Queenmandy85

Since God has not killed anyone in the last 2000 years, we can presume she has been rehabilitated and is no longer immoral. If she killed someone prior to that, she would ensure that the individual would be rewarded in Heaven.

I interpreted this to mean you did not want answers based on the Bible.

Show where God has killed anyone. So far as I can determine, people die from many causes, but I can't think of any instance where God has killed anyone, apart from the Iliad.

PR gives political parties undeserved legitimacy. I don't want a gang of backroom boys choosing my MP and winding up with some bagman from Toronto claiming to represent Saskatoon. It also eliminates Independents. MP's would even be more beholden to their Party. I vote for the candidate, not the party. If New Democrats want to get power, vote for the Grits. We need parties, but two is sufficient. If you don't like the Grits or the CPC, vote for an independent. Political parties have too much power already.

And the CPC wanted the system that favoured them. I always prfered first past the post. A simple solution would be that any riding in which the leading candidate did not win a majority, there would be a run off election. It would be better than a preferential ballot system.

The reason we still have FPTP is the NDP blocked it. They refused to consider any system except the idiotic insane Proportional Representation.

The Grits wouldn't be able to change the voting system without all party agreement. It might be legal but totally unethical.

Don't worry, both Americans and Canadians will be swamped by the flood of refugees coming north, including refugees from the southern states.

Better move fast and pray you can hold on to it.

In the near future, the driving force for refugees fleeing into Europe and North America will morph from fleeing violence to fleeing starvation as equatorial regions become uninhabitable do to climate change. Rather than thousands, it will be tens, if not hundreds of millions. They will be unstoppable. Federal policy will be irrelevent. They will come, regardless

The latest polls (July 24 by Eric Grenier's poll tracker) shows 164 seats for the Grits, 135 CPC, NDP 38, and Greens 1. Liberals 36.3 %, CPC 34.4 % Actually, it was the NDP that blocked electoral reform. They refused to budge from the idiotic Proportional Representation and the CPC wanted FPTP but at least were willing to compromise. There was no way for reform to succeed without all party consensus.

I do.

That is all well and good if people are willing to buy them. I have my doubts.

Defence spening is not a high priority for Canadian taxpayers. They government reflects that. With all of the immediate issues facing us right now- climate change, underfunded healthcare, underfunded justice system and a host of other problems, it is hard to convince people to spend an extra 20 billion dollars on something the taxpayer believes will never happen is an uphill climb. We have to convince them the need is immediate.

As Robbie Burns wrote, " God give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us." We are fortunate to have yourself and Bush-Cheney holding a mirror up to us. You each elevate my blood pressure at times, but I guess that means I'm still alive. Anti-Americanism is no different than anti Semitism, racism, Islamiphobia or any othe kind of bigotry.

You obviously don't have everything you own tied up in a dairy farm. You feel free to throw someone else's livelyhood under the bus. And, by eliminating supply management, you would throw Andrew Sheer and Prime Minister Trudeau under the bus...wait a minute, let me think about that

This thread is approaching 400 pages. I say this, not as a criticism, but an observation. I had little interest in American politics before President Trump. The President has made the subject compelling. 400 pages of this thread says it is not just me. Our American contributers BC and Paxrom have their own reasons for participation, but why are Canadians so consumed with the POTUS? President Trump owes part of his electoral victory to the mainstream mdia. During the primaries and then the election, they framed his campaign success as inevitable. "Who can stop Trump?" Meaning, nobody can. I doubt it was intended but it worked. President Trump is a marketing dream. He is first and formost, an entertainer and he is very good at it. He won't let us take our eyes off him. In fiction, a great author creates tension by making the reader wonder if this time, it is all going to crash...yet it doesn't. President Trump holds our attention the same way and, by doing that, has re-invigorated the mainstream media. President Trump and the media need each other. I am not saying he is a genius. Perhaps he is just intuitive. Is there a difference? Entertainers as a profession, are gaining an increasing amount of influence in American politics as are journalists. The legal profession is no longer a pre-requisite for a career in politics. Just a few post-coffee thoughts.

Is Premier Ford buying in to Premier Moe's plan to bring in carbon rationing? It is going to be a bureaucratic nightmare and cost the taxpayer a lot.

The exceptions such as supply management were agreed to by the US. If they hadn't, there never would have been an agreement because it would be the end of Canada's dairy industry. Free Trade agreements are designed to be benificial to all participants. NAFTA has worked well for years. Why is the US trying to wreck it? Are there no exemptions for some US industries in free trade agreements? NAFTA is about as free trade as you can get. Serious question: why doesn't the US have suppy management?

Are you unaware of an agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico called the North American FREE TRADE Agreement? We've had free trade fore years. President Trump prefers protectionism and is trying to destroy free trade.

You seem unusually facinated by Canadians...for which we are very happy.

President Trump has reached that point where, to paraphrase Joe Clark, if he walked on water, they would say "Look, President Trump can't swim." I don't see any way he can overcome the opposition.

Actually, our national sport is politics. Anti- Americanism is more of a disturbing fetish that we should have out grown 150 years ago.

A partnership is made up of equals. This is not the case here. I am reminded of the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the two dogs, the dominant little dog named Spike and the big bulldog who's name escapes me. The bulldog would be saying "Me and Spike is pals." To which little Spike would respond with a slap and "Naahh, shadup!" This is true. Once the US was its self attacked (Britain declared war on Japan before the US), the US and Russia carried much of the burden, US money and Russian blood. I'm sorry BC, I should not be winding you up. You do not have to admit that the optics from yesterday were less than a diplomatic triumph. I do have to admit that a renewal of Detente would be a good thing and while President Putin is not a nice guy, he is a damn sight better than Breshnev and he is a popular democratically elected leader.

Now the US will enjoy being a deadbeat living under the protection of Mother Russia. For clarity sake, I do not have any evidence that President Trump works for the Kommitat Bezopasnosti Gosvedarstvenoi. (sorry, I just had to try and spell that from memory It has been a long time.)