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So is it your position that the Muslim migrants who come from the middle east, where they want to see Sharia law, will no longer want Sharia law once they leave that area and go someplace else? It's all well and good saying how Muslims in other regions don't want it as much, but we're not talking about migrants from Indonesia here, but from the middle east. And there's more to their attitudes than Sharia law. There's the whole kit and kaboodle of intolerance for differences and equality, especially when speaking about women, Jews and gays.

Apparently a lot since two thirds of Canadians oppose rolling back the TFSA limits http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/retirement-rrsps/two-thirds-of-canadians-oppose-rollback-of-tfsa-limit-poll/article26374122/

Not anywhere near as many as Paul Martin and Jean Chretien hurt when they slashed spending, and they're Trudeau's heroes.

That's not what the stat says. It says 18% of the total money in TFSAs are from those with an income over $100k. It also says that in the UK a similar savings system lets you put up to $30k in each year. If I make $100k a year and work for a union with a pension then I'm contributing a lot of money, certainly more than $5k to my pension, and then the employer, especially if it's the government, is kicking in another $5k. And all that money is managed by someone, like the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, and none of the gains are taxable until I'm paid. How is that different than a TFSA?

You would think a group that has been so richly rewarded, with so many benefits better than anyone else in society, would be relatively content. But no, these are teachers, the whiniest group of workers in the country, probably in all of history, in fact. Despite getting raises well above inflation for years, and despite Kathleen Wynne almost immediately breaking her promise of no raises, teachers are again bitching and complaining about their hard lot in life. According to a new C.D. Howe Institute report, three-quarters of Ontario teachers fell into the highest pay category in 2013-14. Teachers with 10 years of seniority earned a salary of about $92,000, putting them in the 85th percentile of all income earners in the province. That is before pension benefits that enable teachers to retire with a full pension before they turn 55, a perk that leaves them far better off than most Ontarians earning a similar salary in the private sector. Imagine that. A bunch of people who have very little in the way of unique, hard to get skills or education, earning more than almost everyone else in the province! In fact, there are so many students coming out of college every year eager to be teachers they have to go to korea or China in search of work. We could probably fire every teacher in the province and have more than enough applicants to replace them by next day. And that is what we ought to be doing. Cut their salary by a third and cut back on their benefits. Give them a take it or quit offer, and if they quit, so be it. We can easily hire replacements. Disband the union, too. This should be an essential service since people can't suddenly quit work to take care of their kids full time during a strike. We can't afford $100,000 teachers any more than we can afford $100,000 firefighters and $100,000 cops. You wonder why we're going broke? This is why! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/back-to-school-back-to-teachers-complaints/article26342014/

But it was false, and the only evidence to support it would have been manufactured. On the other hand, we don't have to manufacture the behaviour of the Islamic world, nor the ideological beliefs of many of its militant organizations.

There is and has been for some years an ongoing desire among Muslims to re-establish the 'caliphate' a world-wide merging of all Muslims under one government. The majority of Muslims in most surveys say they want such an entity. Yet in a 2006 Gallup survey of Muslims living in Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia and Pakistan, two-thirds of respondents said they supported the goal of "unifying all Islamic countries" into a new caliphate. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29761018 92% of Saudis in poll says ISIS behaviour is in line with the Koran. https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/92-of-saudis-believes-that-isis-conforms-to-the-values-of-islam-and-islamic-law-survey/ it would be a gross mistake to imagine that the idea of universal conquest may be considered as obliterated...the canonists and the vulgar still live in the illusion of the days of Islam's greatness. The legists continue to ground their appreciation of every actual political condition on the law of the holy war, which war ought never be allowed to cease entirely until all mankind is reduced to the authority of Islam-the heathen by conversion, the adherents of acknowledged Scripture [i.e., Jews and Christians] by submission. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/04/the_muslim_mainstream_and_the.html

Numbers are fun, aren't they? They appear to tell a story, but often it's not a complete story. What this person is doing is attempting to splice together the record of the Tommy Douglas prairie CCFers who were all very fiscally conservative, to the woefully poor economic management of the NDP in other provinces. The big difference, as the following article points out, was that the NDP in places like Ontario and BC are beholden to big labour, particularly the big public sector unions. That has influenced them into big fat contracts, lots of hiring, and no ability to cut back when times get bad. So what does that say about the federal NDP whose biggest internal representatives are from Ontario and Quebec unions? It says they are far more likely to be fiscally incompetent like all other governments which tie themselves too tightly to union support - like Ontario's Liberals, as one example. http://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/the-ottawa-citizen-the-ontario-ndp-shouldnt-take-credit-for-the-fiscal-record-of-their-prairie-cousins/

Another reason to vote Conservative is that if you don't, the Liberals or NDP will roll back TFSA contributions. Despite their continuing bleating that TFSA's disproportionately benefit the rich, most of the money in them is held by the lower and middle class. In terms of the value of their investments, the under $25,000 group had a total of just over $27-billion in their accounts while the $25,000 to $49,999 cohort had about $35-billion. These are astounding numbers when looked at in the context of the “TFSAs are only for the rich” argument. Lower-income Canadians actually control 52.5 per cent of the total fair market value of all the plans in the country. The $50,000 to $99,999 group – middle income by most standards – held $35.1-billion in assets. Only about 18 per cent of all TFSA investments were owned by people with incomes in excess of $100,000. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/inside-the-market/top-up-your-tfsas-now-and-prepare-for-election-consequences/article26354659/

I swear that when I saw this story I knew some apologist for Muslim misogyni would be eagerly grabbing it and waving it frantically in the air. Yes, this group of paedophiles met over the internet and were involved in depraved things. No one has ever suggested white people don't commit crimes. However, the Pakistani guys in Rotherham you're referring to are hardly a singular group. Many such Muslim groups have been arrested in the last year across the UK, and government studies have suggested the number of sexual assaults of young girls which the authorities glossed over because they didn't want to make accusations against Muslims could be in the tens of thousands, and several hundred Muslim rapists have been identified so far. How did it happen? People like you allowed it to happen. A story of rampant child abuse—ignored and abetted by the police—is emerging out of the British town of Rotherham. Until now, its scale and scope would have been inconceivable in a civilized country. Its origins, however, lie in something quite ordinary: what one Labour MP called “not wanting to rock the multicultural community. The latest report, from Professor Alexis Jay, former chief inspector of social work in Scotland, gives the truth for the first time, in 153 disturbing pages. One fact stands out above all the horrors detailed in the document, which is that the girl victims were white, and their abusers Pakistani. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/ Rotherham was hardly the only place. It was just the one which came to light first. Nearly 400 British girls as young as eleven are believed to have been sexually exploited by Muslim rape gangs in Oxfordshire over the past 15 years, according to a chilling new report. It charges local officials with repeatedly ignoring the abuse due to a "culture of denial." Again, all the victims are white. All the perpetrators are Muslim immigrants. A similar story unfolded in nearby Rochdale, where police arrested nine Muslim men for sexually abusing dozens of young girls in 2012. The rapes were brutal; one teen recounted at a trial being raped by two men while she was “so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed.” Overall there were 631 documented cases over a five-year period. The government has failed these girls because it’s racially and culturally inconvenient to help them. The rapists are Muslim, and the majority of the victims are white. In the UK, racial sensitivity is so high that the mere accusation of racism could end a public servant’s career. And the political class promotes political correctness and multiculturalism at any cost. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/13/the-uks-political-establishment-is-still-failing-rape-victims/#ixzz3lkFHprk8 Feminists mute on epidemic of rape in Europe. http://www.infowars.com/feminists-mute-on-muslim-rape-epidemic-sweeping-europe/

Gosh, I dunno. You do your best to call them names. I would have thought that would be convincing. Maybe you can come up with less generic insults and that would be more convincing.

No they relate to JEWS. How can anyone not know that? The ant-American sentiment in the ME is directly tied to the US support for Israel and always has been. Arabs don't give a damn about Iranian history and most don't even know their own country's history, much less Iran's. Pretending there is some relationship between Iran in 1953 and the Arab Spring is nuts.

Where is the intelligence in not discriminating against a whole group of people who will come here and discriminate against you?

Cite, please.

So what's your plan, then?

It stopped ISIS from taking several Kurd towns, which would have resulted in untold rape, murder and sex slavery. So I bet the kurds don't share your preferences.

He CANCELLED the parliamentary inquiry because he was afraid he couldn't control it. He launched another inquiry which wasn't allowed to find any criminal wrongdoing and was strictly limited in where it could look.

You seriously think Martin didn't know about those kickbacks?

He was a weasel. I have no idea where you get he was honest.

You think you're the adult!? LOL!

You have some evidence his refugee stance has hurt him at the polls? As far as I know the only polls on the subject show Canadians deeply divided, but of the three party leaders stances they seem to prefer Harper's

Including Trudeau and Mulcair, who freaked out when they found out a few Canadians had been embedded with a group of Iraqis they were training and had shot at some ISIS people.

Stunned, speechless and don't have to comment, but you have to anyway..

Why are your posts so dull and witless, marcus?

That's a dumb comparison, Waldo. The reason there are so few bilingual Canadians is almost all the French are in one place. If you check with the French who live in English areas, though, you'll find all of them are bilingual. That's because there aren't enough french there for them to live as a unilingual community. There are lots of Hispanic communities in the US though, and they're growing in size and numbers, which is why kids don't need to learn English, and why Hispanic people can just live in Spanish None of which explains why it would be desirable for the US to import millions of people who speak a foreign language, and why any American living in an area in which he now finds himself to be a minority ought to be happy about it. 100% of the second generation, and probably 90% of the first generation who have been here for more than five years.