I am Groot

All of the Left's social polices are products of the US culture war. All its equity and diversification policies. All it's trans nonsense and drag queen weirdness, the BLM bullshit, the incredibly patronizing preferences shown to blacks, the racist sentencing, weak law enforcement, and easy bail, the wide open immigration, the wallowing in guilt and snivelling, teary-eyed apologies over the alleged misdeeds of people long dead, all of it is red, white, and blue Yankee origin. All of this that the Liberal Party has embraced. It's all American. It's all about importing the American culture wars into Canada. And then people like you snivel if conservatives complain and accuse them of embracing US political slogans. Are you really this hypocritical, or are you just this stunningly ignorant?

I don't discount the financial and economic damage the Liberals have caused in the last ten years. But the real damage they've caused is to the idea of Canada, to its sense of unity and shared identity, to its culture, values, and traditions, and to the self-confidence of Canadians. It's had plenty of help from the NDP, and from others of the Left at all levels, who all constantly seek to gnaw away at the underpinnings of nationhood and delegitimize Canada as a nation. But just at the federal level, their sneering dismissal of Canada's traditions and values, its incessant messaging about the supposed abuses and 'genocides' in our past, its complete dismisal of our history of accomplishments as nothing more than a litany of crime, its steady efforts at fanning the flames of division between Canada and indigenous people and trumpeting the latter's rights and worthiness over everyone else, have shaken the confidence of many younger Canadians. Especially those who have gone through a school system completely taken over by the far Left. That especially includes legal education, and the graduates of that legal education who have then been appointed to the judiciary by the Liberals. Every program, every policy announcement, every grant for research, for books, for videos, for plays and art, for scholarships, and business comes laden with language strongly suggesting no one who is white is worthy of even applying. It's sycophany and paternalistic fawning over natives while showering them with money has done absolutely nothing to foster 'reconciliation'. The word noises the Left insists upon before every meeting, speech, lecture, class, and gathering about how they are on land that actually belongs to someone else have impressed no one. In fact, all this has done is make the natives angrier and more entitled as they are constantly told we don't belong here and this is actually THEIR country. At the same time, the left, and here most especially the Liberals, have enthusiastically flooded Canada with third-world people so fast that it's become impossible for them to integrate. In fact, they've been told through multiculturalism policies that they shouldn't integrate because we value their cultures (certainly more than ours). Millions of people from cultures that are, to put it politely, backward, have set up ethnic enclaves within Canada where they owe little allegiance to the country or its people, honor their own culture, values and religion, and look upon Canadians as nothing more than sheep to be sheared as they leverage their supposed oppressed status to garner more government money and power. In every way possible, the Liberals show preference for those with little or no history in or attachment to Canada, further reinforcing the suggestion that everyone else is here illegitimately and has no claim to ownership of this country. In no more than fifteen years, immigrants and their children will become the majority in Canada. At that point, these people, who have mostly retained their foreign culture and values, will be in charge. Like any other group, they will change Canada, to make it more like where they came from. Canada will then have little or no connection to the Canada of the past, and not even much to the Canada of the present. The values and cultures they own are harsh, cruel, and hostile to almost anyone who is not exactly like them, and have no tradition of compromise with weaker parties or freedom of speech. The children and grandchildren of today's Liberals will come to regret their parents' eager surrender of control of our identity, culture, and country to such people and might one day ask them "Why did you work so hard to destroy Canada?"

The time-honored idea is to put fast-moving stocks into TFSAs, like tech stocks. Because they'll grow the most. TFSAs aren't the place for dividend stocks. My dividend stocks and ETFS are in unregistered accounts to take advantage of the dividend tax credit. If you have US dividend stocks, they belong in an RRSP account. I have the US tech ETF XNTK in my US TFSA account.

It used to have one. It was 'temporarily' disabled during a revamp and was supposed to come back but hasn't. Yet?

Who was FIRED by Stephen Harper for his lack of ethics.

The present Liberal government is the most secretive in Canadian history. Finding any information at all about any program at all takes dedicated effort and patience, and is still often unsuccessful.

Americans don't have the staying power to put up with a sustained operation of sabotage and assassinations for long. Not to sustain a war they would know is wrong, to keep control of a country that doesn't belong to them and doesn't want them there. That isn't what those small-town Americans send their sons off to the military for. And politicians who supported and launched such a war would absolutely be legitimate military targets.

That's an awfully left-wing answer for a 'conservative'. If they come in and do no work, are they still hardworking because they're brown?

Another Liberal party recession is upon us - aided by Trump. The EDC points out that beyond this year’s poor GDP numbers, in the medium-term Canada will continue to be held back by low productivity, which is the result of lagging investment. C.D. Howe Institute economists noted recently in FP Comment that in Q2 2025, machinery and equipment investment per worker in Canada was less than one-third of what it was in the U.S., and new investment “is falling short of depreciation and population growth, so the stock per worker is falling.” A decade of bad tax policy, expanding regulation, and unchecked government spending will do that. https://archive.is/q7L1P

And then there's the little matter of sexual assaults/rape. What happens when you introduce the most misogynistic men in the world from societies where a woman who dares to show a shoulder or ankle is considered a whore to a Western country? One thing for sure, our governments will never give out this information.

I've mentioned a few times that we are getting almost no information from our governments on the results of our immigration/refugee programs. Other countries that do have nothing good to report. It seems two thirds of the people on welfare in Germany are immigrants or migrants.

Here's another chart for you.

But what about government investment?! Surely GOVERNMENT investment can help pump up the economy and get it moving, right!? Every single one of the highlighted EV projects has either been cancelled, delayed, or gone into bankruptcy.

What do we need to rebuild our economy? Business investment. But we're not getting it. Notice how much worse it looks if you take out housing? And then there's the mining industry. Notice how investment in it has plunged, especially after Carney got elected and vowed to keep Liberal policies in place?

What he's also glossing over is that our 'better than the best' deal is based on the free trade agreement, which is up for negotiation next year.

OECD forecasts Canada to be LAST among all OECD members in GDP per capita growth right through at least 2030.

Maybe if we could develop a bunch of these, we'd have fewer unemployed, more economic activity, and lower budget deficits.

I don't have a hero. You couldn't pay me enough to go and watch a politician speak. Nor could you have anytime in the last fifty years. All I'm doing is holding Carney to his own boasting during the election. And you act like not getting a deal is nothing. We're subject to heavy American tariffs, and month by month, auto manufacturing is drifting south. Trump is quite content with this. The question is, why are you?

I think Trump wants Carney to deal with a lot of issues that the Liberals don't want to deal with. Like Chinese influence and espionage. Like organized crime and money laundering for international drug rings and terrorist groups. Like hordes of unscreened Muslims and Indians pouring into Canada and showing up at the US border. Like freeing critical earth mining from the heavy regulatory burden that makes it unprofitable. And Carney wants no part of ANY of that.

You mean like Carney did? First, you clearly know nothing whatsoever about Donald Trump. He never shows respect for people in weak positions who stand up to him. He loathes them and just wants to crush them like bugs for his own vainglorious ego. Second, respect? He mocked transgenders even though Carney has a transgender child. He said Carney was only popular because Trump made him popular. Third, remember the big tough man in the election? “Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer. Pierre Poilievre’s plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. Because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him.” Yeah, okay buddy! But all you've done since then is flatter, praise, and suck up to the man. He's done everything but get down on his knees and blow the guy in public.

Conservatives demand an end to the billion-dollar boondoggle of the Liberal government's DEI. https://www.westernstandard.news/canadian/conservatives-target-liberal-dei-hiring-with-new-petition/68183

Due to the proximity of the Vancouver and Seattle areas, analysis of tanker movements on the West Coast must include Canadian and American traffic. Essentially all tankers must transit the Strait of Juan de Fuca bordered to the north by Vancouver Island and to the south by Washington State. Of the approximately 1.2 million barrels per day of oil that goes though the Strait of Juan de Fuca, about 500,000 barrels per day of mainly Alaskan oil similar in grade to Canada's diluted oilsands crude moves south to the Seattle area. About 700,000 barrels per day moves from the Vancouver region transported by various means, including tugboat-towed barges, refined fuel tankers and, five days a month, an outbound tanker carrying crude from Kinder Morgan's Vancouver pipeline terminus. Despite hundreds of millions of barrels of seaborn petroleum movements over many decades, the only significant spill on the West Coast didn't come from a tanker. It occurred when the BC Ferries vessel Queen of the North foundered near Price Rupert with 1,750 barrels of fuel on board. https://www.miningandenergy.ca/read/sinking-the-myth-of-dangerous-west-coast-oil-tanker-traffic

Tankers go back and forth between Alaska and Washington every day. They aren't a problem but Canadian tankers are? Unless an American tanker has problems. Short term? As in our lifetimes? The economic activity generated by developing oil and gas, and their export, provides huge amounts of taxes to the federal government. Carney is the bad guy.

What court said what oil/gas belonged to natives? They will if the federal government signals it intends to see a pipeline through.

It didn't belong to them the first time or now.