"The difference between the prople picked for the Governor-General of Canada and Governor-General of Australia couldn't be bigger:"
Oh my gawd! Anything I might offer by way of comment would certainly make me a bigoted racist conservative...but tell me, where are the 'real' Canadians? Those who grow the wheat, catch the fish, cut the timber? Do they have any human rights? LOL!
The real Canadians, according to the self-described elites, are those like Brett Mann in Belleville Ontario, who BTW is an English Canadian: "I personally would far prefer that rather than Parrish criticizing America, the Prime Minister of Canada would stand up and in no uncertain terms, on the record, officially, tell Americans that they are mass murderers and torturers and imperialist ignorant fools and Canada will have nothing to do with them until some sliver of human decency and sanity returns to America." (taken from http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=42980 ), or Fateh Kamel, a Algerian born Francophone migrant to Canada, and ran an Islamic terrorist cell in Montreal. Believe it or not, this is the face of Canada today.
Regional divisions in Canada is a very serious issue and Ontario and particularly Quebec are politically far more different from Alberta than, say, Sydney and Mackay in Queensland. Joe Average could be a moderate conservative in the 905-belt (the Greater Toronto Area - it uses 905 as its telephone area code) but he would be horrified by the political centre in Alberta as too "right-wing". On average Australia's political centre is around Alberta and BC - which means that you would be considered a right-wing bigot if you happen to meet my uncle in Toronto. Queensland would well be to the right of the most conservative Albertan LOL (or sigh)!