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How do we know Assad did the gas attack and not the 'moderate rebels'? Where is the evidence?

No, for state communism you would need a 100% tax rate. You can have less than a 100% tax rate and still have a universal basic income.

You'd be surprised. But if there is a shortage of people wanting to do menial work, then the wages will rise until there is no shortage. So in the case of replacing minimum wage with universal basic income, it could result in higher wages for some menial jobs due to there being a lower supply of desperate people wanting to work at a crap job for minimum wage. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Boredom, incentive to earn money. Having a $5/hour position pays more than an unpaid internship. Also, I never specified the magnitude of the universal basic income. You are assuming that it is necessarily big enough to live off of.

Abolish minimum wage as well. Replace it with universal basic income.

EI subsidizing seasonal work is one of the stupidest aspects of the EI system. Abolish it and replace it with universal basic income instead.

Not really. See section 1. It just gives the illusion that we have freedom of speech/expression.

You forget muslims. In Sweden, 'anti-racists' protest gay-pride parades in muslim areas. So muslims > LGBT people in terms of the progressive stack hierarchy.

Nah. They would say, 'I support free speech, but free speech doesn't include hate speech or offensive speech'. And of course everything they disagree with is hateful and offensive. They justify being against free speech by redefining free speech so it doesn't mean free speech anymore. It is very Orwellian.

Ottawa vanier result is interesting. Historically, it was the CPC in 2nd place, not the NDP.

Stop lumping all atheists together. Many atheists hate all religions, including Islam, and have no issue criticizing Islam. For example, Stephan Charbonnier, who was murdered by ISIS in Paris for drawing the alleged prophet Mohammed.

Of course the enlightenment would head towards atheism. Because of the lack of evidence of a god or gods. Similarly, the enlightenment has headed towards not believing in unicorns.

And how is that 'militant atheism'? I just don't get why you are blaming atheists for this? Atheists don't have much political power in this country, nor are they a homogenous group.

Is that why they passed the 'Islamophobia' motion? Or why they didn't remove god from the anthem? Or why Trudeau, Mulcair, Wynne and Couillard are all christian? Or why Trudeau gives public money to mosques?

... Yet you ignore what happened in the 90's as a result of those policies...

Yeah man, go for mass deficits for decades. Certainly worked out for Canada in the past. Like the massive deficits in the 70's and 80's. Not like it has to be paid back or anything.

Except the parties in Europe that generally support these things aren't called liberal in Europe, they are called socialist, labour, etc. The definition of liberalism in most European Countries is generally more consist with classical liberalism. I'm not saying they are perfect, or that they support freedom of speech 100%, but Canada and the USA are outliers in how the general population understands the term 'liberal'. In Australia, the right-wing party is the liberal party (the party of Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbot). By Australian standards, Harper would be liberal and Trudeau would be labour.

It's almost like you guys can't detect sarcasm... Don't worry, the railway makes up for it.

What? Surely a single railway 100 years ago justifies treating the west as tax slaves and giving them under-representation in the House of Commons and Senate. Sounds like a fair trade-off to me.

They helped build a railway over 100 years ago. Surely that counts for something.

I think it would be better to eliminate the provinces. The provinces cause an unnecessary duplication of costs (such as needing to pay for more politicians) and make it difficult to coordinate policy. As for the federal government misrepresenting the Canadian public, the problem is the first past the post system. If we moved to proportional representation like they have in the Netherlands, then there would be more parties competing to represent the Canadian public. Look at Ontario, for example, all 3 major parties support having a Catholic School System despite it being against secular and despite opinion polls showing that the majority of Ontarians wanting it to be abolished.

I agree with your conclusion, but you are doing a terrible job justifying it. Transgender rights can be justified via egalitarianism, so I'm not really sure why you call it identity politics. The LPC is illiberal because they reject too many of the core principles of liberalism such as support for freedom of speech, egalitarianism, secularism and individualism. I've been thinking of making a thread on this topic for a while (at least since the 2015 election). Although to have a proper discussion in this, I think I would have to lay a decent case out in the first post to highlight the issues where I highly support and reference my claims. But given this website's new editing policy, such in depth discussions aren't really viable anymore given my past experience of how much one would have to re-edit past posts to fix typos, make corrections and add new information.

Very sexy. You should read a book on cryptography. Then you can see the usefulness of abstract math. I strongly disagree. I've learned lots of math topics in a single evening on wikipedia. Wikipedia is great. Why would you ever forget such a useful formula?

Life without math would be boring.