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Well that's partly because you refuse to see things that don't fit your narrative, and partly because ALL gov'ts during covid overspent to keep their public safe, but if you look closely you'll note inflation has not been the same everywhere. And that's fairly reflective of how they chose to handle things. THe countries with the worst inflation tended to all spend a great deal on 'covid support'. Countries that didn't excessively spend in that department like Sweden and japan all have much lower inflation. Countries that did such as Canada, the us, uk, france, greece, spain, all have much higher inflation rates. And of course some European countries were a little more dependent on russia and ukraine for food and oil and were affected a little more strongly than Canada was by that war. Not only that but canada entered it's high inflation cycle much earlier than most - and because inflation is compounding that makes the effect of the current inflation much worse. https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate- Further - food inflation is worse in canada than most countries, https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/food-inflation Canada is VERY high in food inflation - and yet this is where most of our food is made. So it's not 'supply chain issues', that's for sure. Canada SHOULD be on the lower end of inflation. We SHOULD be closer to japan. But like the US we went insane with spending and made bad decisions and now there's a price. Imagine that. no, most countries are still solid. And while canada is in a much worse position than it was in 2015, if we stop being braindead about finances we'll still recover. All of them. This may shock you but it's not aliens that drive up food prices. It's not some small group of people who are making our housing market unaffordable. This is the NATURAL AND PREDICTABLE effect of dumping unearned money into the economy. This is what happens, and if it's not countered then it becomes a disaster. So interest rates have to go up to prevent an exponential runaway like we saw with the last trudeau and that hurts the economy and causes people to suffer more, and causes rents etc to go up - AND then there's less money for social programs so you either borrow more and drive things up again or let people suffer - it's all kinds of fun. No aliens required. Virtually every time there's a shortage of cash and people get pissy. We god away with it in the wars only by introducing income tax and radically increasing people's tax burden. Well you can't do that forever. WE already tax about half what the average person makes or just over, you gotta leave them something. Later, we saw disaster. The rampant spending of the 70's led to massive financial hardships and problems in the 80's. THere was DEFINITELY a shortage of cash and MUCH pissyness. We've seen the same several times since as well. And every time we come out slightly less able to cope. And again - greece. Spain, Venezuela. Now france is teetering, Every time you think you can spend whatever without consequence the country winds up imploding. Nope. Sorry - but the 'science' of economics such as it is is completely bound by human nature. Generally you cannot create a system that is not in keeping with human nature and expect it to survive for long. THats' why strongly socailist or communistic type models always fail, and why capitalism is effective. At the end of the day there's really not a massive magic wand when it comes to economics - there's no silver bullet or the like. I've heard similar things about the asteroid belt and such - i have no doubt one day we'll wind up mining the hell out of space. Plus - mercury is mostly iron. Seriously - who'd miss it?

The Globe is knocking it out of the park with this issue. Normally they tend to the left but at the end of the day they need revenue same as anyone else and print what is popular. I don't know how you can read this as a Canadian and not be concerned as hell.

Seeing this is about canadian sovereignty why don't you leave it to Canadians to discuss. You can go back to your drivel elsewhere.

Well this is the thing. And you can do MUCH to reduce the influence if that's what you want to do. Laws requiring agents of other gov'ts to register, laws about foreign nationals donating to political parties, etc etc They all help make it less worth the pain. And public shaming of any candidate who accepts such donations - keeps them from soliciting it. So far tho - doesn't sound like trudeau wants to do anything

You probably don't - over time eventually one group will come to dominate and become the gov't one way or another. But while i feel for your family the best thing for us is to stay the hell out of it and let nature take it's course. Otherwise we'll just wind up with two fists and a foot stuck in that tarbaby and we'll get dragged down with it.

this is the other lie that the left tries to perpetuate - "true communism has never been tried!" It has. This is how it ends up, how it will ALWAYS end up, how it has to end up. It corrupts itself almost immediately.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/man-arrested-for-discussing-childs-gender-in-court-order-violation/ There's that guy. And of course plenty have been threatened - i told you about the Sheppard case. But i'm sure you'll try to claim somehow those or any others i post don't count because 'reasons', it's getting pretty questionable if you really care about the truth. We'll see That is a blatant lie. And the school got sued over it and lost. She didn't do anything wrong and the school authorities immediately acknowledged that when she went public The president of the university herself appologized and said that should never have happened. Remember what i've told you - if you have to lie to make a point you probably don't have a very good point. They threatened her with it. That was part of the whole deal and was a big component of her complaint. Sounds like you're just making bullshit up to be honest. And if anything the 'boshavists' were more of the gay haters than the nazi's. Nope - still calling bullshit there. Show me the interview where he says that it's specifically marxist to use the media to spread blah blah blah. I will bet you can't. Your problem is that you have no credibility. For the things i know about in detail, i can see you're frequently blatantly falsifying the facts. SO when you talk about something i don't know that well, it's impossible to take anything you say seriously . It seems just as likely you're lying there. Like - claiming Lindsey was being transphobic? That is beyond dense. She played a segment of a university sponsored discussion between two university professors which was sanctioned by the university discussing the very subject she was going over with the class and EVERYONE agreed SHE presented it in a completely neutral fashion. So i know you lied there. So when you say petersen claims that specifically marxists want to spread blah blah blah and that makes him a nazi supporter if not a nazi - it seems 99 percent likely you're full of it. So lets see your proof. We'll go from there. But i'm no longer interested in your opinion without proof, you lie far too much for it to be interesting.

Nope - he said he screwed up before that. And he's admitted those are factors but not the only reason for our inflation. Justin's monetary policy and carbon tax play a large roll. Politics is a real world experience. Like - how do you not get that? Attacking your arguments with facts and reason. Which is not ad hominem. And yes ad hominem is bad, I guess i should have mentioned to you that lying is bad too. So many character faults to fix with you, so little time. Yeah - ask any pensioner who had savings in it right now. It's severely down and many many are suffering and are praying it bounces back a bit. Many saw their retirement savings evaporate to about a half of what they were. I'm seeing it every day. You didn't know did you. Or you just think it's hilarious that people are suffering i guess. ROFMAO - only a liberal would think the truth and facts were 'profoundly stupid ' You're all too often on the wrong side of history, truth and facts Moonbox.

Of course you can't. If you try, then inflation goes up and then interest rates have to go up and then you wind up into a spiral that quickly gets out of control. Gee - if only there was a modern canadian example of that happening. Anyway - if you want to find out how that ends ask greece. You cannot keep borrowing and spending without severe consequence.

Well for most it's only starting to hit really hard now. During the last election neither side was talking that much about it and inflation hadn't run away like a scared rabbit yet. It hadn't affected their lives. Don't expect massive change in the polling in between terms. Until people see a campaign and decide someone has a better idea they just tend to stay where they are. BUt - that changes when an election starts and they're looking for something. to be different. Many are. And others start to get worried that while they're not sinking yet the water is up to their chins. And they'll want change before it goes over their nose.

Yeah, but that's got to seriously limit where he can go in the world now even if the conflict ends

Pretty much - he said they screwed up, badly miscalculated and interest went higher as a result. And claiming that working for the gov't isn't a real job is about as thick as it gets. So - teachers aren't doing 'real jobs'? for example? lawmakers and such aren't doing real jobs? What a dumb thing to say. Not only is working in gov't a real job, it's the job that prepares you to be a PM. The fact you'd have to resort to such ad hominem nonsense shows you know you're wrong to begin with. No, they admitted that they made a mistake. Period. THat's not a 'hindsight' issue or 'best we could do' issue - they screwed it up and a number of prominent economists were saying that at the time. Sure he was. Like i said - point out a critisim that doesn't also apply to the stock market. You don't think having a stock market is stupid do you? So you're saying there's nothing wrong with 9 percent inflation? That's your argument? we're just 'frothing' over it? How do you do it, making yourself look even more dumb than before again and again? As to bit coin, sure. Historically it HAD hedged nicely, and it failed this time. Know what else did? The stock market. It CRASHED. So - is anyone who says the stock market is a good thing equally nuts? Actually most of the stock market value is on speculation. Not production. Which is why it just crashed into the ground. SO no - its value is NOT based on wealth generating companies. The vast vast vast majority of it is a vehicle for zero sum speculation. But if you'd prefer we could talk commodities trading. gold doesn't 'do' anything. It's valuable because people perceive it is and it's in limited supply. Just like bitcoin Sorry - 90 percent of that whole thing was media hype and liberal lies. Bitcoin is absolutely a valid investment provided you know what your'e doing and undersatnd the risks just like the stock market and commodities.

Stay the eff out. The un is there to govern how nations deal with each other, it's not some sort of universal gov't police force. Close the doors, lock 'em in and let them fight till they get it sorted out someday.

IT's what everyone wants right until the consequences affect their lives Then half of them start caring about fixing it and the other half thinks the gov't should borrow more money to help them through these difficult times. And hopefully the first half shows up at the polls and we get a conservative gov't who focuses on fixing that.

that's racist.

And you're wrong. An intelligent person weights the evidence all the time and considers their opinon rather blindly following. I may have preferences in general for a party but not blind loyalty. Ask the federal PC party about that. Good voters are prepared to turn on their party if it goes sideways But that's the thing - evidence. I keep asking, and you ain't coming up with much of anything. So the only person i see with blind devotion to their belief right now would be you, and i have to ask why? That's not pragmatic, that's just lazy. Seriously, and i don't mean that as some random insult. There might have been a little more truth to that back in the 80's, but especially these days there is a great deal of difference between parties and politicians. Hell there's even a difference in a specific party depending who the leader is, parties are much more malleable. Are you telling me Jack layton's ndp and jagmeets are the same thing? But claiming they're 'all the same' allows you to not really focus on the differences, it's a wonderful excuse to not get involved, it makes it easy to throw up your hands and say 'oh well, no point i guess i don't have to think about it." Now you don't have to work to build better parties, now you don't have to spend time doing your democratic duty and participating - i mean what's the point? They're all the same, no point. You might even convince yourself not to waste time on voting day. No point. they're the same. They're not the same and i would strongly encourage you to actually pay attention and dig into it. A democracy REQUIRES the people's honest participation or else it becomes a dictatorship very fast.

There is truth in there for sure, but even if he wanted to he would likely have managed far less change than he'd have liked. Like i said, that rot goes deep.

If it were only that it would be bad enough. But - it's not just that. They also drive us into insane debt and taxes by inflating the bureaucracy. Both trudeaus Radically increased the public service and number of civil servants and put their people in a number of key positions . That means when they're out of power for a while they will STILL have huge control over the gov't and can slow up or stall a lot of inititives and do some effective lobbying work. It takes many years for the conservatives to reverse that when they get in as a rule and by then the libs are ready to be elected again. Meanwhile the bloated bureaucracy costs us billions of dollars.

The bank actually agreed with him there. And so have many other banks at this point and most eocnomists. THere's no doubt that trudeau's policies have made inflation significantly worse than it should be. Do you have ANY evidence that they haven't had that effect? I've got boatloads that they do so if you can provide anything now's the time. The bank of canada agreed with him there too. They've admitted they screwed up badly and should have put the breaks on sooner and they screwed up. He was quite right there. And to be blunt, he was right on bitcoin as well, other than the single 'hedge on inflation' comment. The thing is - virtually every single 'issue' people pretended to have with bitcoin is true of the stock market as well. And the crypto's have been solid performers for years and likely will be again. Sooooo - no lies. No deceptions. He was correct. So not exactly like truduea's 'the budget will balance itself' was it

The devil is always in the details, but i'm sure regardless they'd try to make it sound less ominous. They're not going to call it a 'free speech removal provision' or the like LOL We'll have to see what the actual language of any bill or order that gets put forward looks like.

Historically the UN avoids interfering in internal politics of a country if it can be avoided, unless one side or the other asks for help. They'll move to stop a war between two countries but to just randomly jump into a country's internal fighting without any lawful request for aid? That's called invading And even with a request for military aid it's very dicey, you jusr don't want to enter an armed conflict inside another nation as a general rule.

Where are you seeing that he blocked people from entering a bathroom and held protests inside the school?

It's pretty obvious you don't understand anything perfectly Or much at all.

Soooo -you didn't understand what was said to you. Sigh. It's also true that you're not traumatized because you're an dolt apparently. If you can't understand, next time just ask and i can explain it to you again. Now you just look dense. As to the rest.... ROFLMAO - holy butthurt batman Man, you're just raving now - look, neither me nor blackbird intended to get you so worked up you'd become incoherent I get this is upsetting for you - i know how you get when you realize you can't defend your point of view and start freaking out. But it's just the internet. You said something less intelligent - you got called on it - tomorrow's another day. Go have a glass of warm milk or something and try to cope.

Darn - I KNEW i forgot something. We were SUPPOSED to get a permission slip from OftenWrong before discussing issues around censorship!! ROTFLMAO !!!! - Well thanks for showing up and demonstrating that a) the left wing is pretty anti-free speech to the point where they come in and yap like a chihuahua if people are having 'unauthorized' conversations they dont' approve of so the story about the mayor certainly has the ring of truth and b) the left doesn't even realize when they're making our point for us LOLOLOL!!!!!