Michael Hardner

Hmmm... falsifying data is difficult to do when the original data is open and available. Also there are a large number of data points and sources that would have to be changed. Temperature data over time comes from a very large number of sources, over time, from many countries and teams.

They aren't conservatives, they are just small people who think they are better than they are. To me, the USA used to be about Abilene Kansas. I stayed there once, my friends family was from there. It's a big... Nothing. Small town with one main Street. But they had such a meritocracy, that a kid from that town... Dwight Eisenhower... Became the most powerful man in the world.

Really a waste of time to discuss such things with conspiracy theory. I can't see the messages of the person you're talking to though, full disclosure.

Conservatives care for the environment. In the 1980s we had conservatives in office and we moved forward. The new populists are a mix of marxists, libertarians and corporatists.

The idea that jobs must be protected over general prosperity has not been embraced by any federal party since Ed Broadbent. I used to think this, and trust me I do empathize and admire the humanism at the heart of this but the basic math says that some work is best done elsewhere. Of course, it's commerce so greed is involved and other factors like national security but specialization is a general rule of thumb that provides goods and services most efficiently. Any humane country should cushion the impacts of reallocation, and displacement and you can see that Canada has been far better at this than the USA.

Only if you really get the sense that the average American wouldn't buy it though. I get that sense with my latest piping hot pretzel, but you know I'm never sure...

No. People who didn't like the implication financed opposition.

Why would he have a border in the trunk of his car? 🤔

No, it's science. They look at data, test hypothesis, correct their formulas... all of this...

Zing... Anyway, did those pollsters have Trudeau ahead 3 months ago? If not, what went wrong? 🤔

Not clowns, but lying clowns.

They quote celebrities and Al Gore, people who only cite the theories... Versus crackpots who make up their own theories. There were some legitimate scientists in the '90s who predicted that climate change was not human-caused. But after decades, the temperatures didn't go down as they predicted You should really put someone on ignore, if they fabricate science.

1. Yes. 2. Because lower tariffs allow us to export more goods and products. 3. The government would have to subsidize that right? 4. But our GDP is many multitudes higher?

He's FINISHED ! 🤣

1. Interesting that you put 'globalism' in a bucket that includes 'global consciousness', environmentalism and so on together with global trade. Maybe not a bad idea. But, as with anything, the more you pack into the car the more difficult it is to keep track of it all. Some globalist initiatives (using your definition) are good for inflation and some are bad. The current inflation probably has more diverse root causes than that sticker you put on your car with a smiling planet earth hugging a bird. 2. It also creates jobs and reduces prices. To make 'reducing jobs' a 'gross thing', by definition, then you have to include automation right ? And technology in general. But, again, it's your definition and your opinion. Who am I to say it's not gross for you ? 3. I agree that special cases need to stay in Canada, but I also don't trust politicians to decide that because they will carve out their own little parts for themselves/their constituents. Not sure if something as simple as a mask needs to stay on shore, but energy and food do to a degree. And media, especially. 4. Yes, and it's hard to believe that we are much better off in a macro sense. I said: it's hard to believe. But it's true on the whole. If you acknowledge that that *might* be true, then we have the next phase of THAT discussion which is: why does everything seem tougher ?

Do you think global trade has "caused" inflation ? Do you think outsourcing is "bad" ? Do you think manufacturing needs to stay in Canada ? Current situations can't be used to retro-criticize decisions made in the 90s, 80s, 70s. Even manufacturing plants aren't likely to make big decisions due to the trade wars.. at least they shouldn't be.

It's pretty rich.... Easterners are vile, Trudeau is a Nazi..... And how dare they.. HOW DARE THEY SAY Poilievre politics resembles Trump's 😂

Trudeau called somebody Marxist? I've never supported Trudeau, and I do see problems with the status quo but Trumpian style politics is definitely a new thing.

Economics disagrees with you.

I'm going to stop you right there. Trump calls his Democrat opponents Marxists, and Poilievre followed the same pattern.

https://legal.un.org/repertory/art51.shtml Article 51 says that country has the right to self-defense, not that failure to defend oneself results in loss of sovereignty legally speaking.

There is a good book called The paranoid style in American politics... It outlines that these emotional spikes have happened in the past. They go away either through a big cataclysm, and a quick change, or.. they are just forgotten like the Silver standards issue... See William Jennings Bryan speech.

Look at politics from the 1930s, then check in on the '50s, then the '70s, than the '90s. 20 years is sometimes called a generation, but in some ways it's a lifetime, a cycle

They use the same inflammatory rhetoric style. This method was actually copied from the left. You can't really go around calling people Marxists and then complain when they say you resemble Trump. I'll be glad when we get back to civility and rational discussion, instead of emotional hyperbole.

No cursing is happening. "Canada is broken ' is a general insult to our country. It has nothing to do with policy. It's a blanket statement.