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The system barely works, and in some cases not at all. Canada exists without civil strife because Canadians are to damn lazy to really do anything about it, in fact if it does not involve them personally nobody gives a shit, here are some examples, look at all the indigenous issues we have, and why is the list so long, look at Quebec, Any one concerned they have not signed onto the constitution ? or why can we not run a pipeline from the west coast to the east coast? Canada has a lot of major issues to sort out before it is more than average place to live.. Explain to me this can an everyday person run for office, have you checked on the criteria to run for office it pretty much takes me and you out of the race. And yes the 95 referendum did end without violence or strife, But what would have happened had the separatist won that day, why did the government have so many military units on stand by that day... Yes we have a pretty good standard of living, unless your poor that is, and yes most of us have running water, some of it is poisoned with mercury for over 20 years now, don't drink it but it does run...a lot our infra structure is in need of repair. We have some of the highest taxes in the world, our health care is a joke, unless you like to wait over 18 hours to see a doctor, thats for broken bones... Inter national we are a joke, our NATO allied have running jokes about the entire nation, We can not even look after out own sovereignty in most cases, to the rest of the world our word means nothing. No every things is fine, in my world just keep the blinds closed.

Laws of nature state that energy is needed to counter entropy and decay. And so where energy and will cannot be found there will be only one direction and trajectory. No surprises. For a while we can enjoy moderate corruption and even get used to it, problem is, it isn't a stable state. Why limit itself where there is no limits?

Divide and conquer is such an old and still very effective story. When citizens cannot agree between themselves, they need wise and benevolent arbiter(s) and expert(s). And those need to be compensated fairly, generously and entitled .. even more generously. Look at bureaucracy compensation packages, they are right there at the world's highest. Now look at the services, education, healthcare, municipal are they anywhere near world's best? Add that without checks and controls, positive feedback from the society innovation will be slower and costs ever higher. A trivial one day repair of a few boards in the local park took over two months. The position is wrong already, and the vector is pointing in the wrong direction too.

Doom is upon us! Sometimes Tories are like SJWs, instead of Trump Derangement Syndrome we get Trudeau Derangement Syndrome. He is corrupt and probably not the best who could hold the position, but he not Stalin.

A woman in Iran faces 'small issues' as far as her husband is concerned. From her POV, and from the POV of freedom advocates, her issues are quite extreme. Western separation issues are small from Quebec's POV. Quebec has punitive agreements with other provinces for Hydro power, they get special status, they have a larger proportion of the vote than they should, the federal government strips jobs from other provinces and moves them to Quebec, and Que receives boatloads of money from confederation. So what if Alberta doesn't have as many MPs as they should, or if their resources are on hold because of the will of Quebecers, or if Albertans only ever give money into confederation and then get small loans in return if they come on hard times? Separation is important. Canada sucks, bigtime.

That the system we're living in isn't working that badly. Perfectible is the term. And yes it may have disparities, favorizing some parts of the country. It is unfair, I agree. But not working is a stretch.

So, outside of Quebec and GTA, there are no running water, no education, no roads, no infrastructure, no no nothing? Total chaos and anarchy?

The system works. Not for the taste of everyone, maybe you're not a winner you would like to be in that system, or maybe most of us aren't winners in that system, but is that a legitimate metric that a system works? Canada has been existing without civil strife since the beginning, unlike France which has 5 Republics. The system never has had a revolution against it unlike the South were the country broke in half, or it managed them so well that they have been inconsequential for the country... IMO Québec independence was the biggest threat, but the system cheated its way to win the 95 referendum, and no uprisings occured, no violent incident happened toward the system which created all the cheating, because they are effective at cheating. The rich and the elite in this system really are living well here in our beautiful neighborhoods. The poor and middle class live quite well, it is not Haiti by any stretch of the imagination. Canada is also a first world country, with running water, education, healthcare... even if it is substandard to our ideals, it is still somewhat working. Our money has decent value internationally. So yes, things to fix here and there. But throw the baby with the bathwater is somewhat dumb, and somewhat is the Tories' rallying cry since Trudeau took office in 2015 and it is really petty.

At least banks provide essential service to the society and I'm not advocating only observing. Car loans, consumer loans, mortgages, industry and business loans really hard to get by without. But would I notice if all of a sudden we'd lose MP and GG? I don't think so. Just don't see how, one tiny and microscopic thing I'd need from them. At exorbitant and non-negotiable price.

Boils down to how politically lazy and complacent most voting Canadians are. Trudeau is acceptable? He just makes my point.

Tucker kills it again. This time on the latest of Nancy's phony committee shit show thingees that pretends it's investigating the "mostly peaceful" (comparatively) protest at the Capitol building last January.

Taxes, nothing to do with the metric system. Gas taxes in the GVRD are about 70 cents a litre. Also, there is only one large refinery left in BC. BC refines less than 50% of what it uses the rest comes from Alberta and the US.

Your familiarity with psychiatrists is the give-away . . . . . Is it the mark of a true Torontonian? "Hey Bob! they're getting hungry again . . . "

It's not the metric system, it's a mix of inflation brought about by the Liberals' spending, Trudeau's carbon taxes, and the federal government's all out assault on pipelines & the oil sector. The Liberals want you to stop driving a car, period. RIDE THE BUS, PEON! The cost of gas won't stop Trudeau from flying his chosen propagandists from CTV and CBC all across Canada to gloss over his election campaign, it won't stop climate activists like DiCaprio & J Kerry from cruising in private jets and yachts, but it will affect our bottom line greatly. It sucks to be a capitalist bearing the brunt of a socialist government's spending/taxation, but here we are.

This kind of brainless ad helps Trudeau in at least 3 ways I can think of: -He doesn't have the grace and acting to pull of an ad with physical movement; it comes off as cheap and amateurish -The ad says nothing specific to a thinking person about what he would do differently, and is just sloganeering -By not providing any kind of policy challenge, he opens the door to a similarly empty response which would be emotive, set up as a filmed entertainment piece, and would likely have higher production values