Is Canada better than the United States?

[boxerdudeuk]

No, you misunderstood the decision, what it was about, and its impact on American politics.

You better pour yourself a brandy.

Anyway, the Supreme Court ruled that businesses were an individual entity, so could contribute to PACs without any restrictions. (Yeah, right; businesses can now vote? It defied common sense.)

The effect of this legislation is wide-reaching. Now, they can spend a zillion$$ on Presidential (or other) campaigns without any restrictions whatsoever. Of course, what this really means is that they can effectively buy elections.

In a thread I started on the topic, I posited the theory that this will eventually mean the end of our democracy as we know it, and has planted the seeds for a true oligarchy.

The worst part of this? No one knows where the money is coming from. It is believed that much of it comes from foreign interests.

sends chills up my spine.

 

[voyager1994]

If Canada doesn't have very long winters, it would be the perfect place live in the world in terms of health system, government, education, multicultural tolerance, respect for human rights, care for the environment, majestic scenery, and abundant natural resources. But even with long winters, Canadians are still very lucky to live in such a place, and also because the U.S. is just right next door to escape the cold from time to time.

 

[gsdx]

If Canada doesn't have very long winters

Canada doesn't have particularly long winters, at least where most of the population lives. Long winters don't suddenly begin at the border. Look at a map. The southernmost point in Canada is further south than Northern California and the vast majority of Canada's population live further south than Portland, Oregon. I live just a little north than Boston, Massachusetts latitude-wise.

 

[gsdx]

Are you sure about this, GSDX?

Yes, I am. The southernmost point in Canada is Point Pelee.

 

[resonance]

We don't have a high per capital debt, and the fundamentals of our economy are very sound. Our banking system is revered around the world.

Actually, Canada currently has a higher per capita debt than the United States. People need to be better informed.

buttonwood.economist.com/content/gdc

Also, the Canadian banking system isn't revered around the world. Canada isn't a major financial center. You're not exactly Hong Kong or even the battered US.

 

[gsdx]

Actually, Canada currently has a higher per capita debt than the United States. People need to be better informed.

As of February 3, 2010:

http://blogs.usask.ca/the_bolt/archive/2010/02/canada_federal_debt_per_capita.html

 

[Purplebic]

This debate is so ridiculous. What exactly have you all got to be proud of? your nationality is an accident of birth.

 

[gsdx]

^ Which automatically means that pride in one's country cannot exist. Right?

 

[Purplebic]

^ Which automatically means that pride in one's country cannot exist. Right?

One can be proud.

But some people take it to extreme lengths, and those tend to be the poorest and uneducated, who have nothing else to be proud of except their heritage. Extreme nationalism is relative to nazism, the belief that one race or nation is superior to another.

But in a global era where we still have conflicts worlwide, problems of pollution and poverty, who really gives a fuck who invented the telephone?

 

[BostonPirate]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmqP6hStds[/ame]

 

[Daximus]

Canada and the US are as different as North Dakota and South Dakota.

Fly over the border and look down -- there is no line! It's imaginary!

For a new admin, you know your stuff sir.

 

[voyager1994]

Canada doesn't have particularly long winters, at least where most of the population lives. Long winters don't suddenly begin at the border. Look at a map. The southernmost point in Canada is further south than Northern California and the vast majority of Canada's population live further south than Portland, Oregon. I live just a little north than Boston, Massachusetts latitude-wise.

When I say long winters, I was speaking metaphorically to mean very cold temperatures at an extended time period beyond the official winter season. BTW, the majority of Canadians who "live furher south than Portland, Oregon...Boston, Massachusetts" experience much colder winters than those who live in these two cities not because of latitudes but because of air flows (e.g. flow of Artic air, Alberta clipper, etc etc etc) which pass through Southern Ontario.

 

[bankside]

Canada does have a long winter where I live. Sometimes we even get a preview of it for a week in late September before the beautiful warm days in autumn come back.

I actually enjoy winter. Nothing beats the view of the snow falling through the window, wood fire roaring, glass of port in hand. Canada doesn't have a weather problem. We have great skiing, skating, tobogganing, bonfires, hot chocolate, and all the best pleasures of winter. And we get gorgeous hot summer days too, but not so bad that you'd die without air conditioning and you have to shower twice a day.

If Canadian culture has eroded under foreign pressure, it is probably this pointless fascination with hot weather. We have it good

 

[Piquechampion]

Just because Comrad is full of shit

 

[genthree]

We , the onlookers, view America with horror - I am Australian. Bush put the nail in the American coffin; the invasion of Iraq, the destruction of the financial system, the poor treatment or their own citizens and the poor level of education in that country is a worry and they are now, a formally great nation, in decline.
Unfortunately our politicians cling to the coat tails of America and that has resulted in us following them into some disastrous and criminal actions.
The worldly knowledge of the Americans is also a worry but not surprising considering only 25% of them have passports (Aus 70+%)
It is a first World country and only in the last 12mths. has it managed to get a public health system - and that will be at risk if the Republicans get their way.
Unemployment is 10% and debt is 90% of GDP. Not a good look - we are 5% and 6% resp. and we are not happy !
A lamentable situation.
So perhaps Canada would be better - although we are hammering them in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi - google it.

 

[Callum]

So perhaps Canada would be better - although we are hammering them in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi - google it.

Pfffft. You lot have summer all freakin' year! You should be winning everything!

Nice of your folk to come around during the Winter Olympics though.

 

[frankfrank]

How many times have I said that I wished I had been born Canadian, living in Canada from the start?

I have always preferred Canada to the U.S., from the very first time in 1970 that I set foot in Ontario via my own independence, rather than traveling with parents.

the Northwest is now my favorite part of the U. S. - and is also arguably the area that most resembles the Canadian way of thinking.

 

[Comrad]

The part of Canada that never gets any glory is Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. I wonder what they're like?

Trivia: I bet not one American in 100,000 knows that...


St. Pierre and Michelon, gentlemen, is a part of France.

And you know what, it is probably true. And if you asked 100,000 Americans where what state is in Canada probably not a single one of them would know that also. You wanna know why. Because is irrelevant, extraneous, insignificant, IT DOES NOT MATTER! Most of us do not walk around thinking about things or people that dose no matter in their life.

Just ask yourself, when was the last time you saw Americans comparing them selves to another country and asking them selves "are we as good/better than them". You don't, because we do not suffer from this inferiority complex like oh so many of you do. If you don't like the US, you don't like its regulations, you don't like the way it looks, smells, you don't like anything about the damn place. Then why give it any of your energy ? Why buy any of its products ?

Before this thread came up before my eyes (im going to be dead honest with you) the thought of Canada (in general) was (extremely) very seldom and neutral. Now that i get a feeling for

 

[Ekim23]

How about france ???

 

[gsdx]

And if you asked 100,000 Americans where what state is in Canada probably not a single one of them would know that also.

Probably because Canada has provinces and territories and not states.

I would have thought that you knew that.