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Yes. Deliberately, so he can exploit the fears of liberals like you for votes. Poilievre would have had a deal within the first couple of months. And they all cut deals with Trump. I don't give a shit about what the chattering classes at the WEF have to say. Anyone who dissed Trump at the WEF would have gotten similar applause. There are real-world concerns he sacrificed to get his accolades. Who proved their incompetence under Trudeau. All the courts are stuffed with Liberal appointees specifically selected for their conformity with the Left's shallow, social justice activist beliefs. I don't believe I've ever said much good about Poilievre aside from agreeing with some of his policies. But the Conservatives, whatever they're called, have always had a problem in selecting leaders due to bilingualism. Their base is out West and in rural Ontario. They lack the deep bench of bilingual MPs the Liberals always have. None of the last half dozen leaders would have been chosen leaders absent that bilingualism requirement. And btw, O'Toole was also called 'trumpist' and painted as a fellow traveler of white nationalists. ALL conservative leaders are disparaged by the media, and then by their mindless followers like you.

Is that you, August? You're no more sensible or understandable under this new incarnation.

He has changed nothing. And Carney is tearing apart relationships with the US in order to cuddle up to China. Trudeau gave a speech ten years ago that also got a standing ovation. Big whoop. And nobody is joining him in his quixotic quest to fight against the evil hegemon. Several have already repudiated him. This pathetic desire among so many liberal Canadians for 'respect' and approval from abroad has to stop. His cabinet, his caucus, his courts, his appointees throughout government, and his policies.

it's clear the Liberals have no idea what to do about improving the economy and no idea how to reach a trade deal with Trump. Carney's jet-setting lifestyle is performative nonsense. His speeches are like a father telling his small children everything is fine despite the car being repossessed and the family being evicted for non payment of rent. Increase our trade with others? How? Our West coast ports are pretty much at capacity and it would take years to expand them, and the process for even getting permissino would take even longer. Our east coast ports aren't much better, and the only one with an expansion underway is Montreal, and that's two additional slips. We can export 16% of our oil. No more. So all this talk of massive new trade expansion with other countries is just bluster and nonsense. It can't be done in anything under a decade. If the Liberals cared about the economy or Canada they'd change tactics, but instead, they're doubling down on fearmongering. The great negotiator, who would quickly get a trade deal with Trump now tells us to forget about the Americans, that China is our new friend. This is the same guy who told us last year that China was our most dangerous threat. I have little doubt Poilevre would do far better for us economically, but he'll have to fight through the left's fearmongering and bribery. The Liberals are running out of borrowing room to add more bribes, so are deliberately taunting Trump to keep up the threats and insults. That can only last so long, though. But the Conservatives need to be about more than the economy. They need to be about conservatism. And the root of conservatism is to conserve. I.e., to conserve the history, traditions, values, and culture of the country. All of those are under attack by the Left. All of English Canada's traditions and roots have been sawn away by the Liberals over the years because they lead to Britain, and the Liberals wanted to please Quebec by distancing us from them. But without a sense of shared identity, we are not a people. They didn't care. Trudeau even smugly said we were 'post nation' and had no core identity. But a country like that is fragile, with nothing to hold it together. Many younger Canadians in particular, feel lost because they've grown up with authority figures in schools, media, and government constantly berating them with what a terrible place Canada is, how it's an illegitimate state on stolen land, how it's genocidal and racist. All of this is utter nonsense and lies. Poilievre needs to commit to renewing what it means to be Canadian. And that does not include multiculturalism. The Prime Minister of the UK, the President of France, and the Chancellor of Germany have all stated that multiculturalism has been a disaster for them. But no politician in English Canada dares to challenge the concept. The problem is, you can have a multi-ethnic state, but if you are multicultural, then you are not one people. And as the current British PM has stated, you risk becoming an 'island of strangers' rather than a single people. Poilevre needs to drastically cut immigration. He has to address the lack of unity and tell newcomers they need to adapt and integrate, to embrace Canadian values, not just retain their old cultures and values.

It's still Trudeau's party and Trudeau's policies. Carney has essentially changed nothing except to double the deficit Freeland resigned over because she said it was too big and would destroy our economic future.

The UN is a mess and has been for decades. It has too many dictatorships, too many countries that sell their votes because they don't care about most issues, too much corruption because corruption is a culture and way of life in most of the countries its senior employees come from. Get rid of it. Junk it. Start a new body that only includes democracies. And real democracies, not the likes of Turkey

Another one of those informational things you will never find in Canada because Canada doesn't allow you to know information like this. It's similar to one I posted earlier for the UK.

Asylum was designed to protect individuals fleeing persecution. It was not designed to import ideologies that reject the moral and political foundations of the societies offering refuge. But that is what has happened. Asylum systems evaluate fear of harm, not belief systems. They ask whether someone is in danger, not whether the worldview they carry is compatible with the society they are entering. Many asylum seekers are genuine victims of war and repression. That is not the issue. The issue is that asylum now functions as an ideological pipeline, not just a humanitarian one. Large numbers of applicants come from societies shaped by authoritarian politics, religious supremacy, tribal loyalty over civic law, honor-based justice, hostility to pluralism, and contempt for freedom of conscience. These are systemic frameworks. People are formed by them over decades. They do not disappear at the border. When these frameworks enter Western countries in significant numbers, they appear in voting blocs, censorship demands, intimidation campaigns parallel legal norms. The West assumes that exposure to freedom will automatically produce liberal citizens. That is not a law of nature. Freedom does not transform ideology by itself. It only protects the space where ideology can compete. If the imported ideology rejects freedom itself, it uses that space to organize against it. Asylum has become a mechanism for transferring populations whose political and theological assumptions are antithetical to the West. You can flee a dictatorship and still believe in the principles that created it. You can be oppressed by a system and still want to reproduce its logic in a new environment. A society that can't say “your beliefs are incompatible with this system” will eventually be forced to change its system instead. A political order based on individual rights can't survive mass importation of worldviews that deny individual rights. It does not matter how sincere the suffering was. It matters what replaces the suffering once safety is secured. What is being exported is not just people. It is moral architecture. Dan Burmawi

Let's just forget that he didn't get into deficit problems until the financial crisis, when the BQ, NDP and Liberals threatened to band together to take over unless we got a big economic incentive spending program, shall we?

Carney's deficit is twice what Trudeau's planned deficit was, which caused former finance minister Freeland to resign, and which ultimately cost Trudeau his job. Then why don't we do a trade deal with the Americans? Everyone else has. I'll answer my own question. Because it benefits the Liberals politically to NOT do a trade deal, even to provoke Trump. The more threats we get, the higher their popularity goes as the frightened sheep gather around him bahhing in terror.

Mark Wiseman, Mark Carney's friend, co-founder of the Century Initiative, and Carney's economic advisor, now appointed as ambassador to the US. Remember when the Liberals told us that their immigration plan had nothing to do with the Century Initiative? “Let the private sector move to bring people in and facilitate them being able to do that. A lot of the screening and other stuff that we do frankly is just bureaucracy, is a waste of time, let’s let people in by and large,” said Wiseman. In an interview with Bloomberg Markets, Wiseman spoke about the need for the Liberal government to bring in closer to 500,000 people per year. Former Liberal immigration minister Sean Fraser eventually raised the government’s 2025 target to 500,000 permanent residents in his 2022 immigration plan. https://www.junonews.com/p/carney-advisor-dismissed-immigration

That's illegal in the real world. We're investing in green. We're investing in subsidies for inefficient oligopolies. We're investing in more massive subsidies for NGOs that support and propagandize government messaging. We're investing in gender based farming in Vietnam and helping Hamas rebuild their army. Sorry. No money for that. Got to put more into developing wind farms in Brazil and subsidizing drag queens. New roads? Naww. Pipelines? Nawww. Fixing our highways? Nawwww. Expanding airports and port facilities? Nawww. Buying new weapons for the military? Eeek! Weapons!? Eeek! We're Canadians. No weapons for us. Industries don't need 'major investments', ie, corporate welfare. They need the government off their back. They need it to cut back on the regulatory burden, to prune back the jungle of red tape that means it takes 14 years to start to develop a new mine. But we're not doing that. We're not even thinking of doing it. But hey, here's a billion dollars to buy back some hunting rifles and shotguns because they've got some plastic moulding that scares urban liberals! We're doing neither of those things to any great extent. I'm sure you can cite one or two instances. That's why they're being funded. But that's it. The great mass of money the Carney Liberals have borrowed is for day-to-day operations.

Maybe I got confused because that's all they ever talk about.

Hate to break it to you, bud, but Singh last three straight elections already. Poilievre has only had one. And the media hated Scheer and hated O'Toole, and hated Harper, and hated Day, and hated Mulroney too. Poilievre got a higher percentage of the vote than any conservative leader since Mulroney (once) and Diefenbaker.

Listen to the gathering of Canada's 'unbiased' national media talking to and about Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney. This is what $600 mllion dollars buys you.

If my primary consideration was the well-being of Islamic terrorists, I would vote NDP. However, I am sane. (mostly).

How bad is Canada's refugee system? How bad is our judiciary? After being stuffed with Liberals for the last ten years, they're about as bad as they can be. Which is how we get judges who see a crazy knife-wielding refugee who is physically impaired, and think to themselves. "My God, this is EXACTLY who we want to keep in Canada!" And then gives him a low sentence in hopes he won't be deported. https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/halifax-judge-moved-by-profound-human-decency-shown-by-all-involved-in-somali-refugees-sentencing-for-knife-attack

Playing accounting games to split it into 'operational' and 'capital investment' is as phony and deceptive as everything else he's saying and doing. As the parliamentary budget chief has recently testified, the things the Carney government is describing as 'capital investment' are NOT, in fact, capital investments. No other country defines the spending the Carney Liberals are making as capital investment. Even our provinces don't. Carney definition of 'capital' recognized by nobody else on earth: PBO | National Post archive version

Ukrainians aren't designated as refugees. They have not applied for asylum. They are here under a temporary shelter program. They are not given hearings, and they do not have permanent residency status. The war in Afghanistan is long over. The war in Syria is over. The highest category for those applying for asylum is not fleeing war, but claiming LGBT discrimination/persecution. The second highest is gender discrimination. The top countries applying last year are India, Haiti, Iran, and Nigeria.

The migrants arriving here and claiming asylum are not fleeing war and persecution. They're economic migrants taking advantage of a massive, wide-open asylum system that accepts virtually all claims.

I would. Because we elect the Laurentian Elites, like the current PM, who rob us blind. Just for starters, it's going to make an awful lot of jobs go away. And many of those jobs are occupied by 'new Canadians' who are going to start getting angry. And since they didn't integrate (since we told them not to) they'll start getting violent just like the people in their homelands do when angry, rather than sit at home in sad acceptance like Canadians. We are creating what will become a permanent underclass even as we build up debt and hollow out our economy in pursuit of a hopeless net-zero goal that is essentially meaningless anyway. When we run out of funds to pay their welfare and child benefits, things are going to start getting nasty.

Yes. I lived in one for a decade. Very strongly built. Brick walls. Reinforced plaster walls inside. Well bult by people who knew what they were doing and took pride in their work. I'm now in a newly-built home. It has more room, higher ceilings, bigger windows, and the walls are made of plywood or OSB with vinyl siding. You could put a hammer through it. No mesh-reinforced plaster on the inside, either, just drywall. I've watched them built since I moved in here, watched how fast they put up the framing and then slap plywood across it followed by shingles directly to the plywood. And yes, I had a home inspection, and a lot of changes made.

Canada's 87% acceptance rate for asylum claims shows just how wide the criteria is for acceptance. We granted refugee status to two dozen AMERICAN citizens last year! What about the 13% who are, after many years of hearings and appeals, denied? Well, they stay here anyway.

No, actually, it began with Muslim colonialism, when they violently invaded all the countries in this region, put to death or chased off many of their Christian citizens, and forced the rest to change their religion to Islam. The region you are furiously trying to accuse the British of 'invading' was invaded by the people there now. But you don't care about that, do you. You just need an excuse to blame the British and excuse the brown people. You're so noble, Mister White Knight. Show us your virtue. Flex for us, Sir Knight!