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This isn't simply a Quebec thing. Muslims have been praying in the streets and outside synagogues and churches now, from the US to the UK. France, Australia, and Germany. Yes, it's intimidation. They have lots of mosques. They don't gather in their dozens or hundreds, or even thousands, surrounding some Christian churches or occupying major thoroughfares to pray for any other reason. Islamists in Germany are now protesting Christmas markets and marching through them, chanting Allah Akhbar in large numbers because they don't believe in Christmas. The more the Left delays cracking down on this vermin, the more violence there is going to be. Canada, of course, will continue to import them and pander to them as long as the Liberals are in power. Nothing and no one matters to Liberals but votes, and Muslims vote Liberal. Not because they agree in the slightest with their leftist views or what they consider perverted beliefs in LGBT stuff, but because they know Liberals will do what they want, which is keep bringing in more Islamists and giving them more power.

You mean the Supreme Court imaginatively reinterprets the Constitution regularly in line with its social justice activist views.

I'm more worried about how we deal with the Hamas people HERE and how we keep them from actually burning our house (Canada) down around us as their numbers continue to grow. Their venom and hatred of all infidels/unbelievers seems undiminished. And don't try to tell me that's a small percentage. It's a large percentage. And of the remainder, well, they might not be interested in burning my house down or killing me, but they won't do anything to stop it and will quietly think "Well, it's his fault for being an infidel."

Some people really get outraged when the Jews are allowed to defend themselves and don't simply die quietly like they want them to. It sounds like you're one of them.

It would be extremely expensive to operate completely separate supply chains and maintenance teams for two different fighters. And if we did, it would be the reverse of what you've got. Buy a lot of F-35s and then buy a couple of squadrons of Gripens to serve NORAD and fly up to chase away Russians testing our border areas. They could likely take off from rougher, more northerly runways and would be cheaper and easier to maintain.

The definition of pedophile has never changed. And it involves an irrational sexual fixation on prepubescent children. Maybe you should look it up. And I dare you to find anywhere on this site that I've ever said anything good about Trump. At that time, it would have been. At least as it's been described here. REAL sex trafficking would not have been, of course. That involves physical force, terrorizing the victims, beating them, threatening them and/or their families with death, and keeping them imprisoned. That is not what has been alleged with Epstein.

No one thinks we will ever get to 5%. That's just humoring orange man talk. As for raising our spending as a percentage of GDP, well, they're going to stuff everything they can under the umbrella of defense, like the coast guard, which is unarmed, and then look for praise.

Yeah, these days the cops would likely show up. And of course, you're not legally allowed to even take a handgun out of your house to go anywhere but a registered gun range.

Here's the thing about that. The engines, and a lot of the most high-tech equipment on that plane are licensed from American manufacturers. Which means the Swedes can't sell their planes to anyone if the Americans say no. Which leaves the amusing possibility that Carney could cancel the F-35, announce we were buying the Gripen, and then the Americans refuse to grant Sweden permission to sell it to us. Then we would have to wait while the Swedes replace the engine (which they have plans to do) and the other technology with non-American parts, solve whatever integration problems arise, and then buy them. Don't know how long that would delay the purchase, but it definitely wouldn't be a few days.

Even that concept/law is relatively new and didn't exist prior to 1988. AFAIK from what I've followed, these were attractive young women/girls who voluntarily went to join up what they thought of as an exciting, rich, celebrity-filled life of free food, drugs, and booze. They traded sex for favours. From the late '60s on through at least the '90's that was really not considered a big deal by society. No one made them stay, threatened them, or beat them - which would definitely not be the case in a real 'sex trafficking' operation. No. It's the media running wild with a salivating story featuring teenage girls, sex, and celebrities. And lawyers making a bundle out of using what was considered casual sex back then to blackmail rich people today. Virginia Giuffre changed her stories multiple times over the course of this, including starting out by saying she never slept with Prince Andrew. That changed to her sleeping with him, and it was fun, and then to sleeping with him, and it was gross and disgusting, and then him possibly (depending on the day she told her story) raping her. She seemed to be basically building stories as per her lawyers in order to make money.

Not all of it. Some of it was Mike Harris' fault! He destroyed healthcare in Ontario! And uh, Manitoba and BC and Nova Scotia ...

This was my problem. I couldn't learn to shoot. The only gun range around only allowed dinner plate-sized targets at 20 yards. And you had to use their crappy 22 handguns until you could pass a test for accuracy with them; you couldn't use any other kind of 22. And then you could try their crappy 9mm, and if you passed an accuracy test, you could then bring in your own. Every shooting stall had a little scope attached to the side so you could check downrange to see where your bullets landed. But you can't learn to shoot that way. You need to see where they land WHEN you fire so you can correct yourself on the next shot and the next. Same as learning how to shoot darts. My eyes not being those of an eagle, it was all kind of frustrating and dissatisfying. Maybe what I ought to do is like Bill Burr in his famous comedy routine where he goes to a gun shop to buy a gun. The gun dealer tries to dissuade him from buying a handgun because he won't be able to hit anything without a lot of practice. He tells him to just buy a shotgun. "You got a problem over here and BAM, no more problem." The main reason people want to reconsider using the F-35 is fears of American control and their alleged ability to 'turn off' things in the aircraft.

We're not. We're just going to say we are to please orange man.

That's not going to happen as long as the Left is full of crazed identitarian fruitloops obsessed with children changing gender and demanding black people take over the world because they're so much more moral than whites.

You are a very strange person.

15 was illegal in the US. It WAS, however, legal in Canada until Harper changed the law. The age of consent was 14 here up until then. So pretty much anything Epstein might have done was legal here. I don't believe we had any laws about 'child exploitation' or the like back then either. I've long claimed that. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by sexual attraction to pre-pubescent kids. A pedophile would have had ZERO interest in the likes of Virginia Giuffre. And yes, the majority of young people molested by priests were older boys. I've also seen statistics that the degree of child molesting in the Catholic Church was no worse than society at large. That's faint praise, at best, but the cliche of priests salivating over young boys was never remotely true.

The inspiration for this topic was the tremendous fuss kicked up by the media, mostly over a conservative whiner leaving the party to join the Liberals when he didn't get re-elected as deputy speaker. But we never see such frenzy when the Liberals lose members. NP View: The media's double standard on Pierre Poilievre | National Post

So can any of you Trump supporters tell us why he and the party are trying so desperately hard to keep the Epstein files from being released? He's even turning on longtime supporters who vote to release the files. This on top of House Speaker Johnson finally having no choice but to seat a newly elected Democrat who will vote for release, after fighting tooth and nail to keep her out. Trump called the Republicans who voted to release, and summoned one to the White House for private meetings, and is doing everything in his power to keep the files under wraps. Give us a reason that doesn't involve him being in them.

Everyone who comes in needs a place to stay. Even if many are low-income. They crowd into whatever is cheapest, which pushes up the price of the cheapest rentals, which pushes up the prices of the next cheapest, and so on and so on. It leaves people in very expensive rentals, unable to save much for a down payment for a house. And, of course, housing prices also go up because of higher demand from those immigrants who CAN afford them, one way or another (multiple people buying one house). Even employers like Tim Hortons buying houses to then stuff a dozen low-income workers into (at high rents). I don't accept the argument that they do low-wage jobs that Canadians won't. Aside from agriculture and a few other areas like fish plants, that's simply not the case. Plus, Capitalism takes care of problems like that. If the wages are too low to attract workers, then employers have to increase the wages and/or make the job more attractive in other ways.

No. We are in a crisis thanks to massively overregulated industry, a bloated, incompetent government, and the insistence on importing huge numbers of poor people to keep wages down and housing costs high. This has led to ever-increasing deficits, productivity and wealth declines, and issues of social cohesion. Trump is a relatively recent phenomenon who has made things worse. But if we had a well-functioning economy, with, for example, the ability to export more of our oil, gas, and resources elsewhere, he'd feel much less free to threaten us. Bad government made us vulnerable to Trump. And bad government is continuing to keep us vulnerable to him. Countries do not make 'deals' for trade. They may change regulations with regard to trade, but trade deals are a company-to-company thing. Carney has no say in them. Likewise, it is companies, not governments, that will invest in Canada, if they see it as profitable, or rather, more profitable than elsewhere. Right now, they don't see it that way due to massive regulation on business and industry which Carney has done nothing to remove. Lots of fine wine and excellent dining, along with stories and gossip about other world leaders and celebrities. What other leaders? The NDP don't have one. The Greens have a crazed alcoholic liberal supporter as their 'leader'. The BQ doesn't give a damn and is just looking to make deals for Quebec.

. Canada's real debt-to-GDP ratio is closer to 113%. They mask the reality by subtracting the value of the Canada Pension Plan, which no other country does.

By definition, all deficit spending involves spending faster than you can generate wealth.

Ottawa is not one of our 3 largest cities, and housing costs are out of control here too. As an example, I bought my current home, a new 2 br bungalow about 10 years ago for a $490k. It had $30k worth of extras thrown in atop the bare-bones buy price, so that would have been $470k. Today, a similar home by the same builder, 45 minutes outside the city, is selling for $865k bare bones. Ie, no finished basement, no granite countertops, no fences, rain gutters, central air, etc. I recently bought a condo for a relative who will be paying me rent. They couldn't buy it themselves because they didn't have the credit to take out the loan and couldn't save the $70k down payment. It's the second time I've had to do that. Rentals for apartments in this city are very expensive, worse if you want something that isn't in a bad neighborhood. Now for society, that means young people putting off leaving home because they can't afford anything. And even when they do leave, they often have to have a roommate. And even then it's hard to afford. So they're basically putting off adulthood. Couples who have to pinch pennies to afford a small apartment are not going to have children anytime soon, and they're not going to be very happy about how things are working. Which means they'll be much more likely to listen to the far Left eat-the-rich types who promise more taxes, more government spending, more government regulations. It's all a recipe for disaster. So why not reduce immigration and foreign workers for a while? Because business wouldn't like it?

Why Conservatives don't want to replace Poilievre with another soft, hand-wringing progressive conservative type. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/anthony-koch-how-conservatives-helped-the-left-ruin-the-west