I am Groot

Most of what attracts men and women to each other is instinct, based on a million years of experiences.

Is this a serious question? Rich, good looking, powerful, well-dressed and well-spoken. Personality does not attract people. You have to actually get to know someone before you even learn what their personality is.

Men marry women expecting them not to change and they do. Women marry men, expecting they can change them and they can't.

I'm not disagreeing. And yes, his strength and confidence were among the classic traits which made him an attractive mate. But the BDSM thing had to go, and as the books moved along, his determination to make her his submissive faded away as she schooled him in proper respect.

Which it is. That isn't really in dispute given the latest reports that Canada will achieve 50% foreign born population by 2040. And it will grow from there.

It was meant to provide the woman with someone to protect and provide for her as she had children. Which is how it functioned for most of the history of our species.

I don't think you understand what that story was actually about. It wasn't about a man dominating a woman. It was the typical women's fantasy of a perfect man with just one little flaw which the woman will work at fixing. It wasn't about submitting to the man it was about taming him.

You didn't answer the question, son.

A long time ago I used to read Hansard. The questions tended to be clever but pointed. The answers - and there were answers - were often quite shrewdly put. There was banter, but intelligent banter between groups of people who competed but didn't hold each other in contempt. Pierre Trudeau was so far out of his son's league it's sad to watch the latter. So I try to avoid doing so.

How's that working for you so far?

Oh Canadian governments are very good at handling things. They devote enormous amounts of manpower and forests worth of paperwork to managing things. They just do it very, very slowly. I think you presumed the bank was complaining. I took it as being quite satisfied with the stagnant wages. I have no issue with dog-walkers becoming unemployed. In a society with anything like a labour shortage they will simply wind up doing something else. For the same reason, I do not care if Tim Hortons can't find enough workers. If they have to raise their prices due to wage rises then fewer people will go there, some of the restaurants will close and we will have an equilibrium. The people who lose their jobs will find employment elsewhere. This is the nature of capitalism. Japan's house prices rise because the Japanese build very low quality houses and buildings. They're not intended to last They're intended to be replaced regularly. So with inflation, yes, the cost is rising. GDP rises due solely to population increases are not 'better' for a country than no increase in either population or GDP. It is GDP per capita that actually matters. \https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-gdp-per-capita-is-still-down-may-indicate-drop-in-living-standards-stat-can/ Growth for its own sake brings nothing of value. Even the argument that it will bring a larger native market with the economic efficiencies that brings fades in importance given we already have the available US market through free trade.

It's not something that is going to happen in Canada in our lifetimes. The population was going to rise to 51 million by the year 2100 under Harper's immigration numbers. That's now going to happen in 2040. So by 2100 our population will most likely be closer to 100 million.

I do not claim any particular expertise in economics, housing or healthcare. I do believe I'm reasonably intelligent, though, and read a lot, and try to think a lot. And I do not claim immigration is solely responsible for any of these issues. Usually, when something large fails, there are several factors, several things which went wrong together. I have read a number of posts and comments regarding the number of elderly immigrants arriving here. A small city's worth every year, I have read. That would certainly put pressure on healthcare resources. All the people coming in as immigrants, foreign students, temporary foreign workers and the International Mobility Program bring in approximately 1.7 million people per year consisting of: Immigration (417k this year 440k next), international students (621k), TFW (100k) and IWP( 445k). I can't imagine how that demand is not resulting in higher prices as well as lower wages. To that end. CIBC says wage growth is lagging here due to immigration. This commentary agrees. And then there's this, and this which relates to the cost of housing. Again, not saying this is the only reason, but A reason, and one which no one is willing to address. Disagree. I'm not saying things are fixed. I'm saying that if you increase the number of workers you increase the demand for services and the supply of that demand will rise to meet the demand. So people aren't worse off (except for inflation) but nor are they better off. Except for corporations like Bell and Rogers and Telus and the banks because these are largely protected. And the huge number of foreigners coming into this economy with its very slow, bureaucratic approach to approving new housing developments. Or anything, really. It takes longer to go through the process of getting approval than it does to build a new home. I do not see that changing, however, as all levels of government in Canada are committed to very high levels of bureaucracy and regulation.

In the past we were a rural, agrarian nation. We're not any more.

Yesterday the news said our dollar was the weakest its been against the American dollar in two years. Inflation is a worldwide phenomenon, the result of so many countries living beyond their means. the inflation rate in Switzerland is three and half percent. The rate in Zimbabwe is 60%. How well a nation minds its dollars and cents does have an impact even in a worldwide inflationary period. The way Canada, as well as the US have been borrowing and spending for so long made inflation completely predictable. I worked quite hard to pay off my mortgage over the past three years, as well as the car loan because I saw this coming. Got them both done in late winter.

The world 'fallacy" suggests a lie or mistake. I would not choose to write anything which was false. Please show me the error of what I've written so I know better in future. A larger economy is meaningless. Increasing our gross domestic product in tandem with an increasing population does not suggest any improvement in the wealth or living standards of those already here. The home renovation guy, dog walker and chef will have more business and there will be more home renovation guys, dog walkers and chefs to compete with them. There will be more tax dollars collected and more requirement for tax dollars to be spent on health care and expanding infrastructure. The only profit is for our protected corporations. The banks and telecom companies will have more customers but there will not be more banks or more telecom companies to compete with them. There will be more demand for homes, especially detached homes, and thus their prices will rise to the benefit of the boomers who bought them when homes were affordable. I paid $175,000 for my house. It's now mortgage free and worth just shy of a million dollars. Good on me. Meanwhile my son and daughter couldn't hope to afford their own place on their own, though they have decent jobs. They live in condos I've purchased and pay me considerably less than market rent. Lucky them for having a successful parent. As for most of the others, they're shit out of luck.

Well, to me it's not that a crazy person is wearing enormous fake breasts with giant nipples to teach school. It's that the school board is so bloody frightened of appearing even slightly transphobic they don't dare tell them to stop. The teacher is dressed like some kind of pornographic caricature. It's a bizarre sexual fetish displayed in public in front of kids. And regardless of how mature you think high school kids are, remember that some are 14 and come from very morally conservative communities. Regardless, this would be a huge distraction in class, and in this case a safety issue. Almost anyone can see the absurdity of this yet we have a school board quivering and wringing their hands and not daring to do anything but express their full support for a 'transgender' teacher. And it's that cowardice on the part of largely progressive politicians and bureaucrats which has allowed the more extreme demands of a rather shrill activist group to push past the boundaries of common sense. It would be nice if our politicians at every level weren't such cowards, but most of them appear to be. Is it in the nature of a politician? Have we taught them to be that way?

1. Almost all immigrants wind up in the biggest cities. They don't come here to colonize northern Ontario or the Yukon. They're not dragging their families out onto the arctic tundra or the mountains of Alberta. We can still have vast, empty areas while being horribly crowded where most of us live. 2. Under Harper our population was already growing and would have continued to grow, with a forecasted 2100 population of 51 million. There was no need to increase immigration to 431,000 this year, and a scheduled 447,000 next year (with continued increases indefinitely. These enormous numbers mean more crowding, heavier pressure on our healthcare systems, increases in housing prices, more CO2 emissions, more overall pollution, less farmland, etc. It results in stagnating wages, and requires that we loosen our standards and accept a lower overall quality of immigrants in order to meet immigration targets. As far as I can see the only positive to importing this mass of people is for corporate Canada to have bigger domestic markets, and for boomers to keep seeing their house prices rise. So this is largely good for the haves, and very bad for the have-nots. Including young people who see no hope of ever owning their own home as our standard of living declines.

What is insane is that rather than responding to this the way they undoubtedly would if a woman were to wear an outfit like that they seem to be terrified of being accused of transphobia and aren't uttering a word of protest. How they can tell themselves this is inclusive while still maintaining dress codes which forbid female students from wearing spaghetti straps or short skirts is beyond me. It's an indication of how much conformist pressure exists within certain circles to support anyone who claims to be transgender, and excuse them for behavior which would never be tolerated in cis individuals.

Given enough time and effort you can destroy almost any cultural identity, real, true or not.

In keeping with the title of this topic - I hereby post transgender insanity from enlightened Ontario. https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-halton-school-board-prepares-for-backlash-over-trans-high-school-teacher

I'm sorry but suggesting an increase in exports will 'not help Canada' is kind of silly. Our oil and gas exports were the main reason we breezed through the financial crisis. The natural resources industry, unlike most, actually brings money into Canada. Few in the service industry that makes up most of our economy do this. Opening another Tim Hortons or Walmart does nothing for us. It's just different places to recirculate money. In fact, Walmart harms our economy in that it imports almost everything it sells so that our money winds up going across the border and across the ocean.