[Dunedain]

Actually Federalism is a big movement here. Ottawa tells us what to do but then expects the provinces to foot the bill. Taxation WITHOUT representation.

Plus we practice regional welfare. Canada taxes the richer provinces and transfers the money to poorer provinces. For example gas taxes go to one federal pot. Most is wasted on things like 1 billion for gun registration. The rest is divided unequally. BC gets back about 1/5th of its gas taxes paid to Ottawa. Regions close to Ottawa of course get the Lion's Share.

Canada has been ruled by 3 multi-millionaire lawyers for the last 3 decades. Maybe that's what's wrong.

[Alberta's Child]

I'll tell you something -- the perspective you get out west is so different than what you get in eastern Canada. In Alberta, it seems like there is so much money pouring out of people's ears that they don't give a sh!t about how much Ottawa takes from them -- it's simply written into their cost of doing business.

And I say this as an American . . . There's nothing better in this world than a place where the incumbent candidate for provincial premier can go out and have too much to drink, make an unscheduled "campaign stop" at a homeless shelter, and end up berating the shelter's occupants for being unemployed and living in a shelter at a time when the province is facing a serious labor shortage --- and see his approval ratings go through the roof as a result.

LOL!

[kaktuskid]

Maybe Canada needs to dump Quebec...it may solve a lot of its problems.