Jim Karahalios

[parsley]

A mass-distributed letter by Conservative leadership candidate Jim Karahalios has sparked outrage in the party over using perceived anti-Muslim rhetoric to attack an Erin O’Toole campaign official, with O’Toole calling it “bigotry” that will lead to “electoral obliteration for our Party.”

Erin Otoole's words. Otoole must be one of those "lefties" using that kind of language. haahhahah

Pass the popcorn!

Erin sounds a bit edgey over Karahalios. Don’t blame him.

[parsley]

Saw the Rebel News interview with Jim. He is one to watch but at this point Canada is unfixable as you have to cut so many off the dole to do it. Trashing Paris accord is just the start. Then you withdraw from the UN, sell the CBC in pieces, and stop paying off the media. That is just before 8 am on the first day. Then stop all government to government foreign aid, reduce immigration to HR purposes only. Then thousand of bureaucrats get fired and the remainder get salaries and benefits reduced. On and on it goes. Think you could get enough votes for that platform? Ridings get redrawn so that the vote is approx. equal. No more 4 MP's from PEI. Senate reform or abolition.

I have a second thought about your thoughts, and I guess they prompt me to ask: is Canada actually worth fixing? Or should we just get the hell out?

Thanks for prodding me to think.

[Crestliner]

Sometimes you have to root out the troublemakers.

And don’t think the media haven’t already washed out the Tories dirty laundry in public. I like it. Let the sunshine in.

We need to scrub the dirt out of the dirty laundry. instead of bleaching it in the spare closet. You must be related to HRC.

Haha I like it.....nope just tired of being a life long Tory and watching them screw each other in public all the time. Kudos to Steve Harper....kept everyone on
a “need to know” basis and kept the egotistical MP’s on lockdown and treated the media with a Pimp hand.

The Liberal and NDP membership are so much more compliant and follow instructions, the Tories always trying to get ahead of the other guy and eat his lunch. Such plucking big egos trying to save the world.

That’s fine in business, but when you are doing the people’s work you have to be united, follow the leader, look competent to the doubting public and pull each other’s hair out and gouge each other eyes out in the back room.

Canada’s Natural Governing Party is the Liberals....damn near have to fool the voter to get a Tory elected....it’s getting worse.....so play nice and impress people not make Th me laugh at you.

I might give you $10K if you do when you come around....

[parsley]

Yes thanks Pars! I like your ideas. Parsley the Anti-Chuck

Actually, I kinda like Chuck. And I know if I met him in person I’d find him a good farmer. A good dad. A good visit. But spoonfed socialism. Hence a peoplekind.

And I cannot, and do not believe, Chuck actually believes that Skippy sending all our wealth to third world shitholes is in Canada’s best interest. Or his.

[chuckChuck]

The truth is Canada and the US both spend relatively small amounts of their budgets on foreign aid. The US is at 0.2% of GNP Canada is at 0.26%.

The US is still the largest foreign aid donor because of its large economy.

Read the last link on the myths about foreign aid from the Brookings institute.

How is it that people who call themselves Christians are so dead set against helping the poor in developing countries?

Canada and the US are some of the richest countries in the world and Parsley all you can complain about is the very small amount of our wealth is used to help people who have far less than we do?

On judgement day you better have a good excuse!



https://foodgrainsbank.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ag_spending.pdf https://foodgrainsbank.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ag_spending.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-foreign-aid-budget-1.4556537 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-foreign-aid-budget-1.4556537

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/oecd-calls-on-canada-needs-to-spend-more-on-aid-to-increase-its-global-heft https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/oecd-calls-on-canada-needs-to-spend-more-on-aid-to-increase-its-global-heft

https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/what-every-american-should-know-about-u-s-foreign-aid/ https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/what-every-american-should-know-about-u-s-foreign-aid/

Myth #1: America spends too much on foreign aid

Opinion polls consistently report that Americans believe foreign aid is in the range of 25 percent of the federal budget. When asked how much it should be, they say about 10 percent. In fact, at $39.2 billion for fiscal year 2019, foreign assistance is less than 1 percent of the federal budget.

Myth #2: Others don’t do their fair share

The U.S. provides more assistance than any other country. As the world’s wealthiest nation, that’s appropriate. There is a broad international commitment that wealthy countries should provide annually 0.7 percent of GNP to assist poor countries. Five countries (Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the U.K.) exceed that benchmark. The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.4 percent. The U.S. ranks near the bottom at below 0.2 percent.

Myth #3: U.S. foreign aid is mainly backed by Democrats

Foreign aid historically has been viewed more as a Democratic than Republican program. The Marshall Plan was initiated by the Truman administration, and in the 1990s, when votes in the Congress on foreign aid spending were close, the appropriations bill garnered more Democratic than Republican votes. But every president, Democratic and Republican, until the current occupant of the White House, has been a strong proponent of foreign assistance.

In fact, some of the most rapid increases in foreign aid have come during Republican presidencies—the first term of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Since the creation in the early 2000s of President Bush’s signature popular and successful programs of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the President’s Malaria Program (PMI), foreign aid now also carries a Republican brand and has received overwhelming congressional support from both parties, including bipartisan rejection of the one-third cuts to international spending proposed by the Trump administration.

Myth #4: Foreign aid goes to corrupt, wasteful governments

Only a minority of U.S. economic assistance goes to governments. In 2018, 21 percent of U.S. official development assistance went to governments, 20 percent to non-profit organizations, 34 percent to multilateral organizations, and 25 percent elsewhere. Typically, when the U.S. wants to support a country that is ruled by a corrupt, uncooperative, or autocratic government, U.S. assistance goes through private channels—NGOs or other private entities—or multilateral organizations. Accountability of U.S. economic assistance is high—the U.S. imposes stringent, some would say onerous, reporting and accounting requirements on recipients of U.S. assistance, and the office of the U.S. inspector general (IG) investigates misuse.

Myth #5: Foreign aid goes to autocratic governments

There was definitely truth to this during the Cold War, when foreign assistance was often driven by the premise that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” no matter what the nature of the government. That substantially changed in the 1990s following the demise of the Soviet Union. However, there is reason to be concerned that obliviousness to autocracy is reappearing with the post-9/11 concern over terrorism.
Myth #6: Foreign aid is wasted, inefficient, and produces no concrete results

The U.S. government requires regular monitoring and reporting on how and whether assistance programs are working, and periodic evaluations of results. There is hard evidence that development and humanitarian programs produce considerable results, less so for programs driven for foreign policy and security purposes. While U.S. assistance is by no means the sole driver, the record of global development results is impressive. These results include:

Extreme poverty has fallen dramatically over the past 30 years—from 1.9 billion people (36 percent of the world’s population) in 1990 to 736 million (10 percent) in 2015
Maternal, infant, and child mortality rates have been cut in half
Life expectancy globally rose from 65 years in 1990 to 72 in 2017
Smallpox has been defeated; polio eliminated in all but two countries; deaths from malaria cut in half from 2000 to 2017
The U.S. PEPFAR program has saved 17 million lives from HIV/AIDS and enabled 2.4 million babies to be born HIV-free.


Myth #7: Foreign aid is for the benefit of foreigners and not aligned with U.S. interests

Assistance is provided to support security as well as economic and political development of recipient countries and people. However, that assistance also advances one or all of the following three overriding U.S. interests:

Contributing to U.S. national security by supporting allies in promoting regional and global stability and peace
Reflecting the core U.S. value of caring for others in need—providing humanitarian assistance to victims of war, violence, famine, and natural disasters
Advancing U.S. and recipient economic interests by building economies and markets

Myth #8: Foreign aid is unpopular

While the term foreign aid is not popular and polling reveals that some feel our foreign policy is overextended, Americans support U.S. active engagement in the world. A substantial majority of those polled support working collaboratively with other nations.

Assistance for humanitarian purposes receives overwhelming approval, and support is strong for specific purposes such as improving people’s health, helping women and girls, educating children, and helping poor countries develop their economies. What receives less support is assistance for strategic purposes.

[countryguy]

I like what he says. He will dump the Paris Accord which means, scrapping the carbon tax. He’s strong, strong strong.

https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9879797-sparks-fly-in-conservative-leadership-race/

The main focus of the Conservative party should be having a candidate that can beat Trudeau. The only one that has a hope in hell of doing that is Leslyn Lewis.

[newguy]

The main focus of the Conservative party should be having a candidate that can beat Trudeau. The only one that has a hope in hell of doing that is Leslyn Lewis.

The party will move towards the middle next election.They know they will still get the vote of the social conservatives and gain votes from other parties.A reform conservative leader is not electable in Canada now or anytime in the future.

[Sheepwheat]

The party will move towards the middle next election.They know they will still get the vote of the social conservatives and gain votes from other parties.A reform conservative leader is not electable in Canada now or anytime in the future.

If the cons screw up in choosing their new leader, if they are to liberal, many of us will be voting wexit. There are choices if one has any principals at all.

[Sheepwheat]

The party will move towards the middle next election.They know they will still get the vote of the social conservatives and gain votes from other parties.A reform conservative leader is not electable in Canada now or anytime in the future.

Not like, actually.

[Sheepwheat]

The main focus of the Conservative party should be having a candidate that can beat Trudeau. The only one that has a hope in hell of doing that is Leslyn Lewis.

The candidate few are mentioning. A black woman, who is against abortion, going up against a black wannabe, fake feminist pervert, who sends our money all over the planet to kill babies.

I agree, I think she would beat him badly. I just don’t think many others see it yet.

[chuckChuck]

So I don't see much support for Jim whats his name from other posters!

I thought you all were going to praise Parsley for her "brilliant" choice of Jim whats his name?

Parsley the eminent political strategist chose the 2 "most important" issues of our time to run the next winning Conservative campaign on.

1. Out of control foreign aid. And wait for it.... 2. the imposition of sharia law by Erin Otoole's campaign manager!

Get you wallets open. Jim whats his name is going to need your support! And don't forget to praise Parsley. She and Jim whats his name are going to lead you to the promised land! Amen to that.

Happy St. Patricks day everyone! Stay away from the green beer! Instead have a "corona" to celebrate the new world order.

[newguy]

If the cons screw up in choosing their new leader, if they are to liberal, many of us will be voting wexit. There are choices if one has any principals at all.

if extreme right votes westix Trudeau wins.If a social reformer because leader Trudeau wins.I would say social conservatives will swallow it and still vote for a middle of the road conservative leader.