The biggest, wealthiest, most advanced polling firms in the US couldn't get it right either, horrendously so in recent memory. I don't think that's down to conspiracy, but how to weight your samples when so many people don't want to answer a phone call from an unusual number.
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Starting to think a ban from there should be considered a rite of passage.
Too bad unglues your panels
The reports all bear notes of caution about the summaries being possibly uncorroborated, single-sourced or incomplete. CSIS Director David Vigneault told the public inquiry that intelligence is not necessarily fact and it may require further investigation.
Actual facts on election interference are, hard to come by, but conjecture from unidentified interests isn't good enough. Blindly trusting intelligence agencies without proof is how you end up invading Iraq.
The "critic" in question was a supporter and fundraiser for the Khalistani rebel movement, on and off no fly lists and wanted by Interpol. Arms training programs in the BC interior seemed to have spooked Modi into action, can't imagine why after the Air India bombing and the trial the RCMP fumbled. Most Canadians are content to forget the event after all.
It's hardly the same situation, given that one country is trying to annex Canada and the other isn't.
These guys aren't the Stronachs, Westons, Irvings or Sobeys pumping money into parties, who the leaders have to know. I'm not going to put it past PP to not remember the name of a brown person who he didn't meet for breakfast either.
I've gone through this and nothing was actually illegal or questionable. I'm not really sure what the contention is.
Depends on the extent of how much you'd do and if you'd get noticed, really. Leverage being applied against you or your parents could occur, particularly to or via relatives in China, but only if you're deemed worth the effort. I wouldn't take that risk, personally, but that's a very specific, individual decision.
The US is another matter. Sure you'll go on a list but everyone's on a list of one kind or another, we're both on one for using Lemmy most likely.
Would there be any validity in your parents thinking your concerns about this are getting in the way of improving your own life?
The supreme court would ultimately strike it down, and I only see it as a ploy to bring in private prisons, but at the same time there's a genuine problem in this country with sentencing habitual, dangerous offenders. I can think of at least three women in my province murdered by people who just kept getting in and out of jail for violent crimes their whole lives. One was even on day leave from the prison, which seems like insanity.