Queenmandy85

In the back of Mr. Poilievre's mind is the concern about peaking too early. Riding high in the polls is always a nice position, but it is where he will want to be two years from now. That is a long time to sustain momentum. Things get in the way. As Prime Minister MacMillan said of the challenges he faced, "Events, dear boy, events."

I apologize. I made an off-hand reference to the success all Canadian governments and parties achieved in preventing many plague deaths and the thread became mired in a fruitless agurement over vaccines that was already exhausted months ago. My understanding is this thread is supposed to be discussing the next election. Let us do so in a manner that is respectful to all of the people who make the personal sacrifices required, in order to serve the country. We can disagree with policies and ideologies without giving into personal attacks on people we disagree with. Let's aspire to debate with empathy and courtesy. Good manners are essential in civil discourse.

Back to the topic of NATO, we would be ill-advised to leave NATO before the spring of 2029. By then, Presidents Putin, Trump and Xi will be out of office. Since nobody in Canada is willing to pay for our own defence, let alone participate, we depend on article V for our defence.

I had many issues with Pierre Trudeau's policies. I don't believe he understood economics. I really did not like the idea of patriating the BNA act and bringing in the Charter. I will give him credit for his guts to refuse to run from the barrage of bottles hurled at him on the St. Jean Baptiste parade. I approved of the invocation of the War Measures Act. I liked his response when he was challenged with the fact than if he had not been PM, he would have been one of the peope arrested under the act. "Yah, but I wouldn't have (whined) about it."

I agree with everything you said except the last line. Since we no longer have a federal Conservative Party, not since 2003 when Peter MacKay killed it, there has not been an opportunity to elect a Conservative government. I respect Mr. Poilievre, and anyone who is willing to serve the country. I feel the same way about the Mannings or the Bennetts, but I cannot support their socialist credit party.

Finally, somebody gets it right. I was born and raised in British Columbia (the Kootenays), but now I live tn the eastern province of Saskatchewan. I have always maintained eastern Canada begins at Canmore. Cheers.?

Tell that to the American patriots. They go after me for even uttering the word "democracy." You are correct. I am a monarchist.

I get the impression if Prime Minister Trudeau or Minister Freeland came up with a cure for cancer or world peace, you would still find a reason to complain about it. ? You are forgetting creating an all party - all levels of government team to save NAFTA and tens of thousands of lives during the Covid 19 plaque.

If we continue in the direction we are going, the temperature will rise at an accelerating rate, faster than the earth can adapt. It is the velocity that is the problem. Previous warming periods took place over millennia, not centuries.

Hey, don't tell me. I'm just the messenger. Tell the Americans.

Be very careful. I have been flamed many times for calling the USA a democracy. I have been told firmly it is not a democracy...it is a Republic. I don't understand the difference either, but that is the way they want it. ?

Past Prime Ministers quickly go from being reviled at the end of their final term in office to being respected elder statesmen a few lears later. It happened with John Diefenbaker, Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney. I would expect our current Prime Minister will benifit from the passage of time.

There is a lot of it going about. I am pretty certain President Trump will be elected in 2024. It would be inappropriate for a Canadian to tell Americans whom they should vote for. In retrospect, his impact on Canada was some what positive.

Well, as I said, we can replace the carbon tax with rationing. At least with the carbon tax you have a choice to burn less fossil fuel. That is the whole point. We can reduce carbon emissions or herd future generations into a global crematorium.

You sound like a Liberal. You are certainly consumed with money, rather than conservative values.

The election is likely two years away. The writs will drop about six months after the American Presidential election. Even if President Trump does not win, that campaign, and its aftermath, will have a significant impact on Canadian voters. Mr. Poilievre faces a tricky road map to navigate his way to victory. He will have to assure the anti-Trump electorate that he is nothing like President Trump while the Liberals will be doing everything they can to paint him as President Trump's Mini-Me.

You seem to have an irrational hatred of the Prime Minister. It almost looks like a fetish. Why would you hate someone? He has been unable to get an effective response to deal with climate change, but that is partly due to having a large swath of uneducated citizens. His government has dealt effectively with the American attempt to wreck NAFTA by getting support from the CPC and the provincial governments. The government also built a similar team to deal with Covid 19 that likely saved 10's of thousands of lives. That isn't a bad record but the credit belongs to the team, not just one man. Nobody deserves the kind of personal hatred you appear to project on the Prime Minister. I have to wonder what he could have done to twist your prospective in this manner. Note: I should not be singling out CdnFox. He is not the only one who feels this way.

Is saving the lives of future generations a core duty of the government? Our actions today are going to determine the survival of future generations of Canadians. I have to assume that if you end the carbon tax, you will bring in rationing of fossil fuels.

Did you miss the eight other examples I gave? Just because you don't like to hear other opinions than your own, doesn't make them wrong. It is vital to hear opposing views in order to grow. But the CBC is a lot more than politics and news. What private broadcaster has programming such as the Nature of Things, Cross Country Check-up, Quirks and Quarks, Coronation Street, As It Happens, Ideas, Q, Rick Mercer, and quality children's programming. "CBC as a whole had 24.2-million monthly average unique visitors in fiscal 2022," (Globe and Mail)

I find it hard to reconcile people's resistance to paying a carbon tax but , are willing to flush billions of dollars down the toilet in casinos and lottery kiosks. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of money.

Actually it is. We have the CBC and the Mother Country has the BBC. Many western nations have a public broadcaster. NRK, BBC, France Televisions, Deutsche Welle, RTE (Ireland), RTVE (Spain), Radio New Zealand National - NZ on Air, and the Australia Broadcasting Corporation are all state owned public broadcasters. If that were true, we would have a viable military capable of fulfilling its core duty, to defend the realm rather than the token force we have now. I would not be surprised if more people in Canada support the CBC than DND. Back to the purpose of the thread, If we build enough nuclear power plants in Canada we can demonstrate that prosperity will increase even when emissions are reduced to 10%. We offer to build reactors in every country that will take them from Albania to Zambia.

You could say the same about DND and that would save a lot more money. Nobody in Canada actually wants a viable military. What we have is a token, incapable of defending the realm. So why spend all that money. Let the people who do want a military pay for it themselves. I'm just using that as an example. I don't want to derail the thread.

I'm not sure how asking Canadians to respect US laws is picking a fight with the US. That being said, a little anti -Americanism is a good politics. After all, the Conservative Party beat the Liberals with the slogan, "No truck nor trade with the Yankees."

First, we can't tell India, China or the US to cut their emissions if we don't. Our contribution should be to build nuclear reactors all over the world and supply them with fuel from Western Canada.

Well, if you are worried about taxes, it costs about 970 billion to operate the government of Canada. During the hight of the pandemic, it cost over a trillion. The money has to come from somewhere to pay for the services Canadians want. It is easy to cut off the services I don't use but millions of others do, but that really isn't fair. Eg. tens of millions of people want the CBC, but a few Socreds are upset by hearing news they don't like so they want to ruin it for everyone else. I don't like to see the government waste money on a crappy F-35 that will be so expensive we can only buy a few and so, will be overwhelmed in a real war. But other people want it. So I pay my taxes to buy them. If you think taxes are high in Canada, try living in Norway.