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So the population hasn't actually fallen at all. That was based on the belief 100% of those whose visas expired had left Canada. We know this is not the case and has never been. But the government deliberately does not keep track of people leaving the country, so there's no proof. We are still, however, bringing in hordes of low-skilled, low-wage permanent residents as nothing has been done to deprioritize them. Statscan arrived at this figure by making an assumption that is likely off base. An agency technical backgrounder explains that it “assumes that [temporary residents] leave the country when their permit expires if no extension has been granted.” As former federal economist Henry Lotin and CIBC economist Benjamin Tal detailed, the true number of visa overstayers is likely quite a bit higher than zero. Two years ago, they estimated that perhaps one-million people were in the country without permission. That figure was based on an estimate that 30 per cent of expired visa holders remained. If we apply that to the most recent Statscan data then Canada’s population decline of 76,000 in the third quarter never happened. The national population instead increased by 26,000. https://archive.is/hmaFO

Palestinians and Jews had been actively fighting and killing each other for some time, and the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem was blockaded a number of times, as well. Many Jews were killed both before and after Deir Yassin, and before Arab armies attacked. I can't be complicit in something that happened before I was born. Stop hyperventilating about stuff.

None of that happened until the Arabs attacked. No complaints about the Jordanians deciding to take over the West Bank instead of giving it independence?

Excuse me, Sir. But hadn't Jerusalem, along with the entire area, including Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, etc., been Christian until the Muslims attacked it and killed just about every Christian that wouldn't convert or flee? Weren't the crusades about taking BACK an area the Muslims had stolen? Wasn't Saladin invading to conquer it again? Doesn't that count as killing Christians? His armies then went on to conquer other parts of Byzantine Rome, did they not? Weren't a lot of Christians killed there? Didn't Saladin agree not to slaughter them all if they surrendered because otherwise the attack would have half destroyed his army and laid waste to Jerusalem?

Not sure where else to put this, but it seems reasonably fitting in this group about what the last ten years of Liberal government has turned this country into. I found it on X, and I was quite impressed by it. It's from someone who calls themselves T.D. leaker. It might seem long, but it's not. I'm just reposting it in the short, precise sentences they used. I have a feeling eyeball will appreciate it. I am a management consultant of a federally regulated Canadian financial services company. We manage retirement savings. Student loans. Mortgages. The things people can’t afford to lose. Last year, we replaced 1,200 frontline workers with AI. We called it “modernization.” In Canada, modernization means nobody argues. We announced it during an earnings call. Analysts nodded. Nodding is how you know you’re safe. We said Canada must “remain competitive.” Competitive against who? I didn’t say. Neither did they. We partnered with an American AI company. We said the data would stay in Canada. It didn’t. But the slide deck did. We eliminated “redundant roles.” Redundant roles are people who talk to the public. We kept strategy. Strategy never answers the phone. We saved $38 million annually. I thanked our employees for “their resilience.” Resilience is what you demand after removing livelihoods. We stopped hiring. Quietly. In Canada, you don’t announce layoffs. You let attrition do the violence. Our customer service queues got longer. We added a chatbot. W e named it something friendly. Like “Maple.” Maple could explain compound interest. Maple could not explain why someone’s mortgage payment doubled. Maple told one customer their account was “under review for optimization.” That customer had three kids. Optimization is a word that sounds like math. I t means “you’re stuck.” The complaints started piling up. Not loudly. Canadians don’t complain loudly. They complain in ombudsman filings. They complain in MP offices. They complain by quietly switching banks. That’s worse. We blamed “consumer confusion.” Confusion is when the system works exactly as designed. We blamed interest rates. We blamed global conditions. We blamed immigration policy. Only briefly. In a footnote. Our PR team caught it. We issued a clarification. I went on CBC. I said “AI allows us to serve Canadians better.” Serve is a flexible word. It can mean help. It can mean process. It can mean deny politely. The host asked about job losses. I said “Canada is facing a productivity crisis.” Productivity is what you cite when wages stagnate. We brought back humans. Not employees. Contractors. Remote. Paid per interaction. No pension. No union. No benefits. We called it “on-demand expertise.” Expertise means apologizing for policies you didn’t design. Many of the contractors were former employees. They recognized the scripts. They wrote them. Now they read them back. For less. Our ESG report praised the transition. We highlighted reduced office emissions. Less space. Less people. Less obligation. We won an award. Awards are how institutions forgive themselves. I’ve been invited to Ottawa. A panel. “AI, Efficiency, and Canada’s Economic Future.” I will say we must “balance innovation with compassion.” Balance is what you say when the scale is already tipped. Nothing will change. But the language will improve. And in Canada, that counts as progress.

And then Arabs attacked Israel and lost. Whoops. And then Jordan occupied the West Bank and formally annexed it, while Egypt occupied Gaza. So much for a Palestinian state.

I've been saying for some time now that one of the most corrupt practices of the government is the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby and activist groups, which in turn support government ideological aims and urge their followers to vote Liberal come elections. Every environmental group, every poverty activist group, every pro-drug group, every ethnic, racial, religious group and festival gets a payout from the Liberals, almost none of which is tracked. This is the first time I've seen anyone in the mainstream media deigning to mention it in any depth. All those trans groups, LGBT groups, climate activist groups, legal challenge groups, Muslim activist groups, they're all paid by the federal government. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mammoth-quantity-of-activism-fuelled-by-taxpayer-money

Would you? I'm not saying it doesn't exist now. I'm saying it didn't exist a hundred years ago. The people in the whole region considered their identity to be 'Arab'. And there was absolutely no linguistic, cultural, religious, ethnic, or racial difference between those in present-day Palestine/Israel and those in present-day Jordan/Syria. And Canada has no identity. Our prime minister said so. And he's been doing his best to make that true for ten years now by importing millions and millions of third-world people and telling them not to bother to integrate.

Canadians in past generations were proud of themselves, proud of their country and its accomplishments. They knew their place in the world and were confident. They had a god, a decent job, close friends, a big extended family, and would soon get engaged. Amazing new things were coming along every year. Canadian kids now often have no siblings, and perhaps one or two cousins, or none. They arrive at a school system where they are a minority, sometimes even a small minority. They are taught that their country is stolen, genocidal, and racist, and that they should be ashamed of their white privilege. Boys are constantly told to act like girls, and even that they can BE girls if they want to. And if they choose to be girls, everyone will admire them! As they grow up, the message is pounded in from school, from media, arts, academics: white people are bad. Men are particularly bad. Strength and aggression, and competition are bad. They must act more like women do. They must be sensitive and caring and learn to share their feelings. They must always be aware that they are oppressors and bow their heads to the victims. When they try to enter college, they learn that they have to have higher scores than others to get in. And when they graduate, they learn, especially the men, that every company, every organization, public and private, wants to hire literally anyone else but them. Every other racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and orientation group will be hired ahead of them, and promoted ahead of them. There is no more religion. Only white supremacists are patriotic. And oh, by the way, there are few permanent jobs anymore. It's a gig economy. They can barely afford to rent a cheap apartment, let alone buy a house. Wages are low as floods of foreigners come in to take them at cheaper wages. There's nothing to believe in, no sense of purpose, no guide to where they should be going. Live for the day. Video games and cheap sex without commitments. 27% of millennials have no close friends. 22% have no friends at all. Half have no more than two or three close friends. Loneliness is common. So what's there to be happy about?

It'll be more than that. There's 500,000 migrants in the asylum line right now, and that number keeps growing. We have an 87% acceptance rate (highest in the Western world) which means about 435,000 will be accepted as permanent residents over the next four years. So roughly 100k per year in addition to the almost 400k immigrants. Carney's government also mentioned in the fine print of the budget that an additional 150k people here now, mostly foreign workers and students, will be given PR over the next three years.

Meanwhile, we've spent $500 billion on refugees over the past ten years and given $95 billion in foreign aid.

The pasty white skinned guy is dead. along with his wife. But honestly, if you're 78 you have no business trying to tackle a gunman. Brave yes, but have you forgotten your age, man? Damn. The stupid Arab who tackled him then let him go, so the terrorist went back, got another gun, and shot him. Genius. I imagine there were people like you in Iran, lefties, socialists, gleefully cheering on the Ayatollah as he crushed their mutual enemies. Suddenly, bewildered, he finds himself stood up against a wall. Muslims despise your lot almost as much as they do Jews. Which is one of the reasons their pedophile prophet was able to recruit so many 'warriors'. "Be a Muslim and you can steal and murder and rape to your heart's content, and still be blessed by Allah!"

They vote as a bloc for left-wing parties.

No, that's what Palestinians want. That's why they elected them in the first place. That's what they promised. It's what the Arabs wanted in 1948 when they invaded. It's what they've wanted in every war since then. It's what the Arabs in Jordan and Syria, and Egypt want too. Muslims have been killing Jews by the wagonload as far back as there have been Muslims. Islam itself is extremely nationalistic in that Muslims are taught they are superior to all others, and that all others are a threat that must be tamed or destroyed. There was no such thing as Palestinian nationalism. If you called an Arab a Palestinian in the 1800s he'd have punched you in the face. Jordan is technically Palestine. It's not conquered. And Palestine has never been a country so it has never inspired nationalism. Muslims see the entire world as conquered except for the part they live in, and believe they must reconquer it all, starting with Israel, yes, but then moving on to everything else. You can find Muslim imams from the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the US on Youtube saying as much, that they and Islam will conquer this land and all will be ruled by Sharia. Hamas is a tool of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is operating now in all Western countries, including Canada. Their stated aim is to spread Islam everywhere, by force if necessary, by outbreeding the Kafirs if not. Half the school age population (and sometimes half the population) in major Western cities like Vienna and Amsterdam are now Muslim. Their Muslim populations are quite young while native populations are much older and not having many children.

We know who they are. CSIS knows who they are. They're not breaking any laws doing it right now.

The idea that Islam is the religion of peace is a joke. It has been exceptionally violent from its inception. Muhamed spread his cult by the sword, invading one region after another, forcing people to convert, flee, or die. The only time in its history when it wasn't making war on its neighbors was when it couldn't. Much of the region we know as the Middle East was Christian before Muslim invaders arrived, and just like Muhamed, everyone there had to either convert or die. The Muslim invasions of northern India killed tens of millions over a number of centuries, leaving northern India (now Pakistan and Bangladesh) largely Muslim. It attempted to invade Europe multiple times, and only vailant efforts kept it out. Today, it is murdering Christians in Egypt, in Lebanon, in Nigeria and Uganda and Chad, among other places. And with Muslims allowed into the West by the descendants of those who fought and died to keep them out, they're raping and murdering Christians there, too.

Britain didn't 'invade' Palestine. The Ottoman Empire ruled it until it shattered after joining the wrong side in WW1. The League of Nations appointed the British and French to take control of parts of their former empire. The 'local population' was about 700k, many of them nomadic Berbers who drifted back and forth through that entire area (Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Transjordan, Syria). There was no self-government then, nor had there ever been unless you go all the way back to the kingdom of Israel.

How do they even measure this? My understanding is that they automatically figure anyone whose visa has ended has gone, but we have plenty of evidence that this isn't happening.

Not a dumb question. As I recall this story from last year, when he replaced the existing guy, I had my doubts about how close he seemed to the CCP back then. It seemed to me they were replacing one pro-China activist with a guy who seemed, from what reports I recall, to be entirely too close to China himself. The Liberals weren't any better. Carney refused to boot out their candidate, despite him telling people to 'arrest' his opponent and bring him to the Chinese consulate for a reward, until the guy finally resigned three weeks before the election.

If they don't, they can be arrested. Unless they're engaged in some deliberate efforts at hiding their money, like unregistered foreign bank accounts, which makes them more like foreign spies than simply people willing to use their influence on behalf of a foreign actor, then the money going to them can be traced and needs to be explained. Anyone, like say, Jean Chretien, who is often speaking on behalf of China, can be required to explain where the money is coming from.

What about what I said isn't based on reports from CSIS?

I was on a conservative forum a few days back and people were complaining that he should have been vetted better before the election. And one guy from around that area simply said, to paraphrase, "Look at the demographics of that riding. Nobody gets elected there without the blessing of the CCP. It's as simple as that."

Historical fact, sonny.

No. It happened over a period of weeks. Gee, I wonder why that would be? It can't be because CSIS has told us that foreign actors are influencing our politicians, would it? That there was allegedly a list of 10 MPs who were owned by China that was never produced? That the Liberals refused to introduce a law about foreign influence for years, and when they finally did, they dragged their heels and have still not put that law and that foreign agent registration into effect? It wouldn't be the series of foreign-born MPs showing a great deal of affection and loyalty to the countries they were born in, would it? Making statements in the House and taking political positions in support of those countries? Given that suspicion of Chinese influence, I would have thought he'd do his best to stay away from the Chinese consulate and embassy and those who work there, and also away from groups like the United Front. But nope. After that person selected had told people to arrest his opponent and bring him to the Chinese police station for a bounty China had put out on him. Gee, no Chinese influence THERE! Let's face some facts here. China wields such influence in the Chinese community here that they are able to get MPs elected and get others booted if they go against China. Virtually all Chinese language media in Canada tow the CCP line and are owned by people friendly with the CCP. This, according to CSIS. The bulk of the Chinese in Canada do not appear to have left because they hate China or were persecuted, but for economic reasons. And many intend to return there when they retire. The China of the past was not the threat the China of today is. One oil producer, as I recall. Let's also remember, as I do because I'm old, that Harper was severely and repeatedly criticized by the opposition and the mainstream media for not doing enough to deepen ties with China during his first few years in office. He gave them the cold shoulder. Then the attempted putsch came from the group of three amid the financial recession, and he changed his mind out of necessity.