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If you give the gov't enough money to conduct studies with, they can arrive at whatever conclusion you'd like gotta do what you gotta do right. But technically i could have been in violation of the rules by providing them that home to live in on my property even tho i made no profit. THe gov't has to get out of people's way and let them be creative like that. A year or so after he left i used it again for a year for a family member and her newborn baby during covid when they ran into trouble financially. These things have value to our society. Well you're right, but it can be a political football. Local gov'ts don't want to make people mad. Provincial gov'ts dont' want to pick fights that may be unpopular with local gov'ts. We'll see. BC is reaching a crisis point and the gov't has indicated it's willing to take some serious action to resolve things, we'll see if they do.

It's inevitable. As populations increase in the major metros, the number of left leaning voters also increases. When i was younger it was not uncommon for bc to vote solid blue federally. Nowadays that wouldn't happen, even tho it's often majority blue. Alberta has this weird thing where it's almost exactly like bc but 10-15 years behind. BC used to be about 70-30 right wing-left wing, then once in every 15 years or so the ndp would win for a term, then they became more closely competitive. the right wing party changed its name frequently (socred, reform, liberal, united, etc). Now the voters tend to be closer to 55-45 and voter turn out tends to decide elections. It'll be no different for alberta. As population grows that's what happens.

Oh - side benefit to such an org - as you do your job you'll run into lots of soldiers who are suffering. You'll be in a prime position to help them, directly and by helping them find other vetran's orgs and gov't services that will provide assistance and care, and maybe even ahve a small volunteer section to help out with a few things. No sense in leaving it all up to the gov't.

Why the eff should i take the time to answer you? You're being a complete asshat and i haven't done a THING to you. You attack me out of nowhere in a conversation you weren't part of, make a jackass of yourself and now demand i give you what you want. which is no small thing. Get your head out of your colon. LAST chance to be moderately civil mr "keyboard general". You sure are being tough behind a monitor. Smarten up. Now sit back and grab a coffee and shut up. This is going to take a while. I'll give you a small amount of what you've asked for as a show of good faith. If you want more details after this then POLITELY pm me and if you're serious about making use of the info we can get into details. BUt the general steps are these, and some of them happen at the same time. 1 - Form a org (pretty easy). The mission statement should address whatever it is that army guy feels should be happening but isn't specifically. Attempt to recruit a small number of people with talents that would be useful, such as those with experience with online forums or who know something about media or the like. 2 - recruit. Go out and start making vetrans and their families aware. You can sell memberships or give them for free (or both), there's pros and cons to each, you'd have to decide based on that. But you go to forums, you go to social media spaces where serving people and veterans hang out. You talk to the legions and do a deal to be able to promote there. Do youtube videos (very easy, i can show you how to do a great job of writing them and shooting them super cheap). Once you've gotten the low hanging fruit under way, look at talking to ancilleries like police forces who are likely to be supportive of the military. In the past you would also have gone to aide groups that the military has helped and work with them - like when the army helped with the ice storms in quebec or helped with the care homes in ontario etc etc. Your goal is two fold - a large group you can spread information to and more importantly - a large number that you influence that you can show to a gov't. Obviously this is an ongoing project forever. 3. Raise public awareness. - once you've become sufficiently established you go to the media, you start talking in chat rooms you get yoruselves on tv and radio, and here's a big one that's free and easy - start a letter writing campaign to the editors at every paper to go in the 'letters to the editor' column. This is OUTRAGEOUSLY effective and super simple and free. Media people these days are underpaid and underbudgeted - they don't have time to do stories like they want to in order to meet deadlines. So if YOU bring them an emotional newsstory with all the work already done and all they have to do is basically tidy it up and drop their name on it - you're their hero. 4- Fundraise - There's lots of ways and times to do this. It's a little complex so i'll just say that as you go and as elections approach there are several ways to raise money. Some of the work the org is doing if it gets big will require paid positions. And it will require money for advertising during elections. Its not hard - 300 grand a year is a nice easy target to work towards. But honestly you could do a lot of damage and have real impact even with 100 grand. That's chump change. 5. Get Political. - As you're recruiting and raising public awareness, you start to reach out to the political parties. Don't favor one over another. Start meeting with local mp's and candidates, start asking to meet with the minister in charge. Tell them in the next election you'll be actively scoring parties on their support, both real (for the gov't) and support (for opposition) and that you'll be making recommendations during the next election and PAYING TO ADVERTISE THAT. Form a PAC for the election. And GET PEOPLE TO THE POLICY CONVENTIONS AND GET YOUR ISSUES PUT TO A VOTE. This is actually pretty easy. Every time a party has a policy convention which is usually every couple of years per party - work with party memembers to get a frikkin resolution on how to treat the military on the table. Even if the vote fails it's publicity and you can use that to raise money, and if it passes you can hold the party to that. Participate in the leadership races. Pressure candidates to have a stated policy on your issues and support and vote for the ones who agree to your issues, if any do. Remember - anyone can join a political party if they're not a member of another party, just buy one year memberships and participate. Political partes are going to get that message loud and clear. DURING ELECTIONS - Identify the battlefield ridings. You do NOT need to be active in every riding - you DO need to be active in ridings that are close. Where the winner is chosen by 10 percent of the vote or less, you can have a MAJOR impact. That's about 40 or 50 ridings. Whichever party has behaved well - you announce that and anounce the failure of the other parties and campaign hard for the 'good guys', speaking to residents, spending advertising dollars and even volunteering for their campaign if you can swing it. You would actually have a strong impact on who wins - and with that many seats in play that makes you a major political power. VERY VERY quickly political parties will realize that they can't afford to have you pissed at them. That they strongly benefit from your support. That gives you real power. SIde note - "SPECIAL EVENTS". Be ready to get extra active during special periods of history. If public discussions are being held regarding military spending - be ready to speak up for your people. IF THERE IS A WAR - or conflict - be ready to speak up and demand the returning soldiers are treated right and have proper services available. Not only does it get results for your people it also raises your public profile. Now - i'm sure a lot of that sounds complicated. It isn't . It's actually very simple. I'm also sure it sounds like a lot of work. It is. It'll take a little time to build it up, but one thing about retired people is that they've got a little time and a lot of knowledge. It's not hard to do this, and as more people get involved the workload gets spread nicely. I used to do a lot of that stuff in my spare time while working full time. The number of members you would need to be a REAL powerful force that political parties couldn't ignore is only 30-50 thousand members. There's 500, 000 vets and active service people out there - and they all have families who would love to support them, which probably puts the immediate number of probables at 1.5 million. That's before we even talk supportive public or orgs like cops. So there you go. That's how to build an effective political force that will have actual impact and influence and will force WHATEVER gov't is in power to be very very very careful to keep vets and soldiers happy. Probably my longest post - and for me that's saying something. Now - take that and do something if you care about the issue - or don't and stop complaining. But either way - STOP BEING A KUNT when i havne' t said a mean word to you ever. Dick.

Awwww muffin Sounds like you need a cookie and a nap

No - i don't know you're question. Which is why i asked. Apparently you don't either - it was a simple question to answer. When you say the "problem" with the liberals it could mean many many things. I don't know which 'problem' you mean. So i asked you to clarify WHICH problem you're trying to get rid of specifically, or if it was just getting rid of the libs in general. Or just admit that you're an asswipe if that's the case. Seems like that's the case You can't speak clearly and you can't answer a simple question like 'what do you mean' - and somehow it's me deflecting. Go home child. The adults are talking. Come back when you can state clearly what you mean and answer simple questions like an effing grown up without being a complete dick

Evolution isn't actually very progressive at all. In fact progressive ideology tends to be an effort to minimize the harm done by evolution. Evolution says those who can adapt and are most fit for their environment thrive and those who are not wither and die. The progressives would hate that

True, well not secondary suites as much but otherwise sure. However - it's not without merit. Look at that fire and explosion that damaged the nearby building at the latest vancouver tent city. And i hear the smell and feces was actually pretty horrible. Seems like there must be some sort of middle ground possible though. Well you and i have our differences but i totally agree with you here. In fact - funny story but that's kind of how i wound up with my tiny home, which is built on a torn down rv frame. A friend desperately needed somewhere for his family and him and we wound up building it pretty fast and they lived in it for a year. Now it's my home office. but i know that even here nobody's supposed to be living in a trailer that long. We were lucky nobody reported it or the like. Well there are legit concerns - but i feel like they must have solutions if anyone put in the effort to find them. oh don't be stupid. (i ain't paying for a camp out of MY tax dollars , we'll just run 'em off a cliff or something.... )

true. You're just a running yoke You ok there little guy? I think the effort of trying to imagine fake things to be outraged about has strained your brain Probably true then. Yep - liars, frauds, losers, !diots - they all annoy me. Basically lefties like you

The problem is that rv's and such were never intended to be occupied all year round and represent a fire hazard if you do. There's plenty of RV parks in bc for example but you can't stay there more than 6 months out of the year at a time for that very reason. Honestly i think RV parks on gov't land would be a fast and economical way to take a serious bite out of the problem. You might not be able to afford a home but you can afford a 50 thousand dollar rv or motor home or 5th wheel or the like with monthly payments and the small pad fee it would cost. But gov'ts don't allow it because of the potential hazard.

well not no time i'm afraid. Trudeau has done generational damage to the country. He DOUBLED the debt. Nobody else has ever crippled the country that bad. He's broken all of our major gov't institutions - even taking a flight or getting a passport is a major ordeal. He's created divisions between so many people that canada will never be the same again. And a lot of people are dead because of his laws - they won't be coming back no matter who gets elected. And the housing shortage is going to be severe for years. Nothing can change that. But PP can start to undo the damage. He'll get two terms most likely and that will be a good start. And undoing all those terrible laws can happen pretty quickly.

The point was about you. I wouldn't say you're a STUPID point - just a point Yeah, i've never actually said anything like that. But don't let facts hold you back - keep going! Well i almost never say 'lib' anything unless i'm specifically referring to the liberal party and then the short form 'libs' or 'libbies' is just a short form. Nothing to get your panties in a knot over. I don't know where tweenkies comes from. My issue is with people who lie or can't do math. That's pretty much true no matter where they come from

That whole sanity thing wasn't working out for you i take it.

Ahhhhh yes - the liberals always say this Just admit you won't vote conservative and lets move on. (actually he's got a point.)

Are you asking about what to do about the fact the army isn't getting what they want or are you asking how to get rid of the libs? or are you just trying to be a shite head. Can't tell if you're serious or not.

Yeah - this topic may be over your head. Sorry.

Dude, he's just baiting you. There's a long tradition of trying to pick someone percieved as more neutral. And it's not just that this guy is a liberal - he's a liberal with strong ties to the trudeau family. GG is one thing but this guy should not have been heading up an inquiry into trudeau's activities and Treebeard knows it. Like most lying liberals he's just running you around. Tonnes of experts mentioned he was a bad choice for that reason when trudeau selected him and for this very reason - nobody could trust his report. I'm sure he got paid well for it though.

Well like many rights there's always got to be a balance. But terms like racist and bigoted and hateful are always somewhat subjective. As you say historically courts kind of look at WHY you're saying it. Even if it's true, if you're just trying to do harm to someone then its usually on the side of defamation. Can there be any real doubt that this person made those accusations maliciously? certainly it's courtworthy. But calling it a 'charade' is pretty unjust. A guy has had his reputation hurt and been attacked for his views. Whether you agree with him or not that's not nothing. Are you saying if anyone expresses their opinion and are attacked as a result that it's a 'charade' if they complain? I feel like that would be abused in 2 seconds

LOL - pavlov would have loved you Give us one more and then i'll let you go for the day . I really shouldn't be having this much fun at the expense of the mentally disadvantaged

getting rid of the 'mens' catagory and changing it to 'trans includisive all gender' category is a brilliant solution. Women who trans'd into men can still compete, same the other way around, and men can still compete and on one has an unfair advantage.

Well at least you admit it. Killing people was ok with you for political reasons. Honestly this is one of your more intelligent conversations Did you want to carry on?

So is what you're trying to say that if the description is accurate it's not defamation? I don't think that's how that particular law works, i think it just has to be with the intent of hurting someone else. It's right in the ruling. They note that this particular group is really important etc so that has to be factored. Thus if it was a different group the answer might have been different. But who he's talking about shouldn't matter. The fact the court likes this particular group and might not like another creates inconsistencies that are divisive in the extreme,

Glad you agree. Which raises another point - CTV news reports thousands and thousands died each year waiting for care during covid - care that those 10k could have helped save. And many die now because those people are gone. So it sounds like the vax-nazis wound up killing a lot of people with their intolerance. I guess that was ok with you?

Wow never thought i'd see THAT day any time soon.

LOL - sure kiddo Man i 've got you trained up pretty good don't i Sorry those facts rattled you. But yeah we fired 10,000 doctors and nurses and medical staff during the pandemic. that's how insane the vax-nazis got. Guess that makes you feel bad about your choices. Well.. do better next time.