Moonlight Graham

Where does it say that?

I don't understand.

Given this scripture would you say that the hijab and ie: covering legs and cleavage with clothes is reasonable but given 33:59 the burka and niqab are unreasonable? "That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed."

In the summer I went to the beach. I saw a bunch of Muslim kids playing and swimming. The boys wore trunks and went with shirts off as boys typically do. The girls wore a hijab with long sleeves and clothed legs so as to not show skin. Might have been a "burkini", the mother had one too. I thought this was strange as I had never seen this before with my own eyes. But it was just cloth, so it doesn't really bother me. The girl was having lots of fun laughing and playing in the water with her brothers and cousins A burka and a niqab are also just cloth, but those do bother me, they feel oppressive. Long sleeves aren't really that oppressive as much as sexually modest, no different than the West was 100 years ago.

Maybe all the stuff you want on your Whopper is a little high maintenance?

Pretty sure Facebook has a backdoor directly inside my cerebral cortex.

No that would be a disaster and not even be effective. But they need to smarten up in terms of national security with or without anyone else.

i'll guarantee I've spoken with more recent new immigrants than anyone else on this forum. They speak english surprisingly well, especially Indian students coming here to study, they push English really hard in India, most who come off the plane are fluent. The ones without english these days are typically refugees, understandably, and the few who come under the parent program (typically aged 60+). The large majority of immigrants to Canada are also fairly young, i'd say typically under 35. The immigration program used to allow people to sponsor anyone in their family, like siblings, but that's no longer allowed.

They don't care about polls or what Canadians think on this. There has been no studies or consultations from what i've seen, you're free to prove otherwise: https://globalnews.ca/news/5397306/canada-immigration-poll/ "New polling numbers suggest a majority of Canadians believe the federal government should limit the number of immigrants it accepts — a public opinion trend that Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he finds concerning. Sixty-three per cent of respondents to a recent Leger poll said the government should prioritize limiting immigration levels because the country might be reaching a limit in its ability to integrate them." Oh and another one recently: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/poll-suggests-canadians-skittish-on-future-immigration-increases-as-pandemic-persists-1.5162770

Yes I agree that everyone is a whore, not least our politicians who work in the interests of their corporate donors to better ensure re-election. Trudeau and his Liberals are the biggest whores of all. Harper's crew weren't too far behind. Not least of those was John McCallum, fired for beating the CCP's line. You wonder how many free proverbial "blowjobs" in China the CCP provided him. This is called "elite capture". https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mccallum-out-ambassador-1.4994492 China is playing the game very well and we often don't seem to even notice there's one going on. China is doing everything it can to gain an advantage on Western countries, which is why we should do the same towards China. Zero sum. Your move, Canada.

The problem is if some but not all corporations move business to China, those corps will have an advantage in price, profit and competition vs the ones who don't. I don't blame the corporations, capitalism is a race to the bottom for better or worse. The only thing that can put a check on capitalism when not desired is government. Just ask the CCP.

The Harper gov didn't increase levels to over 400k a year and they also increased the length of time it took to acquire citizenship, which the Liberals quickly reversed upon election, among other measures to make it easier to become a citizen.

It isn't primarily about morality, it's primarily about national self-interest. What is your pain tolerance to have your country's sovereignty and economy come under increasing control of an adversarial power? Do you support putting Hauwei 5G in this country and risk coming under surveillance of China to save a few bucks? If it weren't for Chinese illegal tactics we may have been installing Canadian 5G tech all over the world. Do you understand that China is attempting to steal as much global tech IP as possible in order to become the world leader in tech? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-01/did-china-steal-canada-s-edge-in-5g-from-nortel Do you understand that the CCP has mass surveillance across China's internet and mobile networks, has 54% of all security cameras in the world, and has initiated a social credit system where "bad citizens" are denied travel, employment opportunities etc? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System Do you want to be using something like a Chinese google or facebook or Whatsapp or iphone one day, and come under the surveillance of the CPP through its use so that they can exert evermore control over you? When AI and automation explodes globally do you want it to be owned by American or Chinese companies? Do you understand that China increasingly demands loyalty from its diaspora by threatening their family members in China. Do you understand the potential power of a country of 1.4 billion with an ever-rising economy that will blow past the US and has a huge ever-growing diaspora including in Canada? Do you understand that the US's 300 million population won't be able to compete with that indefinitely?

The Liberal Party is intent on increasing immigration to the highest annual levels possible that they feel Canadians will accept in the name of securing more votes for the Liberal Party.

We don't need to bring back manufacturing, we simply need to move it to other countries, and ideally not have it concentrated in one powerful country that is tyrannical that we must then have dependence on.

iPhones can be manufactured elsewhere. Yes it would be painful, at least in short-term. Also painful: giving up global hegemony to genocidal totalitarian tyrants.

"Xi Jinping lays out blueprint to make China a global superpower by 2050" https://nationalpost.com/news/world/xi-jinping-lays-out-plan-to-make-china-a-global-superpower-by-2050 New Cold War. Zero sum game.

This is my favorite one: Months before China researchers working in a Canadian government lab that researchers deadly viruses were escorted from the lab by RCMP last year after a "policy breach" (err, spying/stealing), they sent a shipment of ebola virus and 14 other viruses from Canada to Wuhan. One of these escorted Chinese researchers won the GG's "Innovation Award" in 2018. Which Chinese official paid off the Liberals to give her that? The Liberals are a threat to our national security and need to be removed. Good job Canada. Yes let's help (and celebrate!) China with their biological warfare research. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-sent-deadly-viruses-to-wuhan-lab-months-before-rcmp-asked-to-investigate-1.5609582 "Meanwhile, it appears the NML's shipper initially planned to send the viruses in inappropriate packaging and only changed it when the clients in China flagged the problem. "The only reason the correct packaging was used is because the Chinese wrote to them and said, 'Aren't you making a mistake here?' If that had not happened, the scientists would have placed on an Air Canada flight, several of them actually, a deadly virus incorrectly packaged. That nearly happened," Attaran said."

Hauwei. Money laundering. Stealing Canada and everyone else's government secrets. Comprising our elites. How much more do you want? You either understand what China is doing or you don't. An easier question is what rules do they follow that they could get away with breaking? Some fun reading: https://globalnews.ca/news/7075248/canada-china-interference-permissive-target/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-01/did-china-steal-canada-s-edge-in-5g-from-nortel https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/28/1-in-5-companies-say-china-stole-their-ip-within-the-last-year-cnbc.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-universities-research-waterloo-military-technology-1.5723846 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-escorted-from-infectious-disease-lab-amid-rcmp-investigation-1.5211567 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientist-sent-deadly-viruses-to-wuhan-lab-months-before-rcmp-asked-to-investigate-1.5609582

We need to think on time scales of 50+ years from now. Had we done that 25-30 years ago when this all started we wouldn't be in this mess.

How do you meet a country head-on that has 1.4 billion people and is going to zoom past the US economy over the coming decades and just keep getting more and more powerful? Your solution is one we could try, and it would help us in the short and maybe medium term but longterm China seems destined to become the most powerful country in the world with the economic partnerships we have. China is foolish because they've now shown most of their hand before this has happened. Until the last few years the West was naively apathetic towards China. What are you willing to give up to save some money on cheaply made crap?

IP theft.

If it were up to me I would do 5 things regarding China: 1. Create an organization consisting of all the world's legitimate democracies 2. Create a consensus within this organization to remove all business with China. 3. Expropriate all China-owned assets within Canada. 4. Ban 100% of immigration from China and immediately deport all non-citizens back to China. 5. Ban all politicians from communicating with any foreign national from China unless it's on public record.

We've tried that, they have made it clear they don't want to follow any rules except the ones that benefit them. They're the ones that have made this zero-sum.

I observe that people in each Canadian province have more or less fairly similar political views to the people in the US states directly below them on the map, with the exception of Quebec. Ontario and New York are not so different, nor Alberta vs Montana, nor BC vs Washington state (both filled with far-leftists). I have family that live in rural Canada and they enjoy their Nascar and hunting and are raging racists because of not having a non-white person live within a 45 min drive of themselves, which sounds awfully familiar.