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The poster must be from the East. I feel sorry for you. :)

I'm Western Canadian, so I don't have to deal with the bilingual crap too much. I voted against the Charlotten Accords which was an attempt to bribe Quebec not to leave Canada. If they want to leave, leave, but I'm not paying you to stay. My bigger beef with our politicians is that THEY made the French thing an issue. It could have simmered away as people got bored with the separatists, but NOOO, the Tories and the Liberals had to constantly throw it in our face.

Canadians and Americans assume a lot of things about our tax systems. Both systems are good and bad for various reasons. One thing that annoys me is that gas tax in Canada gets into general revenue. It does NOT largely get spent on roads. But Canada also has larger exemptions than the US. I know because I did my wife's taxes. She is an American living in Canada with me.

I live in Victoria and its one of the most beautiful places on earth.

The biggest problems we have compared to America isn't taxes.

The first one is healthcare. America has problems too. But Canada refuses to acknowledge that the system is unsustainable. As the population ages we will likely spend 100% of tax revenue on healthcare. Trying to suggest that perhaps the patient should pay a portion of the cost (say 10% of a 100,000 procedure) gets thrown back in your face as anti-Canadian.

Our other problem is we are run as a socialist regime. The CRTC (TV regulation branch of the government) had the police confiscating satellite dishes? Why? Because they picked up 100% US content. Canada wants to control how much US content we watch on TV.

We have a lot of socialists. Too many. Even Christians who profess to believe in socialism. Which is not rational if they knew the tenents of that belief.

Really nothing can be done to change how things are here. Canadians are not known to take action. Separation is unlikely. But it could be worse. We could be France.

I'm also willing to bet that I'm one of the only people in the United States who knows that the "Petro" in Petro-Canada is actually an acronym . . .

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Ripped Off - Canada

LOL.

Canukistan IS France...