Parliament shut down again

Canadian Press via Sun Media ^ | Alexander Panetta

[sarasmom]

I am adamantly against taking any military action against Canada, except ordinary, routine, low level enhanced defensive measures, at this time.

Fortunately for the USA, we can continue maintaining our current level of diplomatic relations until after we bomb France.

It will be interesting to see how long it takes for our northern neighbors to blame the USA for their own internal governments failure.

[KateatRFM]

I live in the Annex area of Toronto (with Forest Hill on the other side) so you can imagine. But I listen all day long to the proles whining that they need more 'affordable' goodies and it's up to TheRich or anybody except themselves to provide them. And I watch the incessant ads for Lotto tickets that reassure the proles that it's all a matter of luck -- that you will be able to "live large"; i.e. do nothing all day but buy things, if you become one of 'the fortunate' as opposed to the 'less fortunate' who did not get that lottery win.

I wouldn't miss this for the world. It's like a ringside seat at a train wreck. Lots more fun than an American election which is so orderly and organized.

[headsonpikes]

I prefer to see train wrecks from a considerable distance.
To the degree that you are correct in your analysis of Hogtown 'proles', my BC mountain hideaway looks better and better all the time.

[GMMAC]

While my Mississauga vantage point is far from ideal, attempting to view the Canadian political landscape from your current one - with which I'm all too familiar - is roughly akin to trying to perceive America's from a similar locale within the city of Boston.

Plus, you don't - through no fault of your own - have the long-time, first-hand native experience to balance your likely accurate, as far as they go, personal perceptions.

Try thinking of Toronto - and especially your immediate neighborhood within it - as "San Francisco North" and appreciate that both aren't so much cities but, rather and more accurately, massive whining special interest groups which almost by accident happen to possess municipal boundaries.

As example, "The Annex" area of Toronto welcomed with open arms American military deserters and draft dodgers back in the '70's and more of them than you probably realize still continue to number among your neighbors. Outside of a few other urban areas, this plainly wasn't true and continues not to be. Merely drive beyond comfortable commuting distance from Southern Ontario's urban centers and you'll get a much more accurate picture of Canada and Canadians.