Fighting the Soviets doesn't make you a Nazi, being in the Waffen-SS does. The fact is that Nazi Germany launched a war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and millions of Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht soldiers were involved in war crimes.

What the fuck is this Nazi apologism?

Good.

How can we have so many immigrants yet still lack personnel in essential sectors like healthcare, education, engineering, and technology?

The question shouldn't be whether we are allowing people to immigrate, but what occupations those people are intended to cover for. As it stands, it seems like we are simply importing labour and socializing the cost of a massive population increase. It's not benefiting the Canadian economy by increasing average worker productivity (by allowing high-skill workers to immigrate), it's not helping to cover gaps in our social systems (by allowing healthcare/education workers to immigrate), and often times it's not even benefiting the immigrants themselves (as can be seen by the many "college scams" out there).

Our points-based system needs a revamp to help fill in the loopholes people are using. Since demand for immigration to Canada is so high, we can afford to be more selective in who we take.

The key changes I would make are:

1. Constructing a whitelist of permitted Canadian post-secondary institutions (limited primarily to publicly-funded universities that form the core of the Canadian post-secondary system)

2. Giving additional points for those coming from well-regarded international schools (think IIT Bombay, Tsinghua, Technion, Sharif University of Technology, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore) to a similar degree as from a Canadian institution

3. Accreditation of what is considered "skilled work" under the Canadian skilled work experience clause

4. Expansion of the H1B visa transfer program

I would couple this with significantly expanded funding/tax breaks into the startup environment for Canada to create more employment opportunities for skilled workers.

Canada is clearly an extremely desirable place to live (moreso than the US in many ways), so why not use that advantage to attract the best and brightest from around the world and use them to develop burgeoning domestic industries?

Ah yes, American truths like "Iraq has WMDs and that's why invading them is the fair and just thing to do," "abortion is bad for human rights," "the US isn't collecting all of your internet traffic because that would be a violation of privacy," and "this CIA-funded coup of a democratically-elected government will definitely help spread democracy around the world."

This researcher has built a pro-America AI disinformation machine for $400. I expect that, like most American media, it will start citing "independent think tanks" like Atlantic Council (which, coincidentally, is staffed mostly by ex-US intelligence and receives funding from US intelligence agencies) and use reports gathered by "independent sources" such as the US 4th PsyOps Airborne (which, per their recent recruiting videos, admits to orchestrating large-scale protests including Euromaidan, Tiananmen Square, and others).

Do you understand how fucking convoluted and bureaucratically insane the US H1B visa system is?

I mean... It's not like there's not a standing invitation for Germany's current government. Is building diplomatic ties not permissible if the party isn't currently in power?

Better fucking tell the Republicans to get out of Canadian politics, then.

Is creating echo chambers really desirable in our current political climate? Democracy is built on a foundation of free and open discourse, not in censoring opinions that we don't agree with. All that does is polarize and radicalize people even more.

The presumption of innocence is an internationally-recognized human right.

There's an argument to be made that grocery consolidation has led to de facto monopolies on the food distribution business and that these grocery chains have already broken the social contract by charging more than fair value through their monopolistic positions.

Canada needs to give the Competition Bureau more power to break up the telecommunications industry, the groceries industry, and to shut down cooperation in our airline industry. Instead of policies that protect consolidation, Canada should look towards protectionist policies to protect against US expansion.

Good fucking shit. US megacaps are not going to pull out of the Canadian market, but this helps Canadian companies compete within Canada.

MAID prevents messier suicides.

The fact that it's necessary is a disappointing condemnation of our healthcare system, but it's better than blowing your brains out or jumping off of a bridge.

The privatization of Air Canada was a mistake

In fact, the privatization of most Canadian crown corporations was a mistake

From a government perspective, connecting remote areas has economic advantages through improved trade, better access to services, and eventually increased economic growth/more tax revenue. For private corporations, none of these advantages materialize.

That's why China is able to afford a trillion dollars of debt to build HSR when nobody else can: it allows them to push economic growth away from tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou) and towards tier 2 and tier 3 cities.