Michael Hardner

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.

Canadians believe in saying sorry when it's called for. New Populists say "Canada is broken". That's worse than saying we did something wrong in the past.

OP succumbs to his own rhetoric. Nobody in power said Canadians should be ashamed of themselves. Conservatives and Liberals boti, however, believe in accepting responsibility. The vanity, irresponsibility, and egotism of the new populism is anything but conservative.

Not a single way? 🤔 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-cancels-capital-gains-hike-1.7490020 Also what about the carbon tax? I'm hoping that there's something innovative coming but those seem to satisfy your criteria.

If Zelensky agrees, Trump gets the credit for this. I have to own my own understanding of the world, whether or not Trump gets credit. Changing the meaning of words is what THEY do, not me.

I did a deep dive after the last big release... Years ago. As I recall. The only new information was the names of CIA agents who had been working on this in any respect. Oswald was the lone gunman. Conspiracy culture flourished, though, after this event. Event. It did more damage than the actual assassination.

1. Sorry, I'm a coy boy. 2. Suuure... I suppose that's true but maybe a broader answer is "whatever works"... Blue sky question, in the decades immediately after WW2 were any leaders pushing for our own nuclear option? I honestly don't know the answer...

I was coyly invoking your name, that is true, but really talking about what a nationalist would generally value. Such a small country like this cannot defend itself against two bordering superpowers, so presumably we would be invested in an international framework that prevents imperialism, or at least mitigates against it

What games? I said something and you hopscotched around it, which is a game.

Weirdly, you answered another thing I didn't say.

Stop making sense.

I think we're better off with a pact against invasions. I think that a Canadian Nationalist would likely agree with me, my guess.

More like four years ...

1. People say that, but I don't know if there are examples that either support it or refute it. 2. When it comes to people there's always change. Texas and Alberta were once solidly left wing. 3. We'd need to look at inside information to make a decision. 4. I'd welcome something like a true public forum for such discussions. 5. Lots of institutions die for good reasons too. Like the great telegraph companies, Honest Eds, the Catholic Church. ...

It was the whole UN that time. And because it's an international pact.

I was talking about Kuwait not the second war. The US funded Iraq in the 1980s in their war against Iran.

The populists hate bankers and anything representing order and stability. They're revolutionaries.

Old school... Iraq won its war against Kuwait, then we liberated Kuwait. That was a precedent set by conservative leaders that we wouldn't stand for adventures from rogue states.

I think I was working at their headquarters at Brampton for a while. There was a lot of old Canadian Legacy at play, clearly, in the stiff bureaucracy and the plodding slowness of their decisions. They were doomed anyway. I want to add, pointing fingers such as trying to examine philosophy of causality and free choice is kind of a waste of energy. HBCs management failed. Musk kills children. Some things just are. You can scratch your chin and contemplate the universe all you want but it's not helpful, any more than over-moralizing does.

Pretty sure there is a recession coming.

Yeah maybe? I've all missed the obvious part....

Trusting any politician, especially with something that can't be verified, is a naive activity.

I mean it's a matter of numbers. As I said lots of people did better with freer trade and now when it's at risk of pulling back we see a recession so....

Excuse me? My premise? I don't think I posted a premise on this topic here in the thread. Maybe you intended to reply to someone else like eyeball.

1. More pedantic nonsense. I'm going to move on now.