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Feb 28, 2023Liked by Brad Salzberg

the elections & the system have been rigged for a long time! It all needs to change to support the people not a corporation

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Mar 1, 2023Liked by Brad Salzberg

The political SCIENCE is settled.

Our gvt is working for a foreign entity and not for the citizens of this nation.

With foreign police stations set up across the country, foreign diplomats bosting about manipulating our election process, our pm glowingly admitting to loving a communist gvt of a foreign nation and then saying that asking any questions about these issues is Racist, it is obvious to the political scientists, the Right kind of Scientists who are allowed to opine on our nation's current state.

We know the gvt, at every level, has been corrupted. This is a coup d'état that has installed a puppet gvt to destroy our democracy and subjugate Canadians to neo- marxist ideology.

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It has , how do you explain, him staying in office since 2015! we have been thrown into hell by this evil man!

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Mar 1, 2023Liked by Brad Salzberg

Keep spreading the word, thanks for the update Brad, it will be a slow pace before every one wakes up to the liberals evil plan, some will never wake up as they'll say I thought they were right but it's too late, shame on me

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Recently I have been reading one man’s considered thoughts about the central weakness of democracy. Democracy he writes, is more than amenable to hierarchical hijacking. In fact it is inevitable. Recall how the elites in Lower Canada, i.e. New France as originally birthed, were increasingly dismayed that after the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years War when France ceded New France to Great Britain their economy began to become increasingly distressed.

During the American Revolution the patriots encouraged Lower Canada to join in the revolution. But the Lower Canada elites preferred to remain under British rule. Because they preferred the devil they knew — Britain’s governors general were easily sandbagged. …And the power they represented was across the Atlantic Ocean.

After the Jay Treaty was signed between Great Britain and the United States in 1800 the easy access to the beaver swimming in the tributary rivers of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys ceased. New France had claimed much more territory than many people today understand. The Americans wasted no time populating and exploiting the territory, that Great Britain before the Revolution, had forbade the American Colonists from entering. The Erie Canal completed in 1825 eliminated the necessity of using the St Lawrence River and Great Lakes to access the west.

Railroads necessitated another practical threat to Lower Canada. Even though Canada and the U.S.

completed their first railroads at about the same time by 1841 the elites in Canada East began to fear becoming subsumed by their neighbours to the south.

Eventually those soon to be named Quebecers were forced to compromise and so initiated the creation of Canada in 1867. They understood the necessity of forging an “east west/ west east” trade network to replace the loss of a trade monopoly they had enjoyed one hundred years before.

But a trans continental railroad was essential to forging this dream into reality. Confederation was essential to providing the collateral to build the railroad. Of course borrowing such vast amounts of money has consequences. The Quebec elite were not a little calculating! At Confederation the French manoeuvred i.e., steered the construct to be a Federation although dubbed Confederation.

So now we can come to the point! A federation provided a structure which enabled Quebec to retain much decision making power in Canada. Quebec got its corridor, but as in any instance when it comes to money power, it always tends to subsume political power and economic power. And upset the balance of power. Lenders tend, of course, to dictate terms! But lenders know better than borrowers how to write terms which favour the lenders. The lenders, by 1867 thoroughly understood the electoral system they encouraged, after deposing the monarchical system of power distribution.

The two party system is no accident. Monarchs, despite their reputation as despots, in fact had to consider the people and the consequences of overreach. They of necessity protected the realm.

But the two party system is easy to manipulate. And parties are inclined to attract all sorts of people whose agendas are not in accord with the people whom elect them. And no doubt you can anticipate me now stating the obvious.

Lenders must lend! When people borrow money to buy a house they will say “I own my own home.” But they do not. Until the mortgage is discharged the lender owns the home. Your borrowings are the banks assets. In fact the banks are much more eager to lend money than you might think. And here’s the problem. Banks much prefer to lend to governments than to lend to almost any person or enterprise. Bank power is money power. Banks can easily have more money than they know what to do with. Vast amounts of debt service receipts flow onto their books every day.

So of course, bankers are more than a little interested in meddling in country’s economies. You’ll recall Justin Trudeau saying he was going to borrow money after he was “elected.”

Canada’s cash flow i.e, your taxes, are impaired by Canada’s debts. Exactly! So you can see that democracy is a sham. When you vote it makes very little difference who you vote for. The economy is controlled by powerful interests and powerful institutions and powerful people. And what’s worse, a country can easily be stripped of its wealth. Instead of those interest payments being recirculated back into the economies which paid the interest, other than lending to the government which borrowed the money in the first place, much of it is lent to other countries where the banks dictate the terms — after promulgating i.e. bribing politicians there as well.

They of course prey on democracies which they have done as much as possible to undermine by bribing, assassination, coercion, blackmail and outright thievery of their resources. Canada is a democracy. But your vote and mine count for nothing. The democratic system is a sham. The people you vote for, no matter whom they are, have no power to undermine democracy — more so since its defenders are not your friends.

The fact is Canada is nominally a democracy but de facto and indeed de jure, Canada is something else.

Democracy has indeed been hijacked.

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Feb 28, 2023Liked by Brad Salzberg

So, how CAN this pathetic despot be stopped?

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Everything this snotbag Trudope touches like PET before him turns to shite! Nothing will change unti the Dick-Tator is REMOVED PERMANENTLY FROM OFFICE!😡💩😡💩👿👺👹

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The titles that political parties use mean nothing. Virtue signaling to call yourself liberal or conservative, or nat'l democratic

for that matter, when you belong to a group that demonstrates neither in practice. Canadians are not represented in ottawa once we elect our MP, they fall under total obedience of the PMO (behave they way we say or else)* and democracy has been crushed.

*see Jody Wilson Raybould about this.

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Trudeau is a card carrying commie, Mr Blackface as he is known to his close friends or the small potato to the Chinese, Mr socks and whatever else he is known by is the worst PM this country has ever had. He is an expert at pitting Canadians against one another so is certainly the most divisive PM we have ever been subjected to. A confirmed liar who dodges every question and allegation thrown his way getting a straight answer from him or his cronies is an exercise in futility. The racist card is his go to defense whenever he is accused or caught doing anything wrong or morally repugnant. On the take continually since taking office accepting bribes, donations to his trust & friends, kickbacks and vacations abroad given him from dubious sources. The man is a cancer to Canada killing our core beliefs and standards our way of life encouraging moral turpitude at every step destroying our courts by interference and planting his personal judges at the highest courts.

Apparently the artful dodger is impervious to the slings and arrows of us commoners and by hook or by crook he will hang onto power with every subversive means at his disposal.

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TRAITOR!! Should be removed by the Military😡

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Revealing!!!

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You seem to be insinuating that politicians in Canada have ANY validity whatsoever, and that elections in this nation have any validity. As for politicians, can they spell TREASON? As for elections can we spell MANIPULATION?

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Many news papers provide a means of commenting. But they almost always discourage long explanatory comments. Without context readers are easily led astray. That being said, I think it is safe to conclude that readers are easily provoked to support views which are easily couched in terms which flatter their ignorance. No doubt readers here have noticed how an article about say, baking pies is larded with something like “…of course Ukrainians orchards have been left unattended because” — Putin, that dastardly demon, is to blame.

Or, the article may suggest your debt is a consequence of profligacy, rather than intentionally caused inflation resulting in rising prices. Inflation of course artificially stimulates a rise in the price of a house. And of course encourages borrowing. But who benefits, Cui bono?

If you bought a house two years ago you no doubt enjoyed an enticingly low interest rate. If you are renewing today, fixed rate mortgages are being quoted at 6% or more. If your mortgage rate two years ago was say 1% short term. Every $100,000 of debt now costs $5000 more in interest than when you borrowed 2021.

Cui bono? The banks obviously. Interest rates were capped not long ago. Pierre E Trudeau intervened to make than most unlikely to be legislated today.

By the way that is not Capitalism. It is financialization. Financialization is a term used to describe the development of financial capitalism during the period from 1980 to the present. Debt-to-equity ratios increased and financial services accounted for an increasing share of national income relative to other sectors.

Governments allowed it! The governments you voted for allowed it! But the question is who promulgated it? Did you vote for an increasingly financialized economy?

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