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No, but they help win elections. God knows Trudeau used populism in all his election wins, and rarely followed through on his promises.

Instead, the strong implication is "I'm on the side of woke and I will fight to the death to ensure merit has no place in hiring, promotion, appointments, grants or anything else in this country!" It seemed to me he suggested Carney meant he wanted to end the culture wars. But that's not what it sounded like to me at all. It sounded like a stolid insistence on maintaining the Left side's fight in the culture wars.

NO. They will vote for a completely new OUTSIDER who has absolutely NOTHING to do with Liberal policies over the past ten years even though he's spoken approvingly of them many times except to say they should be even stronger. Maybe it means don't give money to gender ecology farming training in Nigeria while people are freezing to death on our streets?

Other than publicly disagreeing with Trump about taking over Canada and about tariffs, and endorsing policies that go completely against what MAGA would want?

Because one-third of their kids were forced to go to residential school between 1920-1950...

Never gonna happen.

Nope. I'm all for increasing border security on all our borders. I'm saying that border security is not what this is all about. What's getting through to the states is not particularly important or impactful. Trump just wants to throw his weight around. I also recall reading a post from CNBC whose source said Trump didn't want to hit Mexico and not Canada too. I think we just got caught up in the Mexico problem because we three are in a trade agreement.

Their warped vision of the world? Have you seen the floods of third-world migrants filling up the main cities of Western Europe, demanding citizenship, committing massive amounts of violent crime, taking billions and tens of billions out of the taxpayers' pockets to feed, cloth, and shelter? Have you seen the decreasing living standards as left-wing politicians pour more and more money into a hopeless, pointless effort at fighting climate change through ever-higher energy costs? Have you seen the crime in the streets, the dazed hordes of zombies on meth and crack smashing and stealing everything they can get their hands on while police and the courts stand back because, well, they're the 'victims', you know. Plus it would be wacist to imprison criminals who aren't white. This is the vision of the world the Left has embraced.

Trump pretty much dissed all other democratic world leaders he dealt with. The only ones he respects are the tough-guy dictators because he longs to be one of them.

The illusion of a win. Which is good enough for Trump.

Do you have any idea how ridiculous this kind of drivel makes you seem to other participants? Point of order: Canada doesn't have any military it can send to secure the border.

Guy, the 40 odd pounds of fentanyl they've seized at their northern border is chump change compared to the twenty-one thousand pounds they've seized at their south. Then there's the people. A few thousand to the north, hundreds of thousands to the south. Now let's look at it from the other direction. If we're at fault and need to improve then what about the Americans? Thousands and thousands of kg of narcotics are seized by CBSA at the border last year headed into Canada from the US. Not to mention thousands of firearms. And as you know, migrants travel to the US just to come to our border and cross it. Tens of thousands did that all through Trump's first term and he couldn't have cared less. Biden signed the safe 3rd country agreement but I have a feeling the moment someone tells Trump about it he'll cancel it. Why isn't the US doing better at stopping these drugs, guns and people from entering Canada? By his own reckoning, it's HIS responsibility.

Look, I understand the nationalistic pride in having big world-class banks. But looked at in an unemotional way, we'd be way better off without them. Our oligopolies, like banking, hold us back. The Canadian banking industry is extremely conservative, which means it's very difficult for small business and entrepreneurs to get financing. American banks are far readier to take a chance on these organizations. We also are subjected to among if not THE highest banking fees in the western world.

Trump has been a bully since childhood. Which is why they wound up sending him away to military school in hopes that would teach him some discipline. Unfortunately, that failed. His entire life history is replete with stories of his cruelty and bullying, be it of individuals when young, suppliers, women, employees, or now basically everyone and anyone who dares to disagree with him.

Walmart has been notorious for decades for undercutting domestic retailers and producers by importing goods from China. They even have a unit there whose task is to convince domestic suppliers to relocate production to China so they can supply their goods cheaper. Our society, both here and in the US, would be infinitely better off if Sam Walton had been strangled in infancy.

Because Quebec, which has the largest barriers to trade with the other provinces, refuses to compromise and lower them. This makes the other provinces unwilling to lower their own barriers.

Because since China was permitted to join the WTO it has consistently violated all of the agreements and requirements of that organization. It cheats at trade constantly, and does its best to not import anything other than raw materials or a few things it can't yet make, like advanced chips. And it steals the plans for everything foreign companies make and then lets its own companies use them to make competing goods.

The one pipeline to the coast we have won't even handle a quarter of our oil and we still can't export gas.

And how much of a military would we need, being next to Russia, if the US wasn't just to our south?

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They congregate in the large cities, which makes their numbers seem higher. And the numbers are rising each year because, just like here, their absurdly complex legal system can't seem to figure out how to deport people who are clearly phony refugees with no education or economic skills. Their numbers are impoverishing the UK. They fill public housing and prisons. More than half of violent crime in London is committed by blacks - almost all of them migrants or their kids.

Then they'll stop buying it. Yes, it would cause a degree of economic dislocation in certain states, but only temporarily. It would cause considerably more problems up here.

Tens of thousands of kg of drugs are seized by CBSA at the border, every year - headed north. Thousands of guns too. And yes, tens of thousands of migrants have crossed it headed north.

That's a childish response. Why would someone without any real emotional attachment to Canada care if it was part of the United States? Perhaps it even makes sense, economically. Ah yes, the 'better partners' we've been searching for for decades. China was supposed to be that 'better partner' at one point. We haven't found another.

Sure. So what? This is today. Want to hear about the oppression and injustice the Irish went through? "I have seen the Indian in his forest and the negro in his chains, and I thought as I contemplated their pitiable conditions, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness, but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland." "No Irish or dogs allowed" Ever heard of the Holocaust? For a 30 year period, it was required that all children, incl native children, attend school. If there wasn't one nearby they had to go to a residential school. This period ended in 1950. At its height, no more than a third of native kids attended residential schools. I see. Would you like to talk about the mass cultural trauma of Jews? They seem to be doing pretty well, regardless. And without colonialization where would they be now? Still living a hand-to-mouth existence as savages with an average lifespan of about 30 years.