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Sounds like inferiority-complex being next door to a mightier neighbour. Besides, Canada isn't even a small country populationwise. It is a mid-rank country. Small countries are the ones below 10 million people. Ontario alone has more than that.

Is it possible or even likely that the result is like it was last time that Trudeau wins even though his party lags behind in overall votes across the country? In other words, the electoral system saves him? If it happens again wouldn't that push forward the urgency to move to PR electoral system?

Canada just isn't an important enough country. Only slightly more important than a country like Finland.

Why don't you give PR a try? If it doesn't suit your political culture then scrap it and come back to FPTP. However, unless you try you'll never know.

There are people who say the coronavirus is a load of bullshit and all restrictions should be lifted and there are people who think that everything should be closed because of the virus and people should be locked in their homes and the army on tbe streets to make sure that people stay in their homes. The clever policy is somewhere between those two approaches.

Nobody outside of Canada has heard of the other guy opposed to Trudeau but if he loses he surely must be unelectable.

Trudeau is the best internationally known Canadian PM for a long time. Outside of Canada it is not considered a sign of poor general knowledge not to know who the PM of Canada is but everybody knows Justin Trudeau. If that other guy wins the election he will be almost completely unknown outside Canada. Having said all this, Trudeau has become a bit of an embarassment for Canada. Did you see the clip where he called recession shecession? It meant something like that the difficult economic times have been harsher for women than men. Of course a lot of people didn't understand what that was all about. It was shetarded for sure.

If he had kept his promise of introducing a PR voting system he would already have lost last election when losing the overall popular vote.

Even the American taxpayer's pocket isn't bottomless and they just cant afford to keep this futile war going on. It was always clear that as soon as the Americans leave the puppet-government would fall.

So much for the fixed-term parliaments then? I wonder has the news of Canadian elections not crossed the threshold of international news or is it just me not having paid attention but I learned of this election only by seeing the thread-title on this forum. Probably the latter.

The point I was trying to make that we in the western world have the privilege to be concerned about those issues I mentioned. Just imagine there was some economic disaster which brought our living standards to the level of Afghanistan. Would we still be concerned about the LGTB-rights? Would we even need Taliban to not to give a shit about it? I don't think so.

I wonder when Taliban takes over what will their view be on issues such as the trans-law, the LGTB-issues in general or ambitions on combatting the climate change. I wonder are the pride-marches still going to go ahead.

There are a lot more letters in the Greek alphabet and we are only at delta now.

I guess that if Quebec wants independence instead of having their own referendum there should be a referendum in the rest of Canada whether Quebec should go. That might work better.

Even though soccer is the most popular sport in the world women's soccer isn't that popular. I guess most Canadians still value their men's hockey-supremacy above women's soccer gold-medal.

Women's sport is nice to watch but the reality is that they would lose to 15-year old schoolboys, which happened with the US women's team. The team whose leader demanded that women players should dd be paid as much as men. I just wonder where does she think the money comes from that men are paid.

I thought it was a certain nomination for Kamala Harris. Especially if she becomes president if Biden can't last a full term, which doesn't seem unthinkable.

Delta is an Indian variant but instead of calling it an Indian virus they had to give it a name by some Greek alphabet just not to label the Indians and risk Indian shops to be smashed as was the case with the Chinese businesses a year ago.

I'm on the fence on this. I wonder what kind of consequences there are going to be if I don't take the jab. Apart from the obvious one of getting the virus but I'm more interested in how sidelined would you be pushed if you don't get the jab. You can forget about traveling abroad? Fine by me. I have done enough of that already in the 90s when it was still worth it. Can't go to restaurants and bars? Couldn't care less. Can't go to a grocery store to buy food? That would be something unbearable but legally couldn't happen, could it?

I wish we in Europe had this view as well but sadly we dont.

Elsewhere in the world Canada is viewed like the USA with its good sides but without its bad sides.

Have all those burned churches been Catholic churches? At least that is the impression I get from the news. If that is the case one can admire how theologically knowledgeable the vandals have been.

Agree with you there. Someone suggested that you can't be British if you are anti-monarchy. That's just a ridiculous statement to make.

In British parliamentary elections there were MPs who were elected from Northern-Ireland on the Sinn Fein lists but they couldn't take their seats as that would have required swearing an oath of allegiange to the Monarch and obviously they couldnt do that. I think they no longer demand such an oath but Sinn Feiners still don't take their seats. Perhaps their excuse now is that it is a foreign parliament.

Indeed it is a system which doesn't work in theory but works very well in practice.