Tonight, I was telling a 17 year old boy that I am running for Parliament. I’ve known him since he was 10. This kid is brilliant and good-looking and very well-mannered. He was adamant that he cannot support any Conservative, because we do not share any of his political beliefs, so I asked what he believes.
He told me that he believes that humans should help each other, and that since he doesn’t have a job or any other way to help, the best way for him to help is to get a system of government in place that provides for all people. When I asked him how he was going to fund it, he didn’t have a real answer except that people who work should pay for those who don’t.
I wish I had asked the rest of my questions gently and let him work out that if someone is taking more and more of what you work for to give to people who do not work, you will no longer have the incentive to work.
That’s not what I did. I told him that if he truly believed that, then he needed to get out and get a job and start giving his income away as soon as possible.
Penn Gillette said: It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
In 2005, I bought a sweet little RV. It was so cool, my family and I looked forward to having it for years, then Hurricane Katrina hit. I packed that RV full of medical supplies and dog and cat food and headed to south Louisiana to do relief work. Most people do not even remember that Hurricane Rita rapidly followed Katrina.
Oprah and everybody were in New Orleans, so I went to Lake Charles. Lake Charles was in bad shape. Every single hydro pole had been snapped, there were live wires down everywhere. Entire small towns, like Holly Beach, were wiped off the map.
Staying in Lake Charles for over a week, I met a young mother with 2 little kids, who had lost everything. The storm surge had taken every single possession that they owned. Even though she had paid her homeowner’s insurance a year in advance, they refused to cover any of the claim, not one dollar.
An old friend to came to get me. She drove 4 hours to pick me up, then drove me 8 hours to the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, so I could fly home.
I gave that RV to that family, because they had no where to live. That was compassion. That was charity. That was the right thing to do. I had the ability to do that, because I had worked hard and the RV was a luxury. I could afford to give it away. Capitalism made that act of compassion possible.
When I was 13, I thought socialism made sense, everybody would simply share everything and we’d all get along. The reality is, human nature doesn’t work that way. If it did, governments would not need to exist, as people would naturally be caregivers for each other. Exhibit A is Venezuela – a worker’s paradise. Exhibit B is Cuba, where political prisoners are tortured by the guards, some telling them that while they are in prison, the guards are going to go to their houses and rape their children. What crime gets you this treatment? Speaking out against corruption in the government.
There has never been a socialist success story. There are communes where people voluntarily work for the community good, and those are great. In any situation where a government enforces socialism, brutality soon follows and mass suffering occurs. The leaders live the lives of the rich elite; the people become slaves and peasants.
What is my point? My young friend will be old enough to vote in less than one year. Less than 50% of Canadians bother to vote, probably because Canada has generally been pretty well run and people have had the luxury of assuming that a Hugo Chavez could not be elected here. The spiraling out of control deficit and debt in Ontario needs to wake some people up. Some kids today do not understand the value of freedom and the dangers of ever increasing government.
Ronald Reagan said: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Elections have consequences. Help me get to Ottawa.
Yeah well, much as it is appalling how these young people have swallowed the socialist BS……take heart the same source of indoctrination can’t get them out to vote either.
I suspect the large part of that 60% that doesn’t vote is youth….they apparently will show up to riot but not to vote.
I don’t like it but wadda ya do?
I suspect the real reason most don’t vote is not because things are “run well”, it’s that it no longer matters. Identity politics run everything, those elected fail to follow the wishes of those who elect them, those same pols then enact policies that are detrimental to not only society but economically as well… Then ask, nay, demand that we pay for it with punitive tax rates.
Look no further than the Alberta election. The alleged conservative parties either have found the only conservative Muslims, Sikhs, and Arabs in existence or they’ve decided to just find people in an area that look like a sizeable chunk of the riding. Which is more likely?
I no longer vote because I both no longer care and have not seen anybody/anything worthy of support. Let. It. Burn.
It all ties in with this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=281&v=okLAfn_QOSI
Another problem with government “charity” is not only that it is not charity but dependence and financially insupportable dependence at that, it takes away the spiritual/ethical/moral/personal culpability the giver should have. One might shrug one’s shoulders and say that they gave at the office without ever giving a thought to whether or not this money truly helped a person get back on his feet or anything else.
Dr. Kyla, you should ask your young friend if HE thinks he should help those who need it.
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” Should be the goal of all people…The need for the appropriate job & $ is beyond the culture of Socialist activism… Nice for all the Gay rights ETC, but without the ability to pursue happiness you become just another socialist ghetto vote.
Lesbians for Capitalism is about right!
If the CPC wins the next election I promise to not call women stupid cuntz on the internet until at least 2020.
I was thinking that could be a plank of Dr. Kyla’s platform.
Max you do no one, least of all conservative minded people any favour with your crude, unnecessary and gratuitously foul comment. It adds nothing to the conversation and is a complete turn-off to others.
If you can’t write in a civil tone, don’t write at all.
The young naif should read this: http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/27/dependency-work-incentives-and-the-growing-welfare-state/
Debating the gullible who have been ill taught by fools is a thankless task.
Deprogramming a member of some idiot cult would seem more worthwhile
in comparison and easier on the nerves.
Furthermore, as a friend of mine put it, stop telling me why I should not vote for someone but rather tell me why I need (if I did…) to vote FOR you.
I wish Dr. Kyla was running in my riding. Her story of that 17 yr old illustrates Churchill’s old line, about how if a man is not a socialist at 18, he has no heart, but, if he is still a socialist at 30, he has no brain.
You should have given him a copy of We the Living by Ayn Rand to show what it is like living under forced altruism.
I admire you greatly for running. My own experience as a long-time volunteer was shattered by the Orange Wave in Quebec. Our great candidate with whom we went door to door for months was beaten by an N.D.P. candidate who only campaigned a bit on weekends and never showed up for the one riding all candidates debate. It seems t.v. rules now and door to door campaigning means less and less. Speaking of which I hope the Tories have better ads this time around as the French ones are consistently ill judged for the Quebec audience (they never seem to ask ahead of time loyal French-speaking conservatives on the ground what they think of the ads).
Chances are you wouldn’t want to hear why you should vote for someone who may:
1) cut the welfare rolls by making it harder to qualify;
2) drastically cut the size of the level of gov’t bureaucracy of their level of gov’t;
3) erase business-killing payroll taxes known as EI and CPP;
4) permit private medical facilities to set up shop and allow Canadians the right to pay for their own medical expenses in order to “jump” the government queue.
5) stop taking in immigrants and “refugees”
6) aggressively pay down the debt, which may mean many gov’t funded “freebies” disappearing
7) instituting a flat tax of 20% on income tax
8) reinstating capital punishment for lifers convicted of violent crimes(ie. Paul Bernardo,Russel Williams, etc)
9) drastically cut or totally cut funding to university so that only those who pass a rigorous entrance exam heavily weighted in Math (Calculus, Trigonometry, Functions&Relations, Algebra), Science (Chemistry, Physics, Biology), Literacy (in English or French) can actually attend university.
10) Enact “right to work” legislation at whatever level of gov’t they are running in and make unions illegal for government workers
11) would immediately outlaw abortion and throw any doctor/medical staff in jail for a minimum of 10 years with no parole who take part in them
What would the bleeding hearts and the MSM do with a person/party who says this? Because Canadians are now pretty much socialists and cannot get their heads around the fact that government cannot be counted upon to actually take care of them and when it does the government is in actuality stealing from someone who is productive and giving it to someone who either isn’t or wasn’t responsible enough in life.
Its ideology that is getting our society in trouble. Being an adult, is acting NOT ideologically, rather, being practical when necessary.
Voting AGAINST the NDP and Liberals is one of the most practical things one can do!
Ideological movements tend to be extremist (NDP, socialists, environmentalists, muslims, etc).
I’m not saying mushy middle, but, what is so extreme about re-inforcing the need for one to look after one’s self, rather than give away your freedom and become dependent on others?
It’s too late for incremental repair of the mess we have now …. the last couple of generations have been brain-washed by the marxist education al systems and have been misinformed by everyone from their parents to the lying media about how things work … I mean for real how things work you know the degrees of motivation, incentives, ease of doing business or creating and developing new ideas and methods etc .. that make sense rather than create more government.
Watch it happen in the USA over the next couple of years …. How sad … the greatest country in the world, caught in a socialist vortex ….
The one bright spot in this sadness is that at least 100 million Americas are armed. So it won’t be a cake walk for the commies and pervs and whacks and their glorious leaders.
Canada may well become a peanut gallery where the insanity of America can be viewed with a cool beer and perhaps a fat doob to calm the soul. Ya … it’s all good eh?
Socialist states seem to be the end result of any democracy. No matter how free, how prosperous the people, there will always be those with no skin in the game who will vote to take from others. There will always be politicians power-hungry enough to give it to them. Socialism starts small, almost benign, then grows & multiplies to become a giant tumour upon the state and the people.
The problem is human nature. Good luck solving that.
Perhaps ask the brilliant young man the purpose of the DON’T FEED THE BIRDS signs in the park.
Perhaps this will help him understand the tragedy of state engendered human dependency.
And if he’s really smart he might see the connection to the Baltimore disaster.
Re:” Don’t feed the birds” Brilliant analogy. Well done!
It might help the young man to read this quote attributed to Alexander Tytler:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.”
From Alexander Tytler –
‘A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.’
It goes on from there.
Because of the phenomena of ‘delayed adolescence’, the voting age should be moved-up closer to what is considered adult maturity. I have been advocating for years to raise the voting age to 25.
It would benefit those who are younger the most, and might increase the number of people (percentage wise) who vote going forward.
BTW, I concur with the thesis, because this Gen Xer didn’t mature completely until he was in his mid-late 20s.
Cheers
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/opinion/sunday/the-case-for-delayed-adulthood.html?_r=0
The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBC, CTV, Global and City TV show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. Canada is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on CBC News with Peter Mansbridge along with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green.’
People Against Poverty stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome.
Then Justin Trudeau has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper’s sake.
Kathleen Wynne condemns the ant and blames Prime Minister Harper, former Premier Mike Harris, Bill Davis, Joe Clarke, Harold Ballard, and Conrad Black for the grasshopper’s plight.
Justin Trudeau and Scott Brison explain in an interview with Wendy Mesley that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the Provincial Liberal/NDP coalition drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes; his home is confiscated by the Ontario Governments Green Czar, Dalton McGuinty, and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighbourhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in the next election
Fine. I’ll be the politically incorrect, log in the eye, wet blanket here.
An open letter to Dr. Kyla:
Dr. Kyla: I saw your video “Homos for Harper.” I think it would be a fair assessment to assert that you are not a social conservative. In fact, I’ll go even further and say that you’re not a conservative at all, but rather, you strike me as someone who is more or less somewhat of a libertarian, which is fine. We share the same values
fiscally. Where we part company is on the social front.
Obviously you support homosexual ‘marriage’, and I suppose I should offer my congratulations on obtaining that right. You will forgive me, however, when I say that even though I recognize the current legal status of marriage in Canada, (Do I have a choice?) I will say that I still do not agree with the concept of homosexual ‘marriage.’
We won’t know the full implication this change in social policy will have for the coming generations, but we ARE feeling some of the effects of the normalization of homosexual ‘marriage’ already, and its only been 10 years.
So that’s strike one… but its ONLY strike one.
Since Homosexual ‘marriage’ became legal, I’ve seen too many instances where activists have gone too far. They actively seek out, infiltrate, and either try to change, corrupt, or even destroy institutions that do not agree with their lifestyle. That causes me to raise the red flag on your declaration to seek the nomination of the conservative party in the federal riding of London-Fanshawe.
Thankfully, this is not true of all homosexuals, as most would just rather live their lives in peaceful harmony with the rest of society, as is their right, along with the right that everyone has to be safe and secure in that society, and koodos to the homosexual lobby for standing up for those rights.
However, because this riding is located in Ontario, and from what I have seen so far from your campaign, before I lend you any support whatsover, I have to ask you your views on other pertinent social issues, which I attribute directly as a result of the implementation of homosexual ‘marriage.’
For example, what is your view on the proposed reformation of the Ontario School curriculum? Do you share the opinion that members of the Wynne government, including the premier herself, that opposition is stemming from misinformation from the provincial tories? Even though a similar curriculum was proposed and rejected by the people
of Ontario in 2010? Even though the author of said curriculum is a convicted pedophile? Even though nearly a half-million Ontario residents (not sure of the exact number — could be more. The number may well be approaching 1 million), who have indeed read the curriculum in its entirety, have signed various petitions against this curriculum?
I’d very much like to hear your opinion on this, and other social issues that are sure to come down the pipe before I lend my voice to yours.
“This kid is brilliant”…….ummmmm, no! Not by any stretch of the imagination.
I think you have revealed you may be a poor judge of character and educational attainment.
He is, as others have pointed out just another socialist drone produced by an inadequate and redundant “education” system where kids learn the kind of nonsense he is spouting.
Ya wanna fix Governments..??
‘Cause they ALL
….need fixin right.?
From Agenda 21 Mayors like Nenshi, to arrogant GOOPHS like McGuinty/Whynne/Prentice all the way to the4 clowns in the Senate and Junior Trudeau.
End POLITICAL IMMUNITY
stk
Just did tax returns, so this is real life, not an illustration of some “ideal family.” But it describes something very important; here’s what I mean.
Two working parents with kids earning combined about the amount for one income to receive the full $2000 of Family Tax Cut (FTC), around $75,000 income, in this case split about 2:1. This family is not rich by any stretch of the imagination. They’re getting the FTC, around $500. My point is the progressives want to deprive this family because some “wealthy Canadians” will get some of their tax back too. The truly scary part is that anyone would consider this family rich, or that they don’t really need $500. BTW, I’ve also compared their day care situation with the $15/day NDP plan and their approach is much less effective than the measures brought in the PMSH, even assuming the doubtful event it only ends up costing $15/day.
This case is living proof of what Margaret Thatcher once about socialists: they would be willing to make the poor poorer as long as the rich were less rich. This agrees with your sentiment; I would add that income redistribution in Canada and elsewhere ends up with taking from the poor to give to the poor, after government expenses of course. This ultimately drives down standards of living.
To them, it’s OK for this family to be $500 poorer as long as some “rich” family is less rich by $2000, or $500 or one cent! This thinking must be exposed for the mean-spirited envy it is. Please give what I’ve stated some thought. I’m sure you can see what’s being tried, because you are on the front lines of government’s constant quest to increase their tax revenues and regulatory power.
Is it fair that 100 families who are not rich are denied tax relief because one “rich” person may benefit? No reasonable person would argue that. What is the greatest factor leading to poverty? The tax system. Who has done more than any other PM in recent history to relieve the tax burden for lower income working Canadians? Stephen Harper and his government.
This meme of only the wealthy benefitting from tax cuts is an obscene obfuscation of reality. Luckily if you believe today’s Abacus poll Canadians have a better understanding of reality than our self-appointed elites:
“A large majority (70%) also agrees with the opposition argument that the budget will be good for wealthy Canadians. Worth noting in these results are three things: first, people clearly can believe that the budget is good for wealthy people without believing it is bad for themselves. Second, there is a 9-point gap between how people think the budget will affect them, and how they see it affecting the “middle class”. For these voters, the key issue is likely their own situation rather than that of the middle class in general. This budget appears to have caused less polarization. To that point, among those who say the budget will be good for them or for the country, one in four were supporters of the NDP or the Liberals in the last election.”
http://abacusdata.ca/federal-budget-a-success-for-conservatives/
Yes, it’s a poll, but I believe this debate who is rich or greedy or ideological is ground zero for the upcoming federal election. Thank you for joining in this effort.
Like Kate said, some people think they’re Napoleon, but we don’t give them a map of Russia and an army. Same with the financial and moral keys to the country.
Happy to respond.
I had to get married, in order to immigrate here to live with my family, and not have to live in fear of being excluded from Canada should a work permit not have been renewed. I was in a relationship with a Canadian woman for years and to go through the immigration system as a single person with no ties in Canada would have been a lie and would have been much harder. We are actually divorced now, after 11 years together. I had a really, really, hard time with the concept of getting divorced, because I made vows in front of God for forever and because we fought hard for the right and it seemed so disrespectful to get divorced.
I hate the Ontario Sex Ed curriculum and have been actively speaking out against it since it was announced. I highly recommend homeschooling your kids. Luckily, my kid is 24 years old and out of the school system. I also ensured that she attended a 2 year College for a technical degree to help prevent the indoctrination that comes along with a 4 year university degree these days. She got a job in her field immediately upon graduation.
I believe that Benjamen Levin had a lot to do with that curriculum. Why would you think that teaching the concept of consent to 6 year olds was okay unless you planned to leverage off that in order to make a 6 year old think that sexual behaviour was normal at 6?
After my painful and expensive divorce, I do not recommend marriage to gay people at all, unless they have an immigration issue and cannot be together without it.
As far as Christian businesses having to serve gay weddings, that is a huge NO from me. Private property rights and freedom of conscience are far more important than some gay couple having to say, “Next,” and call the next number in the phone book, or on the Google Machine.
Steven Crowder has a hidden camera video of him asking every Muslim baker on a street in Dearborn, Michigan to bake him a gay wedding cake. Every single one refused. Where are the outraged mobs? There is a war on Christianity right now, and I won’t stand for it.
There is also a war on masculinity and has been since the mid-seventies. We need real men to come back, unafraid to be masculine and proud to be protectors and providers. If I had a son in university, I would advise him to only date local town girls and not university girls, because the myth of “rape culture” makes the university an unsafe place for normal males.
I had to get married, in order to immigrate here to live with my family…
Marriages of convenience are, I believe, illegal. Yeah, that’s who we want as an MP…
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/protection/fraud/marriage.asp
Some people think marriage to a Canadian citizen will be their ticket to Canada.
It is a crime for a foreign national to marry a Canadian citizen or permanent resident only to gain entry to Canada.
favill, income tax IS the government stealing from you. I give them the equivalent of a new car every year, yet I can barely afford to drive a 12 year old chevy….
Government is worse than the Casa Nostra, the difference is, you can prosecute the mob whereas governments are untouchable. The populace has been groomed to believe that their existence is necessary, when in fact they exist only to keep in chains the people they purport to represent…..
That could only be seen as a marriage of convenience if every other marriage to be with the person you love is considered a marriage of convenience.
A marriage of convenience is when you marry someone you are not actually in a romantic relationship with because you want to move to that country. The only reason I moved to Canada was for that relationship. You are confused.
YOU SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR ME FOR BEING GAY.
If someone votes for me, simply because I a lesbian, I will be offended.
Deciding to vote based on a characteristic that has nothing to with intelligence, ability, or willingness to step up and be effective would be a really lazy way to make that decision. Elections have consequences. I am not interested in symbolism or trying to infiltrate and change the Conservative Party from the inside.
I am NOT running as a Conservative lesbian. I am running as a Conservative who will take great pride in closely watching how we spend your money, with the constant aim of spending less of it. Make no mistake, there is no such thing as government money or public money. The only money that governments have is money that they have taken from the taxpayers under threat of imprisonment. There is no moral high ground in taking more from the pockets of the people than is absolutely necessary to serve them. In my opinion, doing so is theft, plain and simple.
As an elected official, my employers will be the taxpayers and citizens of Canada. My duty is to look after the interests of the people who make this country work.
Did you somehow miss the part about us being in a relationship for 11 years? We got married after 6 years into the relationship, and the marriage lasted another 5 years before our relationship fell apart and we got divorced. There was no “marry a Canadian citizen or permanent resident only to gain entry to Canada.”
Actually, were you confused, or was that simply a malicious comment? Because that is bullshit.
Would you like my daughter to explain to you how our family functioned just like any other 2 parents with a kid, a house, dogs, cats, and jobs?
That’s kinda hard to do when you come across to socons as Dr. Lesbian. I don’t know if this is intentional or just casual obtuseness, but the fact remains that putting “gender” (the east European clerical approximation that gender = homosexuality+feminism is handy) issues on display assumes your constituents all accept the same precepts as you. They don’t. If you want socons to respect you then stop slapping them in the face. “Homos for Harper” is a slap in the face to socons.
That is a slap in the face to socons. The only way to not be constantly (un)intentionally slapping socons in the face is the Baird method. Good luck with that.
Hey, SDA isn’t your riding.. doubtful that any of this matters to your campaign. If you’re in an urban NDP riding it’s de-facto illegal to be a socon there. And anyway if I were in your riding I’d probably vote for you, gender-normalization cheerleading notwithstanding.
Any of y’all divorced and remarried? The Bible says that if you have to get divorced, God will grant you the grace to live a celibate life. If you remarry while a previous spouse is living, you are committing adultery. Adultery is on the top ten list and punishable by being stoned to death.
When I did that show and had Homos for Harper t-shirts made, I was not running for office. I was not even a citizen yet, but good government was still important to me as a taxpayer and business owner.
If anyone decides not to vote for me because I’m gay, God bless you, that’s not a worry to me. Please have the spine to say that is the actual reason instead of pretending to be concerned with imagined immigration fraud.
This is evidently an unbridgeable gap.
Accept that your postmodern gender-normed worldview is rejected by a significant segment of the population and you’re left with (a) convincing that segment that you won’t use your position to further cement your worldview or (b) essentially telling them to hurry up and die.
Looks like you’re a b) kinda gal.
I had to get married, in order to immigrate here to live with my family, and not have to live in fear of being excluded from Canada should a work permit not have been renewed.
The only reason I moved to Canada was for that relationship. You are confused.
Uh huh, seems as though there’s a little matter of a work permit. ‘Marriage’ wasn’t the only reason. You said it yourself, you got ‘married’ to be able to work in Canada.
Again – bullshit.
The only reason for me to be working in Canada was for that relationship. I made far more money in the USA and if I wasn’t in love with a Canadian would have never even considered immigrating to Canada. I thought that anyone who ever went as far north as Detroit had to be crazy.
Imagine my surprise when I fell in love with Canada.
Curious though, when did all heterosexual sexual sin start getting a free pass? Methinks that y’all ought to clean up your 90-98% population of sexual sin prior to coming after the 2-10% who are homosexual.
A marriage of convenience is when you marry someone you’re not in love with in order to attain citizenship; it’s a sham relationship. If, on the other hand, you’re very much in love with someone, and you’re in a relationship with that person, and you marry the person so you can continue to be with that person, that’s pretty much the exact opposite of a marriage of convenience.
Anybody who doesn’t have a dull axe to grind understands that.