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Well if you mean you don't think it could happen because it wouldn't be allowed, i would have to disagree and there is much history to show that it absolutely could and would if that's what the people wanted. For sure its "possible" to do If you mean you don't think it would go well and couldn't be successfully managed, that's probably more accurate. Alberta by itself would not have the population and economic diversity to support itself as a land locked small nation for long. To have a successful 'breakaway' that would stand the test of time you'd really need bc, alberta AND sask as a minimum and tossing manitoba in would greatly improve the chances of success. Anything less than that would be a pretty hard go.

This is canadian politics, where literally anything can happen and often does. So i'm not going to say you're wrong. But so far the evidence is leaning towards a UPC victory, albeit not as strong as ones in the past and that does seem very likely. As is often the case it will come down to calgary

The banks do. https://financialpost.com/news/economy/cibc-dodig-canada-risks-social-crisis-housing-immigration and we've seen that before many times in europe. The thing that has always set canada apart and allowed us to have massive immigration per capita vs other countries is our ability to provide the integration and infrastructure needed. When that isn't there, it tends to be 'new' and 'young' canadians who suffer the most, in that order. And that always begins to lead to unrest. Honestly that's pretty much meaningless. There is one issue which is the source of ALL issues - we are not building enough homes for our population. We havent been for decades. Reports suggest we've fallen short 100 thousand homes per year just to prevent things from getting worse since 2016. And that's when they started looking, i guarantee it predates that. If you build enough homes, foreign investment (which we've always had), rental prices, immigtation, everything else becomes a null issue. And if you DON"T address that absolutely nothing else will resolve the problem. They absolutely could. The gov't has many many tools it could use to address Canadian inflation which the banks have already noted are at least 1.5 -2 percent higher than they need to be due specifically to carbon tax and monetary policy. But that's almost another topic entirely. Interest rates low or high, we have the same housing issues. Well technically that's true regardless of what the interest rate is. And a lot of the people complaining did not buy 'more home than they need' although this story certainly seems like an example of one who did. As to their right to complain however - Trudeau AND the BOC were shouting to the heavens just a year and a half ago that interest rates would stay low for the foreseeable future and woudln't go up. That's why it's ok we were borrowing all that money if you'll recall. So. some might say they have a LITTLE right to be a titch annoyed that the gov't made a promise, then the gov't actions made breaking that promise inevitable. Having said that you're correct, people should plan for a little volitility. Young kids today don't remember the 80's and think that inflation stays at 2 percent forever and interest rates are at about 1.5 because they have been as long as they can remember, and that has lead many to make a serious mistake that they are now paying for.

Well i'm confident she's looking forward to you losing anyway and becoming an elected premier for the next 4 years. So it's great you both have something to look forward to Jests aside it will be interesting to see how she actually runs the province once no election is pending. It's a little hard to say at this point who the 'real' smith is. Obviously a lot of it is spinning for the base, but so far her actions and her rhetoric aren't lining up.

There's nothing puritanical about it - it shows a serious lapse in judgement. If nothing else it violates the code of ethics he was to uphold. The theory is that a person with that poor judgement cannot be trusted with the public helm. And it CERTAINLY isn't an 'american' idea, until recently Canadian politicians have stepped down for far less. "Bingogate" in bc comes to mind as an extreme example. As to "Outraged by a politician that got a blowjob, accepting of a con man that led a coup... ", well.... hopefully i don't need to explain why it's the same thing. Neither are crimes of office, both are indicators the person is unfit to be in office.

No, they are 'out of controll'ing housing prices Controlling them would require a great deal more skill and effort. It's always easier to break something. The gov'ts incompetence is what prevents them from managing passports and ei cheques and now infrastructure to population ratios. This is about a failure to manage, not a management. You're not making much sense there. Are you suggesting you believe the federal gov't increased the property tax assessment on your home? That's not quite how it works actually. And as to inflation the over all inflation rate may very well be different for various items or even catagories. Porkchops can double and anchovy paste and mustard stay the same - so they say 'food' went up by 33%. For you personally it may seem like more because you're more likely to buy a pork chop than anchovy paste. Reading that reminds me that they've somehow managed to screw up making dope sales profitable as well despite the number of users out there There really isn't anything useful to be said about that part of your post.

Historically when a significant portion of the public cannot find or afford housing on their own and the market forces have been stifled to the point where they cannot correct it naturally, and civil unrest threatens. With the current lack of construction vs the current and planned population increases i would say probably not that far down the road. Work for the betterment of the gov't of course. Which those in power will use to live the good life. You'll notice putin for example is not a poor person Nor is the chinese leader, and even Castro always had good food. It's the same as it always is - they used to be called plebeians, then surfs, then peasants and now 'the working class'. It's not terribly new.

Your problem is that correlation is not causation. You've tried to suggest there's some figures and there was covid (and vaccines specifically) and therefore the one is a result of the other. And that's just not how causality works. You would have to show a connection. Further there is a fundimental flaw in your argument. The stats you quote are for "covid deaths" - but as we know it was necessary for various reasons for countries to attribute the death of anyone who died with covid as a 'covid death' even tho covid may have had nothing to do with the death. So all you're REALLY quoting is how many children who died had covid, without showing any connection between covid, the shot, or the deaths. Nobody's going to take that seriously. It's the old "hilter chewed gum, his officers chewed gum, so chewing gum makes you hate jews" argument. That's why nobody's biting and getting upset and anxious to 'do' anything. So far you've provided nothing to get worked up about. Which isn't to say there isn't anything. But you would have to make that case.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-interference-concerning-analyst-1.6752577 And that's it in a nutshell. He's known for years about it - he KNOWS it gave him a few seats that he wouldn't have had and he likes that.

This is true of course. But - politicians must be held to a higher moral code by the nature of their work. To a degree it's nonsense - just because he cheats on his wife in a moment of weakness doesn't mean he's scamming money from the tax payer or selling influence. And just because he's not cheating doesn't mean he isn't But it's the nature of things. A lapse in judgement that large, regardless of how understandable it might be as a human being, unfortunately does make him unfit to continue in that position and he did the right thing and resigned On the plus side, he will go down in history as having been forced out of office because he was still able to talk younger women into bed at age 68. So there's that.

Looks like the whole 'Interference" thing was nonsense at this point. No sign of the emails, no witnesses, and the newspapers have admitted they didn't see any of that before posting the story either. Which is HORRIBLE journalism, it's one thing to protect a source, but if you do you have to be pretty damn sure the source is accurate and at least verify things like these emails exist. This isn't the first time we've seen allegations from the CBC which turned out to be false and unsubstantiated.

Well i'm not religious but as an outsider looking in the bible was intended to be a PERSONAL moral document, not a societal one. In other words it was intended to change YOUR behavior, not correct the flaws in society at large. Of course one would argue that theoretically if everyone believed in the bible then the country would tend to follow suit over time. And in fact that is why our society is modeled on christian values more or less. I"m afraid that's not accurate. First off that phrase is not a biblical commandment. Nor does it actually work well in real life. How do I know that you want to be treated the way I want to be treated? What if I firmly believe that biological males should be referred to as male or men and their pronouns should be he and his, and that I insist others treat me that way. Does that mean i should treat trans individuals the way I want to be treated? You see - it becomes problematic. It only works in a society where everyone shares the same values. That way what i think is the right way to treat people is the same as you and we can agree. Otherwise it's a broken idea. The phrase probably should have been do unto others as they would like you to do unto them provided they do unto you as you prefer. Even then it doesn't work well but it's at least more functional. Again - simply not true. It's a case of reductum ad absurdium. (and no i don't feel like looking up the spelling for that ) People are never that simple. And trying to make things that simple is Awesome - if you work for Hallmark. But has no value outside of that. Pretending humans are simple and they're all of the same mind is a fast way to war historically.

The Challenge is not that Roxham road exists. There will always be illegal border crossings and if you shut one down another will appear. The problem is it's being actively encouraged by OUR gov't. and exploited by the US. There are agencies in the us who specifically provide bus services to Roxham road for "refugees" to get them out of the us both as policy and as informal practice https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us-border-agents-lifts-to-roxham-road-1.6743768 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/migrants-roxham-road-new-york-city-bus-1.6738824 Meanwhile Justin either ignores or actively encourages it (it varies). If we clamped down on it then this kind of thing would drop back to manageable levels.

You were wrong in fact, but perhaps less so in substance. And certainly in comparison. The Russian interference in both elections was found to be fairly minor and generalized. It is widely agreed by neutral sources that it had little impact and what impact it might have had would likely have been to push people in directions they were already going. For example: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-did-russian-interference-affect-the-2016-election/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/09/russian-trolls-twitter-had-little-influence-2016-voters/ In short, the 'interference' was things like POSSIBLY orchastrating the timing of the wikileaks documents. But - those were REAL documents, the info was real. Russians frequently reinforced negative impressions of Clinton and strongly promoted them, but they were based in real things the Clintons had done or were accused of. And the effect was minimal. They did it in a broad way rather than a particularly targeted way and while it certainly will have had some effect it almost certainly made no difference in the election In the Canadian case, the Chinese out and out lied to Canadian Chinese voters and spread disinformation in a very organized fashion targeting vulnerable ridings. And according to the CSIS reports, they were successful in turning a few ridings with their efforts - in other words there are more liberal seats and fewer CPC seats right now directly because of their efforts. The Richmond riding in greater vancouver is an example. So - it would be relatively accurate to say the Russians did not interfere effectively in US campaigns while the Chinese absolutely did in Canadian ones.

Because then the gov't can step in, buy up housing and "provide" it to the people at an "affordable" rate. Communism sells based on the idea that you personally will no longer have risk or be denied the things you like. "If you just allow communism, you'll have your nice house no matter what happens in the market - EVERYONE will have a nice house". If the markets collapse and the gov't can step in (as we saw in other countries such as England just after ww2) then the gov't gains more control over people and people get used to the gov't handling all their affairs. Pretty soon people become afraid to do anything on their own and become entirely dependent on the gov't. Remember - there is no more effective way to enslave people than to provide for their every need.

Full Democracy is not a desirable thing. Full democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. It is the tyranny of the majority. A representative democracy is a good thing, provided what's in place is a solid constitutional protection of the rights of the individual. Liberty - the ability to conduct your life without unreasonable interference from the gov't - and freedom come from having a central authority that is effectively and strongly restricted from overreach, not from voting.