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Actually policies that protect the low and middle class actually do work and is what created the greatest economic times in history (the late 1800s-1980s). Without government interference the people would mainly be working slaves forced to work for peanuts with no rights, no protections, and...

OAS is directly my problem. Paying people making well above average income welfare takes away money from those who actually need it or lowering our deficit/debt. Pretending paying well off people welfare isn’t a issue is putting your head in the sand because you are benefiting from it. Unless...

Average first time homebuyer in Ontario is 40 now. The average age in the early 90s was 27-30. Wages have stagnated. Some basic examples from 2000 as a snap shot into how bad it has gotten. In 2000 the average individual income was 51,418$. The average median income (i.e. what most were...

The Vienna model of housing is how we get it to change. Exceptionally effective at providing high quality and affordable housing. A purely socialist program which has resulted in the cheapest and highest quality of housing in Europe. Home builders go for whatever has the most profits. If that...

Banks don’t lose on mortgages, it is part of the reason they will lend to basically anyone provided it meets the governments minimum numbers. There is literally no way for them to lose money, only how much they can make. Mortgage insurance made it so if you default the bank gets paid out the...

I said this when the market was on its way up and I will say it now, we should do everything in our power to pop the bubble as the longer we avoid doing so the worse it will be. Yes some will get hurt, but that is the risk you take if you over-leverage yourself. The government shouldn’t be...

Your right, only one actually has the ability to project power on us. The US is in a substantially higher category.

Much ado about nothing. Provided it isn’t violating noise bylaws it isn’t any skin off my back. The government shouldn’t be expressly promoting it (or any religion) but it also isn’t it’s place to deny it. Freedom of religion, and freedom of thought, opinion and expression are very important...

A Labour PM will have a tough time no matter what. The people don’t want Labour, they won because of first past the post rather than growing support. It’s more the Tories split and the votes went to a bunch of different parties other than Labour, allowing Labour to win enough seats to form...

100% agree. I would even go farther and state if a product couldn’t be produced in Canada because it doesn’t meet our environmental or labour standards we shouldn’t allow it in. I am simply pointing out that we lack the moral courage/pain tolerance to actually follow through on it.

I am not sure we can handle the diplomatic fallout from that. Excludes a lot of trading partners.

Is it free and fair elections when you run a apartheid system denying the right to vote to many who live in the area?

Only if you do it wrong.

I would go farther than just the most serious offences for the death penalty. I would include those repeat offender career criminals who just clog up the justice system, harm society, and take away from the citizenry as well as drug dealers. Personally I don’t care for continually paying for...

They also killed Ukrainians who didn’t agree with their interpretation of things. Just doing some cursory reading on them they are a very mixed bag. At times they fought just about everyone including the Germans, at other times they were allied with Polish resistance groups. I can see how...

If your referring to the Ross rifle it isn’t nearly as much of a failure as it was made out to be. By time it was completely sorted out we decided to remove it from service. Other notable firearms which if given the same treatment would never have became the successes they were include the Lee...

I am amazed that hasn’t had a charter challenge yet

It would be much more than 5$ gas The reality is the American strategic reserve is getting low. That leaves them with three options. 1) They stop exporting oil screwing their allies over 2) They keep exporting and the price of oil goes up substantially in America 3) They make peace and...

Keep in mind the CAF is basically unionized. Grievance procedures, restrictions on what can and cannot be done by who based on policies/positions, clearly defined pay based off job and seniority, lawyers/assisting officers to help you if your charged, etc. Not very different from a union at...

I never said gold standard, just that they took complaints very seriously and put a lot more resources in than I suspect most departments would be willing to do, especially for legacy cases.