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Is that what Carney ran on?

Enjoy these reports while you can. This guy is going to soon be replaced by someone a lot more obedient to his Liberal masters.

Has Canada actually BOUGHT any new military kit this year? As opposed to talking about it?

They didn't deport Palestinians, you brainless twat. The arabs fled a war started by - arabs. The only people deported were about a million Jews forced out of surrounding countries by - arabs.

My doctor (in Ontario} decided I needed cataract surgery about 15 years or so back. I had it done within a couple of months. I wonder what has changed since then.

I didn't say OUR aid.

The problem of getting investers in a pipeline might be most easily understood in the context of a company choosing to export potash through a US port rather than building a new terminal to do it in BC. Or as the following person put it on X. If you want to understand why Canada's west coast ports have become uncompetitive, read and weep the decision statement by then-Minister Guilbeault that approved the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 with *370* conditions after a 10 year review assessment process. https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/documents/p80054/147356E.pdf

The AIs only report what they read. The nonsense about tens of billions in 'support' is not actual money but mostly things like not making the oil and gas industry pay for the pollution gasoline engines cause, and allowing them the same tax breaks as every other industry and business.

I have a family doctor, but he's not very useful. So I pay several thousand a year to join a clinic where I can get much more attentive care and an appointment within 24 hours.

I'm not interested in anecdotes. I can tell the opposite for friends and family about the difficulty of finding a family doctor, the difficulty of getting simple tests done, the overcrowding of ERs that makes going there means a 12hr wait.

So you think it's reasonable for 90% of aid and media attention to focus on Gaza to the exclusion of everywhere else on the planet? Carney has not actually DONE anything so far but talk. What has changed in the last year?

A large and independent auditor general's office, for one, which would be elected by secret parliamentary vote and responsible only to parliament, and which would have total power to demand all information about where money is spent. Unlike the current version, whose budget is controlled by the government, and whose requests for information can be ignored. They would audit every department, agency, and crown corporation annually for where money is being spent and whether the programs or services paid for were as described and value for money. In fact, if I designed the government, there would be no political parties. MPs would be responsible only to their constituents. They could elect people to specific cabinet positions, and the cabinet could then elect the prime minister from among them.

Fifty countries spread across the Earth. Where are the thriving, economic powerhouses or the ones with advanced technology among them? There aren't any. Even the ones that are rich are rich because Westerners found oil, dug the wells, put in the machinery, and operate it to this day. They have fancy buildings designed by Western architects and engineers, and largely built with Indian and Filipino labour. How long has Saudi Arabia been filthy rich? They still have to train their doctors in the West. Fifty countries spread across the world, and none of them are advanced economically, technologically, socially, or scientifically, and you insist this is just a coincidence somehow. I'm just singling out a single cause. Maybe you'd like to find me another cause common to all those countries. Oh, bullshit. Muslims commit a ton of crimes in Canada, and it doesn't get blamed on Islam. The crimes that get blamed on Islam are the ones like honor killing, or terrorism, where the Muslim shouts "Allahu Akhbar!" Or sometimes, where there is a pattern where a hugely disproportionate amount of Muslims are committing sex crimes, say, because we know that the Quran gives them permission to attack women who aren't muslims.

They're not secular because Islam does not allow for secular government. If you are an observant Muslim, you want an Islamic government run under Sharia law.

I'm old, but not that old. If I'd built the system, it would be functioning much better.

23,746 patients died on waiting lists in Canada last year. Tell us again about our marvelous system, Barquentine. https://secondstreet.org/2025/11/26/23746-patients-died-on-waitlists-in-past-year/

I just did. If you wish to rebut what I wrote - seriously - then tell me about those government parts of the system that work well.

It's hard to say. We don't get to see the books. We don't get investigations. Money disappears, and that's that. Hundreds of billions went out the door during covid. Where did it all go? Who knows? Where is all our money going now, and what do we get for it? Who knows? This guy is a little rough but he has a point. https://www.blendrnews.com/p/run-by-criminals

The problem is when people have problems which get progressively worse while they wait. How many people have died waiting in line? Not just at emergency rooms but waiting to see a specialist? When faced with a sixteen-month wait for a consultation a couple of years ago I called up a place in Montreal and got an appointment for 3 days later, went in, talked to the surgeon, and got a quick treatment in his clinic. I would have had to wait a year and a half in pain/discomfort under our system. The big problem, though, is lack of doctors and nurses. But that is entirely the fault of government. They control how many people are admitted to medical and nursing schools and how many coop/residency positions are made available to complete their training. And while they have grudgingly increased those numbers in the last year, there's been little priority to it and the increases aren't large. Has it occurred to people that the only parts of our medical system that function well are those not controlled by government? No one has trouble getting a physiotherapy appointment or getting in to see a chiropractor. No one has to wait a year to see a dentist or an optometrist.

Why are we still hearing raging leftists bleating about the 'genocide' in Gaza? More people in Sudan were murdered in the last month than in all the Gaza war and nobody gives a damn about it. Because there's no Jews involved. It's just the Left's favorite 'victims' slaughtering people again. And the media doesn't want to cover that. The media wants to show you stories that push their narrative, and disarray in leftist political groups doesn't do that. I haven't seen much about the shitshow of the NDP leadership contest, either, or anything much about the Greens and their alcoholic leader.

I'm going to take that as 'behind' not ahead. But ask why they're so far behind. The societies, the civilizations influenced by Islam are as old or older than many of those in the West. Why do they get a pass by saying, Well, they're just a few centuries behind us. Why are they a few centuries behind us? What open economies? Islam is, as has been mentioned before, not merely a religion but an almost complete guide to government and law. Among its laws, among the things that keep the Muslim world backward, are rules that, for example, ban the paying of interest on loans. This has meant that the banking sectors in Muslim countries are tiny and weak (which the far left loves). To exist at all, they need to find ways to get around this rule in some way. In addition, large companies are frowned upon because getting money without labour is haram (another reason the Marxists love Islam). So once again, this holds back businesses from expanding. See my answer aboce. Yes, but what progress has been made in the Muslim world? If you look back on pictures of Muslim women fifty years ago, they were freer than they are today. Much of the Muslim world has gotten more repressive towards women, not less. The difference about Islam is it's a predatory religion. It calls upon its followers all through its holy books to denounce and destroy all other religions and conquer all societies that do not submit to Islam. And that has been its history since inception. It didn't stop attacking non-Muslim countries around it until its own backwardness, brought about by the rejection of science, philosophy, and technology, caused it to stagnate and left others more powerful than them. The West has had a lot of newcomers over the last generation or two. The only group from which we repeatedly see terrorist acts and crowds of people with their leaders denouncing the West and vowing to take over are Muslims.

Are you saying all religions are the same? None are better or worse than others? The Aztecs cut the living heart out of sacrificial victims for their god. Would it be wrong to demonize their religion?

Have you paused to consider why all these Muslim countries are NOT secular?

So it looks like the military just got 52 more aircraft. For free! DND will be taking over the aircraft from Transport Canada for a reason no one seems willing to explain, but it seems obvious to me. It's another way of 'increasing' DND's budget without actually paying anything extra or buying anything. So on paper, our 'military' budget just grew without costing us anything. More accounting games from the Liberals. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/transport-surveillance-environment-drones-defence-9.6982250#:~:text=Show More-,Transport Canada will be surrendering most — if not all — of,in the recent federal budget.