Moonlight Graham

Exactly as I said. We agree.

Americans tend to want to push government out of their lives a lot more than Canadians, they value liberty and independence from the state. Canadians want to be taken care of, they like the nanny state, they don't value independence as much. Canadians are the 35 y/o dude still living in their parents basement & having them pay their bills, buy their groceries, & do their laundry. Americans moved out after high school. Some Americans might have less money, and no healthcare, but they're also on their own two feet. The fact that the Liberals' approval rating went sky high after CERB is proof enough. Free money for not working, we love you!

Totally agree. People can elect whomever they wish. But if you elect people like that, look what happens.

Those are good skills. I think the most important are analytical decision-making and ethics. I think JT is average at the former and not good at the latter. I think he's used to doing things a certain way as a wealthy celebrity and he doesn't realize you can do them as a public servant. Every MP and public servant has to read the conflict of interest stipulations when they're hired and sign off on it. I guarantee he didn't read it or at least pay attention & take it seriously when he signed it, he probably just had a whole bunch of papers pushed in front of him and just signed on the line. Besides giving everyone a ton of money I don't see how he handled the pandemic that well. All of his early decisions were horrendous & cost lives. He very was slow to close borders, travel screening was non-existent, we gave away tons of PPE to China in Feb., he let his wife travel overseas In March & get COVID, he let Dr. Tam & the WHO give him horrendously bad advice, you have the WE program scandal, his Finance Minister left, & he had press conferences everyday but managed to avoid answering the vast majority of the questions. Oh and on Easter weekend he told everyone to stay home then drove to his cottage to spend time with family. He's an entitled piece of s*** who thinks the rules don't apply to him.

Freeland is the first ever female Finance Minister. So like do you guys think she's gonna spend a whole bunch of taxpayer money on shoes? I kid, i kid.

Being legally able to apply for a job and being qualified for a job are different things. I could apply for a job as CEO of Walmart, that doesn't mean I have any experience in retail or running a massive business with millions of employees and people to manage. Everything in his life has been handed to him on a silver platter. He comes from a famous wealthy family, he's never had to worry about getting a job or paying a bill. He's learned everything on the job. He has no idea how the vast majority of Canadians live, he's always had to work less hard for everything. He doesn't think twice going to Aga Khan's private island, that's just another weekend getaway with a "family friend". You elect an inexperienced unqualified spoiled entitled vain attention-seeker as PM and that's the kind of leader you get. For some reason people thought Pierre's brain was going to reincarnate inside his brain??

What else is on his work resume besides teacher? He acted in a mini-series for CBC in 2007. He attended engineering school for a couple of years but dropped out, and has an undergrad degree in literature. He has no qualifications to be an MP, cabinet minister, or PM besides his last name. Pierre was a lawyer, Mulroney was a lawyer, Chretien was a lawyer, Paul Martin was a lawyer. These things come in handy when you're proposing, drafting, interpreting, and implementing laws. Harper had a masters in economics. Pearson had a masters in history from Oxford University and taught it in university, had a career in the public service & as a diplomat, and had a hand in founding the UN and NATO and almost became the 1st Secretary General of the UN before being PM. Justin's dad is Pierre.

He thinks money grows on trees and has never had to worry about paying a bill in his life, so yeah he would love it.

Why would Canada or any country want him running the OECD? He obviously has financial serious issues breaching ethics and conflict of interest and he's not that great of a finance minister. I hope he loses. He can't run 1 countries finances but he wants to help manage the OECD??

Well I wish we could hahaha. I guess we'll see. Not sure why you assume we'll be doing MMT, is Trudeau i big pusher of it? I wouldn't be surprised.

Exactly. She's the good soldier. No finance experience, so he can ram through whatever he wants. Disagree with the guy & you're out & yes-men put in. Morneau, JWR. In the US, Congress controls spending, not the POTUS, and you can have the opposite party of the POTUS with control of the House and/or Senate. In Canada, the PM is the leader of the legislature, is an MP and can vote, tells his party how to vote, sets Cabinet, selects Senators, selects the GG, and selects Supreme Court justices.

IN what way? Digitally deleting debt?

Maybe they're also losing money because they're losing business to email, paperless billing, and private couriers etc. The vast majority of mail I get is bills and statements. If you still have to pay drivers to deliver etc but less mail in the system, revenue is down. Sounds like they need to increase the cost of stamps and shipping. But then maybe that will make them even less likely to compete with couriers.

Breaking news: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-morneau-justin-trudeau-decision-1.5689890 Discuss here. Interesting but not shocking. Canada is better for this, he's had at least 3 significant breaches of the Conflict of Interest Act.

China has obviously been lobbying our gov for a long time. It only makes sense on their part that they would have people working for them who have infiltrated our government at many points. They infiltrated Nortel and stole their secrets, they infiltrated the government's national disease research center and were caught last year. It's not very hard for someone working for their gov to move to Canada and join the government or government parties, key companies etc and either steal information or otherwise push for the CCP's interests.

My local walmart has bins upon bins of hand sanitizer at least.

The MSM were also criticizing Trump when he was doing the right things, and then criticizing him when he was doing the wrong things. People are completely brainwashed into this mouth-foaming Trump-is-Satan mentality. Imagine going on your Facebook and defending ANY policy decision the guy makes, you'd be raked over the coals and deemed some racist alt-right Trump supporter, because the mob says we all have to hate him & everything he does.

Trudeau's early response in Jan., Feb., and half of March was horrendously bad. There was virtually no action in helping the problem. Flights weren't restricted, there was no airport screening, we gave away out PPE to China etc. He's more concerned about being PC than defending this country, and Canadians have DIED because of it. Trump, for all his stupidity since then, at least had the balls to close down travel from China and the UK early on, in freaking January!, and he was hammered for it. This is why you ignore the PC crowd and offending people and just do what's right. The moronic WHO not only recommended against the public wearing masks, but it recommended AGAINST travel restrictions because it was said to have no real effect and that the virus "was destined to spread" no matter what. The WHO is, sadly, incompetent, they failed the world when it really needed them. Trump retaliates because of their nonsense and people again freak out. I'm not a Trump flag-waver but the total insanity where 100% of his decisions are automatically labeled as wrong needs to stop. Just look at things without emotions. His domestic policy is a mess, but his foreign policy, for the most part, has been surprisingly decent.

Pretty serious, that guy should go to jail. The whole Russian investigation was necessary, but it turned out to be a joke. Trump is no perfect POTUS by any means, but there's never been a modern POTUS so targeted by the establishment and the media in such a ferocious effort to take him down, and there's also never been a modern POTUS so outside the establishment and outside the influence of the corporate lobbying regime. Coincidence? I've never seen the media do such an unethical job covering a POTUS, the outright lies and cherry-picking and spin. He goes against the grain and the entire establishment, even Republicans, freak out. The neo-cons in the GOP hate him, because he's not an expansionist war-monger, rather he actually wants other countries to do & pay their share. Doesn't mean Trump isn't influenced by some corporate interests, mainly his and his friends, but he's the first president in many, many decades who isn't wholly bought off by their crooked lobbying, and actually works in the interests of what he (sometimes wrongly) believes in the the US's best interests instead of corporate America's. It's too bad he's such a arrogant and ignorant douche so much of the time.

Trump has the balls to do this, so should we: https://www.zdnet.com/article/washington-aims-clean-network-program-directly-at-stopping-china-and-huawei/ "United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday the extension of Washington's 5G Clean Path program to encompass carriers, app stores, cloud computing, and subsea cables under the Clean Network umbrella. Pompeo said the extension was needed to guard against "aggressive intrusions" by the Chinese Communist Party, and called other nations to create a "Clean fortress" around citizen's data. ...With apps, Pompeo said the US will remove "untrusted applications" from US mobile app stores and prevent Chinese phone markers from pre-installing "trusted" apps on these app stores."

A lot of them do, and most Canadian products sold in Canada have to compete with products from other countries. And Canadian product #1 manufactured in Canada has to compete with Canadian product #2 that's manufactured in China or Mexico. If stuff manufactured in Canada is more expensive, you're at a significant disadvantage, your profit margins are lower. Canadians need jobs, they don't necessarily have to be on an assembly line.

There's a ton of fact-averse right-wingers too. Anti-vaxxers, anti-mask fools etc. And yes tons of stupid leftist sheep. As I said, people are stupid.

Then move it to Bangladesh. Or wherever. Manufacturing jobs aren't coming back to Canada, nor should they. Making our products more expensive means they can't compete globally, and in the end making Canada poorer. If you want to know why North American car companies have been failing over the last few decades, blame the union manufacturing jobs. Canada and US's problem is that for decades we've been feeding the rise of a new global superpower in China when everyone knew this was going to be the result. Now we're paying the price for our greed.

Some people are dumber than others. But people on the left and right generally are filled with stupid people who deal in emotion over evidence. So basically, we agree.

Canada and every other western country should ban all Chinese computer hardware and software. It's all a potential national security threat.