I am Groot

If he wanted to see half his base up in arms for no profit. Where do you get these dumb ideas?

The difference is that most of these students come from cultures where cheating is endemic. And they are accompanied by accusations that the admins turn their eyes away, not wanting to disturb the funding model.

Because you couldn't cut it in school and are in awe of some foreign students who did is not exactly evidence that nothing is amiss in this country, which by every report is flooded with foreign students, many of which lack the academic background and linguistic skills to do the work properly.

And pray tell what kind of evidence would suffice for you? No one is going to undertake a study of cheating of foreign students. No one is going to do a study to determine the impact on domestic students of all those foreign students. Any attempt would both threaten the lucrative income stream and immediately draw howls of 'racism'. So in the absence of official evidence we are left with individual statements, lots of them, none contradicted.

And what have they used that money for? Not to improve the quality of education, that's for sure. Not to build more dorms to hold them. No, to hire more DEI people. Hordes of administrators to cater to everyone's sense of grievance, envy and resentment, and do all kinds of studies, hold hearings, draw up new regulations. Tuition and administration continue to grow apace with no end in sight for either.

Russia has been using these from the beginning of the war. How come nobody was complaining about it until now?

Their victimhood sentiment might not be so strong if the government didn't spend so much time and effort trying to make their lives more difficult and their industries less profitable. I don't think they do the same for anyone else. Like, for example, cement factories in Quebec. Yes, they can see where all this leads, which is why they're a world leader in building coal power plants. Why there are no carbon taxes, why fuel and energy costs are kept as low as possible to encourage industry and profits. China increased its CO2 emissions last year by five times Canada's oil sands emissions. And the same the year before. And will do the same this year.

I wasn't specifically talking about the truckers. There were a number of protests against lockdowns and vaccines, including at hospitals. Not buying it. Every business gets to write off a wide variety of expenses. Why should the fossil fuel industry be any different? How much do you think the EV makers or renewable energy producers get in subsidies? Never mind the banks and insurance companies. And as I said, it'll all make us poorer. But money will, so the richer they are, the better. And we'll be dealing with drought, flooding and crop failures too, with less money than we'd otherwise have. Like the US? There's no carbon tax down there. Or in Mexico, our other free trade partner. Does that timeline of 100 years include a massive expansion of demand if the batteries and other renewable demands multiply fiftyfold?

I thought the protests were, for the most part, moronic. Yet the same governments condemning them were actively courting voters who took part in the BLM demos, and joining them! Which tended to make their denunciations of the anti-vax set more than a tad hypocritical and rob them of the respect they would need to persuade people to comply. And, as far as I know, after the fact anyway, there never was a case of transmission linked to outdoor activity. Doesn't change what I said. The higher the cost of energy the weaker an economy and the poorer the country. If you have to spend a ton on heating and getting around not nearly as much is left for things like healthcare and infrastructure. The way the West has been spending so much on this while the rest have spent so little has resulted and is resulting in a continuing transfer of wealth from the West to the rest as manufacturing and exports dry up. Even farming costs more here than in places like Brazil due to higher fuel prices and taxes. And soon on higher fertilizer costs as the companies in the West have to meet new restrictions on carbon. Meanwhile the rest keep chugging merrily along building coal plants. Not if we're poor, we won't. Their coal plants and diesel motors will work just as well in a hot atmosphere as our nuclear plants and electric vehicles. You can do a lot with money to guard against floods or drought, and move people away from coasts. And frankly, there's a lot of doubt how well this experiment in the electrification of our vehicles is going to go. Without serious changes to how batteries are put together, the world is likely to run out of a number of rare earth metals as electric car use spreads.

So. What? The reason they pay more is because unlike Canadian attendees their parents haven't spent a lifetime paying taxes into the system that pays the bulk of the costs of post-secondary institutions. Did you go to college/university? Imagine going through courses where half the class is made up of people who have only a fractured understanding of the language. How do you imagine that effects the teachers time, not to mention classroom discussions, or being assigned group work with people you can barely understand. The purpose of these schools is to educate young Canadians. If that purpose is being impaired by hordes of foreigners then something needs to be done to reign that in. The allegations are the cheating by foreign students is ignored by these institutions. And how exactly would you expect 'proof' of that? The Canadian government controls the ingress of foreign students by issuing them visas. The provincial governments and the federal government need to do something to reign in these numbers, both to preserve the quality of the education young Canadians receive and to deal with the impact of hundreds of thousands of people wanting cheap accommodation the colleges aren't providing them. Statement of fact is absent of evidence.

Canada has repeatedly demonstrated under this government that it has NO commitment to anything. We're already doing that in Nova Scotia. Except we're only getting frigates for the price of aircraft carriers.

Harper had personality. It's just that he was wooden in front of the cameras. He was that rare beast, an introverted politician. He was never comfortable in public speaking. Who else here was stunned when he showed up at the NAC with Yo-Yo Ma playing the piano and singing?

It certainly seems to matter during election time as the media were filled with suspicions and paranoia about what he'd do despite his pledges not to. Same with Scheer.

Yeah, he kept them quiet about it but there was never any doubts about how HE felt about abortion. The man is an Evangelical Christian. So there were deep suspicions that once he got in he would bring in a law against abortion. And maybe against gays and lesbians. That he never tried has not lessoned the paranoia among the Left toward every Conservative leader.

There is a very real chance Donald Trump will be president in two years. Not because he's a very good candidate but because Republican voters aren't interested in reality. And because Biden is an old, worn out, decrepit man with a despised running mate no one wants to see as a potential president. And because the progressive wingnut wing of their party has been infuriating middle-class voters with their wokeness, especially at lower levels, as in school boards, district attorneys, mayors, and state governors. Any reasonable candidate would beat Trump. I'm not sure this time around Biden is that guy. He was old last time but people were willing to overlook it. I'm not sure four years has made him seem any younger. Do I think Trump would invade Canada? Nope. But do I have ANY confidence Trump would intervene if China or Russia decided to bi1ch slap us? Maybe up in the Arctic, the way China does to all its surrounding neighbors? Nope.

It's an improvement, but he needs to do more about that hair. It's less shiny now but still combed back. A more casual look would be brushed across the forehead. I think he should grow a beard, actually. I think that would give him an older look. I remember when McGuinty first started. He had glasses and bad hair. They gave him a makeover that included dumping the glasses and better hair. They also changed his voice, so it sounded deeper, and he won the next election. Yes. People are exactly that shallow. I think half the disdain felt towards him is because he looks like a smartass little nerd from the math club, and all the cool kids can't help curling their lips in contempt. He has a couple of goofy positions on WEF and the bank of canada that will amount to nothing, and on the other side of the ledger is pro choice and gay friendly. But there's more active dislike for him on the Left than there was for deeply religious Christers who were defiantly anti-abortion like Scheer and Harper.

It depends on how the votes fall, especially if the NDP vote remains low. Will it? But here’s what’s new. There is a real chance of them forming a government next time, even if they don’t win the most seats: finishing behind the Conservatives, that is, not only in the popular vote, but also in seats won. Assuming the NDP were game to repeat the arrangement, the Liberals could make a persuasive case that they stood a greater chance of forming a stable government than the Conservatives. Given the special loathing the present Conservative Leader, Pierre Poilievre, excites among progressives, moreover – the sense, often expressed, that he represents something new and dark in Canadian politics – they may well feel entitled, if not morally obliged, to do whatever it takes to keep him away from the reins of power. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-rule-by-the-second-place-the-coming-crisis-of-legitimacy-in-federal/

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It's meaningless at this point in time. They need their popularity to rise above forty to get a majority or they won't be allowed to form a government. Plus, if Trudeau quits in a year or so and the Liberals get a new leader much of that demand for change will fade. The Liberals ruled for 15 years in Ontario by simply dumping Dalton McGuinty when he got highly unpopular and bringing in someone new.

The problem conservatives have in getting their ideas across is that this is a largely uneducated word (and I include Canada and the US in that) and an impatient one. Complicated ideas hurt people's heads. And it's hard to convey them in a seven-second sound byte. The ideas that win are the simple ones. "I'll take money from those people who have more than you and give it to YOU!" is the oldest and easiest one to convey for a politician. It even beats out "Those people are BAD! I'll protect you from them!" The conservative philosophy is mostly hands-off: a belief that the market will solve most issues, and that aside from creating a stable society with law and order and legal policies, and protecting the borders, government doesn't need to do a lot. But telling people that if the government lays off businesses will create more jobs and then everyone will have work is more difficult to convey and convince people off compared to "And you get cash! And you! And YOU!" Also, almost every government in Canada and the US are focused more on the short-term. they like announcing grand projects to get their name in the papers but voting money for necessary maintenance doesn't, to their minds, buy them enough votes. So infrastructure is rusting out everywhere. Conservatives should not be buying into that but they have. "We'll save you money by cutting taxes" is the unfortunately favorite conservative pledge. And that's only good if it's done after all the necessary bills (including maintenance) are fully paid and you don't have to borrow for it.

Ask your nurse to let you see the news one of these days when you're feeling somewhat coherent.

Look up the definition of 'twat' and see if it's got your face there.

You are confusing 'indigenous' with 'native'. But then, you appear to often be confused. I am native to Canada in that I was born and raised here. Same-same for the so-called 'first nations' people. Neither of us are 'indigenous' to the Western Hemisphere. And we have yet another new definition of 'racist' from the airhead set.