Moonbox

No, the quote's still there and unedited. Whether you choose to misinterpret it again so that you can argue with yourself about another point that was never made is up to you. 🥱 The legal peril Justin faces is his use of the Emergencies Act, which was reckless, unnecessary and unconstitutional. Whether or not the protestors should have been removed is not in question. They didn't have the "right" to blockade the Ambassador Bridge, or gridlock Ottawa for weeks, and that is a simple fact, established by Canadian case law. Even the Justice who ruled against the Liberals specifically stated the protests "reflected an unacceptable breakdown of public order".

I wasn't commenting on your entire quote. I was commenting on one part of it, specifically the part about you trusting alternative sources more, and not trusting the MSM. Not only are your alternative sources usually junk, you also post MSM links frequently, thereby suggesting that the MSM is trustworthy enough to repost. The implication of this is obvious...that the MSM is untrustworthy, unless it's saying something you agree with. 🥴

I didn't say their bank accounts weren't assets. I said the donations were refunded, rather than seized, and what little wasn't was held in escrow (again, not seized). and there's both a criminal trial and civil lawsuit against the protest organizers/members at the same time. So what? I know they froze them. That's different than seizing. Part of the reasoning was large amounts were coming from the States. Surely you can understand the problematic nature of foreign countries sponsoring and promoting protests at home? Wrong. Judges have already established, through substantial Canadian case law, that the right to peaceful assembly does not include the right to physically impede or blockade lawful activities.

Donations (not assets) were mostly refunded from the various platforms, and funds that weren't were held in escrow pending civil lawsuits against them. As for their right to protest anywhere they like, however they like and for as long as they liked, they never had that, so they didn't lose it.

The ability of the average Canadian to parse and interpret public financial data goes about as far as their ability to parrot whatever (insert online personality or politician) says on twitter etc. Neither Justin Trudeau, (who I'm convinced is economically illiterate) or Pierre Poilievre (who probably knows better but understands that the average mook doesn't) are offering fair or reasonable pictures to Canadians. They're just selling talking points and slogans, and the bobbleheads that follow them slurp it up. I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done about the entrenched opinions and willful ignorance of Boomers etc, but we could definitely be trying to make sure the younger generations are better equipped.

Good parents will teach good money habits to their kids, but few will provide much financial literacy. An hour or so in class is only going to do so much as well. This should be a full-fledged course in high school, before kids get into the workforce and start accumulating debt. This should be a compulsory credit to ensure we have financially literate adults graduating, rather than children who cash-advance their first credit card on their way to an R9 at age 19. 🥴

The school system should teach financial literacy. It's crazy that it doesn't. You might learn about basic things like compound interest, but with very little context. One of the best courses I took in high school was an "Entrepeneurship" elective. The teacher was a hot mess and a drunk, but he was smart and he actually taught us about real-world things and how the economy worked.

The problem with the auditor general is that the federal/provincial budgets are esoteric concepts to the average Canadian. For all of the talk about how kitchen-table economics are the #1 issue in every election, voters have a terrible grasp of how public finances work and how they are affected by them. Having worked out of university as a financial advisor for a Big Bank, it's shocking to me how little even well-to-do Canadians know/care about markets, debt or even basic personal finance. Outside of their little households, most people know almost nothing.

Until they're saying something you like. Your version of reality rarely conforms with theirs, which is why you usually post garbage links from Redacted, or state-controlled Russian news etc. When the mainstream media posts something you think supports your worldview, however, you've demonstrated you're more than happy to cite them. 🙄

Her power? She was never anything more than a loud and angry fool, and that she remains - alive and breathing. Your comparison is ridiculous, and the fact that you can reach for similarities doesn't change that. You're like a big black gay drag-queen, because you both have buttholes and opinions. I'm not saying you're exactly the same, but the similarities are clear. 🙄 Very good. We have laws that prevent what's happening in Russia. We also have free elections, freedom of speech, free media, an independent judiciary etc... The point is, that you really don't have much of a point. You're just drawing a dopey false equivalence.

It's not even a push to silence dissenting voices. It was a push to move out nuisances. Nobody from the Freedumb convoy was silenced. Tamara Lich is still yap yap yapping away. Alexander Navalny is dead. That you're even trying to draw the comparison is pathetic. The other controls the media, has near-absolute power, and murders and jails anyone who dissents. In Canada, we have a dopey mop-head who has no idea what he's doing, and who goofed up spectacularly. He doesn't have more control after the Emergencies Act. He has less.

You don't know law, and the folks who actually do keep ruling against him. The folks deeming all his malfeasance "politically motivated" are only right in the sense that his shitty behavior gets scrutinized more. You're talking about a man who's trying to argue that he has full immunity from criminal prosecution as a former president. Somehow that doesn't compute for you, and it's only because you don't want it to.

Not really. How many of them accidentally fell off balconies, had freak plane accidents, were dosed with nerve agents or radioactive poisons, shot on the streets or disappeared to Siberia (I guess in our case, the Northwest Territories)?? Yes, your attempt at moral equivalence was fantastically dumb.

I have near-zero respect for Justin as a leader, and I feel pretty comfortable saying he's the worst PM we've ever had (with his dad being the only possible contender). There's enough dumb shit that he's said and done, enough examples of his cluelessness and hubris, and enough proof that things are worse off because of him already. We don't bogeymen and conspiracies about global elitist cabals pulling strings. Trudeau's just a dumb (but still arrogant) turd, and the folks getting their knickers knotted about the WEF, central banking, ESG's, culture wars etc are just being taken for fools by the dudes who want to take over. That should be concerning, because a hamster is a already a clearly better option.

Also a problem here. Immigration is making the problem worse, but things like foreign study permits acting as doorways for rich asian families to send their kids here, buy them houses that subsequently sit empty as speculative assets once they're done schooling etc all makes the supply problem worse. We're quickly heading to a situation where home ownership is out of reach for even the average (not just poor) Canadian, with REITs and wealthy landlords control supply like manor lords.

Yes, but spiking immigration is "one more thing" that made the situation worse. Japan's real estate prices nosedived for 30 years, and only recently started to (slowly) start growing again. Even then, it's focused on their big global cities, with lots of foreign capital investing in it for exposure in what they see as a safer, more stable doorway to the Asia Pacific.

Maybe not directly, but immigration has made housing more expensive and out of reach for the age groups that typically have babies. Very few people have babies on purpose when they're living month to month out of a basement or studio apartment.

Imagine you, of all people, whining about people misrepresenting what you say. 😑

12 years ago Starbucks used squished bugs to make their Strawberry Frappuccinos pink. Proof that Klaus Schwab and the WEF cabal control the world...🫠

There's a "little bit of truth" in almost every conspiracy theory. That's how they spread. Someone at a WEF summit talked about insects being high in protein, and later the clownosphere ran with that and morphed it into a cabal-agenda item where they're going to take away your beef and make you eat nothing but bug goop, or something. 🙄 That's the rub, though, isn't it? You didn't really look into it, but you heard it repeated enough times, and that was enough for you to determine that he's, what? Planning legislation for hooking cow anuses up to gas collector/filters? Mandating cap-and-trade fart-quotas for herds? If you're going to go with that narrative, you should at least know specifically what you're getting frustrated or upset about, right?

The contradiction's there in plain site. Every keystroke you waste lamely insisting that someone's lost an argument to you (which is dozens of times a day), we can go back to where you said that means they probably won. The fact that it's egg on your face is the problem you have with it, and no amount of emoji spam or keyboard pounding changes it.

What's out of context about it? You spend a truly pathetic amount of time you here insisting to your debate opponents that they're losing (as you've done in this thread) but in your own words that probably means they won, right? If you had even a shred of self-awareness, these sorts of contradictions could be avoided. Unfortunately, you have the emotional intelligence of a 12 year old, and like a 12 year old you find yourself compelled to spam your caps, exclamation marks and emojis like you do above here. LOLOLOL KID!

If I was, then so were you. Hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness are your superpowers. 🤣

I professed no more expertise than you did, when you claimed the WEF isn't what it used to be. Do you have a "cite" for that? It's always funny seeing you ask for cites, allergic as you are to providing them yourself. This is just standard CdnFox donkey-logic - standards are only applied outward, never inward. 🥴

I'm referring to how you spam the forum with 40+ posts a day, and how the majority of it is devoted to insisting that anyone's losing arguments to you: 🥴