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And you've already found them guilty.

No, it's based on my certainty that the right wing assertion the SPLC is funding the Ku Klux Klan is pure hooey.

Yeah, it would indicate a duly diligent proponent has done their homework and I would expect a corresponding high degree of success. Remember Poilievre saying lobbyists should take their asks to people directly - that's it's useless to lobby politicians?

It's a fact it's been alleged. Todd Blanch says the SPLC was paying extremists to stoke racial hatred. The head of the ⁠SPLC however said the money in question was paid to informants to gather information on extremist organizations. Big if so I think for the moment I'll take the SPLC's take on this. It looks like a legal frivolity meant to produce a political distraction.

You can blame it feeling that way because of ill-founded misinformed paranoia. Seriously, Mr Socks was the leader of the 4th Reich? LMAO!

We can certainly wind them down while winding up alternatives. We can meet that by developing alternatives while moving towards a zero-growth economy, starting by reducing our population growth. It's looking at the whole picture that's driving the need to move towards net Zero. Yup.

It might relieve a few symptoms but the cure is clearly electric.

Climate change science when it comes to demand for fossil fuel. Between alternatives and as the writing on the wall becomes clear again it'll drop. I get it there's a surge of optimism for the drill baby burn crowd these days following the surge in climate change indifference but it's not going to last. A bunch of shiny new infrastructure will be for naught. We'd be so much farther ahead if we invested in alternatives instead.

From the get go. Allowing forestry and mining to continue while banning hikers takes it the other way. I can't even convince you I'm on your side with you on the court decision. I still think there will be situations where governments need to act in an emergency and thankfully there's nothing in this ruling that prevents that.

You might as well because it's definitely just a bandaid - a corporate/political sop to environmental concerns...smoke and mirrors really. It'll reduce consumers consumption of fossil fuels by approximately 0% in 2026 and maybe .01% by 2030. Popping corks in celebration will release more CO2.

Nope. This retort underscores that it does. Sometimes that's the case alright. When they do in fact matter the court is there to remind everyone. Like I said, you people are just as quick and reactionary when condemning the courts for turning Canada into a dictatorship on occasion. And so, we have a Parliament to help us keep things on track. See how it works? It's a little messy, instant resolution and gratification are not it's forte but I can still do things like renew my car insurance without having to pay a bribe and I can simply consult a government website on whether it's safe to burn a brush pile that day.

Get a grip. It's not even a tax, its a fee that large industrial emitters pay and collect amongst themselves. The government gets nothing. The consumer is charged nothing. What little amount does pass through to consumers is so low it's approximately 0%. Industrial fees add roughly $0.12 to the final cost of a refrigerator and less than $3.00 to the price of a pickup truck. Like I said get a grip.

It's a mix of both really. In any case it's not going anywhere, it'll always be there to trade with.

Yup. It looks like they get more angry and patriotic than anything. OTOH the whole thing seems to be a source of shits and giggles that's oddly peculiar to you.

Because you started down the same road Numbnuts did, you attributed a bunch of nonsensical hooey to the government's motivations. I'm not, I'm talking to to you. LMAO! There you go again. It's you trying to tell me the government is doing this. The court said the government can't be arbitrary or irrational when it comes to suspending people's rights. Its saying come up with more focussed rational justifications. I'm surprised you're not reading something even more insidious into that - activist left-wing courts telling the government it needs more ironclad justifications for becoming authoritarian. And the Theremin played on...

So it was an emergency and they didn't have time to be gentle about it. But despite having plenty of time in hindsight you come up with some cockamamie notion the government availed themselves with the opportunity to make itself more authoritarian. I think governments have a certain natural urge to be over cautious but it's more like being a helicopter parent than a dictator. I was telling Numbnuts to stop being disingenuous. And on that note you can too. The ruling didn't say a thing about the justification for the ban simply that its implementation was arbitrary and irrational. It certainly didn't say governments can use any old excuse they like to justify emergency powers so they can become more powerful. Thankfully the system works because it's self-correcting this way.

Don Cherry aimed his comment at immigrants. They all have their factions I suppose - meanwhile if you people regarded yourselves as a race would you say its at the pinnacle?

I'm sure it could be but yeah this seems like a dumbass thing to do alright.

No problem here. I know my experience is often derided as to anecdotal but...a month ago the angiogram they said I might get this fall was performed last Monday at 7 am. I got the call the end of Thursday before and asked if I could get a blood test and chest X-ray the next day. Bada bing badda boom and....you gotta love a small town hospital where everyone knows you. The angiogram confirmed the alien is still firmly lodged in there but everything else looked great. No blockages whatsoever, no needs for stents, balloons or bypass surgery. Just snuff the alien. Without, you know, getting sulphuric acid everywhere.

Maybe they're like Woody Allen, they're not afraid they just don't want to be there when it happens. Kick the can...

No doubt unleashing big corporations would allow them to make trillions. Clear cutting regulations sounds easy but you'd also have to get the RCMP to act against protestors the way ICE does. Canada just doesn't have the stomach for that.

In ten years fossil fuels will be getting pushed out of the way by alternatives. We'll be years late and a trillion short. The time to start making hay from oil and gas was 50 years ago. We'd probably have a huge sovereign fund for the trillion we need to launch into alternatives and start making hay from them.

As usual with you people you use the words Liberal and liberal so it's hard to know the specific's of your grievance - whether they're ideological or partisan. Lefty usually works but according to you guys Carney is a lefty and the NDP are Liberals so... you're always kind of all over the map I'm afraid.

I was being facetious obviously, I've read the reviews so...

So he's like a 5th Horseman or something? I bet the Bible doesn't mention Air Canada even once.