I am Groot

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

All the other provinces are on board with a west-to-east pipeline except Quebec. Which is the base for the Liberals, and one they can't afford to lose too many seats to the BQ in. BC has no problem with exporting its own fossil fuels, including coal, but doesn't feel the need to oblige another province. Well, too bad. They don't have any way to stop it.

Poilievre is the leader of the opposition and a conservative. Eby is a socialist and his impacable opponent in all things. No engagement between them is possible as they operate on two entirely different realities. Eby wants the government to run everything. Poilievre believes in private enterprise and Capitalism. Eby loves borrowing, while Poilevre wants to stop borrowing. Like you, Eby will oppose everything and anything Poilievre supports. No credible scientist thinks fossil fuel threatens human prosperity or survival.

If they discovered oil under their reserves, you better damn well believe they'll be pumping it for all they're worth and building a pipeline right through the sacred habitat of whatever the hell gets in their way.

The only veto Quebec has is cowardice on the part of the federal government.

They don't. Under our constitution, only the federal government can regulate interprovincial trade and exports. It also has full control of the coastlines. If they want a pipeline to go through, there's nothing BC can legally do about it.

It's not easy to find people when they look and sound like Americans, when they can move quite easily on your roads and highways, through your cities, without anyone noticing. Special forces are not an investigative organization. And there aren't enough of them to be used to guard every bridge, refinery, pumping station, electricity substation, power plant, airport, and military base in America, PLUS every Republican senator, congressman, and cabinet official against, say, a ten-man unit of JTF2. A couple of dozen such 10-man units would wreak havoc across America. Although if I were in charge, I'd have them go to Washington and simultaneously attack a bunch of Republican senators and congressmen while they were sleeping with either no security or just a one or two-man unit. Just like that, Trump loses his majority in the senate, and maybe congress. That's assuming they can't just take out the prez and his VP. Neither has the security meant to stand up against a large group of special forces people.

Because it's not... practical.

Yeah, I don't think the Ottawa River Parkway Kichi Zibī MīIkan is on an 'ancient trail route', especially since the natives had no wagons or horses, so usually travelled by canoe. Don't know about yours, but mine came by boat.

Goofy answer. We built the roads. Why should we put some made-up indigenous name no one can pronounce on them? Especially given that the natives had no written language?

We have been told again and again ad nauseam for fifty years that multiculturalism is a great thing and diversity is our strength. Anyone who knows anything of history, though, knows diversity is a weakness, not a strength. It leads to disunity and division, can be exploited by others, and often leads to the breakup of nations - often violently. You can have a successful multiethnic/multiracial nation, but not one with multiple cultures. Especially if those cultures have basic values that are hostile to each other. Our culture of freedom of speech and opinion, for example, clashes with that of newcomers, esp Muslims, for whom any insult or denigration of their 'prophet' or book leads to violence. Why? Because in their country, anyone doing so will be arrested and imprisoned and perhaps even killed for daring to deny the prophet. Even drawing a picture of him can have you beaten to death. Likewise, our culture of equality between the sexes is anathema to Muslims - as well as to many others, notably Indians, who come from violently misogynistic societies. It is no coincidence that sexual assaults have been rising steadily in keeping with the new waves of people from these cultures. Our media won't talk about it, but in other countries like the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands, published statistics show a hugely lopsided number of those arrested are foreign-born, usually from the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.

If that is true, then we are doomed because trying to address an aging population that way will not work. CD Howe concluded that we would need to be taking in 7 million immigrants a year by 2050 to have an ever-increasing population, so we'd better find a better way to improve and expand our economy. The best, of course, would be to invest in technological improvements, which would require fewer staff but still lead to increased productivity. We should have been giving preference to Western-educated couples for the last multiple decades, as well as those from some particularly high-skilled nations like Japan and South Korea. Bringing in people who aren't highly skilled and will be a continuing drain on the government due to the low pay they will receive will not only fail to help pay for pensions and social programs but will also require those programs to support them. The problem is the liberal elites continue to have an absurd belief in cultural relativity - the belief all cultures are of equal value and that it would be wrong to presume ours is better. That's why they find the idea of giving potential immigrants a values test to see how compatible they are with our values and culture to be 'racist'. It is a known scientific fact that after the first waves of Homo Heidelbergensis left Africa, they evolved differently to tolerate a different, colder environment. Which is why virtually everyone in the world has some leftover strands of neanderthal in their DNA. Except Sub-Saharan Africans. They evolved there, where they were, in a slightly different way.

Want to do postdoctoral research at the University of Calgary? Not so fast! Are you the right race? https://research.ucalgary.ca/postdocs/funding-opportunities/provosts-postdoctoral-awards-indigenous-and-black-scholars

98% of job postings at Canadian universities are clearly discriminatory and promote reverse racism. All 10 universities sampled—and 477 of the 489 job advertisements reviewed—employed some form of DEI requirement or strategy in filling academic vacancies. In other words, 98 percent of the academic postings directly or indirectly discriminated against candidates and/or threatened academic freedom. https://aristotlefoundation.org/study/dei-and-academic-hiring-in-public-universities-an-index-of-university-discrimination-in-canada/

Why would they think you were an immigrants? I thought you were Russian. Are you wearing some sort of cultural outfit from Russia?

When there are shortages of workers, wages rise in order to attract them. The only reason wages would stay frozen would be that there isn't much demand for workers in that area, or it is being filled in other ways - like with foreign workers or immigrants.

The Liberals are the people's party! They're constantly putting in place tax policies that help the everday folks!

No, my proof that it's untrue is they've spent the last ten years weakening laws and giving put pats on the wrist to violent offenders. I have seen zero pushback from judges or from Liberal party members, nor from the NDP or BQ. And all of these people voted to keep bail laws in place just this week. I'm actually waiting for the SC to find an excuse to decide the mandatory minimum sentences for murder are 'unconstitutional' so they can give lower sentences.

That is so blatantly untrue, I have to wonder why you'd post it. You want to know who disagrees? All the judges in Canada, and the entirety of the Liberal Party, the Bloc Québécois, and the NDP. Probably the Greens too, though, who cares what they think or say. I saw a poorly created cartoon some short time back. It was two football teams facing off. The one team were uniformed police. The other team were politicians and judges. The judges were the blockers. The whistle blew, and the judges forced their way through the police so that the violent criminal with a knife could race through and gleefully start stabbing innocent people on the other side of the police. That's the way a growing number of people are coming to see the crime problem. Especially here where Trudeau has spent ten years appointing social justice advocates to the judiciary.

Sometimes people are just bad. They can't be rehabilitated. Others, there's no point. They've done something too evil and should be locked away forever. You mean like we had before the Liberals came along and changed the rules?

Trump is a liar. I doubt he could speak more than two sentences without slipping a lie in. Yes, Mark Carney is also a liar, but he hasn't had time to reach the magnificent heights of dishonesty that Trump scaled years ago. He's just not in Trump's class.

Can you imagine the media reaction if Harper had done something like this, or if Poilevre got in and did it? They'd be running with it 24/7. But because a Liberal did it, they really aren't interested.

JTF2 can defeat America all on its own. But not by fighting them in Canada. We have a 5,000-mile border. Break into teams of ten, slip across the border, and start killing US politicians from the governing party. If that doesn't get them to pull back, start blowing up bridges, railways, power stations, pipeline pumping stations, etc. Tons of soft targets it would take ten million troops to adequately guard from special operators.

The Century Initiative. The Liberal Party of Canada. The big banks. Brookfield. The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the CBC... And if you think I'm making up the media involvement, just do a quick Google.

Where I see lots of connections between corporations, lobbyists, and electors is in the Liberal Party of Canada. Does that mean they're fake populists? As for deregulation, more and more economists are coming to agree that Canada actually NEEDS massive deregulation. Trump is already massively unpopular. But that doesn't mean the stuff he spouts will be because he didn't come up with any of it. Trump merely seized on what was already massively unpopular by the people but completely ignored by the elites, like uncontrolled immigration. Which is what we have in Canada today, pushed by the elites, pushed by the politicians with lots of connections with corporations and lobbyists...