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It remains difficult to explain how Canada persists in its devotion to these concepts. Multiculturalism has been around since the 1970s, brought in by the elder Trudeau. But he never intended it to go this far and expressed his regret over the policy, saying it had become "twisted to celebrate a newcomers's country of origin instead of the newcomer becoming a part of the Canadian fabric." Such noted luminaries as Germany's chancellor Angela Merkal, Britain's PM David Cameron, France's PM Nicolas Sarkozy who once embraced the concept wound up rejecting it absolutely more than a decade ago. But in Canada, you either trumpet the supposed wonders of multiculturalism or you're a nazi/fascist/xenophobe/white supremacist. Oddly, the UK's present Labour party PM perhaps expressed the problem with multiculturalism most cleanly when he said Britain "risked becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together." Naturally, when it was pointed out to him how much Labour relies on the votes of Muslim immigrants, he recanted, but he wasn't wrong with his original statement. And that's what's happening here. As far back as 2017, an Immigration Canada report warned that ethnic enclaves were growing, immigrants weren't assimilating, weren't learning the language as well as previous generations, and that friction between separate groups was growing. Naturally, the Trudeau government ignored it and cranked the immigration knob to overdrive. A nation requires a sense of shared identity, of shared values and beliefs. Without that, it will inevitably collapse when things get rough, probably violently. There are many examples of this through history but no examples that I'm aware of where a nation with multiple groups that have different values and beliefs somehow helped a nation stay together. One of the worst things the colonial powers did in Africa was establish arbitrary borders and then grant these new 'nations' their independence. Naturally, they all collapsed into internal bickering and war because those borders encompassed many different groups with different cultures, values, and beliefs. We've seen what just having two 'distinct societies' in Canada can do to harm national unity and threaten the existence of the country, and yet we're growing more. We're bringing in millions of people from distinct cultural groups and then telling them not to bother to integrate because they have a wonderful culture and should celebrate it. How long before real violence starts to break out between these growing ethnic groups?

You missed the grandiose announcement of Build Canada Homes? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-new-housing-agency-1.7632981 Several studies have pointed out the government barriers to homebuilding, including a myriad of taxes and fees, which started to rapidly escalate in 2015 now account for a third of the cost of new homes. In Vancouver it's even more than that. https://cdhowe.org/publication/buyers-beware-cost-barriers-building-housing-canadian-cities/ So you don't want a crackdown on crime, on organized crime and money laundering, on foreign influence and espionage, on the unscreened mass of third-world migrants coming to Canada? Clearly, you're a Liberal.

There have been any number of signals, especially of late, that what the US wants is more of a total package, not just economic. They want agreement on military expansion, on reining in organized crime, especially the money laundering, on reining in Chinese influence and foreign, esp Chinese intelligence and espionage. They want us to cut back on the myriad regulations that prevent our exploiting our natural resources to mine critical metals as well as oil and gas. They want us to stop letting in masses unscreened or barely screened people, especially Muslims (who are most likely to want to commit terrorist acts against them). I don't think the Conservatives would really have a problem with any of that. But I can certainly see where the Liberals would strongly resist. I believe he could get a deal with Trump. I believe he's signalled often that his primary interest is expanding the economy by cutting back on restrictions and regulations for natural resources industries. He'd also much much faster in reining in crime and foreign influence than the sluggish/indifferent/unwilling Liberals, and would work to balance the budget.

Why are you not convinced of the absurdity of slashing foreign workers when we have a rising unemployment rate? The unemployment rate among young people who would be looking for their entry-level jobs is now 14%, but over 16% in major cities. I'm okay with agricultural foreign workers, and to an extent, okay with certain semi-isolated areas with unpleasant jobs like fish plants and meat packing plants. I'm not okay with using it in big cities. In 2015 Canada had 15k asylum claims. The acceptance rate was 40%. Last year, we had 190k claims and the acceptance rate was 87%. None of these people were selected for their skills or abilities. None were screened other than against terrorist watch lists. Many had no ID, having destroyed it en route to make it harder to identity and thus deport them. Most came through safe third countries to get here, even travelling through the US to get here because we accept virtually everyone. It now takes four years after filing a claim to get an initial hearing. Claimants are eligible for health care and social services throughout.

When the Arabs could slaughter Jews and not face any retaliation. That was what you were going to say, right?

OR he doesn't believe it's good for the Liberal Party. Like maybe the Americans are insisting we do something about China's influence in our politics, and maybe they're demanding we slash the number of newcomers who are unscreened, especially Muslims. And maybe they're demanding we crack down on money laundering by organized crime, and get control of the ports that organized crime controls. If the Conservatives were in power, they'd instantly agree since all that matches their agenda. But there's no way Liberals will.

We're not going to double housing starts. So we should slash immigration and foreign workers. And ESPECIALLY all those phony asylum seekers.

Chop immigration and foreign workers, and you don't need a multi-billion-dollar agency. The private sector has no problem building homes if they're not wrapped in regulations and taxed to death. They'll soon take care of the shortage if we stop importing hundreds of thousands of people every year.

I have seen nothing that resembles a plan and nothing that resembles an actual goal. I have seen nothing that indicates they are resolute about solving ANY problem. As opposed to just flexing and posing for the cameras. You want to solve the housing problem? Slash immigration and foreign workers down to 100k apiece for a while. But nope, they won't do that. And it's easy. Just stop giving out new visas for foreign workers and immigrants. And crack down hard on all the fake refugees. That means refusing to accept applications from those who come from or through a safe country, putting anyone who arrives by plane without documents back on the plane they came in, and drastically limiting grounds for asylum while cutting the process to the bone. This bullshit of having newly arrived asylum claimants wait four years for an initial hearing has to be fixed FAST. But no, instead we'll spend $15 billion on some grandiose housing czar and organization to push paperwork around and issue briefing notes to the media.

The more people who complain, the more likely the government will stir itself to do something about what they're complaining about. Do you really think the government will do something for any other reason? What finally stirred the Liberals to grudgingly cut back on immigration and foreign students? It was the growing complaints and their fear of losing votes.

Four of those projects were already approved and under construction! Sure, and they've been working on it for years. They have already awarded the engineering contract. They're awaiting final approvals, but those were expected fairly soon anyway.

It's the same government. It's the same team doing the same stuff. Really? I have no difficulty seeing the similarities. They both lie like rugs, and they both make big promises they don't even try to keep. Trudeau led a style-over-substance government. For him, it was the big announcement that mattered, not following through. Carney is smelling like the same thing. No, he SAYS he gets it. Or as John Robson says: Non-trivially, his soaring ambitions glide past the ear and conscious mind and induce opium dreams in the subconscious. Like his election-night pledge “to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.” Raaaahr! Except, um, what things? How? Instead, he sauntered off for a break and some foreign trips.

This is a great write-up on Mark Carney's beahviour so far, and why so many of us on the Right are more than slightly cynical about what he's saying. The PM has a penchant for making grandiose promises that are unachievable and incoherent With Parliament resuming after a long hiatus, people are wondering whether Prime Minister Mark Carney will finally start keeping his promises. No, of course not. Have you ever really listened to the man talk? If so, and it’s remarkable how many people including journalists seem not to have tried hard, it’s very troubling. It’s not easy given his soothing, even soporific way of saying nothing deceitfully. But his habit of fudging details while soaring into cosmic incoherence on the big picture and erupting if questioned is no recipe for competent government let alone the transformative kind. An obvious case in point is the promised “austerity and investment” budget. So he’s tackling overspending while stimulating economic growth, right? As in increasing spending while cutting it. Which he won’t achieve, not because it’s hard politically, actuarially or intellectually but because it’s literally impossible. Mark Carney's vaporous narcissism | National Post

Not true. There was a time before the PLO became a thing, when 40% of Palestinians worked in Israel and the standard of living in the Palestinian territories was rising far above that of many nearby Arab countries. Then came the Intifada, and the Second Intifida, and the fences and checkpoints and gates and walls started going up and expanding.

Compromise on what? Cooperate with what? What if the ideas he comes out with, presuming he ever does, are notably bad? Should we cooperate nonetheless?

Trudeau's ministers are still here. His judges and laws are still here. His senators are still here. All the people he put in place running crown corporations and directing government agencies are still here. His mass immigration and foreign worker imports are still here. His absurd and divisive DEI policies are still here. We're still directing billions and billions towards useless climate change goals. We're still directing tens of billions to try and get successful businesses instead of just letting them do their thing. Do you know how housing works? Take off all the government regulations other than for safety, take off the taxes and fees, and they'll build as much housing as is needed. The higher the price of apartments and houses, the more they'll build. IF they can make a profit. But no, instead we'll have the government get into the home building business and spend tens of billions to build shit at a much lower pace and higher price than private industry can. I think Poilievre would have gotten a deal with Trump. I think Poilevre would have already drastically lowered immigration and foreign workers. I think he'd already have changed a bunch of laws on crime, and withdrawn Liberal bills that got in the way of industry and business. By contrast, what has Carney done? Gone around the country, spewing borrowed money everywhere he stops.

New government the same as the old government. Same ministers. Same policies. Same priority on divisive DEI and climate change. Same hyper immigration and foreign workers. Same Liberal idea that if businesses are in trouble, the thing to do is give them government money. Same distrust of Capitalism. Same belief government should do things private industry does much better and cheaper. Same massive tangle of regulations to delay and obstruct business and industry. Same high taxes. Same big deficits. Wait, strike that, even bigger deficits.

I struggle to find the logic in this view. Things are bad, you agree, but they won't get better as long as people keep complaining? What should they do? Congratulate the Liberals and urge them to continue?

I'm sure there are. But there seems to be a lot more on the Palestinian side. Why? Because they elected Hamas as their leaders. And Hamas has been in charge of the school system for almost 20 years. That system has taught young children that the most glorious ambition they can hold is to die a martyr in the holy war against Jews. It's taught them Jews are less than animals, that they are monsters despised by God. Their religious texts back that up. Douglas Murray said that German soldiers needed to get drunk before and after gunning down civilians. But the Palestinians were joyful, full of glee in the videos they took to brag about their actions in murdering old people, blowing up families hiding in bomb shelters, setting fire to young girls while laughing at their screams. They called home to brag about it to proud parents who wept with joy.

Yet almost everything the Palestinians have done in the last 75 years is along those lines. Murdering old men coming out of synagogue, murdering civilians in a Pizza shop, shooting civilans at a bus stop, taking over a school and holding the children as hostages, hijacking civilians aircraft and shooting people, shooting athletes at the Olympics, ramming cars into civilans, luring teenagers into false romantic liaisons so they can be tortured and murdered, firing rockets and missiles into civilan towns and villages, floating fire baloons over the border in hopes of setting fire to orchards, setting off bombs in shopping malls, aircraft, restaurants, buses, and trains. This is your 'resistance'.

That simply isn't possible. Things would go from bad to worse if they did. You think raping young girls and burning them alive constitutes resistance, do you?

Mmmm, no, there are quite a few more. You forgot that other large group that is so mysterious to you: the sane.

The Ontario Liberals need a new leader. How about... Doug Ford!? https://archive.is/F8ISS

This is an interesting write-up on the South Korean offering, not just for subs but artillery, tanks, and other vehicles. https://noahscornerofrandomstuff.substack.com/p/hanwha-for-canada-hanwhas-package

75 years ago. Now if only your side could acknowledge the Palestinians are the ones who have been commiting terrorism for the last 75 years.