Queenmandy85

We are happy you aren't among the 93,000 people in Florida who lost their lives to Covid. You would be missed.

Florida, with half the population of Canada suffered almost 25% more cases and almost twice as many deaths.

West, I salute you. Regardless of your view of President Trump, you have demonstrated that rare virtue of re-examining your opinions and following a new path. That is maturity and courage.

"Don't you find it odd that plastic surgery can cure a mental disorder?" Quote from Felicity Huffman's character, Bree Osbourne, in Transamerica (2005) Why do you care if someone wants to exersize their rights over their own healthcare? Do you oppose surgery to correct a cleft lip? Gender affirming surgery is corrective surgery. Do you believe a teenager should not receive surgery to correct a cleft lip? As I asked earlier, if you are male and your parents decide to force you to be female, do you believe your parents should have that right?

How would you react if, when you were in your teens, your parents decided you should have a sex change and you were opposed to it. Are you saying your parents knew better than you? If a parent does not support their teenager in these rare situations, they are likely to lose their teenager either by the kid leaving home or committing suicide. Surgery is not going to happen until the individual is an adult. What is the harm when a teacher refers to a student by the name and pronoun the prefer? This whole issue is being driven by socialist "conservatives" who demand medical autonomy when it comes to their own phobia with a vaccine but want to deny the same freedom when it comes to women's healthcare or transexual men and women. The term "social conservative is a misnomer. The proper term is communist.

Everything is going to be okay. President Trump explained today of Fox, that when he said he was going to be a dictator on Day one, he was just kidding. That is a relief.

Provincial Health ministries. I don't know much about hormone blockers. It is my understanding that they are reversible. The thing is, a child knows if they are in the wrong body by the time they are in their early teens. They don't need someone else to tell them. It is a rare condition. Unfortunately, even with the best parents, teenagers tend to be loath to tell their parents anything about sex or gender. When a youth does inform her parent that she wants to transition to a male, the best response for the parent is to be supportive and loving because nothing the parent or anyone else can say or do, is going to change that kid.

That is naive. Just how do you prevent bullying? Schools have prohibited bullying for decades. How is that working?

What do you mean with the word "choice?" The choice is made for them. You do not suddenly decide the nature of your gender when you reach puberty. When you were in high school, did you ever wake up in the morning and decide, "I think I want to have a good beating today, and alienate my friends while I am at it?"

I think you mean women competing in women's sports. We are talking about people over the age of majority. Also, do you not have an issue of men competing in men's sports? Or are you discriminating against men? Probably half of trans people are F2M.

Going to school to get a frequent shit-kicking from the knuckle dragging trogladytes that infest every school is not something anybody does lightly. Tragically, some ignorant parents while add to the beatings. So, no, it is not a trendy hip thing a person does, nor is it a mental illness.

In Canada, nobody can have gender reassignment surgery until they reach the age of majority, 18 or 19.

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President Biden is waiting on the Republicans to give him the legislation to shut the border down. The GOP is refusing to close the border on President Trump's orders.

It doesn't just put them at odds with other Texas consevetive leaders. It is murder. Even in Texas. 🤠

There is no indication that the Government would break with a century of convention and try to change the system unilaterally. The reason the discussions broke down when the Liberals had a majority is because there was no consensus by all parties. We tend to forget that regardless of who is in government, we have had pretty good governments over the last few centuries. I expect the coming Poilievre Ministry will carry on the tradition of Peace, Order and Good Government.

Yes there is. They call it the CPC. You and I will respectively disagree on this issue. I live in hope to hear Mr. Poilievre show he is a Tory. I remain open to be convinced.

These talks won't become legislation without including the CPC. Besides the fact the CPC will be the government in the near future, unilaterally changing the rules around elections in not how we do things in Canada. There will be public discussions and committee examination. Note to CanFox: CPC is back up to 199 seats, the Bloc jumped 6 seats and the Liberals tumbled down to 73 seats. So rejoice, be happy. Your dreams are about to come true. 🥰

Please be careful with personal attacks. You throw that term around a lot. It may come back to bite you and we don't want to see that. That kind of language doesn't belong in civil discourse. Rather, counter what you disagree with in a respectful manner. It doesn't matter if you are right since almost nobody reads or cares what you or I post, but be respectful. Today, on this forum, we had the pleasure of exchanges with Blackbird, who posted something he believed to be accurate, but on reflection, he realised he made a mistake. and posted his retraction and apology and he did it with grace. More of us, particularly me, can learn from his example.

Let's connect the dots. Earnest Manning was a Socred. his kid, Preson Manning, was a Socred. I hope Mr. Poilievre will continue to prove me wrong. Who knows, even you may prove me wrong.👍 But after having lived under WAC. Bennett and his corruption for 20 years, you can understand why I am wary of anything tainted by the name "Manning." Like the wonderful Senator Hugh Segal, I am a Poor Happy Soldier Of Clark in the Great Tory Crusade. I still feel for Mr. Poilievre. As I said earlier, he is about to experience that old saying, "Be careful what you wish for..." If you could choose any job in Parliament, Leader of the His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is the best job there is. Prime Minister is second worst. Leader of the Greens is the worst.

We are a Constitutional Monarchy, like Norway and the UK.

"Everything you say will be taken down and used as evidence." Ergo, nobody will say or do anything. The average voter does not have access to the depth of resources an MP has. That is why we have MP's. They have the time and resources to research that you or I don't. If the government is considering a technical change in something, why would you need to know if you do not have the tools to make that decision. That is why you have an MP.

The CPC has had many names. It used to be Social Credit under Bible Bill Abrehart, Earnest Manning and the Bennetts, then Manning Jr. changed it to Reform, then CRAP / Alliance and the CPC. My party, the Conservative Party is dead federally and in most provinces. There is still a few Tories in the CPC, but there are also a lot of reformers. It was the Socreds that voted against the Conservative government budget in Dec. 1978 because it was going to get rid of the deficit left by Trudeau's Liberals. That led to the re-election of Pierre Trudeau and the National Energy Policy. Thank you Social credit aka CPC.

Transparency is a recipe for getting nothing done. You are examining an issue. You have some ideas about how to solve the problem but, like everybody else in the world, you don't know everything and you can't forsee all of the ramifications of your proposal, so you discuss it with others. Now, if you are doing this in public, and you say something that can be mis-interpreted or has unintended consequences, your opponents will use it against you. We all need to have the freedom to bounce untested ideas off others in private. If that privacy is not there, no one will be willing to say anything. That is the beauty of this forum. It allows the private exchange of ideas without public consequences because nobody reads what we say and nobody cares.

Americans take their politics too seriously. In Canada, I may not like Social Credit, but aside from the corruption by the Bennetts and the Gaglardis, they were not that bad. Their promise to get rid of the Jews never became policy. Harper was terrifying before he was elected, but as it turned out, he kept the social(ist) conservatives at bay. When the King's designate appoints Mr. Poilievre Prime Minister, we will see a change in tone, but the actual governing will not change significantly. There is only one way to deal with inflation, or moderate the death toll in an epidemic. He will face the same pressures from the electorate for services while at the same time that same electorate will demand lower taxes and no deficits. He will also come into office with the Trump administration fully established and that is going to be a major distraction. The poison cherry on top will be the unrealistic expectations of his supporters. I feel sorry for Mr. Poilievre. He is on the cusp of his life-long ambition. In 18 months, his life will change and he will discover being the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition is a lot more fun than being Prime Minister. Lets hope he savours the few months he has left.