I am Groot

You'll pay for yours. But will you pay for mine?

The people they represent include all manner of small-minded, uneducated, pig-ignorant people. To say nothing of criminals. So yes, the government ought to be 'better" than at least the worst of those they represent, if not the best. What do you believe would change under such a system? Seriously. What would government do more/less of? Other than spend more money out of the need to buy off various minority parties.

I see. So it's your business to ensure they're born. Once that's done you wash your hands of the whole thing. Is that right?

Do you smell burnt toast, too?

Any national question which pits Quebec against Alberta will be won by Quebec. That should go without saying. History has demonstrated this repeatedly. The problem with fringe parties is that if you have a lot of them it's kind of hard to form a majority without including some. This has been responsible for a large degree of the mess which is Israel, as Likud has to continually appeal to the religious right and their little parties to gather up a few votes here or there. It leaves them open to blackmail and the fringe parties use it ruthlessly to get laws passed the majority of Israelis don't like or want.

Childish? Yes, I'd noticed.

How's this then? We force the mothers to bear the children and then just let them die for lack of food, lack of health care, and lack of basic necessities? Is that more humane? I mean, this seems to be the Republican party's position.

That would depend on how PR is allocated. If on a national basis you're correct, which is why they'd never allow it to happen without making it a national crisis, which would drag us through another round of how to appease outraged Quebecers.

You mistake me. I was pointing out your hypocrisy. I thought I was being so obvious I didn't need to spell it out but apparently I over-estimated you.

I don't really have much of a care one way or another on this except I note that everywhere I see heavy pressure to stop abortions I also see heavy pressure from the same people to cut taxes. Especially to those miserable welfare bums who are, in large numbers, single mothers trying to raise the children they didn't abort. It seems to me that the religious right adores fetuses but has little interest in babies or children. Maybe because it costs them nothing to oppose abortion but paying for the food and clothing for babies and children is expensive.

Do you support the death penalty?

Most European countries have a popular elected parliament. I have not noticed any sign of superior government coming out of Europe lately, nor are its people any less angry at government. Else we wouldn't see the rise of extremist right wing parties from Italy to Sweden.

What is your point here? His policies are not designed to do anything more than let him preen and pose in front of the progressive media. He certainly doesn't care if they hurt ordinary people. The urban liberals who are his election targets don't seem to get the connection between Canada's economic health and the health of our natural resource industries.

First, there's no evidence Andrew paid any money. From what she said it was Epstein who gave her $500 afterwards. Second, the date at which their alleged sex occurred was prior to that law. How many middle aged men in the UK looked approvingly at the topless 16 year old girls on page three of the British tabloids for years before the age was bumped up due to changing societal mores?

Terrible. Just terrible to appear with Epstien. I guess anyone who did that is a horrible man?

I suggest that if most people are confused by what you write the fault lies in your poor effort at communicating rather than their lack of understanding.

The only hope of any party to form a government with a popular vote parliament would be to form a coalition party. Given the other four parties (I'm being charitable about the Greens) are all quite left of centre it is unlikely any would cooperate with the Tories when they could instead form a left leaning government. The BQ being a possible exception.

The cost of energy is an enormous factor in the economic health of any industrialized nation.

Presumably because he feels the man is not performing well.

He was yanked back by people standing behind him so fast he left his shoes behind. It's a good thing the police showed up or he'd have gotten pounded into the pavement by the crowd.

Because twenty years ago he had sex with a girl who was 17 1/2 instead of 18 when the age of consent was 16, you mean? They used to put topless 16 year olds on page three of the tabloids.

If he broke the law then he deserves to go to jail. Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb called ex-President Donald Trump a “deeply wounded narcissist” who acted in a “criminal” manner when he pushed then-Vice President Mike Pence to block Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win. And then there's this guy, "I think the driver on this from the beginning was you know, loads of classified information sitting in Mar-a-Lago," Barr said. "People say this was unprecedented, well it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club." And this one "There is no evidence there is a partisan motive here," Bolton told Reuters in an interview Wednesday. "I think everybody just ought to calm down, whether you're pro-Trump or anti-Trump, and let the process work its way through."

There are any number of ways the oil companies can be pressured behind the scenes to avoid that scenario. I believe they have. The US has no carbon tax, as far as I'm aware. The only intelligent way to reduce CO2s is by replacing carbon spewing power systems with renewable. The only reliable renewable is nuclear. We should be going all out to build nuclear power plants. We should also be giving tax incentives to buy hybrid vehicles. Perhaps not but who really cares other than he and his family? He has already shared some of them. He wants major cuts to the time needed to approve national resource projects as well as housing developments. He will negotiate with the provinces to streamline the former and use government grants to pressure municipalities into the latter. And he will cut excess government borrowing and spending - which always spurs inflation.

I'm curious. What is 'the highest of laws'? I would have thought it was murder and haven't heard anyone accusing Trudeau of that yet.