Dougie93

The thing to understand about Canader, is that it was not really born on 1 July 1867, that's a post modern Canadian myth. 1 July 1867 is simply Confederation, wherein the squabbling colonies here were forced to enter into a legislative union in fear of an invasion by the bloody Fenians (American Irish Catholic Civil War veterans attempting to seize Canada to ransom it for Irish Freedom) because the British Crown would not, or rather could not defend it from London. Canader was actually born on 13 September 1759, at Quebec, when Hanover (The British Crown) seized it as a war prize, formally transferred to Hanover (The British Crown) in the Treaty of Paris 1763, prior to, it was (Nouvelle) France. The British Constitution as of 1763 was the baseline, then, as I said, the devolution progressed in stages, although 1 July 1867 wasn't all that significant at the time. If you asked those "Canadians" what they were, they would have said they were "British". The 1 July which was much more significant, was 1 July 1916, at the Battle of the Somme, where the British broke their Empire once and for all time, rapid Canadian devolution from the United Kingdom accelerating in the wake of said military catastrophe, direct line to repatriation of the Constitution from Westminster to Ottawa in 1982.

The way to think of it is thusly; rather than having a revolution and severing the constitutional ties with the British Crown, Canada evolved out of Britain in stages, (we were actually about to have a revolution and join the Americans when James Madison invaded and in the process created a "Canada" as a reaction) but just because Canada is not the United Kingdom, does not mean that it is not the British Crown, this is still the British Crown here, and the Constitution flows from the Crown not the government, the Crown simply exists above the level of national governance, to wit. the government is not actually all that significant in the grand scheme of things, or at least things important as per going over the top into no mans land. My country is the House of Windsor, the Queen my Sovereign and Commander-in-Chief, never swore an oath to "Canada", tho I am bound to Her Majesty by a blood oath unto death as necessary. England, Scotland, Wales, Ulster, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc, not the same government, but the House of Windsor all, and all under the British constitution, Canada being the only one which added a Canadian Bill of Rights on top, Australia, New Zealand for example are still governed by the British Constitution without a domestic Bill of Rights of their own. More British than the British, more American than the Americans. Suck it, Aussies.

Or to be even more concise, all of the British constitutional law still applies in Canada, Magna Carta, Common Law, English Bill of Rights, etc, Canada has simply layered additional acts on top of that, most significantly an American style "written" Charter of Rights and Freedoms, since 1982.

The reason why the Canadian Prime Minister does not appear in the Canadian Constitution is that the Canadian Constitution is a continuance of existing British constitutional law, that is to say, the Canadian Constitution is layered on top of the already existing British constitution, the conventions which govern the office of the Prime Minister are the British conventions, at the time of the enacting of the Canadian Constitution in 1867, the British conventions were taken as a given, restating them would have been redundant.

Think of it like the Bush Administration; Trudeau is Bush, Butts is Cheney.

Can we all just dispense with the silly notion that Justin Trudeau is actually in charge? The man who is running the country is not actually Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau is just a sock puppet, the guy who is actually running things is named Gerald Butts.

Which part of Canadian governance is not a mess? It's all a mess, thus is the nature of Canadian governance, it's been a bleeding open sore of boondoggles and bloated centrally planned nonsense since 1867, and yet somehow, were still here. It's just money, folks, and, newsflash; money is not real. Money is just a state of mind.

Refugees overwhelming social services? Its all debt financed, we don't even pay for it, so who cares? Throw another bond issuing on the pyre, problem solved. /shrugs

Please, Withdrawing from trade with the United States would result in Canada being a failed state overnight, exporting commodities and low grade manufactured goods to the United States is the only thing propping this "country" up. In the end, we are Americans, we're simply the United Empire Loyalists, up until 1812, there wasn't even a border between us, the people here called themselves "Americans", the only "Canadians" at the time were in Quebec, and in actual fact, even during that seminal war, trade between the Canada's and the United States not only continued completely unabated, it actually increased, the Americans in New England were actually supplying the proto-Canadians with goods to keep them in the fight, because they opposed the war and favoured friendly relations and trade with Britain, James Madison be damned. Trump is no Madison, he's more Jacksonian, bombastic perhaps, chauvinistic to be sure, but no threat to us. As to the Mueller Witch Hunt, if the Democucks try to impeach, Trump will simply become more powerful, trying to overthrow the will of the electorate in America is a big mistake, impeaching Nixon simply led to Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich and Clintonian Triangulation. Trying to bring Trump down by any means other than election, will cripple the Democrats for generations to come.

Conservative as I may be, it's rather pointless to scold the Canadian government for spending, spending, spending, as that is what Canadians demand. Canadians entitle themselves to their entitlements, and any politician who doesn't go along with it is rather promptly kicked to the curb. The Liberals simply embrace this as a reality and are thus the Natural Ruling Party while the Conservatives have spent most of the last 150 years complaining about it from the sidelines. Canadians like to talk a big game about fiscal discipline, but when it comes time to actually cut their pork, they go for a shit and declare the sky to be falling, politicians adjust accordingly. On the bright side, Canadian Confederation is actually a fools errand, best to be rid of it as soon as possible, and the best and in fact only way to get there, would be insolvency. Can't argue about equalization payments when there's no money in the vault at all, thus, bring it on, a Fake Country is no country at all, God save the Queen, death to Confederation.

Aside from the fact that he's Zoolander; a vacuous Himbo who annoyingly acts as if he's the smartest guy in the room, it's basically a cost of living issue. Climate Barbie taxes will drive the price of everything up, fuel, gas, electricity, food, etc, so if you like driving or air conditioning or eating well, what have you, need to try to constrain the Canadian Nanny Police State as much as you can. Mind you, entirely likely that the Phony Cons would be forced to start rummaging around for revenue as well, considering that the deficits are what they are and the Phony Cons talk a big game about cutting spending, until they are in government that is, and don't actually have the political capital to follow through in the face of the hysterical screeching which inevitably results, so, at best, it would be the lesser of two evils at the margins. Zoolander legalized the weed, Mission Accomplished, he's expendable now; next clown, stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door.