49 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. David Akin on Twitter: “3.6m have already voted. And if only advance polls were counted, #CPC wins by a hair. From Ekos”
    He notes in another tweet that advance voting is up 70% compared to 2011.
    Paul Wells: “Liberal advantage over CPC in Ontario has, Ekos suggests, narrowed from 18 points to 7 points in two days.”

  2. I, for one, just don’t believe that people’s voting intentions swing around as much as these ridiculous polls. Diefenbaker’s line about dogs knowing best what to do with polls seems apt.

  3. Nothing like a little reminder of LIEberal graft and corruption to snap the undecideds to attention.
    Again, Ontariowe, showing us how they define Low Information Voter, where 3 weeks was a long time ago, let alone 10 years……
    Who broke the Gagnier story? Whomever it was, funny enough, its the Corpse’s Kady O’Malley who has been pretty scathing about it. Whoda thunk?

  4. “The Liberals came under fire once again from their rivals on the campaign trail. NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair attempted to link Gagnier’s behaviour to the sponsorship scandal under the last Liberal government, and suggested that this was “about the Liberals trying to feather their own bed.”
    I see that the NDP have filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections Canada. I wonder if our wonderful, unbiased media will refer to Mr. Mulcair’s scathing comments with adjectives such as divisive and mean-spirited or are those words reserved strictly for Stephen Harper.

  5. It’s the press doing a little penance for the past 3 months of Harper bashing. This way they can claim unbiased coverage

  6. We were heading into a disastrous defeat last election too on account of the “orange crush”. Now it’s the trudeau surge which is our death knell. I’m shaking in my boots just like I was about an impending dipper victory in BC. Everyone knows that Harper is toast dontchaknow. Anyway I can’t wait until election night when I’m at the polls trying to disqualify as many libdipper votes as I can.

  7. That makes sense. So much of the press (including the once balanced National Post) distorts reality and provides little information or background on issues. A classic example was the screaming National Post headline about a “Tips line for ‘neighbors’ to report barbaric crimes. (The left had a hey-day with that on in the comments.) In that particular case however, the line was for victims or otherwise helpless family members. An immigrant woman on TVO indicated that her group had been asking for this since 1992. But the response of the press was to scoff. They have been cynical and relentlessly anti-Harper, and it feeds on itself. What a disservice to Canadians. It is to the point where the news media is not worth your time. If you look carefully, you can find better analysis of issues online.

  8. I think that article kind of says it all. It is a sad situation when many Canadians do not see that Trudeau is nothing more than a shallow front man. If he gains power, it will be a disaster very quickly. The world situation is treacherous right now, and Trudeau is totally naive. What may happen if Liberals get in is the possibility that Liberals themselves would remove him (certainly side-line him). I also think that a minority government would be short lived as his incompetence becomes clear. He does not even perform well in Parliament — how is he supposed to head the government. This could be a HUGE disaster.

  9. A song to raise one’s spirits as the wheels of Mondays election are being oiled!!
    Turn your volume up–give ‘er throttle, until the sparks of hell are comin’ outta the smokestack!!
    Best version ever!
    https://youtu.be/uW-DahcNQv8

  10. I reject the notion that Canada I’d a liberal country. That was something that was counted by liberals. All it proves is the depths of their arrogance and their contempt for democracy.

  11. Why do our Moral and Intellectual Superiors ( http://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/10/17/final-week-should-give-tory-liberal-supporters-pause-hbert.html ) come unhinged when Prime Minister Harper Reduces a problem to the lowest common denominator? Doing so makes it easier for people to add the pieces together and reasonable people equally informed will generally arrive at the same conclusion then vote accordinly.
    I don’t know why, but watching the Media Party come unhinged when Rob Ford is in the room is fun. I hope Jimmy Kimmel will be broadcasting the Prime Minister Harper / Rob Ford rally live. Jimmy should send Guillermo? No?
    Rob Ford: The Denominator. He should sell a superhero doll with the same name.

  12. Peter;
    Went to the store today to get my loto ticky and while Moo Ham Uhd was printing the ticket Osama was overlooking. According to the name tags anyhow. 5 years ago maybe one Moos Limb in town who was a highly trained Dr. Now they’re everywhere. What could go wrong?

  13. Liberal Wynnetario.
    …-
    “Elections Canada Confirms Kathleen Wynne Expenses Must Be Paid And Claimed By Trudeau Liberals.”
    “Yesterday I filed a complaint with Elections Canada over Kathleen Wynne campaigning for Justin Trudeau and the associated costs. Today alone she attended 4 different Liberal candidate events. She also brings with her staff whose costs must also be claimed by the Federal Liberals and or local ridings.”
    http://paulsrants-paulsstuff.blogspot.ca/2015/10/elections-canada-confirms-kathleen.html
    …-
    “Legendary Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is suing Ontario for $700 million over wind power”
    “Pickens is using his rights under the North American Free Trade Agreement to bring claims against the Canadian province of Ontario.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/legendary-texas-oil-tycoon-t-boone-pickens-is-suing-ontario-for-700-million-over-wind-power

  14. Maz: Pertinent clause for Canadian “journalists”.
    The lawsuit, filed in 2011, claims that Pickens’ renewable energy company, Mesa Power, lost out on wind power contracts to Florida-based NextEra Energy because NextEra donated $18,600 to the governing Liberal Party before the 2011 provincial election. The suit says this gave NextEra exclusive access to government officials.
    “The New York Times reports:
    A review of documents and emails between NextEra executives, lobbyists and government officials show that NextEra met and held calls with high-level officials at the Ontario Ministry of Energy, the premier’s office and the power authority, even as Mesa Power executives were told they could not speak to officials until contracts were awarded. When NextEra lobbyists requested more information, officials sometimes responded within hours.”
    Like all those other things that shall never be discussed. Adscam, the Charbonneaux Commission, New Brunswick’s Atcon scam, BC’s Rail Job, and pick an Ontario Wynner, there’s lots of options. To say nothing of the doubling of NB’s debt being miniscule in comparison to Ontario and Quebec’s Greek-like $300 Billion Debts.
    The common thread through all the above criminality is the Liberal Party.
    The only thing more embarrassing than the Media in this country is the Conservative response.
    Bupkis.

  15. Thought you might find this interesting… I was recently in the UK and I couldn’t access this site, from multiple IPs. Now I’m in Germany and it works fine.

  16. “‘We’re Under Water’: Germany Shows Signs of Strain from Mass of Refugees”
    “The unceasing influx of refugees is creating tremendous uncertainty in Germany. Many towns and cities are calling for help and the government appears to be rudderless.”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-shows-signs-of-strain-from-mass-of-refugees-a-1058237.html
    …-
    “Spanish newspaper: Europe got Muslims for Jews”
    “The truth must be told! All European life died in Auschwitz
    By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
    I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth – Europe died in Auschwitz.
    We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, and talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531607/posts

  17. PET Cemetery Report.
    Our Gagniergate, our Ad$cam: you like?
    …-
    “Trudeau urges Liberal supporters to vote as protesters interrupt rally”
    “Trudeau’s speech was interrupted briefly when a pair of banner-wielding protesters tried to shout over him. One banner read, “Your climate policy is just not ready,” while the other said, “Liberals in bed with TransCanada Corp.”
    The latter one is a reference to the only real controversy to bedevil the Liberal campaign: an e-mail that surfaced earlier this week from Dan Gagnier, a member of Trudeau’s inner circle, in which he offers advice to the Calgary-based pipeline company on how to lobby a new government.
    Gagnier’s subsequent resignation appears to have slammed the brakes on what had been a growing head of Liberal steam in the final days of the campaign.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeau-urges-liberal-supporters-to-vote-as-protesters-interrupt-rally/article26862134/

  18. Just read the GlobnFail article.
    Trudozo’s words are so hypocritical, it describes exactly what HIS team is doing, dirty tricks, etc. Accusing PMSH of these things.
    Trudozo’s backroom gang is truly a despotic bunch, liars and hsitdisturbers.
    That list of bagmen must be long, that the Fibs have to grease, there is no end to the depths that these dirtbags will go to throw out one of the most respected leaders in the world right now.

  19. I’d like to believe you, that it’s another UK election with shy Tories:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2015_United_Kingdom_general_election
    We have polls all over the map, but none with Tories in any kind of lead, while big city pollsters have the Grits way ahead. It all has to shake down to vote distribution, turnout and organizational work at the riding levels on election day. I find myself simply disagreeing with a poll but somewhere somebody might be right. I was hoping Mainstream would make me feel better; not so much:
    http://www.mainstreetresearch.ca/canadas-choice-2015/
    If they’re right, as they were in the UK election, the ON election and the AB election, then we have hired a prop as our PM, since the Grits will win at least a minority. Our political culture gives voters a special talent for harpooning their own economic fortunes, as they did in re-electing PET – by electing trendy statist leaders whose only talent is spending their money, just when they were set for a take off to prosperity. Elder Trudeau did it; now the younger is poised.
    Why? Because, in his politics of unity by division, he seeks to target the very people who enable our prosperity by doing most of the work while creating the vast majority of new jobs (not fake govt “creation”) and paying most of the taxes. Statists then drive the false narrative they’re greedy and their corporations are shells designed to unfairly avoid tax, kind of like changing your provincial tax status, but I digress.
    That kind of atmosphere – hostility, taxation & regulation always creates jobs, especially when combined with an entitlement economy, eh? Just look at Greece? The American deficits are modest and not growing, right? Quite the opposite – robbing Peter to “invest” in Paul always leads to economic decline. What social imperative now demands that? With statists it’s a permanent fixture. The irony is the poor get poorer, showing the hypocrisy of the pseudo-SJWs, but they don’t actually care; that’s not their gig.
    Trudeau Sr’s last budget deficits would be $144b in today’s dollars! He just gave us the finger – and the debt. Yes, deficits are an issue, especially when they’re permanent. We just dug out of the hole PET put us in decades ago, and now his son wants to throw us back in because he shares the same idiocy that dear government is smarter top down than all of us bottom up.
    I think we’ve done it again, the political maroons we collectively are. I’m afraid, for the second time in my lifetime, we’ve done collectively something really stupid. Acquitting ourselves because we don’t vote for left wing parties won’t stop the pain of decline.
    Think I’m exaggerating? Ontario has the largest sub sovereign debt in the world, having just surpassed California. Is Wynne scaling back the statist schemes? Many (Ontario) voters have never understood that Grits are statists, and therefore socialists, so don’t expect moderate policies. Conservatives think with their brain and statists know in their heart – from the top down, with good jobs for their buddies.
    A good friend says the polls are wrong, that Harper will win a majority and bet me a dinner on it. I don’t want to collect but it will be my only solace on that night. I’d much rather buy him dinner.
    Real Change. Bad Change. Poor Change. God I hope I’m wrong.

  20. The best we can hope for, is, that the Yutes do not show up to vote, as per historical trends, and that the 55+ vote shows up, as per historical, or better, and votes largely CPC, as per past trends.
    BC 2013 redux, is the hope.
    The level of derangement, and illogic, along with the cult of personality with the Lieberal set, is a wonder.
    One of my favourite derangements is “Harrrrrrrrrrrrpurrrrrrrrrrrrr ran up $160 Billion in debt!” Strange, but doubling down on another $150 Billion in debt under Trudozo is way cool? “Harper debt BAD, Trudozo debt GOOD”, that’s LIEberal logic in action.
    It is sad, in this day and age, that dullards fall for commercials, with a drama teacher, emoting, shouting hoarsely, his emotional “vision” for Canada. Its the OBambi strategy from 2008. Slow thinkers fall head over heels for it. Pathetic.
    Some people say they want a charismatic leader with hope and vision. My response? If anybody wants that, go to church and seek Jesus (seriously). Looking for that from a politician is the sign of a weak immature and naive mind.

  21. I will agree with Cascadia. I have no faith in polls for the simple fact that they have been wrong too many times, sometimes in colossal fashion. As everyone knows, the only accurate poll is on Oct. 19. Maybe I put too much faith in the Canadian electorate but Harper has provided such strong leadership and his opponents are such a pathetically unqualified bunch, a Conservative victory seems inevitable. As LindaL put it so well on another topic, Harper does not waste time on niceties. He would much rather shake your hand than give you a hug and that’s OK by me. He would much rather roll up his sleeves and get the job done as opposed to engaging in mindless photo-ops with puppies or making sure he’s seen watching a hockey game in a bar a la Jack Layton.
    Harper may be a stoic. He may come across as a hard-headed manager of all things important.
    Bottom line is that he gets the job done in keeping Canada one of the best, if not the best, places in the world. That should be more than enough to ensure a victory. Hopefully, it is.

  22. It’s great to be skeptical of the polls, but it’s unlikely that they’ll be more than 3-4% off. The trend of the Liberals being ahead is strong. It’s highly unlikely that Harper can win this thing.
    It’s probably better this way.
    Cleaner.
    The Tories can go away and shed the responsibilities of governing for awhile. A fresh new leader can be picked without having the burden of instant Prime Ministership thrust on them if the Tories had won. We don’t need a Kim Campbell or a John Turner right now.
    Trudeau will be handcuffed with a relatively slim minority (hopefully) and who knows…some turmoil…a new NDP leader…a couple of lucky breaks…we might just get our team back into office after a couple of years.

  23. Its hard to see them getting along for very long, although Tommunist is trying hard not to say nasty things about the Pony lately, instead, he is being a demagogue, absolutely pathetic and demeaning, to what he was espousing just a very short time ago.
    A pathetic yet typical run by the NDP. This actually exorcises the putrid ghost of St JackoLayton, with Mulcairs Angry Tom persona finally coming alive.
    He’s going down in flames, and trying to bring PMSH with him.
    The worst of it? The Dips and Fibs policies aren’t that far apart, and they might just get along for quite awhile, unfortunately. The Dips aren’t afraid of massive deficits, from their history, nor are they afraid of Big Government. Perhaps it will be their differences on the environment that will be their undoing. The Fibs always want to give the appearance they are doing something (while not, actually, re:Kyoto) while the Dips don’t care about the consequences, they are “principled” after all….
    Gawd I hope for a 2013 repeat!

  24. PET Cemetery Report.
    Pablo Redux.
    Is that you, Pablo?
    “Pablo is known for the battles he led in the fight against climate change…”
    …-
    “Browse this site to learn more about Pablo, the Liberal Party of Canada, and Justin Trudeau.”
    “A respected political figure, he was the MP for Honoré-Mercier from 2004 to 2011.”
    http://pablorodriguez.liberal.ca/en/
    …-
    “Pablo Rodriguez must step down”
    “Instead, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has turned a blind eye when one of his own caucus stands accused of failing to comply with a police officer’s request for a breathalyzer test, following a car accident in which alcohol may have been a factor.
    We are referring to the case of Quebec MP Pablo Rodriguez, who on April 16 crashed his BMW into a parked car in Montreal’s Notre Dame de Grace neighbourhood at 2:38 in the morning.
    According to the police report of the incident, details of which were published yesterday by Halifax’s The Chronicle Herald, Mr. Rodriguez had “lightly red eyes” and smelled of alcohol. After initially denying that he had been drinking, he then told police that he had just driven from Ottawa where he had consumed “two small glasses of wine.””
    http://www.cireport.ca/tag/mothers-against-drunk-driving-madd

  25. If we lose it will be a decade or more in the wilderness for us saying I told you so while living the nightmare. Trudeau will take our guns, raise our taxes, and bankrupt us all the while throwing money at livs in Ontario and Quebec to stay in power. He learned from the pro.

  26. I agree with the scenario, but do not think it will be Trudeau calling the shots. He is a weak leader and will likely go with what the cabal tells him to do. Trudeau did not have to “learn from the pro” — the “pro” is still there manipulating in the background.

  27. I think it is going to be pretty close. If Harper manages to pull off a minority, there will be some time to play with. The world situation changes by the minute — and I think looks very dangerous right now. I personally think it is critical to have an experienced leader at the helm. Did I say this already? Probably, but for me it is critically important.

  28. Yes, in a CPC minority, PMSH will have time, one pundit said he had until the spring to convene parliament. Constitutionally, it has to be recalled once per year.
    Once that time comes, no doubt, it will be a “poison pill” budget, that will have items in it that both Fibs and Dips will be nailed to the wall on for hypocrisy, or going against the best wishes of Canadians.
    On another note, If I hear one more waste of a minute from His Hair doing a faux “hoarse” speech, in full emote, I’m going to throw up.
    What a fake twerp he is.
    One thing for sure, I’m going into full hate mail mode if he is elected. Mainly to remind him of all his promises he would fix RIGHT NOW.

  29. Either we continue with the slow burn of all our assets and civl structure under the CPC or we go with pouring gasoline on the smouldering mess with the LPC/NDP.
    What difference will it really make?
    Now I will vote Monday, I am counting on enough sensible canadians doing so, so that I might enjoy the post election meltdowns of our Libtards.
    But really we are not seeing any real difference, they are all self affirmed thieves, not once in this election did I hear any politician or party mention the loss of productivity that is overwhelming Canada.
    We are robbed blind by Govt(All 3 levels), over regulated to a standstill and in a lawless situation.
    None of these “leaders” seem to understand the Magna Carta, private property is not part of their Canada.
    We are unable to find out what the law is in so many areas now, but we must obey these Unknowable statutes or face criminal charges.
    Government is so big that it is simply unaffordable, with so any takers from the purse, there simply are not enough current or upcoming contributors.
    So unless we change our spending habits as a nation, we will run out of money.
    We saw no sign of change under the Conservatives, we know there is no hope of fiscal rationality under NDP or Liberals.
    So what difference will who we elect make?
    Sure the rape of productive persons via taxes will increase under the challengers, but we are sinking under the sensible option.
    Maybe government overgrowth is like a pimple,you have to let it fully swell before you can squeeze it?
    Therefor the faster it goes before it blows, the lesser the overall pain.
    Of course I recommend you withdraw as much as possible of any savings accounts if the grabbers win the race, there is something about money in bank accounts that drives liberal politicians crazy.
    They must spend, your money for you.

  30. “But westward, look, the land is bright!”
    …-
    “Our choice is clear — Stephen Harper”
    “We urge you to vote for the leader and party you believe is best qualified to lead Canada.
    On that basis, we endorse Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.
    Harper successfully led Canada through the worst recession since the Great Depression, emerging in better shape than almost any other developed country.”
    http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/15/our-choice-is-clear—-stephen-harper
    …-
    “Say not the Struggle Naught availeth”
    “And not by eastern windows only,
    When daylight comes, comes in the light;
    In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
    But westward, look, the land is bright!”
    “Arthur Hugh Clough. 1819–1861”
    http://www.bartleby.com/101/741.html

  31. “What difference will it really make?”
    Every election I hear this again, and again. CPC hasn’t completely eliminated the debt, not just the deficit, the whole debt, they haven’t redrawn the constitution with real property rights, blah, blah, blah, so being a lifelong conservative I’ll just vote liberal, because eh, what difference does it make!.
    the stupid hurts..when you can’t tell the difference between a campaign based on ‘promised deficit’ and careful management that actually gives positive results, then you are just ignorant.

  32. Trudeau has promised deficit spending and I have no doubt it would likely be triple what he’s saying and would only go up from there. In his world deficits are what create jobs and budgets balance themselves. Yeah what difference does it make anyway? I mean it’s not like Trudeau would raise your taxes, introduce a carbon tax and go back to deficit spending and re-introduce a gun registry. Yeah no difference at all. So go ahead vote libdipper and enjoy the results.

  33. Of Citoyen MulcairBloc and socialism’s natural end result.
    “(In late 2009, The Economist splashed on its cover an image of Rio’s famed Christ the Redeemer statue taking off like a rocket.)”
    …-
    “Brazil’s Next Big Crisis Is Scaring Bankers and Wiping Out Jobs”
    “One year after a massive corruption scandal broke out at the state-run oil company and four months after Brazil officially entered recession, the financial indicators are grim across the board. The real has fallen more than any other major currency in the world this year; annual inflation has soared to almost 10 percent; the budget deficit has swelled to the widest in at least two decades; and the government’s credit rating was cut to junk by Standard & Poor’s. Last week, analysts at Itau Unibanco Holding predicted the economy will shrink 3 percent this year and unemployment will top 10 percent by 2016.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/brazil-s-next-big-crisis-is-scaring-bankers-and-wiping-out-jobs
    …-
    “If some NDP MPs lose, they may not get severance due to $2.75M satellite office repayment order ”
    “If some New Democrat incumbents go down to defeat Monday, they stand to lose more than their seats.
    They could also lose some or all of the generous severance payments to which defeated MPs are normally entitled.
    That’s because more than five dozen New Democrats have been ordered to repay the House of Commons a total of $2.75 million for improperly using their parliamentary office budgets to pay the salaries of staff in satellite party offices in Montreal, Quebec City and Toronto.
    On average, the incumbents owe about $30,000 each but four of them are on the hook for more than $100,000.
    The New Democrats have so far refused to pay,…”
    http://www.lfpress.com/2015/10/16/if-some-ndp-mps-lose-they-may-not-get-severance-due-to-275m-satellite-office-repayment-order

  34. Yes Harry I be ignorant.
    I am to the right of Reform.
    To me Harper has governed like Chretien.
    As holder of a PAL I am still a second or 3rd class citizen, with fewer rights than a drug dealer.
    If I work overtime I keep less than 1/2 of my gross.
    I do not own my property, I rent it from the municipality,(Taxes)
    I am watching my trade crumple under the new regulations and idiotic regulators.
    We as a nation owe $700,000,000,000 plus with no end in sight to our spending.
    So what difference other than ideology does who wins the vote make?
    By my measurements we are holed below the waterline and out of pumps.

  35. I feel your pain John, we all hate being treated like slaves, no arguments. In the world we currently live in, here are the choices.
    “To me Harper has governed like Chretien.”
    You mean “Read my lips, we’ll scrap the GST Chretien and “We have actually reduced the GST like we said we would PM Harper” look the same the you? that’s one of hundreds of little decisions and actions to move ever so slowly towards what you do want, compared to moving very quickly to what you don’t want. Easy choice really.

  36. Thanks harry that was my point.
    I vote Conservative, there is no choice.
    However when The conservatives win will it change anything Monday?
    We are sinking and the only difference I see is a long and agonizing fight til the ship capsizes or let the drunken monkeys set fire to the rigging as I sneak off on a liferaft.
    I have little confidence this country can cast aside the lead blanket of government help, we are a Kleptocracy now, I doubt we can recover.
    I think all political parties will avoid the necessary cuts, as they are not vote catching Ideas, so we will struggle on, bailing our way to the bottom.
    Possibly only local action will change the decades of theft.
    Possibly a flat tax paid locally, set by taxpayer referendum,, with the same percentage paid to the province, and the province paying that percentage of their take to the Feds.
    Imagine 10% total individual tax paid to your musicality/regional whatever, municipality pays only 10% of their take to the Province, Province pays 10% to fed.
    Starve the beast.As we have 70 years of evidence that no matter what resources are available our bureaucracies will consume more.
    And multiple examples that the elected and appointed royalty have no interest in reducing their parasitic drain.

  37. Sorry John, ain’t buying it. Complaining Harper isn’t “conservative enough” simply facilitates the statist power grabs, as does “they’re all liars,” so any idiot can be elected, especially if they have nice hair and the CBC likes them.
    In fact those conservatives elements have participated and fed into Harper derangement syndrome. That by far is their greatest political crime, beside being disloyal idiots with poor judgment.
    Hating statists and then helping elect them is not a smart strategy IMHO. In fact I’m quite pissed off at at those fools because they help get morons like Trudeau, McGuinty and Wynne elected.

  38. So what is keeping this country afloat?
    How and over what duration will we remove this debt load from our grandchildren’s necks?
    And what was you not buying?
    What did you think was for sale?
    And what price?
    My point is you and I, if you are over 30, have already been sold into bondage.
    I am just too stupid to stop bailing.
    Slavery is alive,well and institutional under our current tax system.
    And no one in our current crop of politicians will touch this issue.
    Captcha is real ignorant this morning.

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