Glenco
Senior Member
The one day I decided not to go in to the airport Carney shows up. I am so f*cking pissed.
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Whatup
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Crazy Avi - the next leader of the NDP with some astute comments. The NDP will probably only get one seat in the next federal election when Heather "Hamas" McPherson predictably wins Edmonton Strathcona. The NDP is now irrelevant and Canada has become a two party system and in socialist Canada the Liberals can now govern for life - this is not good for any democracy. Some very tough times ahead for the confederation - I wonder how long it can stay together in its current form.
Avi Lewis
@avilewis
"I don’t believe we need to spend 2% of our GDP on military spending, as we need that money for other things, including the climate emergency, which is costing us more money while destroying towns and filling our lungs with smoke. The idea that we should now move to 5% of GDP is a destructive and nihilistic fantasy, pouring fuel on the climate fire."
Avi Lewis
@avilewis
"I don’t believe we need to spend 2% of our GDP on military spending, as we need that money for other things, including the climate emergency, which is costing us more money while destroying towns and filling our lungs with smoke. The idea that we should now move to 5% of GDP is a destructive and nihilistic fantasy, pouring fuel on the climate fire."
Whatup
Active Member
So after billions spent on reparations to indigenous communities related to the residential school grave sites not one body has been found. I repeat ... not one body has been found. I remember when this story came out in 2021 I was shocked and saddened as were most Canadians - but where is the evidence? No bodies or autopsies? Trudeau used this to drag Canada's reputation through the mud internationally. Where are the bodies? Why have billions been spent and not one body has been found? Doesn't this bother anyone on this forum or do you just block it out and pretend this inconvenient truth doesn't exist.
Whatup
Active Member
an ethnostate? This is false - Israel has a sizeable Arab population that receives equal rights to jews in the democratic state of Israel. You just say that because you think its true and it fits your narrative - just another example of woke lefties misusing words to fit their narrative - words like "far-right", "fascist" and "genocide" that they constantly use incorrectly. The authoritarian arab states that surround Israel are much less diverse than Israel because they have murdered or removed the jews that have lived in most of these places for thousands of years - remember Judaism is much older than Islam. But I'm sure you knew this and are probably an "educated" person who went to a university. You probably also believe that Israel is committing "genocide" which it clearly isn't or hasn't. Israel is the only democracy in the region, surrounded by Islamic authoritarian states that are brutal and ruthless, kill and terrorize their own citizens, make homosexuality illegal and have some of the lowest levels of gender equality in the world. But you think evil little ethnostate Israel, that is dealing with this nightmare and the terror state Iran on a daily basis are the bad guys I guess. Some of the nonsense I read on this forum is shocking - imagine being Jewish in Canada and having to deal with all this crap - your schools and synagogues being attacked, your summer camps for your children being threatened and raving lunatic demonstrators walking through your neighourhoods screaming "death to Jews" . In 2023 and 2024, incidents targeting the Jewish community represented a disproportionately high percentage of police-reported hate crimes in Canada, with Jewish Canadians being the most targeted group, despite accounting for less than 1% of the population. 6/8 million jews murdered during the holocaust - but now they have their own country, a kickass army and the best national intelligence agency in the world and they are defending themselves with aplomb - it warms the heart.
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Whatup
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and the typical "far right" reference to make it all seem reasonable to the left wing "Intelligentsia" - Israel of course is not completely innocent in this decades long conflict, but it is a democracy. Hamas won a dubious election in Gaza and then proceeded to end democracy (kind of like the far-right Nazis) - they have received billions to improve Gaza but the Hamas leaders, who live like kings in Qatar, chose to spend it on weapons, building terror tunnels and training their army to "wipe jews off the map", Every Islamic country except Iran, which supports this terror, wants nothing to do with them. And also, why do Jewish Canadians need to be demonized and terrorized in their own country for a conflict on the other side of the world. McPherson and Avi Lewis should be ashamed of themselves and hopefully the voters in Edmonton Strathcona will do the right thing next election and get rid of McPherson, however unfortunately I don't think this will happen.
Whattagame
Active Member
The guy who doesn't understand GDP, our voting processes, or paragraphs vomits an ill-informed comment, and, voila! Thread successfully derailed.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Trump’s tariffs on Canada, world are unlawful, U.S. Supreme Court rules
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump overstepped his presidential authority by imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and other countries under emergency powers, striking down a central economic and diplomatic strategy that has upended global trade.A majority of the justices sided with lower courts that had found Trump improperly used tariffs to respond to national emergencies he declared over fentanyl trafficking in North America and international trade deficits, the latter of which led to so-called “reciprocal” tariffs against dozens of nations.
The ruling is a blow to Trump, who has said the tariffs are “vital” negotiating tools to reach deals on trade and foreign policy, and are helping reduce the national debt and pay for certain domestic policy priorities.
The impact of the ruling is not immediately clear.
What a waste of everyone's time this tariff issue has been.
bodsbods9090
Senior Member
He had a major hissy-fit at the press conference after...AND he said screw the decision, he's still putting tariffs on trade.
David A
Senior Member
Of course he did and of course he will. There are some other ways he still can put more limited tariffs on trade, they are just not as broad or easy as via the Emergency Act, which is specifically what the court ruled on.
ADob
Active Member
I sometimes feel like people keep expecting him to react like a normal, balanced, sane person. He hasn't once and isn't about to begin. It's a blow to him and it clearly unhinged him even more (astonishing how the unhinging just keeps going and going) but will it somehow make him stop and go, hm, perhaps I should desist? Unlikely.
David A
Senior Member
In particular, I have noticed he does not take the word no or the concept of restraint very well at all. I suppose that part of his character helped him to achieve whatever he has accomplished, but it also gets him in trouble too.
Whatup
Active Member
Read the tweet below from the right honourable member of progressive riding of Edmonton Strathcona.Think of how ridiculous this tweet is - McPherson openly supports the Gaza government (Hamas) which has a stone-aged mentality towards homosexuals and women. Also, why are members of the 2SLGDTQIA community special? Shouldn't all Canadians be treated equally by members of parliament in situations like this? The citizens of Edmonton Strathcona should be embarrassed to have such a dimwit as their government rep in Ottawa.
Heather McPherson
@HMcPhersonNDP
Many Canadians, especially members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, are in Puerto Vallarta, where violence has quickly escalated. A shelter-in-place order is in effect.
Heather McPherson
@HMcPhersonNDP
Many Canadians, especially members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, are in Puerto Vallarta, where violence has quickly escalated. A shelter-in-place order is in effect.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Canadians are in Mexico, but gay Canadians are really in Mexico.
Whattagame
Active Member
I stared at that sentence in disbelief for a while when I first read it. That's the kind of syntax that'll get someone elected president.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Gay Canadians are still Canadians.