Moonlight Graham

Hey great, let everyone vote for a party representing their own narrow interests without much of a care for the country as a whole. The Bloc x 10. Good way to unite the country.

The facts do not exist publicly. You can't research the terror allegations against this guy if the info hasn't been investigated or reported publicly. I want to here our government or law enforcement say they have no evidence of terrorist activity from this man. If India has evidence then show it. We don't know much of anything in this case.

Right. So my point is that we need to know more details about this guy and the accusations against him, and against the Indian government. There's a lot of unproven claims being made by everyone. I really don't think we'll learn the truth though because of all the politicking that's happening, unless some investigative journalism uncovers some things

Yes I agree that India could be lying about this guy and smearing him with false accusations of being a terrorist because he is a threat to them politically. I'm not saying we should allow any killings by foreign agents in our country. Yes it is a breach of our sovereignty and should be investigated. But my level of outrage towards it will differ depending on the context.

No, there's a difference between if Salman Rushdie was critical of a regime using peaceful protest speech versus if he was involved in terrorist activity against Iran and the US would do nothing about it. One is dissenting speech and the other is an act of war. I can't see any country sitting around and doing nothing if a person in a foreign country was organizing terrorist violence against them. The problem is we don't really know which one applies here, but if I had to guess I'd give Canada the benefit of the doubt over India.

Book is called "Gender Queer", can be googled. Apparently there's books that teach how to perform gay sex acts. The author argues if they teach about hetero acts they should teach about gay acts or its homophobia, which is a valid argument, but I personally don't remember being taught how to perform acts, I do remember learning about anatomy and how procreation works. Hetero blowjobs weren't taught from my memory but I could be wrong, and definitely no visual guides LOL. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/

Seems reasonable enough guidelines. More reasonable than "remove anything that could offend anyone in 2023".

Depends if you consider the visual depiction of gay sex acts in school libraries as "pornographic". I wouldn't call it a "lie". I, personally, would never want to expose such material to student minors, at least without the consent of parents, and even then I wouldn't be comfortable. It's an interesting debate on what "art" should be allowed or not in school libraries. What is age-appropriate? A bit of raunchy stuff in the book "classics" isn't a big deal to me, but they're also classics and also just text, and aren't especially political in intent. Probably a good idea to try to avoid visual nudity that is sexualized. So pee-pee anatomy and venus de milo is fine, gay blowjobs not so much.

Citizens of other countries don't tell Canada or Canadians what to do. We're already one of the most compassionate and welcoming countries on planet earth and in the history of human civilization, we don't owe people from other countries anything. But we're known known to be a pushover, so I don't blame them for trying. We aren't going to commit economic suicide for 6 billion people of the world's poor. Our government won't heed this request, politically its a non-starter because voters wouldn't accept it, so nothing to worry about. That's not true. If you apply legally as a refugee you'll be granted a work visa and a SIN number and a health card while your case is being processed, you don't need to be a permanent resident. You're not a victim for not following the law yourself while demanding others do.

These are complicated issues. I understand the sentiment, but the US did the same thing with Bin Laden in Pakistan. We need to to know exactly what happened here and what this guy did. To what extent did this guy threaten India? Was he really training young Sikh separatist militants in BC as India claims? Was he helping to fund terrorism in India? Or was he a peaceful protestor? Why did India suddenly murder this man after 25 years in Canada? What changed? If he was just a peaceful political nuisance then what India did was abhorrent. If he was indeed a terrorist and a security threat to India it's more understandable, especially if the Trudeau gov failed to act on India's behalf. And was he really a Canadian citizen? Was he here illegally? To what extent do we owe him our protection based on his legal status. We need to know more details about many things here. But I doubt we will ever know the truth, everyone will say whatever makes them look better.

I'd like to know how much NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has been involved in this story. He is a Sikh who has before publicly defended the Sikh terrorist who blew Air India and spread conspiracy theories about the incident and protested for a Sikh independent state in India. The Liberals are doing very bad in the polls, they do not want an election right now. The NDP hold the balance of power and can demand anything they want from the Liberals or bring down the government. So did Singh make any demands towards Trudeau's Liberals to make these allegations public and put pressure on India? I see no way he didn't at least approach the Trudeau gov and pressure them to take a stand here. Funny why all of a sudden the Liberals care about foreign interference in our country when they've ignored most interference from China including Chinese "police stations" in Canada intimidating Chinese-Canadians.

At first I was outraged that India allegedly murdered a Canadian on our soil. But looking into the story more it's more complicated and lots of politics may be going on here. The man murdered is accused of being a terrorist by India and Interpol. Is this true? Who knows. India is untrustworthy and has motivation to smear this man even if he's always been 10% peaceful. Trudeau referred to the man as a Canadian citizen but it also is reported he had his refugee claim rejected in 1997 and 11 days later got married and his spousal claim was rejected due to "marriage of convenience". Is this man a legit terrorist? Who knows, we'll never find out the truth.

It doesn't even particularly matter whose "fault" it is. The very act of banning all books pre-2008 board-wide is insane, and somebody somewhere at the board thought it was a good idea. Yes let's let the dust settle. The fact that things like this occur in 2023 is concerning, and is a growing trend throughout society rather than an isolated incident. We need to reject the ideology and identity politics that makes these things occur. Combing through every book for the purposes of an "equity and diversity" audit per Directive 18 is insane. Of course they will likely fix this, because it is a stupid policy that parents, teachers, and students won't like.

I'm aware of the CBC article. My article also says the board was reacting to a provincial policy. The 2008 blanket removal did not come from the province.

It's Fahrenheit 905! The cultural genociding Stalinists at the Peel school board have been removing all library books published before 2008 because of diversity/equity/inclusion nonsense. They think kids shouldn't read the Diary of Anne Frank or Harry Potter because "too many white people" or "OMG i'm offended". Luckily the province is asking the board to do a reversal. https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-education-minister-asks-peel-board-to-halt-library-collection-book-removals-1.6560015 At what point do actions like this amount to attempts of cultural genocide? We can add this to our new passport which has removed all of our historical references. Let's not be fooled by exactly what these cultural leftists are trying to do here. Culture is a zero-sum game for them. They wish to wipe away and suppress the past and create a blank slate so they can push their own ideological propaganda.

Politicians are also lazy and uninformed, they don't read the legislation they vote on. They're told how to vote by the party leadership and punished fiercely if they vote against what the leadership wants, so they vote like a flock of sheep. If you kiss everyone's arse for 15 years like a good sheep you can run for PM like PeePee. If you dare speak out over corrupt wrongdoing you get bounced like Jody Wilson-Raybould. If the Ford government is corrupt and the ON Liberals are corrupt and the NDP are loons then how is it the fault of voters? Voters get to choose which corrupt party is their favorite. If the NDP won an election corporate and foreign interests would bombard them with "favours" and they would soon become corrupt. Voters get 1 vote every few years and choose between 1 of 3 choices. It's a joke.

Whataboutism doesn't help the middle class in Canada or the US when corporate capture of our politics is eroding their interests. It doesn't help our democracy when the party in power ignores foreign interference in our democracy because it largely benefits them.

Politicians simply can't be trusted to act in the national interest or interests of voters. They don't have the ethics or integrity. What trust or legitimacy remains for these people? They aren't even worth the salary we pay them. We should have direct democracy on all the key issues and let the lawyers figure out the details. Cut out the middle man selling us on snake oil. Let public intellectuals and twitter and MLW and Youtubers etc debate the issues. 1 vote every few years just isn't good enough. The people need more direct control over their country.

You don't think governments in countries like Canada and the US are corrupt? Look at Dougie and the Greenbelt, Trudeau and China and SNC-Lavalin. And these are only the things that peak above water and make it to the newspapers, I can't even imagine what we don't hear. They do not deserve the benefit of the doubt. Bernie Sanders isn't just making stuff up. Clearly our governments aren't like most of the terrible governents in the developing world that are run like the mafia, but our governments are selling us down the river to the highest bidder on a lot of things. The banks, developers, and energy companies have influence on policy. I'm not going to defend the status quo, have fun if you want to.

A lot of celebrities who preach about climate change fly around in private jets and have giant carbon footprints. I get that for security reasons maybe he needs his own jet but the man should lead by example in other areas. He's just so phony about everything, he's behaves like an actor in a play and it's all fake. It's really hard for a human being to make themselves more unlikeable.

This will save Westjet money because a jet carrying Jann Arden's giant fat backside probably burns more plane fuel than the trip itself. Amazingly her mouth is bigger than her fat arse and yet nobody gives 2 sh!ts about her politics.

Politicians in the west are too corrupt to do what's necessary on any front, and the people are too weak to stand up for themselves, their country, their culture, their history etc. We've become a bunch of guilt-ridden losers ashamed of ourselves and afraid to hurt people's feelings. Our politicians concede the country's best interests for corporate and foreign dollars and support and don't want to do anything that might make someone on twitter call them a racist or a sexist etc. Can't ban Chinese nationals from traveling to Canada at the beginning of COVID, that's racist. They called Trump a racist for doing it and then Canada followed suit a few weeks later LOL. These days it takes a fascist a-hole like Trump to have the courage to call a spade a spade because the twitter mob will pounce on you and if you don't have the courage of your convictions you'll come out the next day with an apology video. Poilievre won't even touch certain subjects. Trudeau is too busy posing in hot pink at a Barbie screening to virtue signal to women about his feminism for their votes to give a crap about what working people are going through or how Chinese interference may be eroding the security, economy, and democracy of this country. At some point things will become so bad that a collapse will occur and we'll have to build ourselves back up from the ashes and reorganize ourselves so that the vultures and weaksauce losers can't take over everything again so easily. Trump was a symptom, not a cause.

According to progressives, reducing immigration levels, regardless of reason, is racist. Putting part of the blame for housing inflation on the increase in immigration, even if true, is racist. Progressives are typically incapable of solving problems if the logical solutions to those problems might be deemed offensive to someone's feelings. Protecting people's feelings is more important than doing what's right. If you debate the housing cost issue with progressives most will never admit that immigration levels may be part of the issue driving demand and housing inflation higher. This is similar to discussing climate change with an environmental conservative who will never admit AGW is occurring no matter how much evidence is presented to them. In both cases, their feelings & ideology are more important than the data and evidence. People who think like this should not be put in charge of solving society's problems since they lack the ability to do so logically. Now I will wait for the replies from progressives and conservatives whose feelings i've offended via the above statements.

No it was still ideologically biased back then too. The funny thing is if the CBC leaned conservative ideologically the vast majority of you progressives would be saying the same thing I am and most conservatives would be defending it like progressives are now. This is why most progressives in this country are pro-propaganda when it suits them, as are most conservatives I imagine. My stance wouldn't change because what is just has nothing to do with what is convenient. Just like most progressives like our PM vehemently defend the freedom for women to choose what they do with their bodies when it comes to abortion, but conveniently deny them this same right when it comes to vaccines. Most people only care what is in their interests, not what is just. And when progressives want to help others they usually demand other people, like the rich or future indebted generations or people who don't want to be vaccinated, pay for it so they don't have to sacrifice anything themselves. Sacrificing other people's wealth and human rights to help others isn't as virtuous as they make it out to be.

They would have taken it in the rear-end from a foreign Parliament for hundreds of more years like we did.