2019 Canadian federal election

[Valcazar]

^^^ I agree with this completely...meanwhile, in the US just a year ago I watched 3 hours of a hearing to confirm a Supreme Court Justice and all they did was review the signatures and comments written in his High School yearbook.

You should have watched the rest of it then, shoudn't you?

They ignored the past 20 years of the decisions and opinions that he wrote on the bench.

No they didn't. That was the major focus of his hearing. They then brought him back after the assault accusations bubbled up.

Just recently someone heard from a friend that heard from a friend that the attorney of someone else saw the justice expose himself to another woman at a party when he was enrolled at Yale!!!! The New York Times ran with the story and then after they ran it, they asked the woman who was the alleged victim and she has no recollection.

You mean the drunk girl who was passed out doesn't remember what happened but other people who were there do? That's so weird! :rollseyes:

I suppose the whole "he lied under oath" part wasn't relevant in your view?

If you are at an Aladdin party do you have to be black to dress like him or can a white guy go black face? When did this become wrong? Why didn't I get the memo.

Given the accuracy of your memories of the Kavanaugh hearing, how do you know you didn't get the memo and just forget it or misunderstand it?

 

[Valcazar]

Bombardier has the slimiest bastard for a CEO.

Quoted for truth.

 

[CLOUD 500]

We do understand that you are still upset with Trump winning but look at the US economy, booming, guess they should not change either or is only when it pleases your thinking.

^^^^^

The question it is booming for who? The US economy is booming for the rich. Most of Trumps tax cuts benefited the rich. Wealth inequality is a major problem in the US thanks to hierarchy and corporatism.

Doc Holliday,

I am usually not for the conservatives but Trudeau made a big mess of this country and if he gets reelected he will mess it up further. The only good thing Trudeau did was legalize marijuana. He still has not repealed Bill C-36. How Trudeau messed the country it is with his open door to mass irresponsible immigration. The mass influx of immigrants are all settling in the major cities of Canada and causing mass over crowding, huge hike in real estate prices and rents. Over population presents the greatest threat to humanity. Based on the statistics Canadians prefer a more sparsely populated country. Trudeau is also constantly throwing money at people with kids. I mean WTF are we to pay people to have children? Take money from one people and give it to others. Weird logic. What about helping students? Seniors? Veterans? How about lowering personal taxes? I also want Legault to lower the provincial tax.

I dunno why no one is routing for Maxime Bernier. He is the closest to being a libertarian. He is against crony capitalism, against corporate welfare, against supply management like the dairy cartel, he is also against mass immigration. I think Max Bernier would be the best choice.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^

The question it is booming for who? The US economy is booming for the rich. Most of Trumps tax cuts benefited the rich. Wealth inequality is a major problem in the US thanks to hierarchy and corporatism.
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The majority of the US is booming, record low unemployment, lowest unemployment for blacks, stocks are ok... Not just the rich getting richer. The unemployment records here are skewed since the governments have hired many more civil servants, paid for with our tax dollars, not really helping the economy.

As for your Bernier comment. If not for me wanting Trudeau out I would probably vote for him as I like some of his ideas. All Bernier is doing is giving Trudeau a chance to win by splitting the Conservative vote, if Bernier could have kept his ego in check till after this election and then started it would be better.... for getting Trudeau out.

 

[jalimon]

^^^^^
The question it is booming for who? The US economy is booming for the rich. Most of Trumps tax cuts benefited the rich. Wealth inequality is a major problem in the US thanks to hierarchy and corporatism.

Completely agree with you. American dream seems to be able to afford a house in a gated community. WTF! Current US economy is in a big bubble.

How Trudeau messed the country it is with his open door to mass irresponsible immigration. The mass influx of immigrants are all settling in the major cities of Canada and causing mass over crowding, huge hike in real estate prices and rents.

But here I do not agree at all. You link mass immigration to current high rent/estate price? WTF? You these people can afford 500k 3 bedroom appartment in griffintown? Real estate is hot because of the housing market driven by the power of the local economy. Not by immigrants my friend.

Cheers

 

[CLOUD 500]

But here I do not agree at all. You link mass immigration to current high rent/estate price? WTF? You these people can afford 500k 3 bedroom appartment in griffintown? Real estate is hot because of the housing market driven by the power of the local economy. Not by immigrants my friend.

The most basic law of economics is the law of supply and demand. Park Extention used to be the place if you wanted low rents. Now that is no longer the case especially with its low below 1% vacancy rate. I think you misunderstood my post. When there is a mass open door to immigration and all are settling in the major cities and not in the sparsely populated rural area guess what happens? More demand to supply and the prices go up. Simple as that. And it is not just rents and houses, many landlords have jacked the price of rents of commercial property forcing many small businesses to close shop. BTW currently the biggest influx of immigrants are from India. Toronto I think is almost 50% Indians. These people do not spend a dime. The first thing they do is buy property. Montreal is headed the same route of Toronto and Vancouver unless Trudeau is voted out.

 

[CLOUD 500]

The majority of the US is booming, record low unemployment, lowest unemployment for blacks, stocks are ok... Not just the rich getting richer. The unemployment records here are skewed since the governments have hired many more civil servants, paid for with our tax dollars, not really helping the economy.

I do not agree with this at all. Sure the unemployment rate is down but what kind of jobs are being offered? Minimum wage part-time jobs without benefits or full-time well paid jobs with full benefits.

As for your Bernier comment. If not for me wanting Trudeau out I would probably vote for him as I like some of his ideas. All Bernier is doing is giving Trudeau a chance to win by splitting the Conservative vote, if Bernier could have kept his ego in check till after this election and then started it would be better.... for getting Trudeau out.

Unfortunately with this comment I have to agree with you on this one. Too bad since I like Bernier's platform. Looks like I will vote for Scheer. I absolutely want Trudeau out of office. Main reason is his open door to irresponsible immigration. Got to shut that door down. But between you and I, I believe we will end up with a minority government.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

Trudeau with his blackface sorry statement.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&sour...aw3-ASUgfgg_bRSjjzRYxkZ1&ust=1569253799721633


“There is no context in which someone doesn’t have responsibility for things they’ve done in the past,” Trudeau told CBC in January 2018.

The POS has two sets of rules, one for him and another for everyone else.
The 18 yr old groping incident, he did not think he did anything wrong either.

 

[jalimon]

The most basic law of economics is the law of supply and demand. Park Extention used to be the place if you wanted low rents. Now that is no longer the case especially with its low below 1% vacancy rate. I think you misunderstood my post. When there is a mass open door to immigration and all are settling in the major cities and not in the sparsely populated rural area guess what happens? More demand to supply and the prices go up. Simple as that. And it is not just rents and houses, many landlords have jacked the price of rents of commercial property forcing many small businesses to close shop. BTW currently the biggest influx of immigrants are from India. Toronto I think is almost 50% Indians. These people do not spend a dime. The first thing they do is buy property. Montreal is headed the same route of Toronto and Vancouver unless Trudeau is voted out.

Supply and demand you wrote it. Montreal's job market is booming. All these workers want a good place to live. Supply and demand you wrote. Well it's exactly that. The demand is strong for pretty much all area of the island. So off course the market will go up. The situation happened in Vancouver and in Toronto. Yes lots of immigrant bought in. But vast immigration? Nope. Just controlled healthy immigration.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^^^ Have you been to Vancouver or Toronto lately? I have spent 9 of the last 12 months in Vancouver, it is not called Hongcouver for no reason. Asian money has flooded the market, the locals can not afford to buy a house there anymore. I was in Toronto for about 3 weeks last year, caucasians are not the majority there, same as Vancouver. Locals with jobs are not making the housing market go up, foreign investments, with the new BC foreign home ownership and empty house tax it is slowing. Both Vancouver and Toronto are not feasible anymore, Montreal will be the next foreign investment city, the locals have minimal to do with it ( rising prices ).

 

[jalimon]

They brought billions into the country STN. Would you rather let in immigrant that can afford to buy million dollar house or immigrant that needs our welfare system?

 

[No_Church_InThe_Wild]

Canada has been pretty aggressive with its immigration policies.
And because of that ,a lot of foreign money ( Asian investors in particular) has come into the country. All these new homebuyers have significantly inflated property values in cities that they have settled in.
Now I don’t consider myself xenophobic but the reality is many Canadian cities home prices and rents are at such high levels that their out of reach for a lot of folks . And it’s not only because the economy is booming,,, the gap between salaries and property prices has significantly widened. Perhaps government needs to do a better job regulating all this foreign money coming in .
Now if you have already invested heavily in real estate then obviously you don’t have a problem with all of this .

I may not agree with STN when it comes to our federal election candidates, parties and Halloween costumes ,but I’m of the opinion that this bubble perhaps needs to be checked.

 

[Valcazar]

Since when do foreign investors have to immigrate?

 

[CLOUD 500]

Supply and demand you wrote it. Montreal's job market is booming. All these workers want a good place to live. Supply and demand you wrote. Well it's exactly that. The demand is strong for pretty much all area of the island. So off course the market will go up. The situation happened in Vancouver and in Toronto. Yes lots of immigrant bought in. But vast immigration? Nope. Just controlled healthy immigration.

And how is that a good thing for the people? Trudeau has promoted irresponsible immigration. See Harper proposed to take in 10,000 Syrian refuges, Trudeau tripled that amount. Canada was first in line to take in the most amount of refugees in 2018. The biggest problem is that they are all settling in the major cities and leaving vast areas in the north sparsely populated. The cities infrastructure was not designed with so much population in mind. Have you been to Toronto lately? It is 50% Indians now. Housing prices are so high that people are forced to buy houses more then an hour away from the city. I do not want that for Montreal. I lived for several years and I left. Rents in Toronto are approaching $2000. And it has nothing to do with a job boom. Fact is there are too much people and supply of houses and apartments are not keeping pace. This puts it all in the favor of landlords. They love it since they can jack the prices up and still find tenants in no time. Immigration got to be shut down. And it is not just real estate. Roads were not designed with so much cars in mind, public transportation too. Have you been riding the metro lately? It is now always crowded. The orange line is seriously over crowded. Too much population.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

They brought billions into the country STN. Would you rather let in immigrant that can afford to buy million dollar house or immigrant that needs our welfare system?

That is the thing, they do not live here, they buy a million dollar house, let it sit empty for a year and flip it ( Launders the money ), hench the reason BC added the vacant house tax. How does this help the economy?
Also, I thought you were a fan of the illegals, now you prefer wealthy immigrants, are all immigrants not equal?

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

Andrew Scheer #platform2019 !
To date, he has released the following relative to his platform:

-will remove the #GST off home energy including heating oil, electricity, natural gas, propane, wood pellets
-will reduce small business taxes and federal taxes
-will have a $1,000.00 tax credit for #homeSchooled children
-will make up to $4,000.00 of independent school tuition tax-deductible
-will keep the tax-free Canada Child Benefit, seniors benefits
-will increase transfers to provinces for healthcare and social services by at least, 3% a year
-will implement a New #ParentsAct that will give maternity, parental benefits, employment Insurance #benefits tax-free
-will give incentives to retirees who want to re-enter the work force in order to help alleviate labour shortages
-will balance the budget in five years not by cuts : “any new spending not already budgeted will be paid for from savings within the government”
-will rework the ‘mortgage stress test’ to facilitate home buyers
-will increase the supply of housing and reduce regulations on new home builds
-will have the CBC refocus on national stories
-will deny funding and research money to universities that don't allow full freedom of speech
-will recommit Canadian fighters to the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
-will not reopen the debate on abortion
-will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the Canadian Embassy to Jerusalem
-will join a U.S.-led global missile-defense coalition
-will spend at least 2% of Canada’s GDP on national defence
-will renegotiate the Safe Third Country Agreement to cover the entire border
-will expedite the removal of failed asylum seekers
-will set immigration levels on an annual basis based on Canada's best interests
-will increase private sponsorship of refugees to reduce the number of refugees reliant on taxpayers
-will bring in more economic immigrants and fewer immigrants under family reunification
-will provide temporary workers a path to residency, ensure wages are fair, stop the abuse of workers
-will improve language training
-will improve credential recognition to allow newcomers to practice their professions and trades
-will set up better provincial programs to ensure that immigration meets labour needs and doesn’t strain social programs
-will establish a mechanism to oversee the immigration consultant profession to better prevent fraud
-will end birthright citizenship for anyone who doesn't have a Canadian parent or a parent with permanent residency
-will immediately pull Canada out of the U.N. Global Compact on Migration
-will let Quebecers file a single tax return to be overseen by the Quebec government
-will have returning terrorists prosecuted to the full extent of the law
-will reinstate Harper's legislation to deport dual citizens guilty of terrorism
-will list Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity
-will make full use of the Magnitsky Law to punish Iran's worst human rights offenders
-will stop Statistics Canada from collecting our personal banking and credit information
-will replace Bill C-71 with a law that targets criminals, protects Canadians and respects farmers and law-abiding firearms owners - doesn’t support a gun ban but tougher penalties
-will end automatic bail for gang members, identify gangs in the criminal code, revoke parole for gang members, toughen sentences for ordering gang crime and create new sentences for violent gang crime
-will have tougher sentences for those who knowingly possess smuggled guns, a lifetime gun ownership ban on any lawful gun owner found to be selling guns to people prohibited from possessing them or to the black market and a lifetime gun ownership ban for anyone convicted of violent crime or gang-related activity - will seize guns from people detained for mental health-related issues and create a special task force to keep guns from being smuggled in from the U.S.
-will create a firearms ombudsman to advocate for gun owners and have the RCMP no longer having the power to reclassify guns
-will rule out free trade with China as the U.S., Australia and New Zealand has done
-supports the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union
-will ban Huawei from Canada’s 5G network
- will eliminate trade barriers among the provinces and set up a formal free-trade deal with the provinces
-will separate the roles of Minister of Justice and Attorney-General
-will take back the 256 million Trudeau has deposited in the Asia Infrastructure Bank and cancel any further contributions to that bank : believes that Trudeau shouldn’t be spending our tax dollars building infrastructure in other countries when we have infrastructure needs in Canada
-will scrap Trudeau’s 35 billion Canada Infrastructure Bank
-will upgrade the Royal Canadian Navy's submarine capability to better protect our national waters
-will take politics out of our military procurement process
-will upgrade our submarines and fighter jets
-will reverse Trudeau's changes to the Senate and return to the practice of appointing party members to the Senate
-will build a fleet of icebreakers to cement Canada’s Arctic sovereignty
-will scrap Trudeau’s forced carbon tax, repeal Trudeau’s pipeline and oil shipping laws, cancel Trudeau’s levies on carbon, repeal Trudeau's Bill C-69 to overhaul energy project reviews, establish clear timelines for regulatory approvals, assert federal jurisdiction when necessary with the government’s declaratory power under the Constitution
- will make Canada oil independent within 10 years by creating a single corridor of energy infrastructure across the country that will simplify the construction of new pipelines and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs
-will lift the ban on tanker traffic along the B.C. coast
-will end government handouts or corporate welfare for companies like Bombardier
-will change the Criminal Code to make it easier to convict people accused of human trafficking, end automatic bail for those charged with trafficking, make those convicted serve consecutive sentences for each victim rather than concurrent terms - will also fund police, survivor services and public awareness to fight human trafficking
-will pay more attention to the Arctic than Trudeau has done
-will establish closer relations with India and Japan
-will stand up to Russian aggression
-will stand up to terrorists
-will keep pot legal and grant pardons
-will have another review of Canada's Food Guide as the latest guide is the result of a flawed and biased process
-will abandon Trudeau’s plan for front-of-package nutrition labelling
-will cut Trudeau’s funding of the UN’s Relief and Works Agency which is a Palestinian group listed as a terrorist organization in Canada #AndrewScheerTeamOct2019 #AndrewScheerPlatformOct2019

 

[Fradi]

Sorry STN but to all this “ Will” is the same answer, we will see.
There is nothing more worthless than a politicians promise, that goes for all of them.

 

[jalimon]

What this thing has to do with Trudeau ???
This trend of foreign investors / Laundering thing is going for over 20+ years and if not more, way before Trudeau's four years.

Montreal is a target now because of the low prices and the lack of separation talks and no action from our mayor, Montreal prices go higher
so the city collects more taxes, Valerie is happy, so when it comes to Montreal, you should blame Valerie Plante for her inaction, hopefully she will be voted out.

Well said cannot agree more. A country that is open to immigration is a healthy country. Let's bring way more fuck! If it goes too insane Montreal will do like vancouver or toronto and add a special taxe to slow things down. It worked in Vancouver.

There are many company outside montreal area in Beauce, monteregie, lanaudiere, estrie and around quebec city that are slowing production because of lack of work force. Immigration is good. USA is shooting itself in the foot closing it's door to immigration. The country was built on immigrant!

Cheers,

 

[sharkman]

STN that's quite an elaborate menu you put together!...I'm impressed!

I'd hate to go see an SP and ask her to check off all the services on the menu she provides! I would go bankrupt...lol! and I'm sure with that list Canada would default!...lol!

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^^ Copy and paste after checked.

At least it is not " The budget will balance itself ", " We will grow the economy from the heart out ". " More disposable income for the middle class ". " Transparent government ". All BS.