what sane person would say "please tax me and send my money to the other side of the world"?

that's nuts. it's bad enough that the managers are expropriating the labour, now the government wants to redirect money from my pension and my health care to people i'll never even meet?

"but, that's small minded and..."

yeah, it's easy to say that when you were born into a fortune. if you were born with nothing, and have to work 20 hours a day to pay your mortgage, you might be a little less happy about the premise. and, no, you're not going to win an argument about an accounting identity. and, no it doesn't matter that it's not very much. and, yes these are the people you have to convince to vote for you.

again: i just don't understand why i have to point it out. even if he's going to live in a bubble, and i suppose it's unavoidable, this is the kind of thing that you pay people to tell you.

and, do we not have enough evidence in the last five years that somebody should be telling him that?

don't misunderstand me: i'd like to ship trudeau to mars. or at least california. but, this guy running the conservatives is a fringe idiot, and there's consequently not another option, until the ndp can get it's act together, or the ndp pushes a caucus revolt.

there's a reason that recent liberal governments have quietly let the foreign aid budget fall - it's not worth the political liability.