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NATO is an obsolete dinosaur. Being unnecessarily hostile with Russia in today's geopolitical environment makes no sense. We are natural allies given our shared concern of ISIS and desire to trade and have prosperous capitalist economies.

I don't think a chat roulette has to be filtered. Make it completely random and have the code open source. Sure if you have it unfiltered, you risk some trolls showing their genitals, but I think that's a trade off worth it to reach a more representative sample of the populace.

I think Trudeau and all future pms should just do a weekly online chat roulette with random Canadians. These events to meet 'ordinary' Canadians are always highly filtered.

You mean like France and the Burkini ban? Yeah, sorry. No going around stoning apostates that don't believe in your religion. Democracy.

Could you elaborate more on this? Perhaps with links to back it up? I found the snubbing of Dion bizarre. Dion seemed to be one of the most qualified and competent people in Trudeau's cabinet.

There are women in Egypt or Somalia who are pretty happy with how FGM turned out. And there are men in north america who are not happy with how MGM turned out. It's a matter of consent and choice. If people want to modify their genitals, be it FGM, circumcision, sex change, etc. fine. But there needs to be consent, and a baby cannot consent.

Well you have that too. But Kellogg is they guy responsible for its high rate in the US.

Actually, if you look at the history, especially in the USA, it was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

Monsef is still in? Well I guess cause it's 2017, you can't get rid of a women 'of colour', regardless of how incompetent she is. Remember, referendums are undemocratic. Monsef tells us so.

Your link refutes your claim. In some cultures, they cut the foreskin of young boys. They believe it is the will of god. In my country, this is totally legal. But female genital mutilation without consent is illegal. What a wonderful sexist country we live in.

No. Hey, maybe I'm a low tax person and don't want to pay so much tax. Does that mean that taxing me is a violation of my rights? Or maybe I'm a socialist and want more free money from the government. Does that mean that me not getting free money is a violation of my rights?

Ah yes, Sajjan. The guy who says we shouldn't fear ISIS. Maybe he should tell that to the gay people of Orlando or the people with relatives who were run over in Nice.

There is no flying spaghetti monster.

Incorrect. Atheism is the lack of a belief in a god or gods. One can be an agnostic atheist, for example.

You realize France, the United States and South Korea are all republics, right?

??? This is a Canadian forum. Canada was never part of the soviet union.

Too bad the so-called lefties in this country don't support abolition of the monarchy, the create of a republic, nor secularism.

What is hard to understand? I claim that global average temperature change between the Holocene Optimum and the Little Ice age was about 0.5 C. You then give a link that shows parts of Scandinavia warming by 2 C, thinking it refutes my claim. I then point out that regional temperature changes are not the same thing as global temperature changes and that polar regions (which Scandinavia is part of) tend to warm more than equatorial regions. You then proceed to claim that you've demonstrated my numbers are wrong.

If you think my numbers are wrong then likely you don't understand the difference between regional average temperature change and global average temperature change.

How? It's just claim after claim from you; none of which refutes anything I wrote.

They are not off. I was referring to temperature as a global average. Not regional temperature changes such as in Scandinavia. It's well known that there is more temperature change in polar regions and less temperature change in equatorial regions.

The difference between global Holocene optimum temperatures and global Little Ice age temperatures is only ~ half a degree C. That's pretty stable in comparison to 5 C temperature swings during the Pleistocene.

Again, there is a difference between mostly stable and fully stable.

I said somewhat stable, not fully stable. And that was with respect to CO2 levels. But with respect to temperatures, they have also been relatively stable during the Holocene. Though of course it is well known that there has been a gradual cooling trend since the Holocene Optimum due to changes in orbital forcing. That was primarily due to the AMO (Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation), I believe.