John Lennon after meeting Prime Minister Trudeau

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-73-73-238/politics_economy/trudeaumania/

Lennon, Ono and Trudeau give peace a chance (poor audio)

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[luvdastuf]

Yeah Trudeau. Way ahead of his time. That is something that could never be said about the dumb ass conservatives. Harper is the worst PM Canada has ever had. He's even worse than Mulroney and that takes some doing.

[64kubbyp]

Trudeau at least cared about Canada, the way it was run, and was an ahole to people he needed to be an ahole to. Unlike that complete nimrod we currently have. WTF people? How could you vote that idiot in for a majority gov't? 2011 marks the year where Harper tells the Canadians to go f#k themselves, he doesn't care about clean air, water, or changes in the climate. Ask the scientists, biologists and meterologists he fired a few weeks ago.

[GraemeStnmn]

i love how the 2 top comments are giving trudeau praise and bashing harper

[PhilErup2000000]

@wbrycem It was a pleasure reading your side of the argument. It's refreshing to read comments that are well articulated and thought-out. Critical thinking should really be taught  more in schools!

[wbrycem]

@raynus1 pressing economical concerns at hand. Especially since there are no threats of a land invasion of Canada .... I think I could sleep well without Harper spending 9 billion on old planes.

H) anyways ... peace. Agree to disagree.

[wbrycem]

@raynus1 aren't enough jobs to employ everyone. Also, there are expectations (or at least predictions) of a recession in 2012. The economy literally is in the tank.

F) Many people DO endure tough times ... I read in a textbook recently that 27.8% of children will experience poverty at one point before they're 13. ... is that tough enough?

G) Any country needs a military, obviously, however now really isn't the prime time to be spending billions of dollars on fighter jets ... there are more ...

[wbrycem]

@raynus1 summer employment, and was denied because both could employ people for less money and fewer hours per week (less hours of employment = less benefits to pay out to)

E) I was told a college degree would mean I wasn't relegated to flipping burgers ... many people get college degrees with the reasonable expectation of a job that isn't in the fast food industry, and rightfully so. I didn't sacrifice 5 years of my life to work at a job a 15 year old can. ... in the US, there literally.....

[wbrycem]

@raynus1 A) pot is not a narcotic

B) C-10 flies in the face of years of research proving that punishment does not reduce crime.

C) If people are starving for jobs, then why is there so much downsizing going on? For example: HSBC have plans to cut 25,000 employees ... and save millions if not billions. It's bottom dollar over employee economics.

D) I had a friend looking for a summer job one year, and Wal-Mart and McDonald's would not hire him. He was a university student looking for part-time..

[raynus1]

@wbrycem ..At any rate, your arguments are well-articulated, and once upon a time I would've agreed with much of what you advertise. But sorry bud..two decades of post-graduate workplace reality have turned me into the myopic a-hole that I am. I have little in the way of compassion for spoiled, deadbeat, lazy-assed people looking for handouts...especially Canadians.

[raynus1]

@wbrycem ...@wbrycem ...400 combat jets in service. I don't think 65 replacements for our well-worn 30 year-old fleet of CF-18's is an outrageous expectation, even at the $17B price tag (In terms of percentage of Canada's $1.3T GDP, it is a realistic expenditure, especially when spread out over an anticipated 30 year service life).

[raynus1]

@wbrycem ...are prepared will survive. Those who haven't will receive a much-overdue wake-up call. It is understandable that progressives despise all things military, but I personally sleep better knowing that the democracy in which I live has some military capability. 'Old' fighter jets (actually, the questionable new F-35 is just entering service with US forces), are any nation's front-line military tool, whether it be used defensively or offensively. Canada, forty-odd years ago, had roughly