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Simple-minded. The ports are already at or near capacity. That should already have spurred investment in them if the Liberals had cared a damn over the last ten years. But they didn't. And it will take a minimum of a decade to even start construction once a plan is developed. What the hell good is 'growing export markets' if your ports are too overloaded to export!?

Yes, they're recent expansions and we're still at capacity. The TMP allows us to export 16% of our oil to someone other than the US. That's all. So in ten years we'll have more port capacity. Although it's almost certainly going to be behind schedule because all o ur major projects are. So even further behind. You don't fly around the world to make trade deals when you can't possibly fulfil them for at least a decade. My understanding is the unions won't allow it, and the BC NDP and federal liberals back the union. I'm not entirely committed to that and don't profess expertise in this area. I'm just going from what I've been reading.

Our trade with the US travels almost entirely by truck and train.

They're formative parts of Western culture, something the lefties like you sneer at while you're figuratively kissing the ass of every immigrant from the third world and their shitty, barbaric, backwards cultures.

Dan Burmawi In Islam, Allah is a projection of Muhammad’s own will, a tribal warlord sanctified in the heavens. The god of Islam is not a transcendent being who calls men to rise above their nature, he is a divine version of everything man is at his worst: lustful, possessive, vengeful, violent, and endlessly deceitful. He rewards obedience not with his presence but with sex, conquest, and domination. His “paradise” is a brothel in the sky. His justice is rooted in favoritism and terror. His love is conditional, his mercy arbitrary, and his threats eternal. He speaks more of punishment than peace, more of submission than salvation. His scripture glorifies deception (“Allah is the best of deceivers”), sanctions slavery, blesses violence, and encourages self-destruction in the name of glory. Yet, this god demands to be worshipped, not understood. Feared, not known. You do not reason with him. You do not question him. You submit. Muhammad’s god serves one ultimate purpose: to reflect and empower Muhammad’s own desires, political, sexual, and military. Every “revelation” comes conveniently in step with his personal ambitions: justifying his marriages, excusing his violence, protecting his ego, or consolidating his control. This is not a God who transforms the human heart. This is a god who amplifies its worst instincts. T he God of Scripture descends in humility, entering history not to conquer empires, but to conquer sin and death. He calls His followers to love their enemies, to forgive the undeserving, to serve without reward. He values the broken, restores the fallen, and grants dignity to the outcast. He invites humanity to walk with Him, not just kneel before Him. The god of Muhammad offers none of this. He demands fear. He demands allegiance. He demands death to those who will not conform. He is not Father, he is Master, his followers are not children, they are tools, martyrs, and soldiers. The result of this theology is a civilization shaped not by the imitation of God, but by the deification of a man. The biblical God is the standard we rise to meet. The Islamic god is the mirror that justifies who we already are. One calls man upward. The other pulls him downward, wrapping his worst instincts in religious language and calling it righteousness.

Much like their phony trade diversification plan, this one runs up against some pretty bald and obviously unworkable numbers. With great fanfare, Carnival Carney unveiled his new EV plan, which is basically Justin Trudeau's EV plan with another name. Instead of making the manufacturers sell mostly EVs he plans to increase the tailpipe emissions requirements to the point they will still basically not have any choice but to sell mostly EVs. Let the market decide? Not a chance! Big government knows what's good for you! The plan is for 75% of vehicles sold to be EVs within ten years (from 15% today), and 90% five years later. Ok. Where's the power for that going to come from? Canadians pioneered much of the technology needed to pull electricity from rivers or uranium, including the CANDU nuclear reactor and high-voltage transmission lines. Whole global industries — most notably the energy-intensive aluminum sector — were dominated by Canada for no other reason than that we had the excess power to run them.Article content Everywhere from Quebec to B.C., Canada’s muscular electricity sector was a point of national pride. In the 1960s, the Quebec Liberal Party printed posters of a clenched fist holding bolts of lightning as a symbol of the province’s hydroelectricity sector.Article content But now, at the precise moment that electricity is becoming one of the world’s most consequential commodities, Canada is barely able to keep its own lights on. Canada, virtually alone among developed countries, has been in decline on this metric for much of the last 30 years, with the indicator taking a noticeable dive in just the last decade.In 1995, the average Canadian lived in a country where their personal share of national electrical generation was 18,937 kilowatt-hours (kWh). As of the last count in 2024, it’s now at 16,023 kWh. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/first-reading-how-canada-squandered-its-most-valuable-national-asset For the technically challenged

Either he's a math challenged, or he knows damned well we do not have the capability to increase our exports given the restraints on our ports. He's alleged to be an economist. This is simple numbers. Another performative policy of his is climate change. Just last week he reiterated Liberal policy to force everyone to buy EV cars. He hopes to make 75% of vehicles EVs within ten years. Which, again, unless he doesn't understand math, he has to know is not going to happen. Again, it's simple numbers. We can barely keep the lights on today. We do not and will not have the excess power or the transmission capacity for it in order to supply that many EVs in ten years. So you tell me. Can he not count? Or is he just playacting? If our ports are at capacity, it will still be a waste of time to try to 'enhance trade'. Do you people out there on the Left simply not undrestand math or do you feel your superior morality and nobility make your brilliant ideas immune to it?

Canada is not more prosperous than it was. It is less prosperous than it was thanks to the Left.

You two either need to be separated or put together in the same cell.

The critique is that he's flying around everywhere and meeting with other nations for no purpose other than pantomime, playacting, performative posturizing. It's like parents reassuring the kids that everything is fine despite the car being repossessed and an eviction notice on the door. His meetings can't accomplish anything of substance on trade when we don't have the port facilities or pipeline to substantively increase our trade. And yet if that person doesn't post a cite people demand one...

Based on recent reports, Hamas has indicated it will pay stipends to approximately 50,000 widows of fighters killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the ongoing war. Key details regarding this report include: Target Group: The payments are intended for the widows of Hamas combatants. Implications on Casualty Data: Reports suggest this figure implies a significant portion of the total fatalities in Gaza are fighters rather than non-combatant civilians. Financial Context: Despite having their capabilities weakened, reports from 2025 indicate that Hamas has continued to use a, at times, "secret cash-based payment system" to pay salaries and support its network, despite severe food shortages and economic strain in the region.

Just gonna leave this here then. Based on recent reports, Hamas has indicated it will pay stipends to approximately 50,000 widows of fighters killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the ongoing war. Key details regarding this report include: Target Group: The payments are intended for the widows of Hamas combatants. Implications on Casualty Data: Reports suggest this figure implies a significant portion of the total fatalities in Gaza are fighters rather than non-combatant civilians. Financial Context: Despite having their capabilities weakened, reports from 2025 indicate that Hamas has continued to use a, at times, "secret cash-based payment system" to pay salaries and support its network, despite severe food shortages and economic strain in the region.

Anyone with any intellectual curiosity can get around paywalls. https://archive.is/kdgj5 Even PR is close to capacity. Which means there's no point in you citing 'landmark' trade deals when our exports to anyone outside the US are strictly limited by our clogged, outmoded ports. There cannot be a substantive increase. So all that flying around is accomplishing nothing.

I bet the Muslim world is laughing their collective asses off over how the same lefties who are pulling their hair out over what rich guy might have slept with a teenage girl continue support Islam and its pedophile prophet and demand more be let into their country. Does anyone really think the Somali community in Minnessota gives a damn about anyone but themselves?

Not as many as in Montreal, I'm sure.

Oh bullshit. Customs and cultures change over time. Look how much ours has changed in the last 25-50 years.

Sounds like they're the most important to you too.

A former Muslim raised in Gaza warns that the West's underestanding of just how fanatical these people are is disturbingly wrong. As a boy in Khan Younis, Shachar’s earliest lessons about Jews came from his own grandfather. The older man would invite Jewish visitors for coffee and bread, yet in a different breath urged his grandson to “free the land” one day, by killing Jews. “I said to myself, ‘how can it be? On one side, he invites them for food and drink, and on the other, he says to kill them.’ From a young age I understood something is wrong.” His neighbours included names that would later become synonymous with terror: Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and bombmaker Yahya Ayyash. “I knew them well,” he recalled, describing them as “community faces” alongside others from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and the PLO. He knew that some neighbours — and his own brothers — had killed Israelis. In the open market, he says he once saw Sinwar sever the head of a Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel, amid cheering onlookers. Another time, he and his mother found a head in the market street. “They said he was suspected of cooperating with Israel,” he noted. Bystanders were nonchalant, as he remembers it. S https://nationalpost.com/news/youll-see-chaos-gazan-born-jewish-convert-warns-west-of-islamist-ideology

You pick out two words in a long article and your hair catches fire, as usual.

I'll do it for you. Whatever Barquentine likes is good and moral. What he doesn't like or disapproves of is bad and immoral. There. What makes it nonsense? Are you denying its happening? The statistics are pretty damned clear that it is. It's a conspiracy that the news media has an incentive to keep the Liberals in power and the Conservatives out? No. They do a shitty job because they prioritize themselves over the country. Which just shows that we have a flawed system that puts the wrong people in office.

I didn't say they, or some of them (the ones being paid), aren't against pipelines. I said they don't have any kind of control over them, other than those that would actually cross their reservations. Try to keep up. This is a discussion on legal and constitutional powers.

Yes Something wrong with that? The Bank of Canada governor said just yesterday that AI is reducing entry-level jobs. It will continue to do so as it expands and is combined with automation, like those robots. Especially as battery storage power continues to improve. A good reason not to let it grow. Not to let the Muslim population grow.

A very good column about how the political and media class have been pushing absurd ideas based on emotion, and then simply refusing to accept the evidence of their failure. Canada is not in crisis because it is under siege from hostile foreign powers. Nor is it a victim of some unavoidable global conspiracy or historical inevitability. Canada’s predicament is far more unsettling as it is largely self‑inflicted. The country is struggling because too many of its leaders — and too many citizens — are trapped in an acute and dangerous form of denialism about the nation’s vulnerabilities, its declining institutional capacity, and the cumulative consequences of decades of misguided political, economic, and social decisions. Denialism is not simply disagreement or optimism. It is the refusal to acknowledge evidence, trade‑offs, and limits. In Canada’s case, it has taken the form of moral certainty combined with policy recklessness, where good intentions substitute for results and dissent is dismissed as reactionary or immoral. This mindset has hollowed out the foundations of a country that was once confident, pragmatic, and capable of hard choices. Canada’s political architecture is weakening. Parliament’s role as a forum for genuine debate and accountability has diminished as power concentrates in the Prime Minister’s Office. Members of Parliament are increasingly reduced to party functionaries rather than representatives of their constituents. The Senate, composed of political appointees, offers symbolism rather than meaningful restraint. Courts are increasingly perceived as policymakers, while access to justice is impeded by cost and delay Overlaying all of this is a set of beliefs that, while passionately held by some, are corrosive to social order: the embrace of open borders without enforcement capacity; tolerance of rising crime; indifference to fraud and waste in government; hostility to economic self‑protection; failure to confront organized crime and drug trafficking; acceptance of overt political bias in media and universities; and the normalization of policies that undermine parental authority, women’s sports, religious freedom, and public decency. Individually debated, these issues are complex. Collectively ignored, they signal a governing class unwilling to draw boundaries. https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/burton-canada-and-the-perils-of-denialism-are-canadians-prepared-for-the-fallout/70815

Immigration Canada did a study of the economic outcomes of immigrants from various countries a decade ago. And yes, the ideal immigrant is a European, preferably from northern Europe. The least economically successful immigrants are from MENAPT (Middle-East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey). Or more plainly, people from Muslim countries.

In the past, after heavy population declines, birth rates shot up. A decline at this time would be fortuitous, given AI is said to be eliminating all kinds of jobs, especially entry-level jobs that the young do. It would result in declining housing costs, though, which seniors don't want. But as housing costs decline and wages rise due to the scarcity of employees, young people would likely be able to have more kids. Have you seen those robots doing somersaults in mid-air? It's not going to be long before they're taking over every repetitive job, every job that requires a strong back and little else. So you want to see the rest of us pushed into the sea, do you?