I am Groot

The belief that everyone should have the same benefits, challenges, and success to the same degree is a mirage. It's never happened in history and never will. All a society can do, presuming it's intelligent, is the best it can for the most it can. That always means small numbers suffer or fall by the wayside. It can't be avoided or helped. I think you probably mean prejudice/bigotry. Racism is a more formal thing only the tiki torch brigade believe in Canada. Though you'll find a lot of believers in the inherent superiority of their race in a lot of the rest of the world, notably Africa and Asia. There will always be prejudice and bigotry. All you can do is keep it low, which we've done for a very long time as compared to virtually anywhere else on Earth. That seems good enough and then some. But the real believers in racial superiority are not Canadian, or were not. We've brought a lot of them in through immigration over the last few decades.

Don't worry. We'll cure racism with an ever-growing number of mandatory 'acknowledgments' about how horrific and awful life in Canada is for anyone other than straight white males before every government meeting. Which makes you wonder why everyone with black and brown skin isn't fleeing but rather crowding to get in, legally or illegally. Anyway, don't think Toronto is different from every other local, regional or even provincial government (much less the feds) in that it's absolutely stuffed to the brim with woke bureaucrats filled with almost religious fervor about enforcing their virtue-signalling views on social justice. And eager to destroy anyone who dares to object. Anita Dressler expressed the wrong opinion and was fired by the City of Toronto. “For the land acknowledgment, I was very attentive,” Dressler said. “For the African acknowledgment, I was respectful but not as attentive. I would look at the agenda that I’m gonna follow through with. And I was put to task by two people, and I said, ‘Why? You’re not respecting disabled people. You’re not respecting seniors. That’s still diversity.’ “’You’re not respecting people that have lived here or (were) born here or anything else, or the people that fought, the veterans who fought in the war for democracy.’ They didn’t care what colour you were. They didn’t care. All they wanted was that everybody have freedom.” https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/how-racist-city-fired-volunteer-for-questioning-african-acknowledgment

Did I say that? You woke types never like to see context, I know. "Oh, we're better than 99% of the planet? Well, this country is still a hellhole of racism and oppression!" No, it's f*cking not. And it never was. Even in the nineteenth century we were leagues better than almost anywhere else.

I'm sure they would. But statistically, they were a tiny minority. And I'm not sure it was necessary to import millions more of them in order to deal with our cultural racism/prejudice problem. The whole world was racist and bigoted for most of our existence, and most of it is still openly and blatantly racist and bigoted to the degree no one even thinks twice about it. Among THE most racist and bigoted states are India, Pakistan, China, and the entire Middle East - who constitute a large percentage of the people we've been importing (without any screening). So yes, he is correct that we imported racism. https://www.algoafm.co.za/algoa-fm-breakfast-with-wayne-lee-and-charlie-t/map-shows-world-s-most-racist-countries

According to the parliamentary budget officer income inequality grew under Chretien but subsided under Harper due to tax changes the Tories had made. It has been growing under Trudeau, however.

Almost all of Canada was a homogenous bubble. It's not like I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in Montreal and Ottawa.

I'm not a huge fan of Poilivre, but honestly, Carney, from what I've seen so far, has less charisma than Harper did in his early years. He's also largely in favor of the same policies as Trudeau - only more.

Riiight. Someone with zero experience in politics. Just what we need.

Freeland is detested almost as much as Trudeau. Carney is a technocrat and talks and acts like one. He has all the human warmth of a dead carp. He reminds me of John Turner, but without the charm. For those who don't go back that long Turner didn't have much charm.

I retired at 52. 🙂 There was certainly some prejudice and discrimination. But you're exaggerating. In the everyday world nobody gave a damn if your parents or grandparents were from somewhere in Europe. And I never met anyone with an accent before college. Natives? Yes, but they were still mostly on reserves, then. Certainly none in my world. Jews? Knew a few. Nobody I ever met cared if you were a Catholic, an Anglican or a Jew. Discrimination against the Irish? You have to go back a long way for that, longer than me. Not hire Jews for jobs? Doubt that happened much in my time either. Certainly didn't hurt them economically. They've been thriving for quite some time. And if you think being excluded from private clubs was something more than 0.1% of us cared about you're an even bigger fool than you seem. PHhht. Homogenous, as I said. By 1971, Canadians of European origin continued to account for 96 percent of the 21.5 million people in the total population. Those of European origin other than British and French remained the dominant element within the “Third Force”, accounting for 85.5 percent of the 5.8 million people who declared a non-British and non-French ethnic origin in the 1971 Census (Table 3). https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rp02_8-dr02_8/p4.html Even the "indigenous people" aren't indigenous to this hemisphere. But again, I know that as an uneducated person, you don't really grasp the meaning of words. White northern Europeans constituted almost the entirety of the population in the past. There is quite clear and open discrimination today by the government. Why you would even try to lie about it is beyond me. You're just a bitter drunk who never had a time. LOL. It didn't take long to send you scurrying away, you said little twat! LOL. Never an Elton John fan, btw. I was more into Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.

Tims today is owned by cutthroat Brazilians and largely employs Indian foreign workers who sleep in the basement. Not exactly the best quality at anything. No fresh donuts and bleh coffee. He's a bitter little twat. He used to be a bitter little twat. I see no difference.

One could take that more seriously if it wasn't coming from someone who so often posts while demonstrably being clueless about what they are writing about.

Haven't watched this yet. I'm just not that into the guy. I'll see if I can put it on in the background later when I'm doing something more interesting. Frankly, there's never been a politician I'd want to hear talk for an hour and forty minutes. But good on him for doing it. Doubt Trudeau ever did or would. The thing now has 36 million views on YouTube, apparently, which is fascinating in itself. It suggests a lot of non-Canadians must be watching. Why!? Perhaps they're just that starved for leaders in the West who speak fairly plainly and address the things that concern them. You are an ignorant little twat. Racism is not a synonym for prejudice no matter what your internet dictionary tells you. But again, as someone almost entirely uneducated you wouldn't know that. I think many, if not most of the problems in our society today can be traced to the poor quality of our education systems.

You're a child. When I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s there was no one to be racist TO. I had no non-white classmates until two Chinese girls in a college class. I remember a friend and me passing a church back when I was in grade 6/7 and he said that was where his family went to church, that they were Anglicans. I had no idea what that even was. I knew there were protestants and Catholics, but not what the difference was. Religion just didn't matter much to me and I never heard anyone mention it or race in school. Television didn't mention race. The papers didn't either. Hard to have racism in largely homogenous communities. In the 1971 census there were only around 30k blacks in all of Canada. There were even fewer Asians, mostly Chinese who kept largely to themselves. Nobody wore funny costumes and no one had an accent. That's the world of then. Virtually all the races other than whites were imported, and no effort made to integrate them. Needless to say, wildly different cultures did not and do not entirely get along. Resentments arise, and with poor government, grow worse. And we've had very, very, very, VERY poor government that now gives openly preferential treatment to some races. And is proud of doing so! It tells them they're victims of evil white oppression and tells white people to feel guilt and shame about a past they had nothing to do with (and which they largely lie about anyway). Yeah, like that's not going to cause resentment...

You don't help your case with nonsense like this. The allegation against Peterson is because he agreed to a single interview with a conservative organization called Tenet that did hundreds of such interviews and which, it later emerged, apparently, either deliberately or by being duped, took some money from Russia. Going from this to suggest Peterson is 'compromised' by Russia is just laughably silly.

Like many who are poorly educated, you really don't understand what the word means. It's been so overused, so overhyped that it's come to be essentially meaningless. Racism means the belief that one race is inherently superior to another. Not that it's stronger or richer, or acts better or is more sophisticated, but that right down to the DNA, it is superior to others. Virtually no one believes that nor has for a long time. There is certainly prejudice and bigotry, but those are quite different and have different causes.

Huh?

Respect is earned, not demanded, and I don't respect people who are narcissists and who fail to seek counseling for their emotional/psychological problems.

Nope.

That's nice. But nobody else here was talking about immigrants. This is about the H1b program for temporary foreign workers.

It's not "I prefer", it's "I demand". And calling a two hundred and fifty pound, furry-faced individual with a penis and obvious Adam's apple a guy is NOT the same as using racist pejoratives to visible minorities. Nor is not using a made-up, grammatically incorrect honorific or title for a person who is rarely reasonable since only a narcicist with strong psychological and behavioral issues will demand it.

Uh... no, his claims are entirely anecdotal, as well. Cite? I'm not talking about immigrants. I'm talking about temporary foreign workers. Immigrants in the US (unlike Canada) invariably earn more than the locals.

Look, if I'd been an American and had to vote I'm not sure what I would have done. I despise Trump and think he's not just a miserable SOB - which I don't really care about - but an incompetent CENSORED who is all too likely to heavily damage America and the West's security against international enemies. But I despise the identitarian lunacy and divisiveness of the Democrats, their incompetence at governing, their refusal to enforce law and order and provide basic levels of security for people in their homes and streets, their insistence on making everything about identity and showing government favor to certain identity groups. Their behavior, not necessarily Biden, but the party from federal on down to school boards is sawing away at the underpinnings of historical institutions and cultural unity in the US to such a degree society could fall apart if it's not halted. So who knows, maybe I'd have voted Republican. But in my heart of hearts I don't think he's going to help. I don't think he's going to do a damn thing to restrain the woke types except in the most superficial ways. He certainly didn't last time around. And if he sets himself to make his four years about payback I think America will become even more divided, to the point of a huge increase in political violence.

This is just silly man. He loves people as long as they praise him. The instant they disagree he's looking for childish, pejorative terms to throat at them. He fired most of his first term cabinet simply because they disagreed with him because he was going by FOX news and 'his gut'. His respect is based on how much money/ power a person has. He's always been like that. That old "What's good for GM is good for America" thing hasn't been taken seriously for many decades.

Your mileage may vary. But they aren't being brought over because they're good. They're being brought over because they're cheap. If they were better than the local alternative they'd be paid more, not less.