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Z does not need my defense he speaks for himself but he has never ever stated he was against a common Canadian identity. I think you mistake your definition of nationalism and his or mine because mine is the same as his. Our sense of Canadian identity is not the same as the American one. For starters we do not define our history the way Americans do. You Americans use a Chauvenistic approach heavily dependent if not completely predicated on military identity and victories. Our reference to our military history is extremely measured and low key. There is a reason for that. Americans follow the French, Greco and Roman approaches whereas ours is based on quite frankly British military from the 1800's which downplays excessive posturing, swagger and bragging as you Yanks do. Our military does not boast or engage in excessive displays of loud emotions demonstrating our greatness. We do not like to be loud and brag. We line up and say excuse me. We do not need to be the loudest in the room and draw attention to ourselves. Our Canadian identity which Z has made clear in past posts and I agree with is a composite sense of identity embracing aboriginal, British and French influences where we try take the best from them, then mix in with them a constant input of new approaches from other ethnic ideas. You Americans throw in all your ingredients in one big pot and melt it all down into one flavor. We cook it more slowly trying to blend it like you do, but not drown out the different tastes. You Yanks insist on drowning everything with ketchup. We want to use different spices at different times and be subtle on how we infuse our dishes with flavours. So look I have been to Buffalo tail gate parties. I love the sausages (yah I am so kosher) and the other dead animals Yanks cook before a Bills game. Love it. However you guys could learn that there are things other than red meat. You could try for example some escargot, maybe some frog's legs, and for God's sake a real beer not the urine you drink. You are right, we are a country that refrains from an identity like yours but we have one. Its just more modest and subtle in presentation. Put it this way, its the difference between a loud man rushing in a room with an erection demanding his woman strip and spread compared to a quiet man who comes in, turns the lights down, turns on the music (no not Ceine Dion or Anne Murray, I concede it would be the American Barry White), pours some wine, undresses slowly, and tells the woman she smells nice and then asks her what her name is and whether she prefers Chopin or Mozart. Regards, a civilized Canadian nationalist. Here is an easy list to explain our difference in identity Canadian Yankee Norm MacDonald Bob Hope John Candy Melissa McArthy Shania Twain Jennifer Lopez John A. MacDonald George Washington Catholic Mason Beret Cap Maple Leaf Star canoe Navy immigrant drug pusher criminal immigrant mentally disturbed person President of the United States transsexual First Lady Prime Minister of Canada, Finance Mister Jim Parsons, Neil Patrick Harris hockey player football player hockey player soldier homeless person immigrant suv pick up truck Montreal New Orleans back bacon sausage French Spanish Time Horton's Dunkin Doughnuts insecure adult Starbucks customer teenager gang member aboriginal black black Latino Latino Italian British white European ungrateful bastard Liberal, New Democrat, Conservative communist medicare communism gun control communism bank regulations communism car truck cottage trailer curling bowling Corner Gas Seinfeld Hamilton Pittsburgh husky pitbull wolf coyote Canada goose sea gull beaver vagina moose Bubba black man NBA player minority someone from Iowa constable pig blizzard tornado snow rain maple syrup Budweiser beer urine any American beer Rye Southern Comfort marijhuana crack cocaine kayak surfboard pedophile Michael Jackson murderer OJ Simpson

I’m thinking strap him to a seat like Alex in A Clockwork Orange, play Nickelback on repeat, and flash images of Bonhomme waving to Québécois children, Justin Trudeau making a heart with his hands, and Michaelle Jean eating seal meat, interspersed with footage from the Toronto Pride Parade Dyke March, and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. He can be fed a steady diet of tart de sucre, tortierre, poutine, and maple syrup.

The most the Queen or GG can do is dissolve Parliament so an election can take place or put it on hold, as happened when Harper asked the GG to prorogue Parliament. He was told that he could do so but would then have to table his budget, opening his government up to a non-confidence vote. What’s interesting about the current prorogation in Britain is that Johnson would like s non-confidence vote (now that the Conservatives are in minority), but he won’t get one, because no other party wants to be blamed for causing an election, especially if it could result in reelection of the Conservatives with a majority, leaving Johnson firmly at the helm and ensuring a Brexit, deal or no deal. Right now Parliament has been able to require that Brexit has a deal before it can take place, except that so far no Brexit deal has been supported by Parliament, so they are in a holding pattern. That’s why I think Brexit will keep getting kicked down the road, at least until there’s another election and/or referendum.

Why is it that we as a society have given these people with this mental disorder such a large voice, that is taking over to much of our time already...Why can't we just treat the problem in a mental health clinic and get it over with...

Dougie, we’re grabbing your guns, banning your speech altogether, and sentencing you to confinement with angry feminist lesbians with strapons until you swear allegiance to Julie Payette. Justin Trudeau and George Soros have ordered it.

Market forces are unstoppable, the immigrants have massively altered Canadian culture in my lifetime. Negative or positive impacts are not really under the control of government, government does not lead, it follows. Canada is exponentially more Asian in culture than when I was a boy and it will become more so as it goes. The Canadian constitution is weak, the government can make shit up as it goes The immigrants are taking control of that and they will continue to, until they rule as we Britons once did. This is Darwinian, the Asians are displacing us as we displaced the Indians, and nothing will stop it. There are billions of them, there are more people in a couple of their cities than there are in all of Canada.

Christianity is pretty clear on the Thou Shalt Not Kill bit. Islam has a similar line with two exceptions: murder for honor is okay as well as murder to combat fitnah.