Claudius

Nope. I'm right and everyone reading this knows it. This is the problem with pretenders, they have no idea how obvious they are. No university professor is going to accept papers written with your level of grammar or spelling or reasoning. That's the truth no matter how many times you stamp your feet and say, "Nah-uh! Is not!"

LOL! Yes. Math is useless. Okay you're on ignore as it's now become obvious to me that you're no older than 14. G'bye.

Nothing to do with English classes. As I said before anyone who has actually been to university knows this level of spelling, grammar and reasoning will get you trumped out of class in 1 month.

Well it's obvious he constantly struggles every day with spelling and rationality, but I suppose that's not what you meant.

Another non-answer and assumption not to mention grade 10 level spelling and grammar. You lie every time you claim you've been to university. I am not a "CRAP" supporter (whatever that is) but it's obvious you are since "crap" is all you seem to be able to post in the way of a counter argument. Seriously: do you really think you're making any sense at all?

Wow. This is like the 5th childish assumption-driven non-answer in a row. You're not fooling anyone. Anyone who has been to university knows this kind of childish reasoning and cop-out doesn't get you anything but a fail.

Um communism and China and how well off Europe was under communism, this was the stream of discussion. That you didn't say it had anything to do with communism is beside the point. If we were talking about bicycles and I suddenly said "Ford makes a nice car" it wouldn't matter if I didn't say Ford had anything to do with bicycles it would still be pointless to for me to say. How about you think for 30 seconds before you post?

I've been to Albania and Slovakia as well as Bulgaria. Oh and Hungary. Hungary was probably the best off. Again though I would say in spite of communism not because of it.

Nothing to do with Communism. Sofia's been a beautiful city for 1000 years and most of that beauty was religious inspired.

Albania isn't that bad. Ever been to Belarus? Bulgaria? Slovakia? It's like 2 degrees above Mad Max times. On the other hand the Vietnamese seem to be pretty happy. Poor but happy.

Is this another non-answer? Yes I think it is.

Communism or socialism? Pick one. They aren't interchangeable. The subject was communism and China, not socialism and Europe.

Okay so you have no points of your own all you have are assumptions and excuses. Basically you don't know anything about me so your "silver spooner" comment is just a childish diversion from a reality you can't answer, meanwhile the rest of your post is just a cop-out way of saying "even when I'm wrong I'm still right, because I say so." I know one thing for sure, and without assumptions, this kind of non-answer won't fly with your supposed professor or any university worth its salt.

lol. Why are they the greatest country on Earth? Because they have the largest mass of slave labour, that's about all.

Is that supposed to be a counter-point?

Really. Then why are they A; starving and B;considered a "developing nation" by Kyoto? Communist? Mmmmm, not really.

"So I ask, what is or defines a Canadian?" Absolutely nothing anymore. With the advent of "The Real Housewives of Vancouver" Canada has become a country of left-leaning Americans pretending to be something else.

The only answer the CPC ever seems to have to a strike is to legislate back to work. From a historical standpoint this is the only thing any government seems to do when it comes to Canada Post, but after the third (is it the forth?) time it gets pretty stupid. Sooner or later you have to address the problems behind the strikes.

The bottom line here is what is the end game of this "Dutch disease" accusation? Assuming this is true, and further assuming oil and gas commodities are the only reason manufacturing jobs are suffering (this is not remotely true, but let's just take it for sake of argument) what's the answer the valiant NDP are proposing? Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Eastern provinces are just supposed to shut everything down and give up all the income (to the entire country that is) just so Ontario can give it another go at a manufacturing sector that will...what? Support the country? That's pretty silly.