Moonlight Graham

America has a lot of enemies foreign and domestic. Trump is one of them.

The people who keep voting the Liberals back in are absolute m0rons and deserve everything that's happening to them and this country. Too bad we all have to pay the price for their foolishness.

Proroguing Parliament to avoid questions in Question Period on ethics scandals and shutting down committees is anti-democratic. It doesn't matter if the rules technically allow. The rules technically allow for Trudeau and Carney to centralize the PM's power the way they have, it doesn't make it ethical or democratic. Every single party in this country can go eff itself. Just because sh*t doesn't smell as bad as vomit doesn't mean sh*t doesn't stink. Whattaboutism isn't an argument. Look up the definition of "popular vote" and educate yourself instead of lying and spreading misinformation on this forum because certain facts don't fit your political agenda.

He prorogued several times. 2009 is what i'm talking about: "In 2009, Harper again asked the governor general to prorogue Parliament for two months. He argued that his government needed to consult with Canadians and businesses as it dealt with economic issues during the recession of 2008–09. However, the move was widely criticized as a tactic to give the government time to gain a majority on Senate committees. It was also seen as a way to avoid investigations into allegations that the government had ignored the torture of detainees during the War in Afghanistan. The 2009 episode led to a debate about whether governments were using prorogation as a political tool to further their own causes." https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/prorogation-in-canada#NotableProrogrations Trudeau and the Liberals are garbage and will do just about anything to secure their own power. Carney didn't allow a secret ballot. The MP's were afraid of being punished for voting for the reforms, which they probably would have been. They have no courage. If you're not willing to risk your own job for the good of the country then you don't deserve to be an MP. Jody Wilson-Raybould was one of the few that stood up to Trudeau and risked her job for the sake of ethics and our democracy.

For housing yes some of it is provincial jurisdiction, some of it municipal. Some of it is also federal since they control some major demand-side factors like immigration. For policing, again this is shared by all 3 levels of government, in many provinces anyways. But the Criminal Code of Canada is controlled by the feds which codifies all criminal laws in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Code_(Canada) 6 of the 9 current Supreme Court Justices were also nominated by Trudeau.

It would be nice to have a government led by ethical and honourable people who prioritize serving their country and the interests of Canada and its citizens rather than their own power and greed. I guess the forbidden fruit looks just too delicious for these goons. Trudeau had the power to make our system better. All he did was centralize his own power and tell everyone what to do while taking money and favours from any wealthy interest because it would give him a better shot at winning elections. Carney has been off to a very bad start in the "centralize his own power" category. And all the Liberal MP's bent the knee when their time was called to take a stand. They're all cowards. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/liberals-vote-against-adopting-rules-to-allow-caucus-to-oust-leader/

Harper was a far better PM than Trudeau. I think the Liberals are very likely more corrupt than the CPC, at least comparing Chretien, Harper, and Trudeau govs. The criticism for Harper, at least for me, was that towards the end of his run he was becoming too controlling and also undermining democracy by e.g. proroguing Parliament to avoid criticism in parliament over CPC scandals and ending committee investigations etc. Unfortunately this kind of behaviour has been greatly exacerbated by the Liberals the last decade. I also think the Harper enabled China to take advantage of certain aspects of our economy and other sectors and undermine national security. The Liberals aren't any better though. The NDP aren't very corrupt simply because they little political power. Why would wealthy stakeholders pay off a party that doesn't have much power to do anything? Anyways, I find the CPC and Liberals to be too ideological. The Liberals are a much worse party, quite vile actually.

Because the world isn't black and white. The US and Canada are filled with trash parties that are very corrupt and filled with power-hungry ideological nutbars.

The CPC won the popular vote in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Liberals have more efficient vote distribution, not necessarily more popular. The CPC has won the popular vote in 5 of the last 7 elections. I think both parties have significant problems anyways, ideologically and otherwise.

1. Left-leaning parties have been "trying" for the last 10 years in this country. What did the Liberals accomplish? What did the Liberal-NDP alliance accomplish? Large deficit spending on social programs and taxes on fossil fuels causes inflation (not saying those are the only reasons for recent inflation). The most left-leaning cities in the country are unaffordable dystopian sh!holes filled with drugs, theft, and gang violence. Mass immigration has contributed to inflation, healthcare overcrowding, and crime. 2. Canada has among the lowest birthrates in the world and a low population density. Countries like India, China etc are far more to blame. Maybe even the US compared to Canada. 3. What do you want the Liberals to do differently? What are your proposed solutions? It's very easy to say "let's reduce income inequality", but the devil is in the details. What do you propose specifically? The rich are already taxed at least 50%+ in this country. We've raised minimum wages and started new dental/pharma/daycare programs (that aren't being costed and paid for and just added to the debt). The problems of inequality are far more troublesome in the US. In Canada our biggest economic problems are housing and rent affordability and the resulting decrease in standard of living because of the % of people's paychecks going to mortgages/rents. Leftwing politicians have made these issues worse. The boomers don't want their house prices to go down. Yet we need a lot of immigration because of plummeting birthrates, which are the direct result of decades of progressives pushing for things like birth control use, abortion, women in the workplace etc. to a radical degree. I'm not claiming the CPC or GOP have ideal solutions either. I think all the main parties in Canada and the US are filled with ideological nutjobs. Centrist politicians with reasonable solutions are an endangered species. 4. Stop projecting things onto me.

Your response to the OP's question "Why is Canada such a mess?" was (your exact quote) "Because conservatives have done nothing to help make it better". The CPC hasn't had any legislative power for 10 years. The Liberals, and to a smaller extent the NDP, are largely to blame here when it comes to federal parties. And the voters who keep voting them back into power.

The NDP, Bloc, and Greens all lost seats. Minorities typically last less than 2 years, so this probably won't be like 2021-2025 for the Liberals. However, the NDP do still hold the balance of power in Parliament. The Liberals need the NDP or Bloc to pass anything. If a CPC win looks likely the NDP may not bring down the government.

Don't you think we can do both? People who commit crimes should be held accountable. Repeat offenders should be denied bail so they can't harm again until their court date. We can help improve economic issues like income inequality and inflation, but the BC and Liberal/NDP approach to law and order is not effective. Their approach to many issues the last decade have been proven failures as well. "Improving socioeconomic circumstances" isn't as easy as the left thinks. Good intentions aren't good enough. You bring in a carbon tax to help the climate and it causes some price inflation on goods. You bring in a ton of immigrants and it causes housing/rent inflation and puts pressures on our healthcare systems. You print or borrow money for the CERB and social programs like dental/pharma/daycare and inflation and government debts increase. And if you raise taxes on the wealthy or businesses then a bunch will flee the country or move their money offshore.

The government has spent a ton of money on social programs like the CERB and universal dental, pharma, daycare etc to help people and increase economic equality, but it hasn't been enough to counteract the crime problems. I think recent economic pressures, notably housing inflation and general cost inflation, has contributed to the uptick in crime. We can try to help these problems to the extent possible via policy. At the end of the day, current homeowners need to be willing to reduce some of the extraordinary gains they've seen in their home equity the last 10 years, but they don't seem to support that. Otherwise rents and mortgages will remain near crisis levels. We also don't need to become a police state to have effective law and order and proper accountability for criminals so that they are unable or at least less likely to harm the public. I don't think it's an either/or situation. I think we also need to be more selective on the immigrants we allow into Canada. There's no issue with educated/skilled immigrants capable of earning good incomes (we can debate the numbers), but when you allow certain people into the country whose low skills/education condemn them to low incomes you are going to see an increase in crime. The areas with the highest crime in the cities i've lived in have been dominated by low income immigrants (typically refugees). They should be safely resettled in countries that more align with their income earning potential instead of making our cities poorer and less safe. Some refugees can do fine here and should be allowed to stay.

1. That's literally what equity in hiring is by very definition LOL. 2. I'm not saying women in general are less qualified than men. I'm saying if Liberal PM's are going to enforce gender parity in cabinet selection then obviously some MP's will almost certainly be discriminated against on the basis of their gender while less qualified candidates get their jobs based on their gender and not on merit. Since around only 30% of Liberal MP's are women that logically means that it's almost certain that men are being discriminated against here. 3. Why? 4. I can't understand this incoherent babbling. 5. Are you claiming that men cannot be victims of hiring discrimination? If so, please explain why not. Also, there's no issue with hiring women or anyone from any other identity group for any job if they're the most qualified for the position. This is called "equal rights" and "equality of opportunity". Equity in hiring by definition gives people in certain groups preferential treatment on the basis of sex, race etc.

Well the official opposition's job is to complain. To hold the government accountable. Could the CPC do a better job at providing specific solution proposals instead of vague slogans like "stop the crime, build the homes" etc? Yes absolutely. They do that because most voters will agree on reducing crime and building more homes, but not everyone will agree on the solutions to do it. The problem with the Liberals is that they have formed the government for 10 years now and their solutions which have been enacted policy have been largely failures. You can't blame the CPC for any of the failures of Liberal policy or their NDP partners who supported them.

Treat everyone as individuals. Everyone should be treated the same regardless of race, gender etc. This has been the basis for human rights in our country for a long time. Equity in this case is discriminatory.

China and East Asia have a different culture. They tend to respect authority and elders more, value traditions, and are less violent. They have low divorce rates, and value education. Westerners are more independent, rebellious, and hedonistic. Since the 1960's Americans have embraced what used to be deemed as "sins", like sex, drugs, divorce etc There's still lots of poverty of China, but not a lot of violent crime. They don't have the gun culture like the US. I imagine the Chinese respect and fear the police and government far more than we do, they have an Orwellian totalitarian state and demand compliance.

How is China not a threat?

I'm not the one creating gender quotas.

Carney wouldn't allow a secret ballot on this. This is a sad day for our democracy. The PM/PMO will maintain their tight grip on MP's just like Trudeau did. Liberals are such a cowardly and controlling bunch. Make no mistake: no POTUS has anywhere close to this kind of power over lawmakers. No John McCain-style "mavericks" allowed. You do and vote as you're told in Canada and if you raise a stink you're out of the party.

How can it be the fault of people who have zero governing power the last 10 years. Granted the CPC could improve the ideas they bring forward so that enough people will vote for them in order to win, but the buck stops with the Liberals.

No freedom, no human rights. I call BS. These people are somewhere, just maybe maybe scooted away out of sight. Like the stories of Chinese authorities euthanizing all of the stray dogs roaming the streets before the Beijing Olympics. China has drugs, sex work, beggars, homeless etc. They also have much more poverty per capita than we do.

I never said it was a law. It's an internal Liberal Party policy. It's a quota. No, i'm for the most competent people getting the cabinet positions based on ability and merit. If that means the 28 total cabinet positions are made up of 18 women and 10 men then great, who cares? You can't run a country most effectively by hiring based on virtue signaling and pandering to certain demographics for votes. Canada has a ton of problems to be dealt with, this is a time to choose the best people for the job. Let's stop dividing everyone by race, gender etc and get back to things that actually matter.

Why is Parliament going to sit for only 73 days this year? Aren't we in the midst of a supposed existential crisis with the US, not to mention the gazillion other problems happening in Canada right now? And no budget being tabled? This is a complete lack of governing and accountability.