Canadians’ psychological defense against living next to the giant United States is sanctimony: “at least we are nicer than they are!”
I know Toronto very well. The older parts of the city are OK, but most of the area is a faceless, cheap, urban sprawl. Certainly in Toronto area, people are not at all “nice,” it being a large city, very expensive, hugely flooded with immigrants - and thus has no overriding character at all, except post-modernism and domineering globalist/leftist sloganeering. Canadians are heavily taxed, which makes many of them poorer than they should be, and personally, I don’t think their vaunted health-care system is that great - at least not according to my friends’ whose parents are waiting for hip replacements or heart stents.
I certainly love parts of Canada, its overall an advanced country, and have many friends there, but I’m tired of the lies and self-righteousness one gets from people like this author.
The Toronto Glob and Snail is , like most of Canada, so erroneously smug when it comes to comparing itself to the USA.
Canadians are so dopey that they do not comprehend that they have no guaranteed rights of free speech, no right to purchase or keep firearms, little or no right to self defense against assault, break and enter or theft of property.All rights one would have in the USA are in Canada highly regulated privileges which are almost useless.
In short Canadians are little better than cattle in their own draconian country, with a government controlled monopoly CBC propaganda news network, subsidized by tax payer money.Canadians are made to pay for their own fake news.
Canada has lived under a burgeoning socialist government ever since the term of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his “Quiet Revolution” 1970 onward.
If you really want to know how the Dem Socialist traitors to America will pay for their free hand-outs, just look to Canada where the socialists have been in power for over 40 years, elected via government hand out mentality.
Right now Canada and its provinces have has an effective combined 17% GST on processed goods, and a national carbon tax on fuel.The Canadian economy can’t really get off the ground to develop without government “subsidies.”The government controls everything and government is the largest employer in Canada when you include the various Crown Corporations created by Canadian federal and provincial government.
And still these Socialists in Canada have not screwed working men and women quite enough. They simply PRINT more money so they will have it to “spend” on their “free” hand outs. That’s what the Dems will do here. They will print more and more US dollars to have the money to spend on their giveaways, diluting the US dollar to a former shadow of itself, and destroying the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency, handing the reserve currency world wide status over to China.
There is NOTHING at all good about these nationalist socialist , liberal fascist “give aways.” They are actually treasonous activity, designed to destroy our US entrepreneurial, capitalist culture and our world wide economic dominance.We do not want the USA to become Canada
as the Globe and Snail article of this thread suggests.
The only thing good about living in Canada would be the 136 % exchange rate from USD to CD.
Canada is essentially NOT a place a real patriotic American who understands the US Constitution and the pursuit of happiness would want to live. Canada simply is not a free country. Canada is a Great Pretender run by a collective of ideologically driven smug liberal fascists.
Sorry, Americans are not going to be lining up to migrate to Canada any time soon. That’s merely wishful thinking. Hell, most Americans now do not even wantrto visit Canada anymore since the early 1970s US tourism of Canada has been in decline.
No freedom of religion.
No freedom of speech.
Crappy socialized medicine.
You can be imprisoned for politically incorrect speech.
I had a nice discussion with the Canadian recently at a business conference. One of our suppliers. The guy was very polite and interesting to talk to, he talked about a lot of cool places in Canada that I should see. His only criticism of America was the guns. He explained to me how he was horrified at the very idea of shooting a gun and cannot understand edgy we allow them. I politely listen to him, suppressed a smile and took a perverse joy that he had no inkling about the .380 in my pocket.
as a completely defanged male, he doesn’t even know how to notice if somebody happens to be carrying
Canada’s loss is America’s gain. Glad to be rid of ye.
If you like seven months a year of winter, Canada might be your place.
The United States of America does not need or want people like this to live here. I am so glad trash like you leave.
Not one fek given.
Glad he’s gone. Don’t let him back in.
I am a recovering American. Correcton: You are a former American who has chosen to forsake the country that gave you life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Goodbye and please do not ever come back.
Just wait until this loser needs serious medical care. He’ll be rushing back to the USA.
This dud obviously feels the need to justify his traitorous actions. His gut if full of remorse or he would not be spewing his so called secret all over the internet. Save it pal, not many of us want to hear it. I know I sure do not. You made your choice, now enjoy living in a country where no rights are guaranteed, just at the whim of the government. One word of advice: Do not say something the government thinks is hateful or disrespectful to a single protected person. You will be in jail quickly.
Lawrence Karol:”I just felt a seismic shift in my overall sense of well-being and thought, “I’ve got to get out of here”.”
We couldn’t be happier, Larry, you old leftist snowflake you. Now, try to convince your leftist buddies to move there and join you.
Well bye! Don’t come back!
Egalitarianism abolishes causality in the earning of income, resulting in people doing too little, and it abolishes causality in the spending of income, causing people to be unconcerned about cost, resulting in people spending too much. The evasion of causality is one of the signs and symptoms of irrationality.
There is, or was, a separatist movement underway in Alberta in the last few years. They want to become our 51st. state. I say no. Good God that’s all we need. More millions, not just Albertans but thousands more who would flood into Alberta and then here. We’re already a nation of 324 million. We’re not Motel 6 for God’s sake.
I salute him if he actually left the country. I encourage more to follow his example.
Secondly, I really don’t care what foreigners think of us. When’s the last time you heard of any other country obsessively fretting over the results of opinion surveys of foreigners about them? I lived in 4 countries in Europe. I never once heard them worrying about their popularity dipping with Americans.
I’d like to know how he got a job and is able to stay up there.
Yes, and the distain for all things American is pitch perfect.