I am Groot

9 in 10 Canadians face barriers to accessing primary care, too. And why is it with you lefties, there only seem to be two systems in the world: Ours and the US. You guys are obsessed with the Americans.

You're acting like an adolescent asshat. None of the above were scandals except for airbus, which, if you could read, you would have noticed your own cite said came to light after he left office. As if anyone gave a damn about that by the following election. He wasn't forced out by it and you know it. Talk about weak sauce.

Really? So the massive slaughter of Christians, Hindus, and the like throughout the centuries was all because they were fighting against Islamophobia? Is that your position? Do you have any idea how many millions of Hindus various Muslim warlords slaughtered during the so-called Golden age of Islam? Their incessant attacks on Europe only stopped when they fell into civil war themselves. Was that due to Islamophobia? There have been 66,800 terrorist attacks in the name of Islam since 9/11. Is that all responding to 'islamophobia'? I'm not seeing any progress in the Muslim world. They seem instead to be degenerating into a society of bedsheet-wearing religious fanatics.

Which could easily describe almost everything you post here.

After Carney spent the entire election period scaring people and calling this the most urgent crisis of our generation. Then he got in and sent everyone on vacation. They're still on vacation. Budget? We don't need no steenking budget! In the interim, he's going around throwing cheques for borrowed money at all kinds of problems. But he isn't actually trying to address the root source of Canada's miserable productivity and economic decline. Which is his government and its massively expensive regulatory burden and the huge influx of cheap, mostly low-skilled foreign workers and immigrants. The problem is that we don't know the value of the investments. If I put a million dollars into VCE and XEQT, but also hold five million in Brookfield stock, then yeah, I'm technically invested in hundreds (actually thousands) of entities, but Brookfield is the one I have the most interest in. We don't know how his holdings are ordered. We only know he has millions in stock options in Brookfield because of SEC filings. What should have happened was that he sold everything and let an outside investment manager take over his money and invest as they chose. He should also exercise those stock options and sell them. Brookfield's interests are so widely dispersed that virtually anything he does can impact the company. Poilievre is a red herring. He does not have the power to affect the profitability of any of the companies he's invested in.

No, we're still at "this not Christian law and never has been". How else do you speak of a group? And if this globe-spanning group varies so much, how come, with the exception of old Yugoslavia, they all hate Jews? How come they all hate women? How come none of them treat women and men equally or treat muslims and non-muslims the same? How come there are no pride parades? For such a widely varied group of different races, cultures, histories, etc., they seem to have some remarkable similarities. So even 120 years ago we were still more socially advanced than the Muslim world of today? Are you saying that in another 150-200 years, Muslims might become as peaceful and tolerant as we are? Why? It's an indication of the mindset, of the offhand cruelty and ruthlessness, of the social backwardness in their laws and societies. The burka, the niqab, and even the hijab show that, unlike in the Christian world, Muslims still go by the vicious and ignorant twaddle in their holy book, which treats women like cattle. And they haven't been getting more liberal, but less liberal. Great masses of these cultists are out in the streets seemingly every week in cities across the country to take over streets, parks and courtyards so they can lift their asses high into the air and pray for the death of the Jews.

What philosophy do you speak of? The one that says people should pay for what they want, not borrow from future generations?

Harper did not leave in disgrace. Neither did Mulroney, though he was a thief. Chretien left in disgrace. The Trudeaus left ahead of mobs with pitchforks.

Old Liberal: "Give me more money!" Conservatives: "But we're broke!" Old Liberal: "Borrow it!" Conservatives: "But we already owe a ton!" Old Liberal: "Borrow more!" Conservative: "But the debt is going to crush your children and grandchildren." Old Liberal: "That's their problem! I only care about myself! Now give me more money or I won't vote for you!"

Every rant by devoted Liberals online starts with a disclaimer professing how they're really politically neutral, then goes on to spew anti-conservative vitriol that makes no sense and is clearly not the product of an unbiased person. I love how he says immigration is not a big deal and has nothing to do with the housing crisis, despite every economist saying otherwise. Doesn't mention the massive surge in foreign workers either. He blames the Tories for bringing in the GST, despite the fact the GST was nothing more than a replacement for an already existing tax that people simply didn't see. I guess the writer doesn't feel people should know what they're paying in tax. Harper also cut the GST by two points but I don't see that mentioned. Blames the Tories for running on 'anger and nostalgia' when the Liberals and NDP have been running on fear and greed for decades. I guarantee whoever put this together has never voted conservative in their life and never will. Probably a unionist or activist.

Circumstances change. Income trusts were fine for small organizations. But when large corporations make preparations to declare themselves income trusts at a cost to the government of many billions, then you have to do something about it. Do you want politicians to stick to their promises regardless of how circumstances change?

I like your American style attack ad. Who gathered all this up for you? Re: voting records. Anyone familiar with Canada knows that parties vote as a whole. Pointing out Poilievre's 'voting record' is like pointing out the Conservative party's voting record. You don't break from the party, especially if you're a cabinet minister or parliamentary assistant. So let's say delete all that "Voted against" and just replace it with the following: "The Conservative party opposed bringing in still more expensive benefits while we already have a massive deficit." As for the second part. I'm not going to go point by point to demonstrate the dishonesty of each of them. My time is more valuable than that. Suffice to say, it's all carefully cherry-picked and one-sided descriptions from people for whom honesty is a foreign concept. If you find any one or two bad, then that can be discussed. But doing a cut and paste of a lot of BS from some far left site is not going to lead to discussion. Are you at all familiar with Canadian politics? Where are you located?

There is a strong conservative media presence south of the border, but none in Canada. There is no FOX news here, and no Brietbart. There are no conservative newspapers other than the Sun, and the National Post (and please don't even start with talking about how the rest of the Postmedia papers are conservative. I read them. They're not. The Globe and Mail seems to be competing with the Toronto Star these days, trying to outflank them on the Left.

The fact you are ignoring is that the CBC will oppose ANY Conservative party leader. They will seek, as will the Liberals, as will other left media, to portray him or her as an evil, slavering far-right white supremacist who hates gays, minorities, immigrants, poor people, etc. More to the point, there are a LOT of people in this country who suck on the government teat. Ten percent of the population works in the public sector. Add all the people who work for companies that cater to the government, or who work in all the consultant groups, NGOs, activist, cultural, and lobby groups that get funding from the government, and THEIR families, and that's a huge number of people who have little or no interest in electing someone who will cut down on government spending. They will alwas vote for left wing parties. As will newly arrived ethnic groups like Muslims, who are certainly disgusted with left-wing social views and values, but who want more immigration and more accommodation for their people. That's a lot of people who are determined to hate whoever runs for the Conservatives.

In renewable energy. Anyway, I thought you guys didn't like cheap slogans. Energy superpower? What the hell does that even mean? Nothing. It's just a cheap expression to throw out to impress the gullible. They're too divorced from the realities of economics. And generally speaking, poorly educated or miseducated. Do you not live in this country? Not because Poilivre said so because anyone who has watched public projects for the last twenty years knows so. What other countries do in a week, we take a month. What they do in a year, we take a decade. Doesn't matter if it's pipelines, bridges, highways, buildings or rail. Years and years of studies, planning, arguments, more studies, legal fights, etc. And then even when we get started, construction is so bound up in a mass of red tape that it takes way longer to actually complete anything. Did you hear we're renovating the parliament buildings? Yeah, well, it's been ongoing for a decade now. Will take another decade. It will only cost us about $4.5-$5 billion. Ottawa has a new LRT! It took only a decade to agree on, and it's now 12 years into building it. Nobody is quite sure when or if it will ever be completed. How exciting! I remember the announcement of the new LRT in Ottawa about fourteen years ago. Compare how long it took to build the Transmountain pipeline in the 1950s with how long it took to twin it. Canada doesn't build anything quickly nor cheaply. Remember Harper's plan to rebuild the navy? Yes, Harper. We still don't have any warships. None will be delivered for at least five more years. Building a port in Churchill is a waste of money. It will be closed most of the year. They need to build one on the East Coast, but Quebec won't let a pipeline go through, and Carney doesn't have the balls to overrule them. Don't even try, bud. Obviously, underlying assets affect the price of the ETF. But Brookfield is 4.5% of one ETF. It's something like 0.1% of my overall investments. So I really don't care about what happens to Brookfield. Nor would Poilievre. It's not a blind trust if he knows what's in it. And he certainly knows he has stock options in Brookfield. As for Poilievre, if he's diversified, then Brookfield is not a big part of his holdings. And he's not in a position to impact the company anyway. Unlike Carney.

Why would you even imagine that was true? Conservatives have been close to unanimous about that. Everyone else has been close to unanimous in opposing that. urban lefties have no concept of what this country's wealth was based on. They don't think we need the natural resources industry. The've fully bought into climate alarmism lies and many of them want to shut the oil and gas industry down. It's not terrible news. It's not good news. It's really not news at all. It's a distraction. It's essentially meaningless, as the German reporter in my cite pointed out, until and unless we put in place pipelines and port upgrades. And given how long it takes this country to do such things, there is ZERO chance any of that will take place before the next federal election, even if that's four years away. I don't think you know much about investments. To say one has investments in an ETF like VCE is merely to say he has investments in Canada. It means nothing. But Carney has direct shares and stock options in Brookfield and a couple of others. And unlike what's in an ETF these are not a tiny subset of his portfolio like a stock in an ETF. And there is no 'blind trust' that keeps him from knowing this.

I'm invested in VCE. So what? I don't consider that I can substantially benefit from anything Brookfield does. It's only 4.4% of the ETF, after all. And the ETF is one of many stocks and ETFs I own. I don't have stock options on Brookfield like Carney does, though.

So on the subject of foreign workers: Late last year, the federal Liberal government said it would cap the number of people entering Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program at 82,000 for 2025, but so far this year they’ve allowed in 105,000. Meanwhile, the International Mobility Program was supposed to be capped at 285,000 and in the first six months, we’ve added 302,000 through this program. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/liberals-promised-fewer-temporary-foreign-workers-we-got-more?itm_source=index

Oh yeah, he's 'on it', meaning he's 'on' his public relations tour. https://x.com/junonewscom/status/1960334841683312725

Do you think all people are really created equal? There are a lot of people who who have low IQs and who really can't manage much more than a minimum wage job. How old are you anyway? That's not meant as an insult, but I know young people who really were trying for such jobs. One tried for and got a part-time job as a dishwasher. Another is a construction labourer. A third worked last summer at Staples. Lots of young people are applying for such jobs, even if they pay minimum wage. Now is that enough to fill those jobs? Perhaps not. So then the pay rate for those jobs is being artificially suppressed by the use of foreign workers. So again I ask, why are we bringing over hundreds of thousands of foreign workers? Suuuure, they do. Businesses wouldn't pretend they can't find Canadians so they can hire a TFW. That would be... wrong.

If we have a stagnant job market and economy, should we be bringing in hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers and immigrants? I'm quite sure you're aware that many companies deliberately target foreign workers because they're more biddable and cheaper. They're not interested in hiring Canadians, and in particular, hiring new graduates and training them. If you can't find enough people at the wage you want to pay then pay more. If you can't find enough people, then declare bankruptcy and do something else. Because frankly, if you're not employing Canadians in your business, your business probably isn't of much value to this country. And yet he was massively more competent, not to mention honest, than the telegenic and charismatic Trudeau.

And yet there are many Canadians whose education, IQ, and skill level are qualified for nothing better than minimum wage jobs. There are many others, primarily youthful, who are just starting out. I took minimum wage jobs when I was younger myself. In fact, it was a minimum wage job that qualified me to get hired for a better job, and then that one that qualified me to get hired for a good job. Minimum wage jobs are often the building blocks of a resume, especially for poorer and lower middle class people. And right now the unemployment rate for younger Canadians is 14.5% while over 20% were unable to find summer jobs that, in many cases, would help pay their way through college. My world has a familiarity with TFWs, refugees, and new immigrants. I assure you that TFWs largely DO just keep quiet and do what they're told. There are no labour boards where they come from, and if they get fired, they have to go home.

You don't have any curiosity as to why she has a degree in mechanical engineering and can't get any interest? Do you have any idea how many immigrants and foreign workers come in with engineering degrees? Electrical engineering grad and can't get any interest. Why? Either his university is pumping out graduates of an unwanted course, or we're filling these jobs with foreigners and immigrants. In either case, we should be looking to do something about it. AI Overview While specific counts of all foreign-trained engineers arriving in Canada aren't readily available, data shows that foreign-born individuals constitute 43% of all engineers and are a significant portion of the workforce in scientific and engineering fields. Recent international students in Canada also show high interest in engineering programs, with 15,365 international undergraduate engineering students in 2022, making up 18.1% of total undergraduate enrollment. Like Stephen Harper!

You really want things to get to the point where Canadians are lining up for a job at McDonalds? How about these organizations just routinely hire Canadians? And if they can't find enough, they raise their wages/benefits? That's how it's supposed to work, you know. I thought you were a lefty. But here you seem to be saying "Screw poor Canadians! If they won't line up and beg for a minimum wage job, we'll bring in some desperate third-world person instead! We can't have businessmen forced to raise their wages!" What kind of a strange world do you live in where TFWs are going to complain to the labour board?

The discussion has different elements to it. Kicking out people who shouldn't be here is one, keeping others out who shouldn't come in is another.