of all this isn't to help the environment. The purpose is so Trudeau can have cheers and accolades rained down upon him by a hysterically delighted climate crowd. It's so he can pose and preen and smirk while he's praised for his devotion to lowering CO2 emissions. Anyone with basic arithmetic skills can see, as you have, that for all the hundreds of billions we're to spend the gains would be virtually undetectable on a world level. Build nuclear power plants instead of nuclear missiles, submarines and aircraft carriers?