Canuckistan is what happens when you wholly rely on your geographical proximity to the greatest nation on the planet for your military protection and industrial output so you can throw your every dollar into free schitt for da pipple.
And this has been the MO for the Canucks in Canuckistan since, like, forever.
I understand that there are problems and improvements that can be made, but best to beware of painting with too wide a brush.
I really posted this to highlight the mature leadership of Harper, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this...
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/over-2000-canadians-were-wounded-in-afghan-mission
Every Province I’ve been too has a Highway of Heros,
where people congregate on the overpasses to pay respect to the fallen as vehicles carrying them to their final resting place.
My Dad is buried in a veterans section of a cemetery. He served during WW2 in North Africa.
Let us also not forget that a certain nation pretty much insisted on its being the planetary police, and and made it so that the now dependent neighbour was unable to continue its independent military research and development projects.
That same neighbour also lured away many of the brightest engineers and scientists that were laid off due to those predatory policies.
But no, let’s just cast aspersions on the biggest trade partner you have.
Perhaps I am not really an ‘ordinary’ Canadian since I spent a large portion of my youth
growing up in the US 1959-1967 age 8 to 16, (North Carolina, Connecticut and Massachusetts)
and still have a strong sense of attachment to the US.