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The government has accepted 45,000 refugee claims in the last six years without even a hearing. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-refugee-tribunal-45000-cases-without-in-person-hearing-since-2019/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The rise of the populist and even far right in Europe is the result of European governments ignoring the very well-expressed demand of their people to stop the waves of mostly Muslim migrants.

Believing in merit is not racism. It's a part of Canada's historical cultural belief in fairness. You ignoramuses just go by whatever the Americans do. They put DEI in, so YOU have to put DEI in. But theirs is to redress centuries of racism. And ours? Over 80% of visible minorities are immigrants and almost all the rest are their kids, born here since immigration was opened up in the 1970s. There's no plantation houses in our history because we never had slaves. And almost no one you're giving priority in hiring, promotions, grants and college admissions to has any ancestry in this country that goes back farther than that.

I see little chance he'll be taken seriously by anyone but the profoundly ignorant. He wants open borders, for example. Let them all in and give them citizenship immediately. Give all the foreign workers here instant citizenship. He wants to ban all new pipelines, oil projects, or LNG terminals and wants every roof to have solar panels and every house to have heat pumps (no dollar cost estimate made).

Yeah, the site is very slow and clunky lately, including this morning. Why the hell would someone attack THIS site? A recently banned member, maybe?

Fine. When you need a heart operation, we'll find some low-intelligence, barely passed its exams, trans black woman to do the op for you. We'll reserve the brilliant white male doctors for people like me, who deserve them. My doctor will have gotten in because of his sheer, bloody brilliance. Yours because they were a thing with black skin.

We are accepting less qualified minorities into medical schools. AI Overview Canadian medical schools are increasingly implementing equity-focused, or "holistic," admissions policies designed to increase the representation of Black, Indigenous, and other minority students who have historically been underrepresented in medicine . These policies have led to debates regarding the prioritization of diversity over traditional, purely academic metrics. CMAJ +4 Admissions Policies and Diversity Initiatives Holistic Review: Schools are moving away from relying solely on GPA and MCAT scores to include factors like "lived experiences," rural origin, and socioeconomic status. Targeted Pathways: Many schools have dedicated admission streams for underrepresented in medicine (UIM) applicants, including Black and Indigenous students. Controversy and Targets: Recent initiatives, such as at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), have set high, though sometimes contested, targets for diversity. For instance, reports indicated that TMU aimed to select a significant portion of its incoming class from specific minority or equity-deserving streams. Concerns over Metrics: Research published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute argues that some race-based policies have resulted in the admission of students with lower academic scores (like GPA/MCAT) compared to the average, leading to arguments that these policies are discriminatory to other applicants.

Yeah? Whoopy. Are we hiring more people? Is the size of the military growing? Do they have modern tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, helmets, flak jackets, and enough socks to go around? Sleeping bags that work? Any defense against drones? Is it still gonna be ten years before we get anything? And I don't count the new planes that they now have officially listed since taking over the Transport Canada fleet, or the new ships from the coast guard.

The Liberals have been running the entire immigration system on trust while importing millions of people from the most corrupt countries on Earth. And even when they discover they've supplied fraudulent documents that doesn't cause any punishment for them and they get to stay, even becoming permanent residents if they want to. https://archive.is/yiMMR

We were talking about how Canada has lots of 'secular lefties who know how to stand up to this'. Not 'you'.

Canada's secular lefties lose their spine when it comes to standing up to the demands of Muslims. They'll rage at the Catholics for not allowing same sex marriage, but won't dare say a thing against Islam, which calls for gays to be thrown off buildings. It shrieks at Epstein but smiles tolerantly at Islam, where grown men marry nine-year-olds. It hates the sexism of Christians but supports the violent misogyny of Islam. The Left in the UK stood around like cucks watching Muslims gang rape white schoolgirls for decades, afraid to say anything lest they be accused of racism or islamophobia.

It seems that refugee hearings are not something the federal government puts much effort into. According to Rebel (yes, I know), quoting THIS says that for the most part, nobody from the Immigration department shows up at these hearings. Nor do they submit any sort of argument or reasons why the person should not be granted refugee status. It's just the hearing panel with the applicant and their government-paid lawyer. Immigration officials are notoriously absent from refugee hearings, according to data released by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). An Order Paper response reveals that since 2018, there have been more than 230,000 refugee protection hearings. In roughly 213,500 of those cases, equating to roughly 93%, IRCC did not appear at all — neither in person, virtually, or even through written submissions. https://www.rebelnews.com/immigration_officials_absent_in_over_90_of_refugee_hearings_federal_data_shows

From Samantha Smith Things that are legal under the oh so “advanced” Sharia Law system Muslims want to impliment throughout the Western world: >Slavery >Domestic violence >Child marriage >Cousin marriage >Killing all non-Muslims >Throwing gay people off buildings Things that are illegal: >Chess >Women being visible from windows >Women showing their faces, hands, feet, eyes, legs, mouths, or any other body part >”Places of immorality” including barber shops and beauty salons >Women speaking >Women having a job >Women going to school or university >Women singing >Women leaving the house without a male escort >Women driving >Leaving Islam (life imprisonment for women if caught) >Women going to public places including parks, gyms, amusement parks, and salons >Women exercising outdoors >Women reading aloud >Women accessing healthcare without male approval and control >Homosexuality >Playing or listening to music in public >Dancing >Photographing or filming any “living things” >Any depictions of living things, including people and animals >All non-Islamic holidays >Converting from Islam >Sharing any non-Islamic material >Protesting and any forms of activism >Photographing government or military personnel, buildings, checkpoints etc. >Pork >Alcohol >Women using public transport >Women traveling long distances or flying without a male guardian >Premarital sex (only enforced against women) >Women appearing in media >Teaching subjects like democracy, human rights, or women’s studies >Books written by women >Live political broadcasts and non-state approved media >Romantic poetry >Criticism of the Taliban or Islamic government leaders

So many do. Some people are obsessed. They don't seem to be concerned because they're in charge and can't imagine it ever being done to them. The idea that a public sector institution in Canada could attack and slander someone because he dared to say what most Canadians would agree on about Hams is incredible. And he didn't even say it in school.

Not coming from students, but from the head of the university, from the head of the university and its human rights manager against a professor who, on social media, called Hamas like Nazis after Oct 7. He was told that was hate speech and he had created an unsafe environment for students and staff. Stories were made up about him by management and told to students. He was banned from campus, and then fired. His union refused to represent him because they said calling Hamas Nazis was hate speech. This is the kind of fringe leftism that is controlling Canadian universities today. https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/the-small-university-that-went-to?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Denmark, unlike Canada, keeps statistics on crime and the origin of criminals, especially the foreign born.

Dan Burmawi: Lebanon is a perfect model of what happens when two civilizations share geography without sharing a political philosophy. It’s a small country, same language, same food, same weather, same ancient history. No walls. No checkpoints. But each community, Christian and Muslim, lives behind invisible civilizational lines. They don’t mix in political life, educational life, or social life. These lines have existed since the Ottomans, and they hardened after the civil war. The Christian areas built their society around a European-influenced political culture: secular schools, mixed-gender social norms, individual rights, and a relatively open civic space. The Muslim areas built "Islamic society". The result is not “diversity," but dual sovereignty inside one state. In 2023, the country literally split into two time zones during daylight-saving time, one Muslim and one Christian. Neighbors who live in the same building had different times. It was an honest reflection of two separate civilizational logics refusing to follow the same clock. Lebanon is a failed state because it tried to fit two incompatible political visions under one flag. The West is repeating Lebanon’s experiment but pretending it will end differently. There is no historical precedent for that working.

I guarantee you that if I'm the minister of defense and call up a tank manufacturer and say I want a hundred tanks, they'll pay attention, and will tell me how fast they can deliver them. Underestimate the analyses? Seriously? How long does it take to compare a Leopard with a Panther? A year? Does it seriously take a year to compare two tanks? A year to negotiate a contract to buy pretty much the same tank as they're already selling everyone else?no surprI remind you that World War Two lasted six years. We've already been planning and 'analysing' for a few years and we need several more to place an order? No surprise it would take them seven or eight year to deliver given how backlogged they are since the Germans have also recently realized that maybe they should buy some tanks. But I bet since the Koreans are eager to please us right now we could get some Panthers within a very few years if we added them to the submarine order. South Korea has demonstrated the ability to deliver K2 Black Panther tanks remarkably fast, often within 3 to 12 months of a signed contract, thanks to its "hot production" lines and high-capacity manufacturing facilities Will they be 100% of everything we want? Probably not. Nothing we've ever ordered has. How long did we take to build those stupid arctic patrol ships that leak and have lead water pipes? But it'll do.

Tommy Douglas had user fees in his public healthcare system. A lot of EU countries have user fees that are waived for the poor. We could look at bringing over doctors and nurses to serve as teachers so we could rapidly expand our nursing colleges and medical schools for one. They need to be pumping out at least twice as many doctors and nurses as they are now. We could also look at the government paying tuition on the legal agreement that the graduating doctors would work in underserved areas for a set period of time. We could be actively trying to recruit doctors and nurses from other countries, as well.

What's wrong with a system like Japan where everyone gets their treatment now?

Buddy, if we were operating like this at the start of WW2, we'd just be completing contracts to start ordering tanks, armored vehicles, ships, and planes in 1945 Our doctrine is substantively the same as all the other NATO countries that are buying tanks, armored vehicles, and submarines. The man portable anti-armored missiles we want would be used for the same thing the Swedes, Germans, British, Americans and for that matter, Ukrainians use them for. We don't need to spend years defining doctrines to see if they might be useful. Oh come on. Of course there is. Carny wants a car plant. The Korean sub is based on the same tech as the German sub. More to the point, its ability to launch ballistic missiles gives it a usefulness the German subs can't have. It will be produced faster and they've committed to putting maintenance docks on our east and west coasts and training the people in them. It's also in the water while the German sub is on blueprints.