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It's got nothing to do with conspiracies. And what's tired is the Left labeling anything that contradicts them as 'conspiracy' while not bothering to read any of the cites presented to them. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-education-student-punished-for-questioning-decolonization-sues-uwo https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-newman-profs-call-out-their-association-for-left-wing-mayhem https://quillette.com/2019/03/06/how-ed-schools-became-a-menace-to-higher-education/ They're like six or seven. They don't even know what a country is. So you're talk about how patriotic they are is horseshit, to quote you.

And his response was completely predictable. Just as his response to Canada immediately folding in the face of his bluster is completely predictable. He'll now demand more.

That doesn't tell me anything. There's a big difference between what a six-year-old should know and what a thirteen-year-old should know. The story I cited talked about how ignorant nine-year-olds were about their own country's history - except that they thought everything must be coming from indigenous people. Children are being indoctrinated by teachers.

Please name these things conservatives couldn't get away with. Also, why does Carney need to keep the Conservatives on side? Not going to happen. Government protection has ensured what industry remains here is inefficient and expensive due to taxes, high regulations, and high wages. All we really have that can be exported is natural resources, and the Liberals want to shut that down to lower CO2s. With 'great success'. Meaning some agreement that doesn't matter. We signed a trade agreement with most of Asia years ago. What's that gotten us? Canadian businesses aren't going to take a chance on new customers. And if they run into problems because of the Americans, they'll just come running to the government for help. Trump said Canada should be the 51st state last week. The most important thing this country needs to do is cut spending and cut regulations. Business and industry are drowning in regulations, and the government gives far too much money out to businesses and a ridiculous variety of organizations that are of no value to the taxpayer. Every ethnic, racial, gender, sexual, climate, poverty, and cultural group in this country has its hands in my pocket. All that needs to stop.

Nice theory, but we all know how grants are awarded. And it has nothing to do with talent or ability or creating a 'thriving arts scene'. It's who you know and suck up to. It's a very incestuous relationship among artists/writers/musicians who form cliques within and outside government, rotating in and out, approving of each other's works while disparaging those they don't like. How many great writers or artists have emerged from this in the last twenty or thirty years? We don't fund youth sports to get pro athletes. We fund them because it's in the national interest to encourage youth to be physically active. How is it in the national interest to produce artists virtually no one will ever hear of, writers almost no one will ever read, TV shows almost no one will ever watch?

And your kids are how old again? Do they even know what a country is?

Wallowing in past mistakes to the exclusion of all else, while utterly ignoring that such mistakes were generally far less than what was going on everywhere else, IS self-hate. You have a short memory. Immigration was a mess before the pandemic. The endless parade of deficits during good economic times started well before the pandemic. The attacks on the national story, the sense of national identity, of our historical underpinnings as a nation were enthusiastically going on well before the pandemic. The healthcare system was deteriorating and family doctors were increasingly hard to find well before the pandemic. The massive and growing regulatory burden that is choking our economy exploded well before the pandemic. The loss of faith in ourselves, the fear, the hesitation, the lack of confidence, the lack of initiative and innovation lest we fail, the lack of productivity, yeah, that was all going on before the pandemic. The demand that government protect us from absolutely everything bad and address every little problem no matter the cost was going on well before the pandemic. This country has been going downhill for decades. No better symbol exists of this than 24 Sussex. Sitting vacant for over a year as our national government wrings its hands and bites its nails in anxiety about being blamed if it agrees to either fix or replace it. Can't make a decision. What if someone criticizes it!? Maybe more studies?! Just push it down the road! That's what we do. We push everything down the road because we're too afraid of the resulting problems we'd have to face if we dealt with it. That's how we got our healthcare crisis. That's how we got our immigration mess. That's why our budget deficits keep growing. That's why all the things that need to be done aren't being done until it's almost too late. Kick the can down the road and maybe it'll be someone else's problem. Our national motto should be "Be afraid! Be very afraid!"

"Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you while putting it all on credit so your kids and grandkids have to pay for it." Every Liberal and NDP leader in the last 60 years.

No, Quebec has always been useless as far as protecting national security goes. They tend to be more of a threat to national security, most of the time.

Why do politicians lie? Because people don't like it when they tell the truth. They want soothing lies instead, right?

Not by the government. Uh huh. If you have to give a long winded explanation of what a painting or sculpture is then it's just junk because it fails to communicate anything. If your music won't be paid for or listened to then why sing it? If no one is interested in your book why should the public be required to subsidize it? If your dancing doesn't attract sufficient paying customers to make a living, then do something else. And then there's the CBC, which we are required to pay for even though almost nobody watches it. They produce TV shows no one watches but everyone has to pay for. Ridiculous.

Does anyone fail to see the irony of celebrating the founding of a nation that our 'elites' disparage on a daily basis? A nation founded by people our academics curse and sneer at, and peopled by those our schools utterly ignore in favour of genuflecting toward natives? Take pride in Canada! Why? Isn't Canada an illegitimate, genocidal, colonial, racist, oppressive, so-called country on stolen land? How many of the Canada Day celebrations will start out with a groveling mea culpa that it's being held on the land that rightly belongs to someone else? This isn't how ordinary Canadians ever felt, but to the elites, its mandatory, and they're doing their best to teach our young the same absurd ideological beliefs they suffer under. Canada's tradition of sweeping its British roots under the rug | National Post

Honestly, they should scrap that rule. Change it to something more real, like how many soldiers you can field. How many tanks or armored vehicles or fighters or missiles, all based on a country's population. It does Canada's defense little good to pay three times more for its weapons than is needed. Nor to play accounting games by doing things like putting our unarmed, civilian coast guard under the military umbrella so we can include their budget as 'defense spending."

It's not called insider trading when you base your trades on knowledge of upcoming government regulatory, tax and legal changes unless that information came from the companies that will profit from it. If you're a senator or congressperson, you were always free to trade on that knowledge before it became public. Or were, until relatively recently. They finally put a new rule in place banning it, but it's never been enforced.

All American politicians played the same game - on both sides of the aisle.

This is retarded. Canadian companies have been bought up by American companies forever. Suddenly, you want to blame Harper for the ones that happened while he was PM? Nortel to Sweden? LOL. Nortel was bankrupt. There was nothing left of it! And if any Canadian company had been willing to buy those other ones they could have. They didn't.

We can't count the $$ in Canada because everything the federal government does is top secret. We aren't allowed to know what things cost or the reasons why budgets keep going up and timelines keep going back. Why did that stupid pipeline cost so much? TOP SECRET! Why are we paying such enormous prices for unarmed support ships? TOP SECRET! Why are we spending so much on those Irving ships when the British are building them for a fraction of the price we're paying? TOP SECRET! The only certainty we have is that whatever they do will cost a lot more than they say it will and take a lot longer than they say it will. I'd love to do a deep, forensic accounting dive at Iriving industries to find out where all the money is going. I have a feeling the Irvings have a money bin hidden somewhere in Nova Scotia that they like to party in and do their own deep dives into piles of taxpayer cash.

Harper was going to build us two. Whatever happened to them?

That spending will not happen. Trudeau spent ten years ignoring Canada's obligation to reach 2% and I have no doubt Carney is up to the task of ignoring a higher goal. He only has to do it for three and a half years, after all.

Calling in from China, are you? Or is it Russia? You realize that isn't going to happen, right?

That's not how it works. Google sells ads to Canadian companies. When you see ads on a whole bunch of online media in Canada, a lot of those ads are actually placed there by Google on behalf of their Canadian customers. It also sells the right to be 'promoted' during searches to Canadian businesses, so their business gets listed ahead of others. They pull in billions in revenue from Canadian customers every year.

I certainly do. If it's any good, it can stand on its own merits. We should not be subsidizing 'artists' of any kind. If they're not good enough for people to pay for their 'art', whatever that might be, then let them find another job.

I am saying the statistics are very clear. I'm Scottish, dipshit. And most Jews are also white. The rest of your Nazi screed was just the blubbering whine of one of life's failures.

And what percentage of that indigenous economy do you think is supported entirely through government grants and preferential hiring practices?

Yes, I think the voting age should be raised, and yes, I think there should be a test first, a test of knowledge, judgment, and intelligence.