I am Groot

NATO is the only reason Russia lets us pretend we own the north. We certainly have no military which could do a single thing to them if they decided they wanted to start drilling for oil there.

The way our military is now, certainly. But the reason they won't do it is political. The Republicans are the ones most likely to want to take over another country to get at its resources. But they're also the ones least likely to accept the political reality which would follow. Namely, they'd have to let us vote, and most of us would vote Democrat. The Republicans most certainly do NOT want tens of millions more people voting Democrat, wanting gun control, public healthcare and abortion on demand.

Your belief in the effects/intensity of global warming is like your numbers, wildly exaggerated. And your belief in our ability to cope with it is wildly unexaggerated. We pay skilled labour less which enables our industry to avoid putting money into the kind of R&D and technological innovation which drive real productivity growth. And despite cheaper labour we find ourselves not becoming a high tech superpower somehow... Incorrect. Neither nation (and I do not foresee a threat from the United States barring civil war there) can ever bring more than a portion of their military to bear on us at a time. They have too many threats along their other borders. And, in the case of China are too far away to project more than a small portion of their military abilities. We do not need to be better. We need sufficient forces that simply moving in and taking over is not an option. We need enough forces that overcoming them would, even if highly likely, be time consuming/expensive. The more expensive you make an undertaking the less likely someone is to attempt it. Make it seem cheap and easy like Ukraine seemed, and you get a war.

Words? Words without any changes, without any actions to remove Chinese agents here. Without any legislation similar to what Australia has put in effect to limit their illegal influencing of elections and government policy. Meaningless words, which is what this government has come to be known for. That is a preposterous and ridiculous exaggeration. Really? You think chasing our tech workers south with low wages might show a causality there? We pay low wages. Our people flee, and we are 'forced' to bring in low wage third world workers instead. No, we need to cut away the masses of red tape enveloping our natural resources sector, just to start, not to mention all other business in Canada. Lowering taxes would be nice, too. We haven't built a nuke in a generation. And they've been extremely late to the party given the provinces have already agreed to work on the new generation of small reactors. You have a knack for dismissing all issues confronting the Liberals with ridiculous claims about costs. We're already paying as much for health care as other countries. We're just not getting the benefits due to how screwed up and inefficient our system is. Practical ideas to deal with your absurd numbers? I don't see the need, thanks. No. It was weak government, corruption, and citizens too well-fed to join the army so that they had to rely on foreign mercenaries they treated terribly, and who turned on them. We are also, I might add, far more capable of coping with a changing environment than the Romans.

Where to start... He's doing nothing about China, nothing to separate us from them as trading partners, nothing to control their espionage here or their interference in our elections or their threatening expatriates here. He's doing nothing, in fact, to protect national security, to protect government, never mind important public and private sector institutions from foreign cyber attacks. He's doing nothing whatsoever to rebuild the military and get it back in shape, leaving us completely at the mercy of the United States for protection against the world's rising warlords. He's doing nothing to expand our industrial base, to expand our economy (beyond flooding Canada with foreigners). He's doing nothing to improve our exports (rather the contrary) or our productivity. His government's actions are actually aiding inflation rather than fighting it. He's doing nothing to improve healthcare across the country. Yes, yes, it's a provincial responsibility but by now surely anyone with even slight knowledge understands that when every single provincial and territorial government's healthcare system is collapsing there's a commonality beyond how 'greedy' and dumb they all are. The entire system needs a rework, and since it operates under federal legislation that means they need to do it. He's certainly doing nothing to help us cope - or even acknowledge there will be any difficulty with - the millions upon millions of new people he's going to flood the country with over the coming years. Where is the stepped up infrastructure spending? Where are the plans for giant new housing complexes? I mean, they could at least be asking the UN for a bunch of those big refugee tents. You talk about climate change. The Trudeau government has made zero acknowledgement that the climate is going to warm regardless of what we do, and proposed initiatives, or even studies to determine how we can best adapt in terms of flood control or irrigation systems or improved building codes. They've also done zero with regard with natives. I'm not talking about throwing more billions at them to shut them up. I'm talking about some kind of resolution to the separation of natives from the rest of the country on often isolated, uneconomic reserves where they have no reason to live. Instead his government seems set on widening the divide between natives and everyone else here.

The Supreme Court of Canada rarely acknowledges reality. Especially regarding natives and their 'nations'.

His accomplishments under both were minimal and made by other people. He delayed doing anything about covid and accused people of racism for wanting to ban or at least do health screening on people coming from China.

It was in Canada and did not in any way involve sex, sexuality, or morals? Don't be naive. That certain men do it has nothing to do with political leaning. But that it's become this fashionable thing where it's celebrated and championed as perfectly normal and good liberal parents take their tykes to have a drag queen read stories to them is most definitely political. It's woke and part of the culture wars. And as far as I can see the only reason for its popularity among the Left is that they know the Right hates it. It's part of the Left's version of 'owning the libtards'.

Haven't you guys learned that this government is all about the look, the style, the promise, and not so much on the actual doing? The doing isn't necessary if you mouth the right words and look concerned or stern, or whatever it is you've practiced in the mirror. Especially given what a complacent press we have.

Don't worry. We get a lot from India too! And you know how honest and clean those guys are.

It's not that easy. There are two Irans. The sophisticated, educated urban Iran doesn't like all the dumb religious requirements nor the brutality with which they are forced upon people The rural Iran, on the other hand, is deeply traditional and conservative and supports whatever the Mullahs say God wants of them.

I wonder what the reaction is from western feminists and Muslim women and girls - especially the Canadian born - to the bravery and determination of women in Iran to not wear these stupid things. I also wonder what the women of Iran feel towards western Muslims determined to don the headscarf they call oppressive.

Oh yes. I'm not denying that. But we'll be affected far less than anyone near the equator. The UN forecast is it might lower our GDP by 1% or so or might not. There will be benefits to us in terms of more accessible land and a longer growing season.

You're talking about fruits and vegetables. I don't eat such things anyway.

Training isn't the issue. Recruitment and retention are.

When you're talking melancholy nothing beats Eva Cassidy, especially given the tragic story of her life.

There is nothing Canada can do about climate change. Even if we completely eliminated all Co2s it would be unnoticeable on a world scale. Especially as 80% of the world's countries are doing little or nothing other than increasing their CO2 emissions. From what I've seen climate change isn't going to particularly harm Canada anyway. We'll have some problems, but they should be fairly easy to deal with as long as we're not broke by decades of borrowing and a government shutting down our only real export industry while driving manufacturing offshore through carbon taxes and expensive energy.

I don't want the bus I'm riding in to hit a wall, thanks. And it's not like it will be quick. They'll just keep borrowing money for years.

Drones are fairly easy to defend against given the ability to spot them at a reasonable distance. That being said, there is no way we have the personnel to man these ships as the navy presently stands, esp once the AOPS' are all up and floating.

I'm a scholar and a gentleman! But I haven't forgotten my roots...

Gone south like so many other tech types, drawn by higher salaries and lower taxes?

I'm gratified that twat is still okay. Though that word doesn't get the appreciation it does in Britain.

Not to mention operated by poorly trained, poorly motivated draftees with equipment which only occasionally works due to lack of maintenance and parts. That being said, these frigates are anything but small. They're massive compared to the ones we operate now or even the Tribal class destroyers we used to have.

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