You're taken money from the needy to spend on war.
You're supporting a genocide.

You forgot.

“Death paused.
YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?
‘Yes. Yes, of course.’
Death nodded.
IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.”
~Terry Pratchett, 'Small Gods'

In a way, those six bloody hours are a perfect metaphor for the political theatre that #RemembranceDay has become.
A pretence of calling for peace while continuing to lust for war.

And the war didn't even end on November 11.
In northern Russia, the British-American-Canadian expeditionary force continued its ill-conceived fight to try and reverse the Russian Revolution.

For 6 hours the unnecessary slaughter continued. American commander Gen. Pershing in particular decided he didn't like the armistice and kept up a full assault until 11am.

More were killed on the last day of WWI than on the very first day of the Normandy invasion in WWII.

The fact that artillery units knew to stop firing on the dot of 11, and that audio recorders were actually set up to capture the moment, reveals that the "guns falling silent at the 11th hour" is probably the most horrific piece of political theatre ever perpetrated.

All this to say, there is no reason that, apart from a few pockets of fighting where communications were actually severed, the majority of guns could have been silenced long before 11am. And yet the fighting was allowed to continue.

But communications lines were such by this point that most frontline units could easily be reached - especially artillery units who relied on communications lines to coordinate fire. The news of the signing had indeed reached most of the rest of Europe within the hour.

The armistice treaty that ended WWI was signed by all parties in a railway car at 5am on Nov 11, 1918. It was set to officially go into force at 11am that day. Ostensibly to allow time for the news to reach all fighting units.

For 6 hours the unnecessary slaughter continued. American commander Gen. Pershing in particular decided he didn't like the armistice and kept up a full assault until 11am.

More were killed on the last day of WWI than on the very first day of the Normandy invasion in WWII.

The fact that artillery units knew to stop firing on the dot of 11, and that audio recorders were actually set up to capture the moment, reveals that the "guns falling silent at the 11th hour" is probably the most horrific piece of political theatre ever perpetrated.

I'm sure public service workers will be queueing around the block for this opportunity.

And then the Canadian Forces will face the toughest enemy they've ever encountered in their entire history... CUPE.

oooooh.... I live for bacon-wrapped scallops

"Leftist stripes" hah
Anyone who thought Carney was going to be anything other than a red tie conservative was deluding themselves.
Liberals are the new Progressive Conservatives, which is why the few surviving old-school PCs are comfortable defecting to them.

If you were wondering why the Democratic Party is absolutely incapable of actually providing a real alternative to Republican fascism.
This is the reason.