Canada is a land of evil, inhabited by brutish, trogliditic demihumans who adopt human appearance only in front of the tourists.
--- Simon Archer <simon.archer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> WS. You so have not been to Canada lately. So, here
> is some of the dirt you
> have been missing.
>
> I hope someone by now has mentioned native folks.
> They have been about as
> shamefully dealt with here as any rotten place in
> the world. And continue to
> be. Canada is a recipient of international AID to
> help northern indigenous
> and (non-indigenous) Canadians are happy to go along
> with it. So,
> colonization, slavery, wars of aggression, etc.,
> well, depends on when you
> got here.
>
> And, as for the rest of your list, oh man, are you
> baiting me or what?
> Really? Canada, the Canadian state, and governments
> you are talking about
> right? Well, let's see. They just let a couple of
> guys out of jail held
> without trial for six years, for apparent, unproven
> and
> unsubstantiated links to terrorism. I mean, happily,
> these guys are getting
> out (house arrest), but we tore up habeus corpus
> just as quick as the
> neighbours to the south for some freaky non-reason
> that gripped the entire
> political class and a few others too. Immigration
> policy is nearly
> tantamount to racial profiling, has been for a
> decade or more, probably
> more. It has not been "generous" since the late
> 1970s, and its history is
> riddles with racist laws. They just got around to
> apologizing for the
> infamous "head tax" that effectively separated
> Chinese labourers from their
> families. Collaboration with social groups ended, if
> it ever existed,
> somewhere between 1984 and 1995, when the federal
> government declared war on
> program spending. We just shut down the directorate
> on the status of women
> -- apparently, no equality issues exist anymore --
> and the law commission of
> canada, which had the radical madate of identifying
> and updating laws that
> didn't work anymore, both with a combined annual
> budget of a week's interest
> on the national debt. And hell, social statistics?
> Loved for our social
> statistics? Oh man, that is making me laugh. Not
> only because it is nearly
> impossible to get Statistics Cant-ada to work with
> you, but also because
> they're just as politicized as anyone's. Stats Can
> stopped measuring wealth
> in the early 80s when it got too embarrasing. The
> peace-keeping image once
> built by Pearson was explicitly ended and replaced
> with a combat mandate the
> last government under the happy prodding of a newly
> re-financed military.
> They seem to have forgotton the torturing of Somali
> prisoners by Canadian
> elite forces in the early 90s during that campaign
> -- so yeah, wars of
> invasion -- and Hillier, the head of the armed
> forces, was quoted a few
> weeks ago as saying Afghanis are "scumbags". We''ve
> had neocon provincial
> governments that'd make some southern politicians
> feel right at home.
>
> Health care. It works, yeah. We have a single payer
> system (well, actually,
> its a mixed system) since the 60s, because of a
> particular political moment,
> and it has been under assault one way or another
> since then. The current
> goverment, and some before and no doubt after, are
> pretty committed to
> dismantling it. The university system is being
> increasingly modelled on the
> US system, vouchers and tax programs are being
> introduced for non-public
> schools.
>
> If we got onto the influence in the world, well, I'd
> say that with the
> exception of one or two misses (we missed joining
> the second gulf war while
> a political dynasty under Chretien went a little
> sane in its dying days
> -- but they got in belatedly under his successor)
> the best summary is one
> from an old ESL student I had, when asked why she
> came to Canada from South
> Korea: "why, because its an economic colony of the
> U.S., but cheaper". So,
> yeah, price competitive, and if you don't look under
> the hood, well, caveat
> emptor.
>
> --
> > simon.archer at gmail.com
> > 647.406.2724
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