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The British paid about US$4b each for their new carriers. Cost of Canada's new frigates as of last year is C$5.6b each Corrupt backs being scratched by others who are corrupt.

Well, maybe we need to go the Singapore route with drug smugglers.

I don't even like Biden. I wish someone else had run this time around. But saying Trump had sought to address any of the issues with China is silly. All he did was tax their imports, which only increased the US dollar, decreased the Yuan, and meant that their sales to the US grew stronger. In just about ever other way he surrendered completely. He left Africa and Asia and even South American wide open for China to push their way in and take over. They own half of Africa and its resources now. Trump did nothing because he couldn't care less. The only time he ever met Xi he acted like a little poodle, just like he did with North Korea's dictator. Biden is the guy who flat out warned China the US would intervene if they attacked Taiwan. He's the guy whose government has been pushing their influence forward all over the world to push China's back. He's taken steps to address China's control over American high tech, especially rare earth minerals, batteries, chips, etc.

We've never really tried. Our previous efforts simply resulted in locking people up in prisons. What Canadians in this poll want is forcing them into rehab. I would add that if that doesn't work then they go to prison. It serves absolutely no purpose to have people in and out of jail on fresh charges every few months. Better they stay in. And no one is claiming that will eliminate drug abuse or addicts. But it will certainly cut down the numbers infesting city streets.

There are ways of cracking down on illegal firearms, especially the ones being smuggled across and sold to the gangs. Fund undercover stings trying to buy them in every city. But the Liberals have avoided them because they don't want a fresh parade of black and brown faces into the courts and prisons. I'll tell you what my idea of cracking down is. Anyone who smuggles firearms across the border to sell gets a minimum ten years in prison on their first offense, life on the second. Anyone with a criminal record who buys a gun gets the same. Anyone who uses it on someone- the same. You get a ten-year sentence on your first offense, and you never get out after your second. Minimum and rapidly building sentences for repeat offenders who commit any kind of violence. And if the judges don't like it they can go suck a bag of dicks.

People remember when there weren't homeless camps all over the place stuffed full of unrepentant addicts with no interest in changing. Governments, particularly the one in BC, have been getting kinder and kinder over the decades and all that's resulted in is more and more addicts, more and more crime and more and more overdoses. People are fed up with city parks full of addicts, tired of not being able to let their kids out, or even walk them around safely. They're tired of the crime these people represent. They want mandatory treatment and mandatory custody until they reform. Or, here me out here, maybe justice is people's idea of justice. And yes, justice would see Bernardo dead.

It doesn't and it won't.

Black or white, Asian or native, old or young, man or woman, east coast or west, there's very little support for the softly-softly approach to crime, especially violent crime and drug addicts. Which once again shows the gap between the government classes, including the judiciary, and the people of this country who want law and security. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-fed-up-with-government-on-crime-drugs-poll

I see Trudeau bowing before China for years and refusing to say or do anything that might offend them. Your Biden narrative is completely unsupported. He's taken more action to restrain China than that noxious bloated diaper of a bald man Trump ever did or will.

It's especially apropos to admit you're a trans woman right after you get arrested for raping women, right? Then you get to go to womens prison! Yay!

It's not even pretending to be the opposite sex. It's putting on a wildly exaggerated sexualized show of being of the opposite sex. Kind of like that psychotic teacher with his giant fake breasts. "This is what a woman is, you see." Ya, bullshit. Drag queens have been a social rot as long as I've been alive, inextricably bound together with street prostitution and the most extreme kinds of sex, including violent sex. Now they want to put drag queens in front of children? Seriously? Like this guy, from a recent Niagara Falls show?

It's only the culture war when anyone objects to the antisocial corrupting things they do - which they do specifically and only to tick off conservatives.

Nor standards.

Lest you think people like Paul Bernardo will never be released... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65479515

Corruption and incompetence, of course. Why do you think we're building frigates that cost more than aircraft carriers? Why do you think every piece of military equipment we buy is the most expensive on planet Earth? We still have several score F18s. Maybe if we spent the money for parts and maintenance some of them would be working.

25 NATO nations are participating in a huge NATO exercise in Europe intended to show the Russians NATO's air power and commitment. But not Canada. We don't have anything to send. Our forty-year-old aircraft, those that are still flyable, are all down for repairs. But don't worry! We've ordered new ones and should get them in a decade or so! https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canada-missing-crucial-nato-exercise

Not the same thing at all. We're not talking about pollsters here (however accurate pollsters were in the 1930s or 1940s). We're talking about psychiatric journals detailing incidents of gender dysmorphia among young people over the decades. Not to mention the number of people going to doctors wanting sex change operations.

Postmedia was created/bought up by an American hedge fund some time back, which has, since then, set about draining it of its assets, closing down newspaper after newspaper, and firing staff. Without government support, it would no longer exist. Which, arguably, it shouldn't. Frankly, the quality of its newspapers has dropped steadily. Some are barely worth a few minutes of skimming as there's so little there. But would anything replace them if they all disappeared? Postmedia is in a crash dive, having posted operating income of only $13-million last year while receiving $9.9-million in government aid. That was nowhere near enough to cover its more than $30-million a year in debt payments, which required moves such as closing a dozen Alberta community newspapers in January and selling its Calgary Herald building to U-Haul for $17.25-million. The company then announced chain-wide staff cuts of 11 per cent, which have yet to be finalized. Postmedia’s PNC-B-T -4.93%decrease best hope now is for Google and Facebook to subsidize it under Bill C-18, the Online News Act, for which it and its peers have been lobbying. But even if that legislation passes, Postmedia will remain under water if Google and Facebook stop carrying links to Canadian news stories, as they have threatened to do. Ottawa will then have to choose between bailing Postmedia out again or letting it founder further. The latter could be the only way to help wean the country off the influence of U.S. hedge funds over the company. These funds have owned Postmedia since 2010 and have been bleeding it dry ever since with the hundreds of millions in high-interest debt they also hold. This is the money-making method of the hedge funds, which cannot be blamed for caring only for returns and nothing for journalism or Canada. They had bought up the distressed debt of Canwest Global Communications on the bond market at prices reportedly as low as 5 to 10 cents on the dollar as it was facing bankruptcy. They then acquired its newspaper division – the former Southam chain, which would become Postmedia – at its bankruptcy auction. Few other parties were able to step up, to be sure. So this newly bought asset now owed money to its owners, for a debt bought on the cheap. All the hedge funds had to do to cash in big was keep the company alive long enough to collect on their loans. A bond paying 12.5-per-cent interest bought for 10 cents on the dollar, after all, theoretically provides a return of 125 per cent a year. And when Postmedia struggled to make payments, the debt was refinanced on favourable terms for its holders. Canada limits foreign ownership of newspapers to 25 per cent, but the hedge funds got around that by starting a publicly traded company in which their shares were limited in voting power. Control of the company thus resides in the Canadians who own 2 per cent of its shares, but the funds have outsized influence over who runs Postmedia and how much they are paid. Former Postmedia chief executive Paul Godfrey worked furiously to keep the company alive and send interest payments south. He was paid well to do so. He first cut costs by centralizing production in Hamilton and shedding dozens of local editors. In 2014, he acquired Canada’s second-largest chain, Sun Media, to provide more runway. It was another purchase that exposed weakness in the Competition Act, which has regulators now clamouring for its repair. Mr. Godfrey then reneged on a promise to the Competition Bureau to keep separate Postmedia and Sun newsrooms in Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, where Postmedia thus owned both dailies in each city. Mr. Godfrey also engineered a tricky 2016 debt restructuring when Postmedia’s profits first fell to where they no longer covered its interest payments, halving the company’s debt load but giving the hedge funds even more shares. His 2017 trade of 41 titles – of which 36 were closed – with rival Torstar resulted in a criminal investigation by the Competition Bureau that ultimately ended with no charges. The hedge funds have unfortunately followed the “harvesting” strategy of cutting costs and selling off assets on the assumption that newspapers are dying. Publications which have instead invested in quality content and developed a loyal base of online subscribers, however, have found that there is still a solid business model for newspapers, even in print. Time will soon grind further upon Postmedia, and it should be allowed to decline. Federal subsidies work only to keep payments flowing to hedge funds, with debatable returns for taxpayers. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-postmedia-is-in-a-crash-dive-ottawa-should-let-it-decline/

This is not Japan. For many decades, certainly all my adult life, drag queens were notorious for dark and dirty sex, prostitution and perversion throughout popular media. That's sank into the public's consciousness rather deeply. And no one has done anything to change that impression.

It's not a matter of vetiong the drag queens you like. It's a matter of not wanting the government to fund them. A conservative ought to know that.

But this is by a learned person who researched the proper information. Maybe you just don't recognize what conservatives are and believe in since you continue to operate under the ridiculous belief you are one.

This seems a good place to repost this to show that the supposed 'innocence' about drag queens and children is nothing of the sort. You'll never get the Hardners of the world to pay attention, of course, but ordinary people should be able to see this for what it is. It didn't just explode out of nowhere as a 'fun thing' but is organized and has a purpose.

Which is why I read stories in mainstream media about children coming home crying, confused because their teacher told them they weren't really girls/boys, right? Which is why the number of trans youth has exploded beyond any reasonable levels. A multi thousand percent increase in a very few years. Right. Nothing going on here, folks.

It's not unreasonable for parents to want to know if their nine-year-old son thinks he's a girl.

What culture and heritage? The ones the Laurentian elites who run the Liberal party have been doing their best to destroy for the last fifty years? The heritage Trudeau spits on and sneers at? The culture he denies we have? Liberals are people who admire and cherish every culture in the world while constantly denigrating their own. They invite the world to Canada and assure them there's no need to adopt our culture or values because after all, theirs are just as good. The very idea Canada has a unique culture that's better than ANYONE or ANYWHERE is anathema to them. Suggesting it gets you accused of being some kind of white nationalist. In Canada, it's the Laurentian Elites. Mind you, lots of them are very friendly with China too.