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When we think about it, national defense and foreign occupation require a very different set of skills. For national defense, since soldiers are fighting on their own national soil, they know the local language and culture, and can usually depend on the people to support them in a national...

What are your thoughts on this?

Who would spend your tax money more wisely in your opinion?

How should Canada approach the North West Passage dispute?

I realise that the options in the poll are quite open to interpretation; please feel free to vote according to your own interpretation and just explain yourself in the thread.

Should the US reduce its military spending as a percentage of tis GDP to reflect the norms in other developed countries, or should other developed countries increase their military spending to match US military spending?

What would you think of Canada sharing a common military force with other English-speaking countries? This could be either as a substitute for or a supplement to each our own military forces, that issue to be decided by every member state. It would also need a maximum allowable number of well...

Should Canada enter into open alliances which any contry can join, with the sole obligation being to destroy any government that violates another country's borders; or should it maintain closed alliances to which not any country can join? Which do you think would be preferable?

Why not train the unemployed for these jobs?

Which do you think would be preferable for Canada? 1. Official Bilingualism (i.e. what we have now), costing us an estimated 16 billion dollars and only about 15% of Canadians knowing both English and French. 2. Regional monolingualism and individual monolingualism, having each province and...

How do you think Canada should respond to US-style protectionism? Personally, I'd say change shift the tax base from income to resources (e.g. gas tax), but don't retaliate with tarifs. By shifting to a gas tax, we'd create a downward pressure on the cost of services (after all, with a lower...

If we consider that Harper had promissed no deficit during the last election campaign, does he not have a moral duty to vote against any budget that can lead to a deficit? As for other members of his party, that might be a different matter, depending on whether they personally had promissed...

I'd be curious. If you could choose two parties to form a co-alition, which ones would you choose? Personally, I wouldn't mind giving the Green-Libertarian co-alition a try. It might sound like a strange combination, but they would in fact have some points in common. They could probably agree...

Woudl you support this idea?

Many Canadians have criticized the co-alition not on legal or constitutional grounds (we all agree that the co-alition would represent the majority of MPs), but rather on ideological grounds (that a co-alition must be stopped by all available legal means, no matter how disruptive it might be...

YouTube - Triumph des Willens (Full movie - English subbed) Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) was a Nazi-era propaganda film produced by Leni Riefenstahl (whom Goebels selected for her reputation for making quality films), to chronicle the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremburg. The...

Do you think Canada should negotiate global labour-mobility agreement through the WTO to give Canadian workers more job opportunities abroad, especially now that we're in a recession?

I was watchning CBC news the National last night, and it mentioned that Canada is suffering from a labrour shortage of 15,000 mechanics... now! One man interviewed has been advertizing for qualified mechanics for 3 months already, and is already starting to consider inviting Europeans to come...

I don't profess the Christian Faith myself, but would be curious to know what self-professed Christians in this forum think of Christian anarchism: Christian anarchism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'd like to know how many here would be willing to support legislation guaranteeing a particular social domain to Canada's indigenous languages? For those who aren't familiar with the concept of linguistic domain, it means a particular social context that is reserved for a particular language...