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No prob Scrib my comment didn't mean to question you..I could have been clearer....it was just meant to be rhetorical...I agreed with your pt. by the way..

Again the problem with this thread or ANY discussion on immigration is the intent of the discussion. If the intent is to express concern that immigration policy should promote recruiting qualified immigrants coming to Canada to help build this country and make it better, I get it. That is far debate. There are far too many loopholes making it easy for people to break the existing immigration laws and push in front of well qualified immigrants who have bust their butt to prepare to be qualified and line up to get in and go through the process to become permanent residences and then citizens. However, when the topic then turns into a blanket generalization about ANY immigrants coming that is where I say enough stop it. If you do not want anyone at all, say so. I have said it publically, I openly challenge Taxme as a neo Nazi white supremacist on this forum and his trying to couch it with ambiguous references to simply worrying about "whites" fools no one....but at least on this topic, he is open and blatant about his agenda which is more then I can say for some who should just put it out in the open they do not want ANY immigrants like Taxme. I argue again, Canada economically needs qualified immigrants to fill gaps and help build the economy and pay into the tax pools needed to run our governments. The idea this nation can survive without constantly upgrading its economic classes of workers is idiotic in this day of age with specialized job functions. That said what the hell does that have to do with Hamas, a Muslim extremist terrorist group and/or tunnels? Hello over here. The claim immigrants cost money was the thread topic. Yoo hoo over here. My response was qualified immigrants do not, they add to the wealth of the country. Certain unqualified ones yes may be causing a drain. Then again why stop at immigrants. How many Canadian citizens are a drain and cost the government money and who decides that? Is it ok to drain Canada and be unproductive as long as you were born in Canada? What logic is that? Me, I am loath to point a finger at anyone and accuse them of being a drain unless I have all the facts and event then I do not know about you but I find people who point the finger at others for lacking things usually are not perfect so excuse me if I just identify with hard working people who are tolerant of others and when I criticize immigration policies its not because I am against anyone. I think Sheer is trying his hardest to say that but the Liberals are intent in throwing back any discussion as to the concern of immigration policy as racist and this in turn may backfire on Liberals not pander to get them votes as they think its going to do. Time will tell whether the very immigrants Trudeau thinks he is pandering to with his policies consider what he is doing patronizing and belittling to how hard they worked to ger here and vote against him, or simply pat him on the back. That is an interesting sub-text to the current immigration debate.

Lol, give me a break. Trying to dismiss Trump's behavior as just a bunch of left wing stories is absurd. The issue I raise is not simply written by crazed leftists: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newspolitics/hes-losing-his-s-trumps-advisers-are-increasingly-worried-about-his-mental-state-following-days-of-erratic-behavior/ar-AAGV3HB?ocid=spartandhp Next, what kind of logic is since FDR had polio, or for that matter all Presidents have medical illnesses including Reagan now being known to have had dementia hidden from the public while in office, this some how justifies Trump being demented and being able to hold the most powerful job in the world? What kind of logic is that? It isn't logic its oh come on look the other way at his behavior and explain anyone who is concerned about it as being a leftist and that you need to give me a break on. Yes we should have had real concerns about Reagan's mental health but I do concede under his tenure US foreign policy never suffered just the opposite. Would Reagan have simply said to the people of Hong Kong, it is a sovereign matter for China to handle internally? Did he do that with the events that unfolded in the collapsing Soviet Union or when he said tear down the wall? Dementia in itself is not the issue. If its treated as it was with Reagan so what. If it had impacted on his ability to carry out his job, then yes of course it would be a serious concern and yes you are right using dementia simply as a political insult to avoid debating him is bull, I concede that, However please don't tell me John Gartner is simply a leftist and that is why he raised this in USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/09/does-donald-trump-have-dementia-we-need-know-psychologist-column/3404007002/ The speech pattern manifestation is not being raised only by leftists: https://www.inquisitr.com/4240068/trumps-speech-deterioration-could-be-an-early-sign-of-dementia-experts-say/ We are way past the point of dismissing any concern with Trump's behavior as being leftist or simply fatigue. The man spends most of his day either golfing or texting attack tweets against his numerous "enemies". When he made a ridiculous and dangerous comment about Hurricane Dorion heading to Alabama, he not only did not have the honesty to admit he made a mistake but he spent the next two days issuing tweets insisting the hurricane was headed to Alabama. On top of that the US suffered three Category 5 hurricanes under his watch and this man repeatedly stated over and over in a 4 day news span he never heard of a Category 5 hurricane let alone one hitting land. This is past incompetence. Its a man with clear signs of dementia and to keep him in office at this point surrounded by people afraid to deal with this issue and admit it is bullshit. We can speculate until doomsday whether FDR's failed health enabled Stalin to pull off what he did at Yalta and whether it impacted on his ability to lead the US in WW2. The point is Americans and the world surely want someone with full mental capacity handling this position. For that matter someone should do a test on Joe Biden. He too clearly has cognitive issues as is clear in repeated garbled comments. Early on set dementia is serious, its something that should be discussed and treated not ignored. Its not a political issue, its a mental health issue and to pretend Trump or Now Biden do not raise mental heath issues misses the point. By the way, if I run for office of course do a mental health test on me. Use these forum responses as well as proof of my dementia. Its fair game when you run for public office. .

Neither Russia or the US can be effective in the ME or Africa without Terkeeee. Why stop there? How can either function at anything without Erdogan. Oh wait a second. They have that fat guy from North Korea. For a second I got carried away. As for the Epstein if he had a failsafe back up system to release tapes on his death he would not have been killed. He was either killed to be shut up or his death was faked and he is living somewhere off the grid now. Either way the tapes are with me. Putin already gave them to me for safekeeping.Oy and to think people bite their fingers. Oh I am tempted to tell someone what to bite.

Interesting. Usually I am told governments are controlled by Zionists. I will speak with my people. They seem to be losing their grip. On a more serious note, does anyone not believe our governments and all political parties are not influenced by people with specific agendas of interest? Which government in Canada, federal, provincial, municipal or otherwise does not pander to ethnics to get votes?

Les ex-Montréalais comme moi sont des gens formidables. That said, does anyone In Quebec really care what Elizabeth May thinks about Quebec, really?

Sigh now that Dougie is here I have nothing to do anymore. Lol. May I state this as well. Iranian security and intelligence services have been advising and assisting the Syrian military to keep Bashar al-Assad in office. Assad is an Alawite a remote offshoot of Shiiite Islam and not even considered Islam by certain Shiites and certainly not by Sunnis. The majority in Syria are Sunni. The Alawites have always been a small minority and the Assad family came from them. Iran keeps Assad in power as a buffer against it being a Sunni ally with Egypt and Iraq as it once was with Saudi Arabia in a struggle of hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Iran considers Lebanon and Syria proxy states to control as well as parts of Yemen, and Iraq. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Forces, Quds Force, as well as Iranian intelligence services, and law enforcement forces keep Assad in power and to be specific the IRGC has ground forces in Syria killing civilians and anyone considered an enemy of Assad, especially Kurds, So let us be clear Iran is propping a puppet by military force beyond its borders and this means providing essential military supplies to Assad, primarily by air which enables him to continue destroying the little bit left in Syria. As part of this activity Iran finances, trains and supports the pro-Assad shabiha militias a bunch of cold blooded war criminals. Iran also finances the Lebanese Hezbollah who also engage in a direct combat role in Syria and entered and been fighting on behalf of Assad against his own civilians since 2012. Hezbollah is on an open declared state of war against Israel. Syria and Lebanon by the way are in an open declared state of war with Israel. As for Iran since disposing the Shah of Iran as its leader, each leader and the current leader have openly called out to the Muslim world to use any means necessary including terrorism to rid the Middle East of Israel. So why would anyone ask why Israel would strike at Hezbollah or other Iranian forces in Syria or anyone in Syria threatening Israel? How does that make Israel an aggressor? What reasoning says when a country openly has declared war against you, you sit on your ass and let them prepare to attack you? Hezbollah stated to the entire world they only armed themselves because Israel was in South Lebanon and once Israel exited Lebanon they would disarm. The very day Israel exited South Lebanon, Hezbollah launched attacks into Israel proper and said it would never disarm and it controls the majority of geographic area of Lebanon by military force not elected office. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization not an army. It openly states its mission is to destroy Israel and kill any or all Jews in a holy war and its mission is to create one Muslim state where Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Jordan and the West Bank are, in a first phase before joining up to create a one world Muslim council government administering the entire world based on Sharia law. It is allied with over 40 other active terror groups including Hamas in Gaza, each with multiple cells, all with the same goal, taking back Israel by any means necessary. Hamas as well said it was only armed because Israel was in Gaza, and once Israel left Gaza it would disarm and the day Israel left Gaza it began attacking inside Israel proper and has never stopped. For anyone pretending or suggesting Israel is an aggressor they ignore what Hamas is, what Hezbollah is, what Iran is. As for Russian activities, Dougie is dead on. Russia needs a naval port that is why it is in Syria. Putin plays the sides. He will not stop Israel from doing anything needed to protect Israel and while there have been some miscommunications Russia looks the other way when Israel attackis anyone in Syria threatening the Israeli borders or within Israel. As for China people should remember while it is Iran's no.1 ally like Putin it is no ally of Syria or Hezbollah or Iranian extremism-it needs Iran's oil. China has an internal war going on with 30 million Muslims fueled by both Iran and Saudi Arabia. It has no love of Muslim extremists any more than Russia does because of Chechnya or Afghanistan. This is precisely why China entered a formal naval alliance with Israel-that was a message to Iran that it needs Iranian oil but not to mess with Israel and cause a war disrupting the oil supply. Putin and China are in the Middle East no differently than anyone else, for the oil It should also be mentioned there is also the Iraqi Shiite militias trained by Iran who were also sent to Syria 2012 to prop Assad called the Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade and another one called te Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq. This is all about propping Assad. The rest Dougie has addressed.

Oy....and a gevalt as well.

Oy is a Jewish word. Milux Oy? Oyak? Stop using the word Oy. Someone will think you are a Zionist!

Actually for the length of time Reagan was in office he fired far less people than Trump but that is not the issue nor the measurement of dementia. Next I am not meaning to insult Trump when I say I believe like many others he has early on set dementia or some kind of other neurological illness. The evidence of Trump suffering from neurological deficits is there for anyone OBJECTIVELY to see and when I see objectively I mean psychiatrists, neurologists and psychologists. If anyone wants to see what has happened to Donald Trump they need to play back any interview of him in the 70's and simply compare the speech pattern. He exhibits a high degree of what is called semantic paraphasia. There are also numerous videos displaying his neurological issues including things such as "sundowning", i.e., him staring in blank space, not knowing where he is and who he is with. His lack of hand coordination shows is also a tell tale sign. This is far more serious then him simply being incoherent and yes the evidence is there and to ignore it is absurd. If there is any chance he is sick it must be disclosed and to think its been disclosed is ridiculous. His slurred speech, blank stares, lack of memory, constant confusion, temper tantrums, rapid mood shifts, all are tell tale signs of degenerative neurological issues. To listen to Trump's confusion with words, fractured syntax and constantly mixing up words can not just be explained by the fact he is dyslexic and I urge you to watch old interviews with him to witness the deterioration. Its more than just him being an idiot. The Trump of 20 years ago did not speak or exhibit behavior as this one today does. His age, family history of Alzheimer's and objective out in the open symptoms can not be ignored. If you had a parent or loved one who comes from a family with Alzheimer's exhibiting these signs, of course you would want them to go for complete neurological testing. One test was done on him and the test was quickly dismissed by the doctor who came up with it as being unreliable. At best the test given to him which he claims says he does not have dementia would only show if he had advanced dementia not early on-set. Its quite possible he had a stroke, a series of strokes or some kind of vascular impairment preventing blood flow to his brain since he is obese and probably has hardening of the arteries. Or it could be Alzheimer's or other illnesses. What is clear is that pretending he is "normal" and his behavior is acceptable is bullshit. The emperor has no clothes and to pretend he is not walking around naked is pointless. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5171729/Doctor-claims-Donald-Trump-symptoms-predementia.html https://www.metro.us/president-trump/dr-lance-dodes-donald-trump-psychosis-dementia https://trofire.com/2019/04/14/signs-of-trumps-dementia-are-clear-as-day-psychologist-warns/ https://www.theimproper.com/142684/donald-trumps-family-history-alzheimers-campaign-issue/ https://medium.com/@whitfieldlarrabee/like-father-like-son-the-troubling-problem-of-dementia-trumps-white-house-1ed5b7f232d2 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/01/trump-cog-decline/548759/ https://www.indy100.com/article/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-cyber-security-briefing-dementia-7556681

I am not sure who you are claiming are Nazis with your analogy but I think accusing anyone who has a political disagreement and takes to the streets to demonstrate as being a Nazi is illogical and I am not sure whether I would refer to the Chinese regime as Nazi either. I think using Nazi analogies is not helpful at all on either side of this debate and simply calls names. Calling someone a Nazi shuts down debate. Its like calling someone violent. Its a word used to shut down discussion as to the conflict and label one side as evil and blame them for it. Let's be clear, China is run by a highly totalitarian, centralized form of government that does not permit free speech or individual rights. It fears with 2 billion people if it allowed it there would be anarchy if they did not keep extreme and tight control. On the other hand, Hong Kong was an isolated British outpost, a colonial vestige completely antithetical to the mainland's way of doing things since 1949. The tensions and clash were inevitable. What is clear is China will do what it always has, use its military to crush and destroy opposition to the government. Calling Hong Kong citizens who want democratic rights Nazis or violent terrorists is as illogical as calling he Chinese government the same. Both are on opposite sides of how to run a society. Both have legitimate concerns but China is a totalitarian state and will crush democracy lets not pretend otherwise and in that sense it has more in common with Nazi totalitarian control of the masses than Hong Kong citizens who protest right down to the boots and goose-stepping of its soldiers. China has no respect for democracy and will crush it in Hong Kong and calling protesters violent is just the pretext it uses to dehumanize Hong Kong citizens to soon justify crushing them to death. Its easier to justify crushing an evil violent person than a legitimate one. In that sense China is doing to Hong Kong citizens what Nazis did to Jews and other opponents of its regime-reclassifying them as less than human so as to be able to easier justify their exterminating them whether it be physically or just their voices. Because of the geographic location of Hong Kong, it will be swallowed. The only reason it lasted this long is because corrupt Chinese Communist Party officials needed it to launder their money. That will soon change. Because Hong Kong is clearly inside China, no one will overtly challenge Chinese sovereignty over it. Let's not kid ourselves. Hong Kong is a symptom of an economic and cultural war China engages in with free markets around the world. If it has to crush Hong Kong to show its muscle it will. It may ironically though cause it much harm cutting off markets it badly needs for trading its goods.

Trump has dementia and no one says a damn thing. The difference is when Reagan had it for his 8 years his wife leaned over him regulating every comment and whispering in his ear. Trump is unchecked. The 8 years of Reagan having dementia created the precedent. Now its just ridiculous. reagan was surrounded by people in control, Trump on the other hand fires everyone and everything. Reagan was surrounded by a strong cabinet Trump has mostly acting Secretaries always getting fired. As sick as Reagan really was, he remained cordial and respected his limitations and took medication and had safeguards built in, Trump not at all. He genuinely has dementia. Whether its Alzheimer's or another cause its a fact. His slurred words, the lack of control of his hands, the inability to make eye contact, the inability to concentrate, the garbled syntax, the paralysis in his mouth, the gait, its all there to see and its sad.

Stop that,

If it makes you feel any better, I would give you my last Stella Artois. Then again you probably drink something stronger.

You really want to address the issue,....is it really people taking videos of stupid comments such as the ones you mentioned, or is it the fact people are taking videos of everything including what you mentioned? I think its the latter. I think those who do it for the former are still an exception.

The issue as to who should be defined as a registered foreign agent and how they interact with pads has been an issue on capital hill for years and is not particular to just Aipac.

Aipac support's Israel's right to exist as a Jewish nation. You throw out yet another claim with no basis. Aipac supports any leader of that country as if has done in he past not based on the leader of the day but based on the nation's right to exist. The leader changes but the role and support remains the same regardless of the leader. If you took the time you would find out many Israelis, Jews who suppor iIsrael's right to exist, and even Aipac supported are not all n agreement with everything Netanyahu says or does. That s yet another erroneous stereotype.

Aipac has never swung anywhere. In fact Liberals like you brought up on subjectve scripts from web sites not actual first hand knowledge have swung extreme right wing buying into recycled neo Nazi scripts you think are new let alone definitive.

Aipac's alleged influence was shown to be a myth the 8 years while Obama was in office. How do you know how much influence the Arab controlled oil lobby has on the US? Your comments are assumptions based on subjective antecdotal inference. In fact any power Aipac has comes from agreeing with policies that are a military industrial advantage to the US. When they are not aligned with such interests they have no more influencec than any other nation. That is the point. China n fact has the largest lobby then Britain by size. South Korea, Taiwan, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Britain, Japan all have strong lobbies as do the Cayman Islands and Canada. Please show how you know one is more effective than the other. To date any assumptions have never been measured with objective standards. The most common assumption has been that if a group spends a lot they must have more influence which is not necessarily accurate for two reasons. To start with lobby groups and Pacs working together are not necessarily known and two the amounts paid and where they go to may be wasted on the wrong people.Pacs not lobby groups pay politicians. What we do know is no lobby group simply bribes. It has to set up elaborate networks that use leverage on passing laws based on how many jobs they can generate in an elected member's riding. When Taiwan or South Korea get heavy influence on certain votes it's because they use their military industrial network relationships and so they are no different than Saudi Arabia or Israel. The US has always until Obama given as much money to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Jordan as it did Israel. Any influence Israel has comes from protecting US interests in the world and witntechnological expertise it gives the US which the US then uses to make money for itself. It's a myth to think anyone controls the US let alone a nation. Control and influence comes from falluances of mutual financial interests that constantly change and evolve with unknown players. It is simplistic and idiotic to think any organization has the power you claim Aipac has. Obama proved that was a myth and Trump acting as a step and fetch it boy for Putin shows that NATO, Japan and Taiwan and South Korea have limited influence. You think with Trump sucking up to Kim their powerful lobbies can do a thing? China controlled and bought out Clinton and Bush Sr. and Jr. How much influence do they now have on the US.Do you or anyone really know? Aipac's reputation is no different than Mossad's. It's invented by gentiles who think we Jews have super powers. Hey you want to buy into that ancient canard go ahead. Me and my fellow Zioonist we control it all. Well except Kim Kardashian. She is beyond even us.

No. The modifcatins change the operational functions signifcantly and are not released to mantain tactical advantage and so you and I have no idea what has been done to them and no Canada does not have the same expertise as Israel or Britain or the US on certain military advancements that will never be shared.

Of course they do including what Israel has done already to its 35 's and what the US will do with it's 35's and just like the fghters sent in the past to Saudi Arabia such were inferior to the US and Israeli ones. The F18 navy model is not the F18 we use or Australia uses such is why purchasing aged incompatble Aussie18' made no sense. Modifications determine price and capability...always have.

The F35 is not the same fighter for each country. It's modified and the type f modifications determines it's real price. Have you ever bought a car? You think the base model is where the purchase ends?

Of course it has blind spots which is why it has to rely on the helmet for vision and that is an insane way to develop a craft. Technology should never replace only assist vision.

Hi you accusing me of fake news lol. No I have like anyone can read what get pilots have said. The anger by pilots over the toy helmet turning their lives into a PlayStation game is real. Israel had a Tsfir fighter that long ago did what the 35 is trying to do. The pilots shut it off. The Yanks shut down the Tsfir to recent competition.Now Israel is locked in having to assist develop the 35 and is in fact modifying it's F35 precisely because of the over reliance on that helmet. It is an over hyped toy with no back up if it fails other than disaster. It's a turkey. You fly it.

The F35 is loud and so of course it can be detected. You bought in to stealth technology hype. First off why does Canada which needs to intercept and show the flag need to be stealth? Next to be stealth you have to take off missiles and outside tanks limiting it's fire power and flight distance. Next stealth is not guaranteed and it has been detected in tests. No we are not doing anything requiring stealth in fact the exact opposite. Canada needs an inteceptor not a craft trying to replace the Warthog and copters in low air desert anti tank war as well as trying to be a low level secret bomber and also a dog fighter. It can't do all 4 without conflicting operational needs creati my compromised operational capability in all it's different roles.