Posted on 12/17/2005 8:22:05 PM PST by NZerFromHK
But this time, they will not win.
Where is their power base? Ontario? Quebec? I have no problem boycotting those two provinces and patronizing the others. Maybe we need a list of businesses to avoid in ONT and QUE and a list of businesses in the rural ones to reward.
Big cities, minus Calgary Alberta.
There will come a day when the tide will change. Just as it did in America. Canada has to many good people who just got so tied up in this socialistic crap that they are going to have a hard time digging out. But the day shall come when the tide changes.
Weak people always want to blame someone else for their problems.
May they go the way of France, then.
Well, maybe I shouldn't say that. Before I was at all for the wise about the politics of the world, I just assumed Canadians liked us. And in my travels, I was greated warmly by people in Calgary and in Alberta. Montreal was a different story.
In any case, I loved the people of Alberta and some of those I encountered in Quebec.
Out of curiosity, have there ever been polls of Americans and how they think about different countries?
I can't say that I ever disliked Cananda until I began to learn about how much they disliked us. Same thing with France. I disliked the hyperliberalism you saw there and the decline of the church pained and saddened me, but I didn't hold a dislike for them at all.
I guess what I'm saying is that most Americans are going to have fairly positive views of Spain, Italy, and Canada. It just doesn't seem that the feeling is mutual.
It is in Ontario's population centres like Toronto, Windsor, and Quebec's federalist regions (i.e places full of those who want Quebec to stay in Canada) such as Montreal. They have built a powerful constitutency aurrounding Francophone federalist, Anglo Quebecois, Ontario's immigrant communities, socialists, High Tories (Red Tories), sheeple average Canucks who trust everything the CBC and CTV says.
I think to a lot of average Canadians, Alberta is already half way to the US border by their perspectives. It is often riled as the fifth columns of the United States.
What can US FReepers do to help?
A parody of Canada's national anthem, O Canada:
Oh Canada
Le terre du socialiste
True patriot love
for all that would disgust
With prideful hearts we see thee rise,
The true north weak kneed
And bound by every interest group
And the gay community
God keep our land
But please leave us be
O Canada we want some things for free.
O Canada we want some things for free.
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The Prairies Think: the Bible belt, but duller Populated by: shotgun-toting, rodeo-loving cowboys |
The bad Canadians:
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Ontario Think: private school kids with public school educations Populated by: Upwardly mobile Canadians, which is even less impressive than it sounds |
I'm not Canadian so I wouldn't presume to comment on their electoral process.
Stop bashing Canadians!
Hang on, I didn't write it. It's one of yours truly. I specifically asked the Canadian DreeDominion member permission to cross-post it here.
Canadian DreeDominion member?
Might you be that same member?
Pathetic.
A "minority government" is formed if the "winning" party fails to get 155 or more out of the 308 seats - we have 5 parties that get significant support (above 10% each): Liberals (center-left, currently corrupt), Conservatives (center-right), NDP (socialists), Bloc (Quebec only - French socialists), and Greens (yay!! more socialism, but they never get enough votes in a given region to win a seat).
The losing parties either enter into a defacto coalition with the quasi-winner, or form an opposition coalition. An election can basically be forced at any time in these circumstances (instead of every 4-5 years), so minority governments are pretty short term creatures. A minority government is almost a paralyzed government (which is good and bad I guess)...
The best outcome now is a Conservative majority, which ain't going to happen this time around, sorry to say. It is going to be either a Liberal minority (again), with NDP support (again) OR a Conservative minority, with Bloc support (the only thing they both have in common is a hatred for the Liberals). I predict that the cycle won't be broken until either the Liberal leader (Martin) or the Conservative leader (Harper) is replaced.
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