Queenmandy85

I deleted my own post. It is not my place to delete someone else's post I can't be a monarchist and pro-republican simultaneously. I can't be a monarchist and pro-democrat either because they too, are anti- monarchy. However, as a Canadian, it would be inappropriate for me to tell Americans whom to vote for. If I understand Speaker Pelosi's intent correctly, she advocates maintaining the shut down strategy to slow the spread of covid-19. I also listened to President Trump's address and it seems he essentially said the same thing. He said don't open up the economy until it is safe to do so. He said he supported the individual governors making that decision when it is appropriate, based on the recommendations of the public health authorities. But thank you for clarifying the poison pill reference. American politics is a different culture indeed. But thank God for the United States, the most generous empire in history.

That is because I am a militant Monarchist.

Being a Canadian conservative, my interest in what the Democrats do is not that extensive. What are these poison pills you mention? Why would you think I am a Democrat? A global catastrophe like this is no time for politics. Republicans, Democrats Liberals and Conservatives should be working together.

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Do you have data to support this or is it unsupported supposition?

Of course, the addition of several thousand people to the death toll is okay. The Republicans should consider the possibility that if red states open and blue states stay shut down, it is republican voters who will be most affected by the surge in covid-19. That would be the stupidist way of looking at this catastrophe imaginable. This is a time when politicians should shut up and listen to people who know what they are doing and let the public health experts do what they do best. (Note to that guy who flunked out of college as a philosophy major trying to tell Doctor Tam how to do her job. Kenny may be a whiz at being a politician but he knows nothing about the practice of medicine.) By the end of the month, the death toll from Covid-19 will have, in just 3 1/2 months, surpassed the death toll of Americans in the 10 years of the Viet Nam War. As I've said before, 50,000 is not a number. It is 50,000 innocent people who are moms and dads, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons. They are 50,000 real people.

Mia Culpa. 21 hours ago I waxed elequently on the unity and co-operation in Canada's government. I may have been premature.

On a positive note, we have the federal political parties and all of the provincial governments working as a team. When a disagreement arises, they resolve it. Political rivalries are set aside. This is unprecedented. Even during the Great War and the Second World War, we did not have this kind of national unity. This is not the achievement of one politician. It is the achievement of all of them, regardless of political stripe. We all owe them our thanks for stepping up when it was needed.

Centre, what is your party's plan to ensure future generations will have access to our oil? How many generations?

He was one of my favourite politicians. Toronto's tiny perfect Mayor. Had I not been working for Clark, Crombie would have been my choice as well.

Well, to be fair, we did see some good MP's like Ambrose, Moore and Raitt.

I am proud to be a Red Tory. I am one of the happy warriors in the Great Tory Crusade. CPC is CINO. They are republicans with no fealty to Sir John A.

Tell that to Lord Mountbatten. Every religion has some nutters.

Not my Liberals. I was an activist member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada for 35 years. I worked on the campaigns of Erik Nielsen, Allan MacKinnon, Scott Wallace, and both leadership campaigns of Joe Clark. My party was destroyed when Peter MacKay stabbed us in the back. Since then I have been an independent. Had Rona Ambrose entered the race, I would be working 24 - 7 for her. My other choice would have been Lisa Raitt. Alas, the choice for leader is pitiful. But don't call me a liberal.

I would never say Peter MacKay is a Judas who stabbed his own party in the back. That would be taking politics too seriously. That worked for Mike Pearson and the Chief. You are probably right, Betsy.

Fewer people means less garbage. You also mentioned something about needing more people to support seniors. Seniors pay taxes and if they are allowed to continue working in their careers, they would keep supporting you.We force seniors into retirement to provide jobs for younger people and immigrants entering the work force. If we trim the number of younger people and immigrants entering the work force, seniors could continue in their careers providing decades of experience rather than being Walmart greeters or sitting at home on Easter Sunday tapping away on a computer to show you all how brilliant I am. I should be on patrol, getting double time, chasing bad guys.

As August pointed out so clearly, President Obama is an AMERICAN.

Note to Tdot: as Leonard whispered to May Cooper (Sheldon's mother) "We don't say that anymore." You might want to pay closer attention to your word choice.

The same can be said about Roman Catholicism. Women are repressed, gays are persecuted, the beliefs are medieval. However, just because it can be said, doesn't make it true.

Welcome, Mr. Chapman. It should not be part of the vetting process. You don't want to disqualify an outstanding candidate because she isn't bilingual. It should be the decision of the membership. The reason for the lack of electable candidates is because the best people are driven off by the nasty partisianship that they would have to endure, partly due to social media and partly due to the growth of extremist ideology. Life is too short. Emminent people have better ways to use their time. Of the four candidates, none of them, inspire confidence. O'Toole does seem almost okay but even he has delivered a couple of clangers. I say this as an activist of 35 years as a Progressive Conservative. The CPC missed out when Ambrose turned it down. If she became leader, I would have joined the party and worked 24-7 for her. I almost choke on the words but, I will likely vote Liberal next time. Always remember (and when you do, remind me because I tend to forget my own advice), Canadian Politics is a sport. It is our national sport. We do politics better than anyone. Democracy is strongest when you don't take politics too seriously. In my work, I had the opportunity to meet people from all over the world and I learned that the countries that take politics too seriously are countries like Iran, Nigeria, China and Zimbabwe for examples. Finally, and most importantly, Wayne, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for posting something that is not about the virus. You have introduced a breath of fresh air.

Bearing in mind that, as Lord North pointed out, an MP's constituants are the whole of the nation. You confuse responsible government with the American style representative government. As for oil, a lot of CPC politicians claim to be pro-oil but they are forgetting that almost all of that oil belongs to future generations. Oil must not be considered a fossil "fuel." It is too vital to burn. I agree with Centrist that we must transition to both uranium and thorium based energy production. Our technological civilization is supported by three pillars, coal, iron ore and oil. You need coal and iron ore to make steel. You need oil for lubrication, among it's 10,000 plus other uses. You cannot generate electricity without steel and oil. Without electricity, billions of people starve. Coal, iron and oil are finite resourses and we have an obligation to future Canadians to ensure we have them for as long as possible. If we reduce our population we extend the time line before we run out, provided we stop giving the stuff away. Wilderness is disappearing all over southern Canada. Saskatchewan no longer has natural grasslands. Look at BC from the air and see all the logging. We encourage logging and mining to provide jobs to our surplus labour. Taxes: We have been running deficits since the CPC took over because we have been cutting taxes. Look at Norway. They pay real taxes, and they would not have it any other way. They have a very high quality of life. They have a stable population so they don't have to waste tax money to prop up a surplus labour force. Wages are high, taxes are high and the quality of life is one of the best in the world.

But why do you want an increased birth rate? If we reduce our population, the cost of land will go down and people will be able to own their own home in places like Vancouver and Toronto. You could buy an cabin on a lake that isn't over run with people. Wages would go up because labour would be in demand. Canada could thrive with a population of ten million. We would have a chance to get our natural wilderness back. We don't need a large military, just a decent arsenal of nuclear weapons.

I think she is saying "stay home, wash your hands." If you do that, you won't need a mask. Happy Easter Betsy. Take care

If the population declines, so will prices on many things such as housing. Over-supply = lower prices. A shrinking labour supply means higher wages, less demand on unemployment benifits, and a higher capacity for tax revenue per capita. It also means less demand on pensions because people will not be forced to retire. Many jobs can be automated. Many of the countries in the industrialized world have declining populations due to a high standard of living. Japan, Ireland, and Norway for example. Norway is a great example for us to follow. (Centrist Party take note.) They take most of the revenue from resourse extraction and put it in the bank, much like Premier Lougheed did in Alberta. The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund is currently holding US$1 trillion with a population of less than five and a half million people. Rather than oil revenue, we can use revenues from uranium and the export of Candu and LIFTR reactors.

The Centrist Party Platform is contradictory when it comes to the environment vs birthrate. At a time when we need to be reducing population, you want to increase it. Nuclear power is vital, but while climate change is the most serious problem we have faced, there are a lot of other forms of pollution. Look at the clear cutting of BC forests. The role of Government has gone from Peace Order and Good Government to job creation. The economy has been warped to try and create jobs for our excess population.