On July 02 2011 05:52 ToxNub wrote: For me this is a sad day.
Almost every year I am happy and excited for Canada Day, and am proud to be Canadian. But time has changed our once great country. The government has increasingly become less representative of the "old" canadian values I cherished. More than just our government, this demonstrates a shift in the minds of our nation. This is democracy, and I have no choice but to swallow. It won't be long before people start to forget that Canadians were supposed to be nice, that we were supposed to be tolerant, that we were all a bunch of tree huggers who liked hockey and beer and bacon. More than ever, I find my fellow Canadians disgusting. Between their social views, their disregard for our land and our children's inheritance, their greed, and their corruption, I have little to celebrate today.
My only solace is that I'd still rather live here than most of the world. =P
On July 02 2011 05:52 ToxNub wrote: For me this is a sad day.
Almost every year I am happy and excited for Canada Day, and am proud to be Canadian. But time has changed our once great country. The government has increasingly become less representative of the "old" canadian values I cherished. More than just our government, this demonstrates a shift in the minds of our nation. This is democracy, and I have no choice but to swallow. It won't be long before people start to forget that Canadians were supposed to be nice, that we were supposed to be tolerant, that we were all a bunch of tree huggers who liked hockey and beer and bacon. More than ever, I find my fellow Canadians disgusting. Between their social views, their disregard for our land and our children's inheritance, their greed, and their corruption, I have little to celebrate today.
My only solace is that I'd still rather live here than most of the world. =P
Any thread with Canada seems brings out this garbage. I would rather you leave the country if we disgust you. I have never seen an election have so many angry people in it because they did not get their candidate into power. A lot of people go through this in their life, you will get over it like other people have had to. Grow up and accept it until next election. I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease is the logic behind posts like this.
I am proud to celebrate another birthday in this awesome country.
A few discussion questions: 1) What's your favourite event in canadian history? 2) Who's your favourite Canadian? (be it hockey player, activist/politician, etc) 3) How would you describe Canada and being Canadian?
1) Vimmy Ridge 2) George "Rush" St Pierre 3) Canada is the most awesome country in the world, and being Canadian makes me awesome
On July 02 2011 05:52 ToxNub wrote: For me this is a sad day.
Almost every year I am happy and excited for Canada Day, and am proud to be Canadian. But time has changed our once great country. The government has increasingly become less representative of the "old" canadian values I cherished. More than just our government, this demonstrates a shift in the minds of our nation. This is democracy, and I have no choice but to swallow. It won't be long before people start to forget that Canadians were supposed to be nice, that we were supposed to be tolerant, that we were all a bunch of tree huggers who liked hockey and beer and bacon. More than ever, I find my fellow Canadians disgusting. Between their social views, their disregard for our land and our children's inheritance, their greed, and their corruption, I have little to celebrate today.
My only solace is that I'd still rather live here than most of the world. =P
Please explain?
And in response to that, he is referring to the increasing power of the Conservative Party of Canada at the federal level. They are behind a lot of pretty unpopular policy changes (cutting funding for the arts, openly discussing making abortion illegal, discussing maybe trying to get gay marriage banned again, etc) and at least a dozen of their currently serving Members of Parliament are under investigation for or have been convicted of fraud.
But, aside from that, we still live in a great nation and I'm thoroughly proud to say I'm from here. Go Canada!
On July 02 2011 05:52 ToxNub wrote: For me this is a sad day.
Almost every year I am happy and excited for Canada Day, and am proud to be Canadian. But time has changed our once great country. The government has increasingly become less representative of the "old" canadian values I cherished. More than just our government, this demonstrates a shift in the minds of our nation. This is democracy, and I have no choice but to swallow. It won't be long before people start to forget that Canadians were supposed to be nice, that we were supposed to be tolerant, that we were all a bunch of tree huggers who liked hockey and beer and bacon. More than ever, I find my fellow Canadians disgusting. Between their social views, their disregard for our land and our children's inheritance, their greed, and their corruption, I have little to celebrate today.
My only solace is that I'd still rather live here than most of the world. =P
Any thread with Canada seems brings out this garbage. I would rather you leave the country if we disgust you. I have never seen an election have so many angry people in it because they did not get their candidate into power. A lot of people go through this in their life, you will get over it like other people have had to. Grow up and accept it until next election. I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease is the logic behind posts like this.
I am proud to celebrate another birthday in this awesome country.
Thank you for your dishonest representation and simplification of a complex political shift as "qq election". You're not doing your side credit.
For the above poster and those interested in the reason I make these statements...
Canada has been changing over the past two decades. We have a majority conservative government even though the majority of canadians voted against harper (gg fptp). We backed out of Kyoto, we are involved in too many conflicts we don't support (sound familiar USA?). Our science minister won't even come out and say he believes in evolution. Along with this shift has come several things: more corporate welfare, reductions in funding from everything from battered women's shelters, to immigration programs, to a complete disregard for the environment. Fun fact! Now Canada, per capita, pollutes more than the United States. Alberta, my province, in particular, (also conservative) has basically sold off our assets to foreign companies for pennies on the dollar. And the culture, where do I begin... it's a land of rig pigs with too much cash, nothing to spend it on but cocaine and big trucks and liquor, a place where racism and homophobia thrive. The friendly stereotypes that americans have given canadians rarely apply anymore.
I'm not even blaming the conservatives... What hurts me the most is that my fellow canadians actually support this shit. And no, I'm not leaving, because I love this country and I'm doing my best to prevent it from going to shit.
On July 02 2011 05:52 ToxNub wrote: For me this is a sad day.
Almost every year I am happy and excited for Canada Day, and am proud to be Canadian. But time has changed our once great country. The government has increasingly become less representative of the "old" canadian values I cherished. More than just our government, this demonstrates a shift in the minds of our nation. This is democracy, and I have no choice but to swallow. It won't be long before people start to forget that Canadians were supposed to be nice, that we were supposed to be tolerant, that we were all a bunch of tree huggers who liked hockey and beer and bacon. More than ever, I find my fellow Canadians disgusting. Between their social views, their disregard for our land and our children's inheritance, their greed, and their corruption, I have little to celebrate today.
My only solace is that I'd still rather live here than most of the world. =P
Any thread with Canada seems brings out this garbage. I would rather you leave the country if we disgust you. I have never seen an election have so many angry people in it because they did not get their candidate into power. A lot of people go through this in their life, you will get over it like other people have had to. Grow up and accept it until next election. I guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease is the logic behind posts like this.
I am proud to celebrate another birthday in this awesome country.
Thank you for your dishonest representation and simplification of a complex political shift as "qq election". You're not doing your side credit.
For the above poster and those interested in the reason I make these statements...
Canada has been changing over the past two decades. We have a majority conservative government even though the majority of canadians voted against harper (gg fptp). We backed out of Kyoto, we are involved in too many conflicts we don't support (sound familiar USA?). Our science minister won't even come out and say he believes in evolution. Along with this shift has come several things: more corporate welfare, reductions in funding from everything from battered women's shelters, to immigration programs, to a complete disregard for the environment. Fun fact! Now Canada, per capita, pollutes more than the United States. Alberta, my province, in particular, (also conservative) has basically sold off our assets to foreign companies for pennies on the dollar. And the culture, where do I begin... it's a land of rig pigs with too much cash, nothing to spend it on but cocaine and big trucks and liquor, a place where racism and homophobia thrive. The friendly stereotypes that americans have given canadians rarely apply anymore.
I'm not even blaming the conservatives... What hurts me the most is that my fellow canadians actually support this shit. And no, I'm not leaving, because I love this country and I'm doing my best to prevent it from going to shit.
Tories didnt even had 50% of the vote... just more seat
And YAYY canadaaaaaa :DDD
Edit: and what you say about us being pig with too much money is not true at all in quebec and in BC... the rest i dont know I never visited...
Canada has been changing over the past two decades. We have a majority conservative government even though the majority of canadians voted against harper (gg fptp). We backed out of Kyoto, we are involved in too many conflicts we don't support (sound familiar USA?). Our science minister won't even come out and say he believes in evolution. Along with this shift has come several things: more corporate welfare, reductions in funding from everything from battered women's shelters, to immigration programs, to a complete disregard for the environment. Fun fact! Now Canada, per capita, pollutes more than the United States. Alberta, my province, in particular, (also conservative) has basically sold off our assets to foreign companies for pennies on the dollar. And the culture, where do I begin... it's a land of rig pigs with too much cash, nothing to spend it on but cocaine and big trucks and liquor, a place where racism and homophobia thrive. The friendly stereotypes that americans have given canadians rarely apply anymore.
I'm not even blaming the conservatives... What hurts me the most is that my fellow canadians actually support this shit. And no, I'm not leaving, because I love this country and I'm doing my best to prevent it from going to shit.
Just so we're clear, Alberta is like the most racist province in Canada, if you moved west to BC or east to Toronto/Quebec you would see people in general are far more accepting. However I have to agree about the country going downhill, especially in the sense of business corruption. The lack of competition that is enforced by a law to protect "Canadian Identity" has turned the business in Canada into basically a monopoly of sorts. I hope eventually the government might intervene and finally decide to do its job. However I plan to learn swedish very soon.
Just so we're clear, Alberta is like the most racist province in Canada, if you moved west to BC or east to Toronto/Quebec you would see people in general are far more accepting. However I have to agree about the country going downhill, especially in the sense of business corruption. The lack of competition that is enforced by a law to protect "Canadian Identity" has turned the business in Canada into basically a monopoly of sorts. I hope eventually the government might intervene and finally decide to do its job. However I plan to learn swedish very soon.
Just so we're clear, provinces can't be racist. They are just provinces. What is your statement based on? Did stats canada do a poll?
"Hello, this is Stats Canada calling, are you racist?" "Well, yes, of course. I'm an albertan after all."
A few discussion questions: 1) What's your favourite event in Canadian history? 2) Who's your favourite Canadian? (be it hockey player, activist/politician, etc) 3) How would you describe Canada and being Canadian?
1)None, Canada hasn't done much for the world really. Its just the quite kid in the corner everyone knows but doesn't care too much about. 2)HuK, he plays SC2. 3)Quite kid in the corner, being Canadian is like being an American but being smug because your economy isn't crap and your country doesn't wage war every 10 years on a new country. And doesn't release 40% of the pollution yet having 5% of the population.
1) What's your favourite event in canadian history? I don't have a true favourite, so I will say when Patrick Roy "quit" the Montreal Canadians and was traded to the Nordiques. Vimy Ridge makes me proud to be Canadian, but its not my favourite event. 2) Who's your favourite Canadian? (be it hockey player, activist/politician, etc) Neil Peart. No questions. 3) How would you describe Canada and being Canadian? Canada is a great place with some dark sides it tries to hide from the rest of the world. Being Canadian is great as long as you have money. Even if you don't it isn't bad.
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