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By what definition? By a twisted definition that ignores the reality of the world that existed a hundred and fifty years ago. If you want to call trying to teach children to follow the customs, values, and cultures of their nation 'genocide' then every nation on earth is guilty of it. And when did this happen?

When has Canada ever had a far right government? Who has even complained about teaching the history of racism in school? The complaint is about indoctrinating children with far-left ideas that are divisive, teach children that they are either victims or oppressors and disparage their country and its history.

Are you calling the NDP a centrist party? I don't think even the Liberals qualify as centrist anymore.

What's the 'minute percentage'? It seems to be enough to crowd our streets in every city with near-daily demonstrations for Hamas and Hezbollah. It seems enough that 90% of the murder suspects on the Toronto most wanted list are immigrants. It seems enough that the public housing projects are filled with immigrants. Get this through your head. Only about 15% of immigrants are ever tested for any kind of skill, for education, for language abilities, or anything else. The rest, almost all from the third world, come in as refugees or sponsored.

Gee, what's not to like?

They've had equality for decades. That's clearly not what they're after. And insisting that no one deny or even contradict elements of their bullshit story about genocide, about a few kids that got mistreated at residential schools is about what I'd expect from their leadership these days. The Left has allowed natives to wrap that residential school crap around our necks like a giant millstone while they whine endlessly, play victims and demand endless apologies and reparations. Here's an idea: if people can come here from Africa and Asia, not knowing the language, not having any contacts or help, and make lives for themselves and their children maybe the natives could get off their asses, take a bus ride to the nearest town or city and get jobs.

If that's the case (Sweden?) and I won't argue the point, it's not because of 'neoliberalism' or capitalism. It's because of democracy. Because once the budget is balanced some power-hungry twat will come along and promise all kinds of goodies to the voters to buy their votes. Witness the Republicans down south, and Trudeau here. So, ultimately, the problem is an ignorant electorate due to a lack of proper education. No, it doesn't work that way. It works when your currency is the world standard. Everyone using it for trade props up the currency. Without it being the world standard, too much debt starts to impact that currency, and then inflation rockets up out of control.

Indians are taking over entire industries! Like... fast food and car theft! 16 people arrested in an organized shoplifting ring involving people stealing from Home Depot. Twelve of them were out on bail when arrested on new charges.

Between 1939 and 1945 Canada built a thousand-ship navy. How is it possible that it takes us over 15 years to build one lousy submarine?

The people with the clout to talk to politicians and get small, little-noticed alterations made to the voluminous tax codes are generally the representatives of the very well-off. And incrementally, year by year, the tax codes have changed to provide a ton of small loopholes that aren't really accessible to ordinary people. That's how we have the rich - not the rich as defined by Trudeau but the guys who have limosines - have managed to slash their taxes by so much. Yes, they still pay a big chunk of our taxes, but less as a percentage of their actual income than the middle class does. The very richest don't even get much in the way of salaries compared to other means of income. In the US, the rich still have close access to and control of politicians. They shouldn't have the same influence in Canada, but for some reason their influence persists. It ought to be a simple and popular thing, for example, to increase the tax rates on dividends and capital gains to 100% for those over a certain level of income. Say over $500k That's not doctors or engineers. We could make exceptions for entrepreneurs who start up new companies. Say a ten or twenty-year exception.

But at least they undergo strenuous screening procedures.

I prefer more sophisticated music and art

Well, some of the reason can likely be found in a letter between COSTI - an immigrant services organization that is largely funded by the government, and another immigration representative regarding newly arrived refugees. The letter details the cash they can expect now that they're in Canada. Their client, COSTI says, will get a $1900 allowance to supplement whatever income they can earn (up to $1000 a month) plus another $500 to assist with their housing costs, and another $1800 child benefit cheque. They'll also get an $8300 start-up allowance to buy clothes, furniture and utensils. https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1837245927960223835/photo/1 The federal government has also doubled its annual spending on refugees and immigrants services to $5.2B. This doesn't count what the provinces have to spend in terms of social welfare, public housing etc. https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1837251467171819845/photo/1

Lowest productivity around, no innovation, no interest in R&D, government being big brother, ever-growing, ever creeping into every aspect of business and life, more rules, more regulations, more income redistribution, more supervision, more taxes, heavy, heavy risk avoidance in all things causing still more rules and regulations, more forms, more reports, more lawyers, subsidize the poor, subsidize the losers, subsidize the addicts, subsidize the poor performers, the unemployed, the natives, more equity and less merit, jealousy and antipathy for the rich and successful, more immigration, still more immigration, more foreign workers to depress wages, more foreign students to give the army of bureaucrats at colleges and universities something to do, more government, more taxes, less freedom. But the reality is that our middle class is facing a serious problem, and the reasons for it are puzzling. The benefits of this educated work force, research-intensive higher education and highly profitable business sector are not translating into economic well-being for the middle class. Real median wages of Canadians have barely changed since 1976 (yes, that was 48 years, or two generations ago). As a result, Canadians need a two-income household and must work for longer hours than their international peers to achieve comparable standards of living. To put it in sharp, painful, middle-class perspective: Analysis of data from the OECD and Statistics Canada on the way people spend their time shows that Canadian couples now work so much that they have a full eight months less time to spend with their children before they turn 18, than their peers in other rich OECD countries and Group of Seven (G7) economies. Indeed, Canadians have lost more than 10 per cent of their leisure time since 1988. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-how-canadas-middle-class-got-shafted/

When you turn and confront someone and tell him to repeat the words to his face that's definitely what you're suggesting.

So people shouldn't be allowed to shout at politicians unless they're prepared to engage in physical violence? Is that the point you're trying to make?

The whole shipbuilding program should be examined and the books of the shipbuilders closely audited. Everything we build is years late, billions over budget, and cost far more than similar vessels other countries are building. What in God's name are they putting into these replenishment ships that justifies a cost of three billion dollars each?! If the first is actually launched next year it will be 13 years late. This is not a warship. It doesn't have all kinds of fancy sensors and weapons systems. It's a freighter/oiler that can transfer fuel and supplies to another ship at sea. It shouldn't be that hard to build the damned thing. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/naval-supply-ship-budget-increase-of-almost-1-billion-blamed-on-problems-encountered-building-vessels-extra-labour-costs

First of them is targeted for delivery in 2035, which is going to be more than a little late unless things calm down between NATO and Russia/China. Imagine going to war and needing to wait a decade for the first new warships to be delivered!

The great majority of Trudeau's 'increase' is accounting changes that now declare things to be military spending that didn't previously have that designation. I won't attempt to excuse Harper's cutbacks when he was trying to achieve a balanced budget. They were wrong. Even so, there's a difference between cutting the military as part of an across the board cut to government spending when the world was seen as largely at peace - and cutting the military during a time when the government is spraying money out everywhere it can without regard to deficits during a time when the world's warlords are stirring and threatening and when our southern neighbor has become less reliable. There's also a difference between cutting money after a decade of additional money, and cutting money for years and years after that. Stuff wasn't in terrible shape in 2015. It is now.

Are you serious? The Left bought into hate years ago. Much of the Left really, REALLY doesn't like hearing anyone with different views. That's why they turn out in angry masses whenever some right-wing figure like Petersojn is going to speak somewhere. That's why they're desperate to find people saying things they disapprove of so they can launch campaigns to get them fired and destroy their lives over a joke or an improper costume. Remember the howls of rage from some US university students because some professor said what costumes people wore for Halloween was no big deal? The campaigns to root our heretics on campuses across Canada and the US smells like the Chinese cultural revolution sometimes. And then we have the Liberal/NDP government implementing more and more rules and laws to stop people saying offensive things on the internet, and musing aloud about making it illegal to deny any aspect of the 'genocide' we allegedly committed on natives (Four years now, no bodies found). And Left-wing social media and influencers are too. And from China, and Iran. Much of the pro-Palestine crap is being funded by Iran and much of the Left has enthusiastically bought into it and now hate Jews as much as people in the 1940s did. And coal plants. They haven't gotten around to it yet out there in the boonies. They will. That word is already banned in a lot of academic settings, from Harvard to York. Hell, some real estate boards don't even use the word to describe the main bedroom in a house anymore.

Comey was in LA when he learned about his firing from TV. https://apnews.com/united-states-government-4ff1ecb621884a728b25e62661257ef0