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Politics in 2018
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Blackadder1916
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Loachman said:
Of course I do, but it is the smug, self-ingratiating humour of the pedantic.
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Loachman said:
Blackadder1916 said:
To parse;
To analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc.
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parse
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I am in the Phoenix. Even on the local Rock station they carried this item and it was not a feed. It is in the media in the US and the PM is being mocked.
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The woman's actual line to the PM was "maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind." Why wasn't he offended that paternal love is demeaned and oppressed?
He's still just not ready.
He's still just not ready.
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This is rather ridiculous and its weird that its grown legs and taken off more than his response to our veterans(that's canada for you, screw over vets, meh, peoplekind as opposed to mankind, controversy) but has anyone watched the video in question?
The woman is going on and on about religion and female equality in religion, her church, for over 3 minutes with people in the crowd starting to get agitated and a few starting to boo her before Trudeau makes the quip about peoplekind.
Seems far more tongue in cheek to me in that context, and the audience was happy he found a way to shut her up.
The woman is going on and on about religion and female equality in religion, her church, for over 3 minutes with people in the crowd starting to get agitated and a few starting to boo her before Trudeau makes the quip about peoplekind.
Seems far more tongue in cheek to me in that context, and the audience was happy he found a way to shut her up.
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Well, he started the ball rolling with changing the words in the English version. Reap what you sow.
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Altair said:
I'm inclined to agree with you as to the motive, what rattled a lot of people was the stupidity (fair word, I think) of the words he chose to "shut her up." Now, "humankind" has been in pretty common use for at least decades ~ I grew up knowing it as a "neutral" term in the 1950s ~ but "people-kind" is just plain dumb ... it makes Justin Trudeau look like what I think he is: a semi-literate man-child pretending to be prime minister of a G7 country and being amazed that no one has pulled him off the stage quite yet.
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I am in agreement with ERC on this one. And, BTW, according to the Gazette article this morning (thus probably in the National Post also), this has been mocked as far as the UK also.
I would only add that he wilfully decided to go on a national Town Hall tour. By definition, Town Halls are a political event in a democracy - they are not "celebrity" tours or stand-up comics show. When a politician offers himself (is that the proper pronoun for Trudeau?) to the public in an exercise in democracy, he has to accept that there will be point of views that will be expressed that will contradict his own views, or even will constitute personnel attacks. It doesn't give him the right to joke around or belittle any of these positions or people - if he truly believes that in democracy, everyone is allowed their own views and positions and to express them, no matter how awkwardly. He has to be "man" enough to take it and move on.
But then again, the Libs have always been bad at accepting that people could have views and opinions differing from theirs.
I would only add that he wilfully decided to go on a national Town Hall tour. By definition, Town Halls are a political event in a democracy - they are not "celebrity" tours or stand-up comics show. When a politician offers himself (is that the proper pronoun for Trudeau?) to the public in an exercise in democracy, he has to accept that there will be point of views that will be expressed that will contradict his own views, or even will constitute personnel attacks. It doesn't give him the right to joke around or belittle any of these positions or people - if he truly believes that in democracy, everyone is allowed their own views and positions and to express them, no matter how awkwardly. He has to be "man" enough to take it and move on.
But then again, the Libs have always been bad at accepting that people could have views and opinions differing from theirs.
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my favorite bit from the story
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Well, Panahi seems to have him well pinned down.
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But totally self inflicted. He has no one to blame but himself.
http://nationalpost.com/opinion/jack-mintz-another-nep-fiasco-looms-as-westerners-suffer-for-trudeaus-energy-follies/wcm/a219f664-9715-4f0f-9ac6-67abfecf9b0e
Jack Mintz: Another NEP fiasco looms as Westerners suffer for Trudeau’s energy follies
Thanks to government policy and indecision, American consumers enjoying subsidies paid for by Western Canadians
"The prime minister calls the dispute between Alberta and British Columbia ... a "disagreement between provinces." That ignores the constitutional role the federal government has in interprovincial transportation and trade. Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley is right: This is as much a fight between B.C. and the federal government as it is between Alberta and B.C."
"... perhaps the Trudeau government is quietly hoping the pipeline’s owner, Kinder Morgan, gives up in frustration, for “business reasons,” as other resource project proponents have done recently after enduring endless regulatory and political setbacks."
"The NEP, which hit the West just as commodity prices were falling, led to one of the largest income transfers in history, from the West to Central and Eastern Canada. Western energy producers were forced to pay an export tax to fund subsidies to make life cheaper for energy-guzzling consumers to the east. This time, the income isn’t being transferred from the West to Eastern Canada. It’s being transferred from Canada to the United States."
Jack Mintz: Another NEP fiasco looms as Westerners suffer for Trudeau’s energy follies
Thanks to government policy and indecision, American consumers enjoying subsidies paid for by Western Canadians
"The prime minister calls the dispute between Alberta and British Columbia ... a "disagreement between provinces." That ignores the constitutional role the federal government has in interprovincial transportation and trade. Alberta’s Premier Rachel Notley is right: This is as much a fight between B.C. and the federal government as it is between Alberta and B.C."
"... perhaps the Trudeau government is quietly hoping the pipeline’s owner, Kinder Morgan, gives up in frustration, for “business reasons,” as other resource project proponents have done recently after enduring endless regulatory and political setbacks."
"The NEP, which hit the West just as commodity prices were falling, led to one of the largest income transfers in history, from the West to Central and Eastern Canada. Western energy producers were forced to pay an export tax to fund subsidies to make life cheaper for energy-guzzling consumers to the east. This time, the income isn’t being transferred from the West to Eastern Canada. It’s being transferred from Canada to the United States."
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