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Really? And yet, they've been managing to eat for two years now. And if the IDF bombed everything they could, how come Palestinian casualties have been so low?

But Poilevre was going to put gay people in prison and ban abortions!!🫣

So as usual, it won't be what's best for the military, but which offer is best for regional economic improvement. And, without doubt, which companies in Liberal ridings will benefit the most.

Virtually everyone thinks immigration is excessive. It's especially excessive in that it's mainly bringing to Canada people who will never integrate into our society and values, people who have no job skills, no language skills, and will always be a drag on the economy and the social welfare budgets of every government under which they reside.

No, they actively discourage the government from hamstringing our economy to reduce carbon emissions when that will make absolutely no difference to global warming. ‘There is no version of reality where housing supply can be ramped up enough to meet the tidal wave of demand’ - BMO Chief Economist. https://archive.is/pvyJt

With the massive dishonesty that is the traditional mainstay of the Liberal Party, one has to watch what they do, and not so much what they say. Liberals promised fewer temporary foreign workers, instead we got more Do you remember when the Liberals in Ottawa promised to curb immigration, which had gotten out of control? Seems they don’t remember, either, because the latest figures show that they are going well above what they promised to drop them down to. What’s worse is that even with high unemployment and a housing crisis, a significant percentage of people coming into Canada are temporary residents on a work permit. “While Canada faces the lowest youth employment since 1998, the Liberals are on track to issue the most temporary foreign worker visas in a single year,” Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner said in a statement Monday. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lilley-liberals-promised-fewer-temporary-205534487.html Think runaway immigration is being fixed? Think again The Liberals claim they’ve stopped the flood of temporary workers, foreign students and other immigrants that blew up our housing crisis and devastated the youth job market. Yet Michelle Rempel Garner, the Conservatives’ immigration critic, tells Brian Lilley that the reality is nothing close to what they say. Five-million people remain here on temporary visas. Hundreds of thousands of more people are still being allowed in. And the asylum system is being exploited as a backdoor by thousands more making dubious refugee claims. Rempel Garner explains why we need drastic solutions to close temporary residency programs, weed out unfounded asylum claimants and start sending non-permanent workers home. Think runaway immigration is being fixed? Think again | National Post

Why would we need subs for coastal defence? Whatever subs could attack, planes from shore could do it better. The most likely use of these subs would be joint NATO defense against China and Russia. The Korean subs are more adaptable to different circumstances, and could be armed with anti-ship or ship-to-shore missiles. Perhaps more importantly, the Koreans could build them years earlier and have committed to building maintenance/repair facilities on both our coasts. The Germans are already backlogged with orders.

True. But you have to be putting forth an actual effort to accomplish that, which Israel clearly is not doing.

Don Wright, Harvard PHD in economics and former head of the BC public service under two different premiers, calls the immigration system Justin Trudeau brought in and which Carney is, to a degree, continuing: the single most significant Canadian public policy blunder since at least the 1930s. He calls the attempt to correct for an aging population using immigration a Ponzi scheme that has no hope of succeeding. The largely unplanned surge in population contributed to, inter alia: · Weakened workers’ bargaining power with employers, particularly for lower-paid workers; · The resulting “cheap labour strategy” lessened the incentive for business to innovate and invest in productivity improvements; · Younger Canadians finding it more difficult to get summer employment or that first significant job; · Canada having the 3rd worst growth in GDP per capita of 38 OECD countries since 2015; · More fuel on the fire of our housing crisis; · Further stress on our already overloaded health care, education and social services systems; and · Further stress on inadequate transportation infrastructure across the country. https://donwright.substack.com/p/the-bogus-idea-that-will-not-die

If Israel wanted all the Palestinians dead, all the Palestinians would be dead. Instead, their population has drastically increased while under Israeli 'occupation'. A colony that somehow managed to plant their temple underneath a big mosque.

That they wanted him dead. Maybe, if you have a bunch of religious fanatics next door who want you dead, it's not hte best of ideas to let them have total independence so they can import as many weapons as they want, and maybe also import foreign fighters from places like Iran so they can invade your territory and kill you.

China has plans to produce over one million kamikaze drones by next year. I don't think US production is even remotely as large. Ukraine produced 2 million last year and hopes to double that this year. Drones get used up fast in combat.

All this stuff about drones and missiles reminds me of a video I saw on the Germans' perspective of the Allied attack on Normandy and into France in WW2. It was an avalanche of guns, shells, tanks, ships and aircraft, manufactured in such numbers that Germany couldn't hope to compete by the American factory complex. What happens if there is a war today and the factories are all on the other side? Because China can churn out drones in their millions. It doesn't need permission, it doesn't need to worry about long approval processes and environmental studies and the like. It simply does it. Western warships all have anti-missile defenses, but they're designed to fight off one or two missiles. What do they do when fifty come in at the same time? Or a hundred? The Americans have a couple of hundred very expensive long-range armed drones. The rest of NATO has considerably less. The Russians and Ukrainians are flinging hundreds of drones and missiles at each other daily. The Chinese are building missiles and drones like nobody's business. China is building ships at four times the rate of the US. They are doing the same with missiles, and their drone tactics revolve around 'swarms' of AI drones launched together at a target. I don't see how ships can defend against that. And I think it will be years before any Western navy even begins to adapt. And that's just the air drones. Once you add in floating drones it would be a nightmare to deend against.

He probably didn't know enough about them. Certainly, in the interviews I've seen of Arabs (there was no such thing as Palestinians then) at the time of the 1948 war they all seemed to understand that the intent of the Arab armies was to kill every Jew or throw them back into the sea. That is still their desire today.

We absolutely DO do that kind of shit in Canada. I've seen it done in the public service. The bonuses executives get depend on meeting quotas for various identity groups, so they put pressure on managers, and managers do what's needed. I have heard from someone at the RCMP that they cannot start training for a new troop (usually about 30-35 people) until they have the required percentage of DEI-designated candidates. We do the same in lower levels like municipal policing, where any number of police from certain ethnic backgrounds have been hired despite undesirable findings in their past and then gotten into trouble. The write-up on TMU, which you clearly did not read, explains how they do this at that hospital. Denying it is just bullshit.

More likely it will show the cost of ten years of incompetent government.

All of Canada's growth is coming from the immense number of new people flooding into the country every year. That's fake growth as our GDP per capita continues to decline. Given that most of our exports to the US are covered by the free trade agreement, their tariffs haven't had much impact on us yet. You wouldn't know that from what the media and Carney say, of course, as both have an interest in pumping up the idea of a crisis.

This is already done. What if the video is an AI fake? A lot of the Democratic states have gone to no-bail bail now, like Canada has. Ie, nobody puts up any money or guarantees. They sign a promise and they get released.

Well, if you can prove that the Democrats did any of this stuff, as opposed to just left-wing shitheads doing it, then you've got a case. But I'm pretty sure you can't prove anything.

Same as the US president and our prime minister. I agree with him on that one. It's not a conspiracy theory, though. Nobody thinks there's some organized cabal behind it. As for what else he might have said, you can find a thousand politicians as dishonest - on both sides.

I agree with that in theory. The reality is, we have a shitty court system that is slow and inefficient. And when it comes to bail, that collides with the right to be presumed innocent. How do you presume someone is innocent and keep them locked up for months, maybe even years at a time, until their case is resolved?

Uh, cuz it would be blatantly unconstitutional? Do you guys only chamption the constitution when it suits your purpose? You love the 1st amendment but only for your opinions, and of course, love the 2nd amendment, but the rest can be hand-waved away as unimportant? I could agree with much of that. I wish the Right would get their act together, too, and stop acting like lunatics.

A professional? Is there a school you go to where they teach debating? I know there are debating societies/clubs but I doubt Kirk got any sort of 'professional' training in debating. Some people are fast thinkers and have facts at their fingertips and some aren't. We can see that in the House of Commons, or on the infrequent debates we see on TV. He debates people a lot and is comfortable in front of crowds. But the same could be said of almost any politician at any level. Should he not let people argue/debate with him? Should he require some sort of experience level before they are allowed to approach the microphone? Neither side in the US has any concept of those words.

We have a pretty good idea of what causes crime, esp violent crime. Unless someone can explain the 'coincidence' that communities/countries with higher levels of single-parent families produce children who are more likely to be criminals. No, it's not a race thing. No, it's not a poverty thing. It's a culture thing.

We don't keep many stats on immigrants here. But the ones we do have are not encouraging. The only immigrant group that performs well, economically, are the economic class. And even then, only the principal applicant, not their families. In other countries in Europe that do keep stats, immigrants have been shown to be a drain on governments for much of their lives.