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One thing I know for sure is Putin is sitting in the Kremlin laughing his arse off at us.

The wild thing.. is all this blowback will just make this idiot double down

What??..very dumb thing to do...that's very trump thing to do...if not see the war Trump is starting against all the countries that have not a communist dictator

Trump is the best thing that could have happened to Trudeau. Finally a politician Canadians hate more than him.

Look, when your government can freeze your bank accounts, and you don't even mention it, it tells me two things. Or you don't understand how screwed the country is, or they pay you to forget it. Embarrassing either way

You mention that Americans are 30% more expensive than Canadians but you dont mention that the US is far more unequal with a Gini coefficient of 0.41 vs 0.35 in Canada. Now there is also a known issue with using GDP data to calculate productivity and that is that in sme countries the labor of GDP is much lower than in others. You then end up with Irish productivity being the second highest in the world only because most large US corporations operating in the EU register there to pay lower taxes but most of that revenue is just on paper for Ireland. or with Guyana whose oil and mining revenue makes it productivity equal to that of the US. Maybe that is the case, but is it? and if so why is the average wage in Guyana so much lower? so choosing only one specific stat can make any point of view seem true. you have to look at the bigger picture.\nnow the issue is Canada has been getting more unequal but it is still much better than the US. so what it means is that the higher worker productivity in the US benefits corporations and billionaires far more than it benefits the average American. now if we compare cost of living say between NYC and Toronto:\nCost of Living in Toronto is 37.5% lower than in New York, NY (without rent) \nCost of Living Including Rent in Toronto is 47.1% lower than in New York, NY \nRent Prices in Toronto are 59.2% lower than in New York, NY \nRestaurant Prices in Toronto are 34.5% lower than in New York, NY \nGroceries Prices in Toronto are 33.0% lower than in New York, NY \nLocal Purchasing Power in Toronto is 7.2% higher than in New York, NY \nand this is similar when comparing almost all large Canadian cities with a comparable US one. And whilst housing and NIMBYIsm is real issue you have very similar issues in the US which also has almost no mix zoning. But throw in safety nets and go ask Canadians if they want to change for the US system. I doubt most will. Sure some want things to change but some assuming everyone wants an ultra capitalistic society. most are ok with less growth ut better balanced growth (the exact opposite of the boom and bust US model)

Born and Raised in Canada and there is another sort of comparison I'm starting to see more and more: We have the Stagnation of Japan and the the Personality of Britain. \n\nWhat I mean by that, the people in Canada, least the older ones (Boomers), got very conservative and never wanted to rock the boat and do new things. They had in their eyes a good thing. They had work and owned their home. None of them wanted to risk that so they kept things the same for the past 3 decades or so. Well a lot has changed around the world, and were pretty much the same old. Literally. In retirement. Whats the last interesting thing Canada has done since the Canadarm? \n\nI can think of a number of achievements the rest of the world has done, including many 3rd world countries. But Canada is the same old. This has become our Culture. We don't talk about new ideas. We witness them online, but we're not Creators. We are Consumers. And that is what I think happened to Britain after they got resettled after WWII. Britain is pretty dry. And so is Canada. Hence our forest fires!

Canada elected a leader who wears Blackface.... then they elected him again.... Then elected him again.... Economy is trashed so he is abandoning the ship to make the new leader his financial advisor (Mark Carney)..... Canadians are so dumb they will elect the old leaders finance advisor and things will get even worse. SMH

will never be the 51 state - real-estate will suffer a correction as things are changing

Well, she is right. They need to do it the right way. Pay taxes like everyone else! Stop taking advantage of things thinking they entitled.

Increase access to unused and agricultural land in urban arease\nImpose export tariffs on construction materials\nReduce union fees for construction workers\nRemove municipal restrictions on high density housing\nReduce temporary immigration\n\nJust a few things that would help the housing crisis. A housing deficit serves only the investors, it's time that the state produces housing at a reasonable price. Might be wishful thinking, but we need ways to keep housing affordable.

As a proud Albertan the only ways Canada can succeed in the future is vast sweeping reforms across the country and government at all levels or joining the USA and getting a fresh start for each province. If non of those things happen we will fall so far and probably end up a failed state by 2040

CANADA MUST develop those more REMOTE areas of the nation. Its population is essentially present in an area that resembles the shape of Chile, leaving the majority of the nation extremely underdeveloped. These infrastructure issues are the kinds of things you hear about when discussing the DRC etc. Whatever one may say about the huge problems with Russia's infrastructure, AT LEAST they have developed those more remote areas and have settled population centers in some of the most difficult climatic environments on Earth

why do econimists think infinite growth must be a thing in a finite country? economy stagnation is only a problem when you expect it to grow to infinity wich is obviously redicolous. \nf.e. shrinking/stagnating economies wont be able to keep up with Government bonds. you cant pay out interest charges if you didnt make more money then last year. what if everyone is working 40h with perfect efficiency? you brake the system.

Thing to note\n1) The great world reset was fabricated to hyper inflate life. This is not a canada only phenomenon\n\n2) in canada and the us hedge funds and corporate investors are buying houses on mass. Hyperinflating their prices. And the government of both countries allows even foriegn investors to do it (even if they pretend to put guardrails to slow or thwart this its so easy to circumvent for people with infinite resources)\n\n3) why does the govt allow this because it makes the multiple properties they own on mass also go up. So it's a case of the rich helping each other be richer\n\nYou are all just saying misinformation that was spoon fed to you to distract you from the truth

Betrayed? Excuse me! There was no prior agreement that the visa gravy training was going to forever run. Things change, deal with it, don't play the victim! Glad Canada has put a stop to the choo chooing.

So…the only thing that we don’t know here is whether or not the guy is actually doing his job. Because guess what? SO many MEN (ubers,lyft, door dash etc etc etc) don’t CARE to READ anything that you write about and they don’t care to do their jobs…I order out so many times and over the years have noticed almost NO men actually do their jobs and have no responsibility…so I don’t know the exact context here.

It's funny, but we tend to go liberal or conservative. Whatever Alberta is more conservative. Far, right? Conservative, and that's not a good thing. Because they hate everybody and that's just the way it is, if you're not a white, Christian nationalist. You're nothing so yeah, it's an Alberta. And it's bad and our governments the same way. And that's sad.We need to get rid of this conservative government and maybe things have get better.I don't know certainly hope so

He looks so funny good job for giving away your good deeds to Muslims mash Allah very kind thing to to do ?

This is a matter of making things normal transgenders do not add to that, they confuse society and our young people, they need to go period

Who decided for this to be a thing I can’t believe there are places in the country that openly defy the government and that’s OK

That's what the chief said in 1670 when ships invaded but karma is not a good thing for some . well I guess they should ask or demand some of the gold and diamonds and silver and wealth from Britain which was forcibly taken well at least the Indians are not here to colonize you all have a good day folks

I'm brown and I'm not use to living in an all brown place. My family is mixed. My former homeland was partially mixed but mostly brown. White black brown yellow just have more kids then. Live in a clean environment and respect the laws of the land . Do not act like maniacs and tell people become My religion or die etc. This is why brown people annoy everyone it's because of the behavior. Some people are just plain racist and mostly just a color thing.

Thank God I live in Toronto where it's very mixed and came from a mixed island. Be careful . Is it a color thing or people mentality thing? First it's Indians taking over all the jobs then black people killing and robbing everybody then chines people taking over all the convenient stores and nail salons. And what is the white people doing? Who they say are real Canadians? Get off your backside and go pick the lettuce and the other produce then. Go pay your way through college etc like the immigrants. Work the dast food jobs too. Someetim3s it's more the culture and way of life that we are use to.

Don't blow things out of proportion

There will come a time when militias start to form to combat this and things will get ugly

COMPLETE BULLSHIT. Trump is sending busloads of illegal immigrants from NYC and dropping them off at the Canadian border because that's cheaper than legally deporting them. This clown has them going the wrong way. They are counting the illegal immigrants Canada caught and is sending back to NYC by bus. MAGA idiots trying to make Trump the Frump look good.\nWhat these American geniuses should be looking at is:\nD. J. Trump has been a valuable asset to the Russian services for 40 years?\n\nAccording to former Soviet agent Yuri Shewrew, who moved to the U.S. in 1993 and obtained U.S. citizenship, Donald Trump was classified by the KGB as valuable services for forty years. Szłowie, former KGB Major, is currently one of the most important sources in Craig Unger’s book. “The American Comsar.” In addition to this thread, the book examines the president’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a U.S. financier, who died in 2019.\n\nUnger claims that Trump first interested the Russians in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. At that time, he became the target of a spy operation supervised by Czechoslovak intelligence in cooperation with the KGB. Three years later, when Trump opened his first major Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, he bought 200 TVs from Siemon Kislin, a Soviet immigrant who co-owner of the electronic company Joy-People at Fifth Avenue. According to Szedema, Joy-People was controlled by the KGB, and Kislin worked as her agent and selected Trump, a young, growing businessman, as a potentially valuable intelligence.\n\nWhen in 1987. Trump and his wife visited Moscow and Leningrad for the first time, the future president held many business meetings, including KGB officers. According to the Sędzim, Russian officials who perfectly identified the narcissism of the interlocutor and his psychological and intellectual weaknesses led a real “offensive of charm”, flattered him and emphasized that his personality made a huge impression on them. They suggested that such a man should deal with politics, that only people like him can change the world. According to Szbla and Unger, Trump was the perfect target for recruitment in many ways, especially because of vanity and narcissism.\n\nTrump almost immediately “entered” a new role, i.e. “joyfully parroted anti-Western propaganda.” Shortly after his return to the United States, he began his efforts among the Republicans to nominate for his candidacy for president, and even organized an election rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On September 1, 1987, he published a full-page ad-icing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe, in which, among other things, he accused the Alliance of the U.S. and expressing his skeleticism to the U. According to Trump, America should stop paying to defend countries that can defend themselves. Such actions caused real euphoria in the USSR. Trump has already made the same the same theses as president.\n\nTrump's victory in the 2016 election. The Russians accepted with satisfaction. Special investigator Robert Mueller did not detect a conspiracy between members of the Trump staff and the Russians, but revealed at least 272 contacts and 38 meetings with people linked to Russia. The storm told The Guardian that he was disappointed with the investigation because there were no counterintelligence aspects of Trump’s relations with Moscow. According to Unger, Trump was definitely an asset to the Russian services, and his book “will start where Mueller ended.”\n\nSource: The Guardian of 29.01.2021.\n\nMelanija Knavs [now Melania Trump] was born in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia, now part of present-day Slovenia, on April 26, 1970. Her father Viktor Knavs first worked as a chauffeur, and he eventually sold car parts for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer as he made connections with the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the national communist party.\n\nWhy do you think Trump is so anti-Ukraine? Putin also has sex tapes showing Trump with adolescent girls in Russia, and Trump also owes Putin billions of dollars.

I don't think its race thing this guy is a moron and he's being a moron to an Indian guy

Canada needs to deport their own illegal aliens. I swear it’s like Canada is not capable of doing the most basic things themselves anymore. Sad really. Maybe we should just buy Canada.?

This is bullshit. No such thing happened.

As a Canadian I don't blame DT. It's gone way too far. It's not a race thing it's a matter of the effect it has on North America born citizens. Our taxes pay for this over flow and it's given to illegals that get more than the tax payer. I am all about helping but let's take care of the home land first. Further more I find the lack of respect that is so commonly encountered is becoming a major problem for all sides. I can't fathom the entitlement.

it's a good thing Trump and his administration forced everything on the internet to stop fact checking and allow lies. otherwise how else would you be able to constantly post bullsh!t like this

Force us to do other safe things. Abort the Indiaa crusade of canada tim hortons for example

This one thing I agree with trumpur on

Canada is inundated with illegal gun from USA - Trump is all about one thing - good luck with your cost of living - you had a great friend in Canada - fought wars by your side since WW1. Trump will be focusing on the large tax cut for the wealthy.

One thing to remember is that our northern border always has a decline in illegal migration during the winter. Just as the southern border has a decline during the hottest of summer. It takes a very determined person to walk miles in negative degree weather through many feet of snow. Just as it takes a determined person to walk miles in 100+ weather down south.

I tell you what, I have been saying this about the Canadian border for more than 20 years. I used to love to drive to Ontario and it was SO easy through Detroit, Niagara, etc. But the thing NO ONE is talking about is the ability to get a BOAT or using a FERRY to cross the border all the time. It's so easy it's scary. ALSO there is an area of of the New York to Maine border that is mostly forest and with minimal roads/population. Our God only knows what is going on there. I have to say, that when I drove through this area in 2013 as a woman with her dog, I was afraid. I don't scare easily, and I trust my instincts. Something's got to change.

U.N and Cronies like Hocul are to blame for these thing's!!

“NYC progressives”\n\nNo such thing. The Left is decidedly regressive

Illegals will do anything to break our laws. Must be a cultural thing....

Imigrate to America and NY ! ? Not on my list of things to do.\nBut for those fools doing it, ilegally or not.\nWell when eventually there one cant live on air. \nEspecually if the imigrant has no ????????????? Left after enter th US.\nCrimes sure to be like.\nAlso crimes be like... Hiding under the radar from those thugs ICE or other authorities.\nI for one can visit US anytime legaly, as a paying tourist but dont even do that.\nMove there... No way. Especially as a retired guy craving sunshine where i travel and good service nice climate 24/7. ????? \nNo thanks ill pass the US, As the world is now.

Canada isen't doing thing to stop this

So the snowbacks are a thing now I guess.

I predict one of two things about to happen.. 1. A new fence is about to go up and; 2. There'll be a new hunting season opening real soon.

Crossing up north is more dangerous. There's nothing out there, you can freeze to death, the things that are out there will eat you (wild animals)

Dude, there are many things that Trump has done that are worse than deporting immigrants.

I was never really a racist person I got along with just about anybody but seeing all of these disrespectful illegal immigrants doing all of these things to our country it is starting to make me just a little bit racist

Anyone aiding illegal migration goes to jail. Let’s jail those connected to the luxury hotels that houses illegals. Things will stop fast

Thank you! You brought things to my attention I hadn’t thought about.

How about spending the money you’re giving to the illegal immigrants to the elderly who are the forgotten population. We can’t even get the right help to take care of my in-laws who are both suffering from dementia and we can’t afford to put them in a nursing. Besides the fact, that we don’t care to put there to die. The whole nursing and assisted living facilities are just a money making business. They don’t care to do the right things for the elderly. The agencies advertise that they have qualified people to take care of the elderly when in fact, the people they hire are not qualified. These agencies should be all investigatedz