Queenmandy85

Impeaching President Trump would be a mistake for the Democratic party. Campaigning in 2020 against Pence. Removing President Trump would rally his support to Pence's advantage. For Americans of a liberal persuasion, Pence would be a far more "dangerous" president than trump, simply because, where President Trump is an amateur, Vice-President Pence is a professional. Or, as someone more disrespectful might say , Trump is a clown, Pence is the devil. The peronalities involved are simply a symptom. There is a much deeper cause for this kind of malaise. High unemployment, tribalism, fear and rapid change. IMO. But then, I am just a potter.

The South Saskatchewan flows away from the US.

You got me.

That is why anyone from the south is going to move north into Canada and northern Europe. It is the reverse of what happened in the 4th century in Europe that caused the fall of the western Roman Empire, and that was a minor change in temperature.

Good luck with that.

Well Machjo, this paragraph is all you need. It is pure Social Credit communism. With people swallowing this kind of baloney, would you want them to decide trade policy?

As the earth warms up, drought will expand. We will see it within the next couple of centuries. Saskatoon is planning for a population of half a million, yet the source of water (glaciers in the Rockies) are disappearing. What are all these people going to do for water.

I will have no grandchildren. The signature feature of Canada is its wilderness and we are seeing it disappear.

It is time for all of us to take a breath. I want Canada to reduce our population to about 10 - 15 million. Gues what? That is not going to happen. In the near future, as South and Central America begin to dry up, as well as Mexico and the southern United States, a couple hundred million people who share a need to eat, are going to be crossing our borders and there isn't a gosh darn thing we can do about it. This document may provide some order to the flood. "Mi casa es su casa," anyone?

...and Deputy Ministers.

Check the Canada Act 1982 and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Nature has no agenda, and no empathy. As a means of slowing population growth, homosexuality doesn't do it. Homosexuals have been having children for as long as there have been people. Some gay people may have been childless, King Richard the Lion heart comes to mind, but then so do some straight people not have children. And Taxme, can we include Social Credit in that weeding process?

I'm a potter, not an economist so I will defer to your expertise in economics. My real concern is over the idea of a referendum. A policy such as this, with all its complexity, should be decided by Parliament and the Crown. Looking at past referendums, (conscription, Quebec separation, BC's so-called electoral reform), have come close to taking the country on the path of disaster, particularly the separation question. Few people have the resources to assess the consequences of these questions. Parliament does.

It is all about the jobs. Trade must be balanced to work. An economist is a person who tells you why he has a job and you don't. (source unknown)

No arguement there.

But we would end up importing everything and exporting nothing. That is a lot of unemployment. How would your government survive? What would your balance of trade look like? This is the reason we don't have referendums in this country. An MP is able to devote long hours studying these issues and she has acess to expert analysis. The average voter may have sufficient knowledge in one or two areas but not many, but believes they know more than they do.

Forgive me if I wonder if you understand what "unilateral" means. It means that we open our borders to, say, Brazil and remove all tariffs and taxes on Brazilian goods coming in, but Brazil is free to subsidize those products and maintain high tariffs and taxes on the products we wish to export to them. How is this good for us?

You nailed it. . The one little hiccup for Canada was we (the Federal Government and the Provincial Governments) could not agree on an amending formula for the constitution (the British North America Act of 1867). It took until 1982 to get agreement. Even then, Quebec refused to sign on and still does. Life is never dull. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas Yours, Sir Humphrey

There is a commercial on Canadian TV regarding identity theft. It features an American dressed as a mountie, sitting on an "antler cow" (moose), holding a bottle of "tree sauce" (maple syrup), talking about a game of "skatey punchy" (hockey) and bragging how he had stolen a Canadian's identity. Now, he's Kyle, from Manitouba. Cheers.

No. Traditional marriage is the union between a man and a woman's estate. A traditional marriage is an arrangement to improve the family's status. It is disheartening to see any move to return to a union in which women are nothing more than chattle. Modern marriage is an experiment in a union based on love. As for children, a loving home, regardless of gender, is a basis for them to thrive.

Celebrating tonight with steak from an antler cow with tree sauce while watching a game of skatey punchy with Kyle, from Manitoueba. "I am Canadian" William Shatner

Dec. 11, 1931, Canada gained its independence. Happy Independence Day.

The only safeguard is no oil spill. I am in favour of the TM pipeline but you can understand why so many people along the route are worried. Once that crude spills, the damage is there for a long long time. My support is due to the fact that there is already a pipeline there. My question has always been, what is the rush to sell off our oil. We cannot get what it is actually worth while the world is awash in oil and now Brazil has an enormous field off shore. We should keep our oil until the rest of the world's reserves are exhausted. Then we can name our own price. The world will always need coal, iron ore and petroleum products. When it runs out, so does our technology.

I'm being the Devil's advocate here: With regard to the Trans Mountain pipeline, nobody seems to want to address the problem that it is the Governmnet of BC that is blocking it, not the Feds. So Alberta wants the pipeline and BC doesn't. Why should Alberta's desire be more important than BC's. Alberta gets all the money and none of the risk. BC takes all the risk and gets nothing out of it.. How do you resolve that?

In Canada, a psychiatrist has to sign off before SRS. The most dangerous point for someone (Typically in the teen years) is a lack of support. That is when they are most vunerable to suicide. Anyone who thinks gender dysphoria a fad should consider the consequences the individual faces. Often they experience family ostracism, social ostracism, and violence. The Menard Clinic requires a candidate for SRS to be approved by the Clarke institute and then they are resident in the Menard Clinic for a month before surgery, during which, they receive counselling. It is not a case of popping into your local mediclinic and getting a sex change.