Queenmandy85

While I am opposed to the denigration of Sir John A., and as a person who was born and raised in the most privileged segment of society, I am not in a position to comment on the school curriculum, you keep banging on about gender. What the poll shows is that a majority of Canadians are opposed to freedom and the Mr. Groot is obsessed with other people's gender. Why do you care so much about gender? For the first time in history, we have the ability to match our physical gender with our psychological gender. That is something to celebrate. What you refer to as woke is freedom. Are you saying you are anti-freedom?

The point still stands, Khrushchev was deterred. DISCLAIMER: In matters of military affairs, I defer to Doug and Army Guy for their expertise. I am an amature academic. "Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please." – Niccolò Machiavelli "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." – Helmuth von Moltke "The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." – Robert Lynd In these discussions on combat, I tend to have a cavalier regard to the lives of innocent civilians and conscripts who die in battle.

MAD did work in the Cuban Missile Crisis when Khrushchev looked into the depths of the hell he and JFK were about to unleash and he backed away, had his political teeth kicked in and he smiled. He sacrificed his pride and career so the rest of us could live because he knew that Kennedy was resolute. "We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth," President John F. Kennedy

Then, we should be correcting that. War has never solved the problem it was supposed to address (Except World War II). When Presidents Putin, Trump and Xi have to face the fact that war means they and the rest of us will die within a month of opening hostilities, the hope is they will choose life for themselves. The alternative is surrender. The choice is, is it better to die a free person, or live as a slave. My personal view has shifted when I turned 75 and the concept of death went from the abstract to the reality. Life is very precious Most of the issues that have caused major wars ended up being solved at the conference table. Whether Quebec was British or French was decided by the French trading Quebec for Guadeloupe at the conference table, not the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

By even contemplating the scenario where a Russian incursion on any NATO member could be answered by anything other than a total nuclear response to destroy Russia completely is an invitation to go to war. The whole purpose of MAD is to prevent war. President Reagan's most useful policy was to convince the Soviets that he was crazy enough to destroy the world if they stepped out of line. That is a policy that must continue. Any war between Russia and NATO will be nuclear. (Same with China) The only way to truly deter them from making a mistake is to continue with the determination to destroy the world rather than surrender. Actually, there is one alternative. Make it clear that any incursion will be answered by an immediate and total surrender.

What has Trudeau Derangement Syndrome got to do with Amarican politics? ✌️

It is a condition, not an illness. It likely is established inutero. And what is the treatment? "Hormone therapy, such as feminizing hormone therapy or masculinizing hormone therapy Surgery, such as feminizing surgery or masculinizing surgery to change the chest, external genitalia, internal genitalia, facial features and body contour..." Why is this an issue? Why is there no issue around F2M trans? Do you have an issue with crossdressers?

After the Great War, the Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, Colonel J. Sutherland (Buster) Brown, was ordered to draw up plans for the next war Canada would be involved in. Defence Scheme Number One was Canada's only war plan from 1920 - 1930. In 1970, a grad student doing research in the US Army archives discovered Plan 1919. On Jan. 20, 2025, there may be a change in Canada - US relations. This is far fetched, but we have had to repel American invasions in the past.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20475262#:~:text=Medical treatment of gender dysphoria,facial features and body contour "Medical treatment of gender dysphoria might include: Hormone therapy, such as feminizing hormone therapy or masculinizing hormone therapy Surgery, such as feminizing surgery or masculinizing surgery to change the chest, external genitalia, internal genitalia, facial features and body contour..."

The reality of an American invasion would be , we would resign ourselves to it and send 16 Democrats to the Senate, 40 more to the House, and in about 12 years, a Canadian in the Whitehouse. We may not have a large military, but what the Germans and Japanese are to engineering and the Americans are to marketing, Canadians are to politics. You may not like our politicians but we do politics better than any othe nation in the world, from MacDonald to MacKenzie King to Poilievre, politics is our specialty. "President Pierre Poilievre." It has a nice ring to it. Every time the US Army went in to a tinpot little country (TPLC), it would be preceded by a message, "Sorry."

Being trans-sexual is not a mental illness. That being said, a major part of the process to transition is a rigorous psychological assessment.

I thought we all just bought Playboy for the articles.

I do know several people who have undergone GRS and none have regretted it. There was one individual in the news who regretted it but when you consider the hoops one has to jump through, all designed to avoid such an outcome. The Menard clinic in Montreal requires a patient to live at the clinic for a full month before surgery, to undergo exhaustive analysis to ensure the surgery is truly what they need.

How else would you treat it? Has it ever been successful? It is as futile as conversion therapy.

Since all of this discussion is around transgender people, I take it no one has any issues with heterosexual crossdressers, transvestites and drag queens. That is encouraging.

So, the law says you cannot have gender re-assignment surgery until you are an adult. You cannot have puberty blockers without a physician saying it is needed and that requires consent of parents. So, what are you arguing about? You support the status quo and nobody is opposing you. 🤪

We tend to forget that Prime Minister Trudeau was reluctant to get involved in politics. He grew up in that environment and had to be persuaded to run. He declined to run for the Liberal leadership because he was worried about what it would do to his family. He saw that happen to his parents. As a result, he has never had the fire in his belly. Mr. Poilievre has a nuclear furnace in his belly. I was involved with the YPC's and the PC Student Federation in BC and I never met a young Tory who was not convinced that they were destined to be PM. I was one of them. But Pierre takes it (has lived it) on a whole new level. I would love to be him on election night, but only that night. 😎

The only existing treatment that successfully corrects this situation is gender reassignment surgery. Nobody in Canada can have GRS until they reach the age of majority, usually 18 or 19. Children can live as the gender they need to transition to, but they cannot have the surgery until they are legally an adult. I believe the question of puberty blockers requires a physician to sign off on it. They are not something you can just buy over the counter in Sobey's.

Perhaps his walk in the snow next week will lead him to drop the writs instead of a resignation letter. It sticks in my mind that someone said the Liberals will do better under Prime Minister Trudeau than any other leading Liberal contender. Who knows. Always keep my standard disclaimer in mind: The last time I accurately predicted anything was when Cassius Clay beat Sony Liston. I got 10 - 1 odds on that. I won a dime.

Just to add, changing Liberal leaders won't change anything either. Remember, they were in decline before the 2015 election.

Canada 338 puts the CPC at 208 seats this week to the Liberals 64. Prime Minister Trudeau may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but even he has to be resigned to his fate. The only thing he has control over is the timing of his resignation or the election. Either way, he is doomed. M. Blanchet is probably already measuring the curtains at Stornaway.

So, Mr. Poilievre gets 213 seats instead of 208. That doesn't change the Liberals future.

I'm sorry, but you can't offer a straight line like that and not expect some one to use it. "All the spectacularly dumb things he has said and done already, haven't hurt him yet." Sorry, I couldn't pass that up

His path to victory doesn't exist. But if the scenery is pleasent on the path to defat, why not enjoy it for as long as possible. If he is as self serving as our honourable correspondent Mr. Banana says, that would be what he would do. However, a few months ago, I circled February 29 on my calendar, "JT takes a walk in the snow." It is the 40th anniversary when his dad did that. I don't think he will, but who knows. Actually Mr. Fox knows.👍

Like partnering up with the government of BC to create more housing?