Canada is NOT a real Country

[Charles J. White]

Canada is NOT a real Country, and this is NOT an endorsement of the biggest goverment in the world, the United States either. I believe that perhaps Canada's day is quickly coming to an end. This Canada Day (Dominion Day) I plan on pointing this out as well to whoever starts a dumb thread about how great Canada is.

I do believe that are a dozen countries which are better. And for the record, yes I'm planning on spending a great deal more time in Maine. There is something about Canadians which I don't like, they are a bitter people, an angry people, and only have themselves to blame. Everything from Atlantic Canada, to the election of this joke of a federal government that pretends to call itself "Conservative", to the election of the Alberta PC's a few days ago, to that dump we call Quebec. It is a place being held together by a cheque book that is about it.

The only good thing I think of that worth praising for this passe nation are the ski hills, and ocean beaches and that is about it...

[styky]

Until about 1950 we in the west operated on needs but since then it's been entirely by wants. Sooner or later you have to pay for the bill for those wants and the nation is waking up to that fact and it's not sitting very well.

[Hodgson]

Canada is NOT a real Country, and this is NOT an endorsement of the biggest goverment in the world, the United States either. I believe that perhaps Canada's day is quickly coming to an end. This Canada Day (Dominion Day) I plan on pointing this out as well to whoever starts a dumb thread about how great Canada is.

I do believe that are a dozen countries which are better. And for the record, yes I'm planning on spending a great deal more time in Maine. There is something about Canadians which I don't like, they are a bitter people, an angry people, and only have themselves to blame. Everything from Atlantic Canada, to the election of this joke of a federal government that pretends to call itself "Conservative", to the election of the Alberta PC's a few days ago, to that dump we call Quebec. It is a place being held together by a cheque book that is about it.

The only good thing I think of that worth praising for this passe nation are the ski hills, and ocean beaches and that is about it...

"Often we fault in others what we see in ourselves."

[Faramir]

Canada would be a great country...without the Canadians.

The fact David Suzuki came in as the most trusted man in Canada tells you the shallow, myoptic, vapid, and politically correct thinking that dominates Canadian culture. I even come across Church members more concerned about the "feelings" of gays than the agenda they are trying to push on us. In Canada, the businessman is looked at with the sort of scorn they were seen in revolutionary France, and government seen as our saviour.

Even suggesting DELIVERY of healthcare can be private will doom you to purgatory. Never mind that respiratory services, podiatry services, scanning and imaging, and a host of other services are all now mostly contracted out to private clinics.

A libertarian in Canada is quickly regarded as a "angry white man" - go figure when that "angry white man" was the female leader of a multi-cultural slate of a new party in Alberta (my wife, so politically incorrectly, remarked at all the towel heads that were standing behind Danielle Smith in her speech).

[DA_Champion]

Most countries are not real countries.

[smallLliberal]

Love to see the list of the dozen better countries.

Do you think maybe it is about where you live and you associate with ... And not the whole country?

[Charles J. White]

In Canada, the businessman is looked at with the sort of scorn they were seen in revolutionary France, and government seen as our saviour.

That is THE truth, you can work you entire life in the energy business, helping create employment, and keeping people working in Canada's largest propane plant, largest refinery, and largest LNG plant, along with Canada's largest trucking network that reaches from Newfoundland (a have province) all the way down to New York and up over to Ontario, and service stations all over the damn Eastern seaboard of North America, never taking a welfare cheque in your life and still be treated like you are scum by your "fellow" Canadians. This is part of the reason why I encourage a lot of my friends to move to New England.

The place really is a shitehole of jerks and arseholes.

[styky]

Canada would be a great country...without the Canadians.

The fact David Suzuki came in as the most trusted man in Canada tells you the shallow, myoptic, vapid, and politically correct thinking that dominates Canadian culture. I even come across Church members more concerned about the "feelings" of gays than the agenda they are trying to push on us. In Canada, the businessman is looked at with the sort of scorn they were seen in revolutionary France, and government seen as our saviour.

Even suggesting DELIVERY of healthcare can be private will doom you to purgatory. Never mind that respiratory services, podiatry services, scanning and imaging, and a host of other services are all now mostly contracted out to private clinics.

A libertarian in Canada is quickly regarded as a "angry white man" - go figure when that "angry white man" was the female leader of a multi-cultural slate of a new party in Alberta (my wife, so politically incorrectly, remarked at all the towel heads that were standing behind Danielle Smith in her speech).

Otherwise how would you see the look of such satisfaction over the increased taxation of the rich that make the jobs. When was the last time you got a job offer from some guy making $25 grand a year.

[DA_Champion]

When was the last time you got a job offer from some guy making $25 grand a year.

The founder of Intel, one of America's greatest companies, came to America with far less than 25k in his pocket.

If you crush the 99%, you crush your talent pool, and your country dies, which is what's happening.

[Sneaky]

Do you think maybe it is about where you live and you associate with ... And not the whole country?

For me, it is about where YOU live

[Faramir]

Great points all. For instance someone like Carnegie. A true wealth builder. He took steel and manufactured it for 1/10th of what it us to cost - creating a heavenly boom in standard of living and riches for ALL Americans. And he didn't do it to make money primarily. He had a passion and love for chemistry.

As to the point about other countries? Yes, there are countries like Canada that suffer from identity crisis or inferiority complexes. One is Austria, which when you think about it is still a very young country (compared to Germany of Great Britain). Austrians have always struggled with their identities.

France shouldn't have an idenity crisis, but it does suffer from a real inferiority complex vis a vis the English world.

But, no, I do think it is the whole country is pretty screwed. As I said, our heritage is great. It's the current living generation, except for the greatest generation, that are the problem. Politically correct, scared as skunks to say ANYTHING negative about immigration, scared to put their X near the box of someone who looks like they go to Church on Sunday, driven with an almost irresistable impulse to claim they are "better than Americans", knee jerk proud of a 3rd class healthcare system they STILL think is the best in the world, and practically stuck in idol worship of Saint Suzuki.

[Red Green]

I have to say that Canadians have the most skewed view of economics I have encountered. People in the US are pretty ignorant as well, but many at least have some inkling that profit does not add to the cost of a product and don't demonize becoming wealthy due to being successful. Canadians are dreadful about that.

[DA_Champion]

Great points all. For instance someone like Carnegie. A true wealth builder. He took steel and manufactured it for 1/10th of what it us to cost - creating a heavenly boom in standard of living and riches for ALL Americans. And he didn't do it to make money primarily. He had a passion and love for chemistry.

As to the point about other countries? Yes, there are countries like Canada that suffer from identity crisis or inferiority complexes. One is Austria, which when you think about it is still a very young country (compared to Germany of Great Britain). Austrians have always struggled with their identities.

France shouldn't have an idenity crisis, but it does suffer from a real inferiority complex vis a vis the English world.

But, no, I do think it is the whole country is pretty screwed. As I said, our heritage is great. It's the current living generation, except for the greatest generation, that are the problem. Politically correct, scared as skunks to say ANYTHING negative about immigration, scared to put their X near the box of someone who looks like they go to Church on Sunday, driven with an almost irresistable impulse to claim they are "better than Americans", knee jerk proud of a 3rd class healthcare system they STILL think is the best in the world, and practically stuck in idol worship of Saint Suzuki.

There are very few Andrew Canegies around anymore.

Just a lot of rentiers like the Banks who add insult to injury by demanding that we think of them as modern Carnegies.

[Faramir]

Great points all. For instance someone like Carnegie. A true wealth builder. He took steel and manufactured it for 1/10th of what it us to cost - creating a heavenly boom in standard of living and riches for ALL Americans. And he didn't do it to make money primarily. He had a passion and love for chemistry.

As to the point about other countries? Yes, there are countries like Canada that suffer from identity crisis or inferiority complexes. One is Austria, which when you think about it is still a very young country (compared to Germany of Great Britain). Austrians have always struggled with their identities.

France shouldn't have an idenity crisis, but it does suffer from a real inferiority complex vis a vis the English world.

But, no, I do think it is the whole country is pretty screwed. As I said, our heritage is great. It's the current living generation, except for the greatest generation, that are the problem. Politically correct, scared as skunks to say ANYTHING negative about immigration, scared to put their X near the box of someone who looks like they go to Church on Sunday, driven with an almost irresistable impulse to claim they are "better than Americans", knee jerk proud of a 3rd class healthcare system they STILL think is the best in the world, and practically stuck in idol worship of Saint Suzuki.

There are very few Andrew Canegies around anymore.

Just a lot of rentiers like the Banks who add insult to injury by demanding that we think of them as modern Carnegies.

True even Apple is not such a darling, considering it operates in near slave like conditions in China, instead of employing Americans.

[Faramir]

I have to say that Canadians have the most skewed view of economics I have encountered. People in the US are pretty ignorant as well, but many at least have some inkling that profit does not add to the cost of a product and don't demonize becoming wealthy due to being successful. Canadians are dreadful about that.

You mean like labour unions that send their industry down the toilet (lumber mills) with their excessive wage demands? My grandpa was telling about how great his job was in the cannery without a union. Then the union came in and made some stupid demands. Management told them they back off or they will close the factory. Union leadership would not back off. So the factory went to Saskachewan and hundreds of good BC jobs were lost.

Mind you they did that to the car industry down south (except where the Honda plants are).