I am Groot

Laws can be changed. And laws don't make them 'equal'. If you're going to try a snide grammar dig, you dumb twat, at least learn how to spell grammar.

This is silly. I do, however, believe that some gay people are gay (mostly bi) due to early childhood influences, usually during adolescence or puberty. I explained what trans meant and that most of them were mentally ill and that it's being supported mostly by the desperately woke twats of the far left like you.

Uhhhh, I would actually prefer if MAGAs DIDN'T wear their stupid red hats in public...

Disagree. Common courtesy should be everyone's default. It is discourtesy that is earned.

Everyone is not and never has been equal in this or any other society. Nor ever will be.

Nobody has been talking much about gay people at all. It's the trans issue, especially pushing it on kids in schools, and drag queens with children bullshit which has caused a lot of upset parents.

So trans happened to come up in the discussion with my sister the other day. She was very sympathetic to them since they obviously being born with both male and female genitalia are confused. Yes, that's exactly how much attention she's been paying to the issue. She doesn't even know what trans means.

The friend kind of looks like I figure Michael Hardner would look like.. HOMOPHOBE!!!!

Better an elected one than an unelected one. And this guy's victims were women, and in one case a blind 15 year old girl, and he is a big, and still quite young guy. And Corrections Canada has made plenty of boneheaded decisions in the past and will again in the future. This one? it USUALLY has nothing to do with the horrendousness of their crime.

Will we? Maybe we're planting the wrong kind of trees? Maybe our forest management isn't up to par. I'm sure there are things that can be done to lessen the risk of forest fires. Note that while we're having huge fires things seem okay in Texas. No thank you.

I think the Americans will wind up doing that. What we need to do is change our laws, remove ourselves from refugee treaties we've signed, and be prepared to stop, arrest, and deport migrants as soon as they get here. Lest you think that's cold-hearted. It is. But our society will not survive if millions of impoverished third-world people arrive. It will be reduced to chaos and disorder. David Frum once said something to the effect that if politicians say only fascists will protect the borders the voters will elect fascists to protect the borders. That is exactly what will happen.

But you're still thrilled at our high immigration from religiously conservative countries, right?

Disagree. Murder was illegal before we ever had a constitution of any kind. It was illegal before the BNA act. It was illegal before the Magna Carta.

Our laws are not based on the Constitution except insofar as they are restricted by its terms. Many of our laws predate the Trudeau Charter. Yes, well, whatever the judges say automatically becomes lawful. They could say dyeing your hair blonde is unconstitutional tomorrow and that would be the law. There are literally zero restrictions on what they can rule. They just need to make up an interpretation of some aspect of the constitution to pretend their decision is based on.

Oh yes, please leave us alone with Vladimir Putin, for our fabulously powerful and magnificently bilingual military will defend us. Also, leave us alone with Xin Jingpin, that sweet Chinese guy who only wants to be our friend. Why has your nurse let you at the keyboard again, frenchy?

The term 'cruel and unusual' is one the SC have used lately to ban any law they don't personally approve of. It doesn't mean the law actually IS cruel or unusual. The term itself is a legal term meant to describe something which is so horrible that it would offend and disturb the general population. These ivory tower judges used it to describe a law that would double the parole eligibility time for mass murderers. Literally NO ONE thought that was cruel and unusual but them. Even they probably didn't think it was. They just used it as a handy excuse. They stopped ruling according to the actual written constitution years ago.

Why? The Charter is a shitty piece of paper that is essentially meaningless. It protects no one and nothing. The Russians have a constitution too, you know. It has the same guarantees. The biggest mistake the government ever did was to remove its ability to overrule the supreme court. The second biggest and dumbest mistake it has made is to choose the members of that court according to their geographic location, language, race, religion, and ethnicity, with political ideology following behind. They weren't appointed for their wisdom or restraint or proven judgment or superior legal acumen. Those are barely even considerations.

The guy brutally murdered four people. I think that makes him extremely dangerous. Especially in an age we've seen fit to give women 'equal opportunities' by letting them work in men's prisons. No. That is not what you stated.

Can't. The profits aren't as high as you seem to believe for them due to the lack of pipelines. They can only sell into an extremely crowded market in the US midwest, which means the buyer gets to lower the price - a lot. A barrel of oil from Texas goes for just over $70 a barrel. From Western Canada it's just under $59.

Increasing the cost of energy and manufacturing just drives manufacturing to other countries and makes us poorer. It's a very big country, a very cold country, or in summer a very steamy one. We need energy a lot. And unlike in the developing world our energy isn't powered by coal. It's mostly clean.

Nope. Was just talking about the impact of the weather on Canada. As for the refugees, obviously, we need to change our laws so we can just turn them away.

The way they measure gains or losses due to climate change is by estimating the gains or losses to GDP. Obviously if your crops won't grow and your cities are flooded that would tend to have a poor impact on GDP. But the impact on Canada's GDP by climate change was estimated at almost nothing. Same for most of Europe and Russia, with somewhat larger but still tolerable impacts on places like the US, Italy, Greece, etc. The worst impacts will be around the equator.

True enough. The question that arises then is would an increase in temperature make it more difficult to grow wheat, corn, and rice? My guess is... no.

The last time I saw comparison maps of what countries would 'suffer' the most from climate change in a century Canada was one of those who would suffer almost nothing. We'll lose some land do to drought and flood but gain other land as previously unused lands become more capable of growing food. Overall, the difference to our GDP in a century was estimated at +/- 1%. So ditch the silly hyperbole.