Moonlight Graham
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16 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
The job of "The Official Opposition's primary role is to scrutinize the government, offer alternative perspectives, and hold the government accountable."
So yes, they can hold accountable but, they should also offer alternative perspectives and positions which is something the conservatives have never done.
I have never blamed the conservatives for the failures of the sitting government, I have only said that they have done nothing to help.
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.
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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.
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41 minutes ago, eyeball said:
No it isn't and I told you what I think would be a better solution... prevention, of the various socioeconomic circumstances that lead to crime in the first place.
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.
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13 minutes ago, eyeball said:
In any case I'd rather try reducing socioeconomic inequality first before becoming a police state.
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.
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6 hours ago, herbie said:
1. bullshit, it's the typical right wing snivelling that equity is discrimination and favours the less qualified.
2. Which in this case means women are less qualified, in your opinion as you don't even know squat about the ones you're griping about.
3. MOF any political party that doesn't feel a need for equity can FOAD - AFAIC.
4. Heard the same shit cuz the kid who just finished night school didn't get a job cuz he was 'more qualified' than a guy doing it for 20 years cuz the place was union and the white kid who graduated that lost out the concession job to the native one that worked 3 summers at Wendys.
5. Typical right wing perpetual victim nonsense that any consideration towards someone else is discrimination against me blubbering.
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.
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11 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
They could help instead of always complain. like a great person once said, you are either part of the solution or part of the pavement....and the conservatives have been part of the pavement for the past 10 years. or, if you can, show us one solution?? LOL
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.
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3 hours ago, herbie said:
You're the one complaining gender equity is a Liberal idea, therefore you imply gender equity is something negative and is a flaw in their policy. Otherwise, ehy mention it?
It's similar to saying the NDP is pro-union as a criticism.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.
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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.
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40 minutes ago, August1991 said:
The Soviet Union and Maoist China were a threat.
JFK, Nixon, guys in Vietnam defeated them. Reagan won.
How is China not a threat?
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1 hour ago, Chrissy1979 said:
Tell that to the guy who wrote the OP.
I'm not the one creating gender quotas.
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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.
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2 hours ago, ExFlyer said:
Why is Canada such a mess in so many ways?
Because conservatives have done nothing to help make it better. Since Harper lost, the cons have had no ideas and have done nothing to make Canada any better. Polievere has done nothing but vote against anything and his groupies think it was and is OK.
LOSERS...every one of them
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.
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8 hours ago, blackbird said:
I have a Canadian acquaintance who works in China. He reports:
"No homeless, no druggies, nobody trying to sell you things on the streets, no beggars, no pot smells, no ladies offering their love for money in sight, no drugs in schools, no loved ones overdosed.
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.
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48 minutes ago, herbie said:
No, as usual in attempting to defend you're stance you've equated meeting an expected result with 'enforcement' of an imagined policy.
I never said it was a law. It's an internal Liberal Party policy. It's a quota.
QuoteFace it, you're basically complaining there are too many women in cabinet. Don't feel bad though, in a forum overrun with racists, fascists, Indian and Catholic haters, homophobes and Islamophobes, misogyny is only a minor personality flaw.
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.
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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.
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17 hours ago, herbie said:
Oh Gee let's adapt the MAGA whine about DEI and claim Carney's appointing unqualified women just for show.
After all, in a country that's 51% women giving them equal consideration is just more leftist liberal extreme marxist elitist globalist SJW virtue signalling.....
Because it's 2025.
Ten years later and you still don't 'get it'.There's a huge difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. Women should have every opportunity to compete with men for a job and their gender should not be a hiring criteria, because that's sexist discrimination. Carney and Trudeau have enforced gender quotas in their cabinet picks.
There's nothing "MAGA" about being against discriminating against people on the basis of gender. These are basic human rights in a liberal democracy.
I have lots of competent women in management positions in my workplace. Yes it's 2025, who the heck treats anyone differently in the workplace based on their gender? Only the sexists do. Franky its just weird. A person's gender literally wouldn't cross my mind if I were hiring someone.
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15 hours ago, User said:
The problem is that you can't force them to participate in enforcing federal law. It is not obstruction to just not care to alert ICE or to coordinate with ICE.
Maybe you're right. But helping people get away with crimes is illegal.
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"Father, I'm very depressed. Can I pump myself full of hormones until I grow boobs and then cut my d*ck off? It'll make me feel better".
"Yes, son. Head to the car while I grab the keys and tell mom we'll be late for dinner".
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When Carney did his cabinet reshuffle before the election, his new cabinet was a bit different than Trudeau's: no gender equality in cabinet (it was close but not equal).
But his new cabinet post-election? 28 Ministers, 14 men, 14 women. Virtue-signalling and voter pandering over merit and experience. The Liberal way. Carney "the great uniter" is a myth, he listens to the Liberal PR crew just like Trudeau. Nothing like gender wars to create a wedge issue and split a demographic down the middle.
Oh and reducing the PMO's grip over elected MP's? HA!
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If you want to lower depression and suicide in youth, teach them that their bodies are healthy and beautiful and perfect just the way nature made them. Telling someone that they were "born in the wrong body" is absolutely disgusting and psychologically abusive. As is enabling delusions using powerful medications and cosmetic surgeries.
If a guy wants to wear lipstick and a dress then wear lipstick and a dress.
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"Sanctuary cities"? If mayors and police chiefs and others don't abide by federal law they should be arrested for obstruction of justice etc. The same goes for the President and his executive branch (including Trump and the Biden)
How do you maintain a well-functioning society? You follow the law, and enforce it when necessary.
Defund the police? No, maintain law and order. That means everyone is accountable to the law, including the police, judges, politicians etc. The rule of law is the linchpin of a society.
Power-hungry political leaders centralizing their power (Trump, Trudeau), activist judges, crooked politicians/parties, cops who abuse their power....They're ALL a threat to our democracy.
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22 hours ago, August1991 said:
MG,
My point is that after 1815, Europe got along. Then, in the Summer 1914, it didn't.
China? Chinese?
I suspect that we Canadians have a better understanding of life.
Yes, post-1815 (post-Napoleonic Wars) they created the Concert of Europe and we had 100 years of peace in Europe. This was the blueprint for the UN Security Council. In both cases they created a "balance of powers", where an attack on one is deemed an attack on all, therefore no one powerful nation can dominate any others. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_of_Europe
By 1914, this Concert of Europe had collapsed because European countries had formed their own alliances into 2 groups out of fear and on a rising security spiral. These 2 competing alliances eventually went to war with each other in WWI, and it happened again in WWII.
The UN's creation did not prevent direct war between superpowers since every permanent member has a veto, and countries cheated all the time. Nukes prevented direct war, resulting in endless proxy wars including civil wars that are still raging to this day, such as in the middle-east and Africa.
We've now entered a new Cold War. China has been trying to rig our elections, influence our politicians, and engaged in economic warfare including corporate espionage, especially in the tech sector. The nuclear arms race is mostly over. We have entered an AI arms race. We don't need uranium, we need CPU/GPU chip-making infrastructure and rare earth metals.
For the sake of western civilization, do not buy or use smart devices like phones/tv's made by ZTE, Hauwei, Hisense etc. The tech IP is all stolen, and what the Chinese save in R&D costs is used to undercut their competitors on price. If Chinese AI systems eventually dominate the global marketplace our economies, political systems, and national security are under existential threat. May Google, Apple, Tesla, Samsung etc destroy them. RIP Nortel, early victim of the tech wars.
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4 minutes ago, eyeball said:
Trump and Putin supporters are fine with not sharing if that's the case.
All fine and dandy for those supporters until their own rights start getting taken away.
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2 hours ago, eyeball said:
Go tell it to the victims of dictators, autocrats and warlords the US sicced on several hapless populations around the world.
When the Shiniest Beacon for liberty and freedom behaves this way...well, just take a look around the world.
How do you think so much of it got this way?
As I said, the US has been far from perfect. However things also aren't as simple as they first appear.
Here's a question for you: do you think if the US left the middle-east alone those countries would have more self-determination and possibly even more democracy? Or do you think Russia and China would immediately fill the power vacuum, rig all the elections in their favour and/or do their own regime changes installing pro-Russia/China despots?
And how comfortable would you feel with Russia and China having the control the US has had over most of the world's oil supply for which our economy and military is highly dependent on? Do you remember the 1973 oil crisis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
And how comfortable would you be with Russia and China running the world like the US has the last 30 years? The grass isn't always greener...
Why is Canada such a mess in so many ways?
in Federal Politics in Canada
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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.