What's Wrong With Canada ?

[gsdx]

Great Big Sea, too - but Justin needs a LOT of offsetting!

One thing is for certain. Justin is the Canadian celebrity with the most exposure ever.

Most.

Ever.

 

[DonQuixote]

When you show up at Gran's door with just a guitar for "apparel", cameramen in tow, yeah.

More than a bit overexposed.

 

[Willie Boy]

Of course you do have the great Biebs to shout about.

And here I was going to mention the only thing wrong with Canada is that it gave the world Bieber Fever! There doesn't seem to be a cure, but thankfully the disease should run its course in a few years, and the victims of the disease are, for the most part, expected fully recover.

 

[nafhoosier]

and by your comments you don't know anything about Canada.

I'm an immigrant and I love Canada for all it gave me.

I do know a lot about Canada and mind you, I very much apologize about being much less specific.

The Canadian government does not let US or foreign citizens with misdemeanors and first time non-deadly DUI's into their country for at least FIVE YEARS after they completed their sentence. Simply because they think they will be threats to the country's safety (for misdemeanor's and first time deadly DUI's... ok?)

That's fine, but then the Canadian government and its citizens complain about the US discriminating against them for the same minor criminal records and other minor offenses.... and the US caves in and lets Canadians in with misdemeanors and DUI's because they feel they don't have to be held to the same standard.

Well, oh well. I shouldn't be complaining. I agree with much of Canada's politics besides this. I'm still in my mid-20s and had a misdemeanor three years ago and can't enter Canada for at least another 3 years before I'm considered 'rehabilitated' by them (for a drug offense that I very much regret).

The only cities in Canada I will regret not seeing soon again are Vancouver and Montreal.... everything else (including the cesspool of Toronto) is a carbon copy of the US. I have been there three times before in my teens.

At least Europe isn't so strict.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I don't care if he's a creep. I don't want a high school drama teacher navigating our economy, famous for his father's name. Remember George W. Bush? We've seen this story play out.

We already have LGBT rights, and the public overwhelming supports them. If we lose them, we will get them back. Harper has made no effort to attack LGBT people. He's fine. I don't care.

"If we lose them, we will get them back"

wow you would actually elect a prime ministersthat would take your basic human rights away.

cool.

but how did it take for us to get our rights in the first place?

 

[MTLDude]

What's wrong with Canada ?

Basically, everything, starting with our politicians, corrupt as a sin, ending with our climate: on the same day, you can have a short and tank top temperature in the morning and a snowfall by diner time!!!

 

[DonQuixote]

Boris,
I thought Snowfall WAS shorts and tank top weather up your way!
I've seen kids waiting for the bus down here wearing shorts and T's (dress code doesn't allow arm pits) in January.

 

[Willie Boy]

Basically, everything, starting with our politicians, corrupt as a sin,

nowhere near as bad as in the USA.

ending with our climate: on the same day, you can have a short and tank top temperature in the morning and a snowfall by dinner time!!!

What's the difference? When the snow is fallin' it is perfect skinny dipping weather.

 

[Jack Springer]

there is so much wrong with canada ....

 

[gsdx]

What's the difference? When the snow is fallin' it is perfect skinny dipping weather.

Indeed. The snow keeps the mosquitoes and deer flies down.

 

[bankside]

I don't care if he's a creep. I don't want a high school drama teacher navigating our economy, famous for his father's name. Remember George W. Bush? We've seen this story play out.

We already have LGBT rights, and the public overwhelming supports them. If we lose them, we will get them back. Harper has made no effort to attack LGBT people. He's fine. I don't care.

He's a nut job and a hypocrite who has proven the Liberals right by dumping most of his Reform Party policies. But he has still fallen short of the growth and fiscal discipline shown by the Liberals. Harper is no economic genius, which is doubly sad given that was his field of study. He can't even get an accurate quote of a fighter jet, despite the Liberals predicting the price accurately and despite the independent Parliamentary Budget Officer saying the same thing.

You forget that Harper's main claim to fame was as a lobbyist for the Taxwhiners Federation, where his main job was simply to repeat "Cut taxes!"

How shall we balance the budget?
"Cut taxes!"
How do we pay for health care?
"Cut taxes!"
How do we ensure border security?"
"Cut taxes!"
How do I find my lost pair of glasses?
"Cut taxes!"

I'll take my chances with the drama teacher, thanks, who at least has more than one line in his act. And Trudeau would be prime minister anyway, not finance minister.

 

[gsdx]

Harper has made no effort to attack LGBT people. He's fine. I don't care.

Oh, really? My memory ain't what it used to be, but I certainly remember this:

On June 10, 2003—ten years ago this week—same-sex marriage became legal in Ontario.

“It is our view that the dignity of persons in same-sex relationships is violated by the exclusion of same-sex couples from the institution of marriage,” the province’s Court of Appeal declared, in Halpern v. Canada. “Accordingly, we conclude that the common-law definition of marriage as ‘the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others’ violates [Section] 15(1) of the Charter.”

Other courts—in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia—had reached the same conclusion, but they had stayed the effect of their respective rulings to give Parliament time to respond. The Ontario Court of Appeal decided not to wait; same-sex marriage arrived in Ontario that same day.

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was surprised by the ruling, but one week later the Government of Canada announced it would not appeal Halpern to the Supreme Court. In retrospect, the rest was just a matter of time. The Civil Marriage Act passed the House of Commons on June 28, 2005.

Enter Stephen Harper.

On the first day of the 2006 federal election campaign, the Conservative leader promised to put the Charter rights of gay Canadians to a free vote in Parliament. Harper’s position had been that civil unions would be a suitable substitute – “separate but equal,” you know – but the fact remains that just a simple majority could have been the beginning of the end of marriage equality.

The Conservatives won the election. The vote happened. But the majority of MPs had already moved on.

Stephen Harper soon did the same; the most the Prime Minister has since said on the subject is that he does not plan to say anything at all. “We have no intention of further opening or reopening this issue,” he said last year.

That is a mistake. Because, for the Prime Minister, one simple thing remains to be said.

For a leader who has so recently advocated for second-class citizenship for some Canadians, silent acceptance will never be the same as support, and indifference will always be a pathetic substitute for tolerance. Besides, tolerance itself is insufficient where equal rights are concerned.

So Stephen Harper should come right out and say it: I was wrong.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/15/what-stephen-harper-wont-tell-you-about-same-sex-marriage/

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Quebec.

Quebec reveals religious symbols to be banned from public sector

Just thinking if the thought police in that province saw my crucifix(that I wear because it was the last thing my mom bought me and not for religious reasons) and deemed it illegal what would happen to me.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I think it was the Kids in The Hall.

 

[youfiad]

Canada is just America's hat, and Canadians are Americans. Anyone who says differently has never met both an American and a Canadian.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Canada is just America's hat, and Canadians are Americans. Anyone who says differently has never met both an American and a Canadian.

have you met me?


I am kind of strange and fucked.

We are not your hat but your big brother who has done it right.

 

[youfiad]

have your met me.

I am kind of strange and fucked. Totally Canuck but a bit of Italian in me.

We are not your hat but your big brother does it all right/

I don't even know what that means

 

[gsdx]

Canadians are Americans.

Them's fightin' words, mister.

You can take that as a joke if you want, but it's not. I am NOT... and I repeat, "NOT!!"... American.

Apparently you have never met a Canadian.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I don't even know what that means

sorry my dyslexia get in the way sometimes

 

[youfiad]

Them's fightin' words, mister.

You can take that as a joke if you want, but it's not. I am NOT... and I repeat, "NOT!!"... American.

Apparently you have never met a Canadian.

The ever present denial ^^. Of course Canadians and Americans share different passports, but other than that, pretty much everything is the same, culturally speaking. Same music, same foods, same fashion, same, well, you get the idea. Even the accent and overall English lexicon is the same.