I am Groot

I am misinformed about what, exactly? I made more money on the market today than some people will make in a year. Yes, I'm doing very well these days. But I'm well aware most people aren't, and I find this incredibly frustrating because the reason they aren't is incompetent government and incompetent media that lies to people to keep those politicians in power. Not if we don't get a handle on our economic mess and the tidal wave of unskilled 3rd world labour crossing our borders.

You roped the indigenous in here. The only reason the indigenous have a say is that federal legislation gives them a say. That legislation can be amended, changed, or rescinded. Trade is under federal jurisdiction, trade that crosses internal or external borders. The provinces can't do a thing.

When you challenge the poorly held preconceptions that the liberal left hold, they always react with fury and insults. They don't have the intellectual capability to argue their case, nor the emotional capacity to discuss things like adults. There's a reason this is the symbol of the Left.

There is no evidence that we need immigration. And if we are going to have it, we should be carefully vetting those who come in and refusing religious fanatics entry. The person who wants a minimum wage job at a fast food shop faces more scrutiny than immigrants or refugees. Or even citizens. When you decide to become a ctiizen, all you have to do is pass a 25 question true/false/multiple choice test. You can do it online. There is no interview. And no, it doesn't matter if you've been on welfare since you arrived. Nor does it matter if you're an Islamist or a Sikh Khalistani. We do not care.

It is 10% overall. But if you look at the percentage of schoolkids, or even the percentage of people under 30, it is way, way higher than that.

The BC government has no say in it. Constitutionally, interprovincial trade and travel, as well as all trade going out of Canada, as well as our coastal waters are under federal jurisdiction.

We have been berated, lectured, and browbeaten for decades about never judging groups, especially racial/ethnic groups in a bad way. It comes from school, from regulations at workplaces, from TV and hollywood and the government. The worst evil you can show is believing your group is in any way better than some other group. So saying Muslims should not come here draws gasps of horror. But that comes from people who have read virtually nothing about Islam. Or who handwave it away with "the bible has bad parts too!" or who believe that, just like them, Muslims don't take their religion seriously. This is a religion that actually says it's okay to lie to infidels, that you can take from infidels. That you have a right to take from them, including their lands, their valuables, and their women. Women, to the Muslim world, to the Quran, are not actually so much people as they are possessions. And by the way, the term 'infidel' is mistranslated for lazy Western eyes. It's 'kaffir', and that isn't just someone who doesn't believe in Islam, it's someone who rejects God. A kaffir is someone who is so steeped in their arrogance and evil that they reject God! There's almost nothing worse. In the Muslim world, that's a fighting word. Call someone a kaffir, and the brawl is on. Calling it 'unbeliever' does not convey the level of sheer contempt for such a person. Anyway, Muslims have been fighting and clawing at everyone who ISN'T a Muslim for about 1400 years now. Some of the worst slaughters in known history have occurred from Muslim attacks on India and Asia. They kept pushing and pushing West until Constantinople fell, then they kept pushing all the way to the gates of Vienna before being thrown back. And now Europe has invited them in. And there's no sign they've changed.

It's interesting how some fairly famous atheists now identify with Christianity, even though they're still not very religious. But they now see the way Christian ideals are inextricably linked to Western culture and its liberal, secular toleration of individuality and freedoms. They see the need for people to embrace something bigger than themselves, and believe people are lost without something like that. The unifying them for Americans has always been the great conquest, exploration, and development of America. Which, btw, is something liberals have been frantically attacking for years now, cutting away at the cultural underpinnings that Americans' sense of pride and unity are based on. They are doing similar things here and in Europe, destroying the sense of shared history, vision, and unity of societies across the West. Canada no longer has any unifying theme. It used to be our historical British traditions and values, but those are gone now, hacked and slashed away by the left to create a state of people who essentially believe in nothing but the enjoyment of consumer spending. No pride in nation. No sense of tradition. No shared values or religious beliefs.

Nations are fads. The more I learn about them, the more I realize they don't tend to last. We mostly think of nations as immutable. They've always been here and always will be. But history is absolutely stuffed full of mighty empires, kingdoms, and nations that lasted centuries and then were torn apart by war or internal strife or natural disaster or a combination of all of that, and no longer exist. I have little confidence that has changed and that nations of today will stay nations next year, or in ten years. It is clear the West is in a downfall that is accelerating, its people demoralized, lacking confidence, berated daily by their own elites about the shame and guilt they should feel for being descendants of the evil people who founded their evil nations and all the evil they did. Those elites pour money out like water, endebting future generations, and invite millions and millions of hostile, often violent and corrupt foreigners in to take over. Those newcomers are filled with confidence and certainty and hold their own contempt for the people in the West and their perverted values. Their own values lack support for the mainstays of Western culture, such as compromise, tolerance, and respect for others and the freedoms we take for granted. I do not think Canada, as we know it, is going to last even another fifty years. It may not even last twenty.

From someone on X. I could rephrase it but why bother? In 1965, the United States was roughly 90% white and overwhelmingly Christian. Today, these numbers sit around 55%. Now why does this matter? Because multiculturalism consistently produces internal conflict. When multiple groups with competing religions, histories, languages, and moral frameworks are placed within the same political system, conflict erupts. Each group fights over government power, law, and preference. Many assume that secularism would serve as a neutral referee, but neutrality is an illusion. The question is never whether a nation will be shaped by religion, but which religion will shape it. Jesus himself warned, Every kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. National societies require shared language, shared history, shared values, and of course, shared religion. National cohesion depends on unity at the deepest level. In short, nationalism may produce conflict between nations, but multiculturalism produces conflict within nations.

Here's an idea for you. Maybe the Liberals were able to get things done because they didn't have the official opposition fighting furiously to stop them from getting things done. It was the Liberals who fought tooth and nail to stop the tories from buying the EH101 and the F35. I can't recall the tories ever opposing any increase or capital purchase for the military.

I find that AI answers are often wrong. They can be changed depending on the wording of the question. And they're often influenced by things as ephemeral as Reddit posts. No one refers to Harper's time in power as a decade of darkness. Nor Mulroney's. And it was under Trudeau that the military virtually fell apart while he was busy genuflecting to BLM, feminism, identity politics, and fashionable antiracism.

And did it fairly well. But more importantly, if you spend decades telling everyone else that you are responsible for all their ills, that it is your cruelty, your racism, your intolerance, your oppression that has caused all of their problems, a lot of them are going to believe you. And then they're going to resent you and despise you. We've been telling the indigenous that we're responsible for all kinds of horrible things over the years, endlessly apologizing, and showering them with money. And they dislike us a lot more than they did ten or twenty years ago. They're more bitter, more angry, more resentful than they were before. So goes the rest of the world. You can't point to a single thing I wrote that is untrue. It just makes you angry that I wrote it.

Gotta keep those foreign workers pouring in! Gotta keep immigration high! Gotta keep wages down!

Canada has overtaken the US! Yaaay! We are now ahead of them on the list of most indebted countries on Earth!

Why no one wants to invest in Canada. It isn't just the massive federal regulation. The provinces are in on it too. https://boereport.com/2026/02/03/glencore-halts-major-quebec-smelter-investment-over-emissions-rules-dispute/

I have few doubts about that. They will be.

I'm not sure how much the Russians ever really took in Western culture, but the Greeks and Germans are indeed inheritors of Western cultural values, as are Texans. They might enjoy different food and music, might dress differently, but the concepts of freedom, individual rights, secular government, and an open-minded view about what can be done, what can be accomplished, of the path a person can take, that is all derived from the same inheritance. The Americans and the West keep trying to graft these ideas onto third-world governance and it rarely works because they don't have the culture for it. Set up a democracy in Africa or the Middle East, and all it means is that people will vote for whoever is in their tribe or clan. It will be about which tribe or clan has the numbers, not about who has the better ideas. They also aren't much for respecting individual rights, including freedom of speech when they disagree with it. My main point about whites is they are the people who inherited Western cultural values. And without whites, those values wither, and without those values, the planet degenerates into the third world. Well, if we'd properly integrated immigrants, it wouldn't matter so much. But we didn't. We said all cultures are equal and told them they shouldn't bother to integrate since we were all racists and oppressors anyway. So without whites running the place, is it still going to be a democracy that respects human rights? I have my doubts. To be incapable of answering it reveals you haven't got any brain. If the population of Rhinos had gone down by 80% in the last couple of generations and was continuing to go down, organizations would be taking steps to try to reverse that. Why is it okay to be concerned about Rhinos but not caucasians?

The culture we've all grown up in over the past half-century has been one where any talk about pride in being white, or the good things whites have done, or that white people are in any way, shape, or form superior to anyone else was basically anathema. Something only the Tiki Torch Brigade engaged in. But white people and their Western culture ARE, in fact, responsible for vitually every scientific, technological, cultural, and societal advance in recent history. From Greek philosophy and art to Roman architecture and engineering to the Reformation and secular societies, from banning slavery to the rights of the individual, to virtually every technological and scientific breakthrough the world has known. Now, don't bother going historical on me. The problem I have with the rest of the world today is that in the case of the Chinese (Yes, I know they invented gunpowder) the type of government and mindset there absolutely does NOT encourage independent thinking. The Muslim world gave up science in the sixteenth century to focus almost exclusively on Islam. India is thoroughly corrupt and socially backward from top to bottom, and I've heard of nothing innovative or new coming out of there. Nor has anything of value ever come out of Africa. None of these places are going to move the world forward, only backward. White people were about 30% of the world population when I was born. They're now 8%. In many Western countries, the under-30 population has whites as a minority. In the UK, projections show whites under 40 will be a minority within 15 years. In the US, whites under 27 are now a minority. In Canada, immigrants and their children are projected to be the majority by 2041 (and probably are already close given the number of illegals). This is all due to immigration. And it's happened too fast for newcomers to integrate. Nor has there been any real effort on the part of Western governments to encourage them to do so. Quite the contrary. This latest surge has come amidst a leftist-dominated cultural view of self-loathing that says we are all hateful, racist societies and that our histories and traditions are evil, colonialist, genocidal, and every other kind of horrible thing. All of which raises the concern that by the end of the century, not only will whites be a minority in every Western country, but their cultural values and traditions (quite possibly including democracy, freedom, and non-corrupt government) will be swept away by the religious, tribal, clan-type values and beliefs of the immigrants. So, when do we get to start wondering if this is something we ought to be addressing?

Canadians turning increasingly hostile to immigration. The most recent numbers find that 48% of Canadians say that immigration to Canada is having a mostly negative effect on our nation, compared to 34% who say that it’s having a mostly positive effect. Those numbers are part of a larger trend line that shows Canadians rapidly growing pessimistic about the institution of immigration. The change since last July alone finds negative sentiments jumping nine points, while positive ones dropped nine points, creating an eighteen point swing towards the negative camp. https://canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-grow-increasingly-hostile

The level of low-level crime and disorder, often straying into pretty nasty crime, is frustrating when it involves people we all (except the courts) know should be in prison for a very long time, if not permanently. The laws and the type of people appointed as judges appear to prioritize the well-being of the criminals rather than the protection of society. Too tender-hearted to lock people up, we instead let the population lock itself away behind steel core doors, with burglar alarms and barred windows on the basement, and CCTV cameras. Kids get kept inside. Couples are too wary of going out at night. All so people who ought to be institutionalized or in prison can stagger through the streets in search of more drugs or something to steal to get more drugs. It's madness.

Criminal law is a state jurisdiction, as are judicial appointments. Prosecution is a local affair. The federal government has very little to do with it other than appointing the SC Because they're nonentities chosen for their conformity with shallow, fringe left social justice views. There are probably ten thousand people with a better grasp of the law and more intellectual heft than anyone on the Supreme Court.

That suggests why their food prices are lower, not why their food inflation is lower. This, suggests its a combination of taxes and regulations. https://westerngrocer.com/canada-has-a-policy-driven-food-inflation-problem/

I've mentioned in a few posts here, and in more on other forums like reddit and X, that all Carney's jetting around to (allegedly) make trade deals to diversify our trade from the US is basically performative bullshit that will accomplish nothing. The reason is fairly simple in that our ports are at or near capacity. They couldn't handle an increase of 5% in trade. The only effort at expanding them is two new slips in Montreal that have been under construction for years. Given the timelines, no notable expansion in our port facilities (including or excluding pipelines) is going to happen anytime in the next decade. I was also peripherally aware of some of the deficiencies in our ports, but not quite how backward they are. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-carney-may-accept-the-world-as-it-is-but-we-cannot-accept-canada-as-it/

And yet, despite the US dollar going down over the last year, our food inflation is much higher than in the US or indeed in countries where they import an even greater percentage of their food. It hasn't been removed. It's simply been pushed downstream.