Brunopolis

Very funny. Go live in Saudi Arabia or in certain mormon communities(FLDS) and enjoy the benefits of the polygamistic societies. Have you ever heard of the "lost boys"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(polygamy)

I see a lot of talk here about polygamist marriages and lots of reasons for and against such arrangements. I don't see people discussing about societies that are actually allowing and supporting these kind of relationships from a legal standpoint in the first place. People should realize that in polygamist marriages it is almost always one man marrying multiple women. Usually, the average population tends to equalize in terms of men and women. Allowing the few rich men to monopolize and essentially "take" all the women will lead to strife within society. Much like in the current societies that allow this practice to take place. Realistically this is the only reason i am against polygamy.

The problem with Canada is its close proximity to the USA. We only ever seem to compare ourselves to them so its very obvious we are going to gradually shift to the right(which we have been doing in the past few decades). I have seen third world countries with superior education and health care systems to our own. Our blindness to anything other than what our neighbours to the south are doing is shameful. It is hurting our nation and the welfare of our people. I just wish people would stop comparing our education and health care system to the USAs. Their health care and education are notorious world-wide for being terrible overall. We should seriously compare ourselves to most European nations which usually do better than us in both health and education care. Canada is a huge nation with relatively few well educated people and tons of natural resources at our disposal. Its surprising we are not wealthier than we currently are.

Canada doesn't need special ''Buy Canadian'' regulations. Canada simply needs fair ones. Any nation that unfairly subsidizes their industry against ours or treats their workers significantly worse than ours needs to be slapped with heavy tariffs. I have no problem with buying a foreign product over a Canadian one that comes from a company that treats their workers well. I do have a problem with buying such a product from company that abuses their workers. I wish in Canada we had some sort of coherent policy rather than everything on a ''Who complains the hardest'' basis.

Do you have a report or an article refering to what I bolded I´m actually rather interested and if I´m wrong on a particular viewpoint I´d like to correct it. Thanks

1. The timing of the package is what I´m worried about. I have nothing against an aid package to Haiti except of who and when the package is being given. If the GG was sending this aid package to Bolivia, for example, I wouldn´t give it a second thought because we don´t have a Canadian/Bolivian in a position of power announcing and pushing the package. 2. I have never said she is a separatist. Personally this aid package has nothing to do with separatism anyways. I don´t know why somebody would bring it up. 3. I was not born in this nation either. Top positions should be allowed to any Canadian. HOWEVER, when it comes to aid packages and trade discussions with a given politician´s country of origin then it should be under heavy scrutiny.

Our problem with health care is not the fact that we need to funnel more money into it. The problem with our health care is the lack of qualified physicians. http://www.visabureau.com/canada/news/04-1...rs-by-2010.aspx Canada has a near retarded policy of relying almost purely on immigration to fill our doctor shortage. Don´t you think we should train our own physicians? http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/research/hhr/anatomy By the looks of it we need to stop putting ridiculous limits on our medical schools. Many nations don´t and surprisingly they don´t suffer a physician shortage. Our policy of using immigration to fill our physician gaps is near criminal. Not only are we stealing skilled professionals that poorer nations had to spend money and time training but we are short changing our own citizens by not giving them the opportunity to train and take these much needed positions.

I hope most people are aware that children raised poorly by poor parents don´t just ¨vanish¨. They grow up and live in your very community making your life suck. As a community we should help parents raise their children properly. Having many of our next generation believe that welfare, homelessness, etc is normal will lead to a new generation doing exactly that with their children. Letting people fall and go to hell because they made mistakes(such as having a child that they are unable to support ) leads to serious income inequality(we have safety nets for this very reason). http://psych.mcmaster.ca/dalywilson/iiahr2001.pdf In many studies(like the one mentioned above) income inequality is highly correlated with crime. Letting our youth spiral downwards into crime due to poor/non-existent parenting will lead to a society you would probably dislike. Man, why do so many people think that we live in some sort of vacuum where the poor/lazy/etc somehow disappear and never bother us again. Maybe they have to live a few years in a third world nation to see what happens in a society like that?

Yes. Who has the right to tell me what I can and can't do with my body and mind(as long as I'm not infringing on someone's rights of course). I would extend this right to every drug available. Treat all drugs with the same rules of alcohol(mostly rules dealing with infringing on others rights).

I would definitely complain if Dion got into power solely by the word of our Governor General. I would be even more upset if the first thing on the table for Dion was to re-instate this aid package. I am not pro-Dion as I think he is a terrible leader. I also dislike the bloc Quebecois immensely(If you lived in the most language discriminatory city in the country, Ottawa, you'd probably think the same) so I'm against anything that puts more power in their hands. I used to vote Liberal but I've changed to NDP recently. Anyways. All I'm trying to say is that I don't care if our Governor General made the "correct" decision or not. All I care about is that we have an unelected government official who chose who gets to stay in power. The fact that shortly afterwords an aid package destined to her home nation gets announced by the benefiting party makes her seem suspect at best. I want an election called. If a minority governing party doesn't have the confidence of the house then an election SHOULD be called.

So wait. Stephen Harper decided to finally send a huge aid package to Haiti at the moment of an economic crisis the second he gets back from a government. This government being SAVED solely and completely by our Haitian/Canadian Governor General. Not to mention if the government falls a second time she gets the power AGAIN to decide whether we have an election or 2 1/2 years of coalition government? I may be jumping to conclusions but they are hardly "implausible" claims. I'm just angered that we see so much power given to unelected people in particularly questionable circumstances. The United States and half of the world are more "Democratic" than Canada is.

More than just fishy. It is very clear that she cut a deal with Harper. She is a Haitian/Canadian that at the very moment she saves the Harper government from falling manages to push through some of her "preferential" aid funding. Seriously. I am from another nation(Uruguay to be exact) and I do have a soft spot for it and would really like Canada to help it economically. I can see the allure of trying to abuse the power to help the impoverished nation that houses your family and memories. Her goals may be noble but their are clear conflicts of interest at play here. I never liked her being Governor General as I always thought the choice to be extremely PC. I had no qualms about her performance until recently. Now that I see her actions though I like here even less.

Canada's tax rates aren't that high. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_around_the_world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_T..._By_Country.svg If we look at an average Canada taxes their citizens less than most European countries.

Teaching is a difficult job. Most teachers do have to work more hours than listed due to prep time and be on their toes at all times. It's a demanding job that requires you to be thinking and active almost the entire time. You also have to deal with a lot of crap from both teens and little kids. Personally, I only have one problem with teachers. Bad teachers simply cannot get fired. Their is no incentive to be a good teacher as seniority is more important than anything else. Also the teacher program overall in Canada is rather poor. Teacher's college is simply too short to teach all the essentials and the requirement for a Bachelor degree is just extra time tacked on. If teacher's college became a University Bachelor program(3-4 year program), not only would we have better teachers but the money required to educate them would be less.

Alberta is not a valid comparison due to the huge oil wealth at their disposal. I could say Venezuela or Saudi Arabia are "fiscally prudent" countries because they have no debt but I doubt you'd agree with me. Sure this oil boom is coming to a close(at least in Alberta due to the high costs of refining the oil sands) but the benefits and investment it provided Alberta are still there. I think every province in Canada(except maybe Quebec) would be debt free if they had oil sands in their borders.

Sorry, I was not being very clear. When I said terrible salaries I meant our elected officials which are responsible for massive important projects. I wasn't referring to public sector employees which I do believe earn too much. I didn't mention the typical public sector(teachers, bus drivers, plow operators, etc) because most of them are overpaid for the work that they do. At least in comparison to the private work force.

Great idea! Let's pay the politicians who make decisions on the order of millions(sometimes billions) of dollars peanuts! Then I'm sure we'll get the cream of the crop right? A typical Ottawa councilor makes 87,500 dollars a year. Ontario teachers can now cap out at over 80,000. I think regarding the importance of the position the salaries here seem out of whack. Just because we do not like politicians doesn't mean we should pay them little. They do a very important job and we should pay them accordingly. Encouraging politicians to take "extra perks" because they have a terrible salary compared to their education/importance level is ridiculous and encourages corruption. The last thing we need is to have our elected officials start worrying excessively about their personal finances while in office. If anything I would go so far to say that our elected officials should have their salary raised and get a further increase when they get re-elected.

Go to any country that is not United States or Canada and you will see a different picture. In Latin America, for example, American cars are extremely popular. Their are dozens of brands world-wide that simply don't exist in North America. Here are a few http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Celta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Corsa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Falcon_(Australia)

Why would someone be Canadian before they are anything else? I have my Uruguayan citizenship(I nor anyone in my family was born in Canada) AND I have my Canadian citizenship. I am Canadian AND Uruguayan before anything else. The fact that Canada allows dual citizenship's accepts this very fact. I don't understand why people get so upset over this. My only problem with Canada is the political correctness that seems to permeate Canadian politics and policies. I'm absolutely tired of seeing on applications for benefits or jobs questions about skin colour(The famous "Are you a visible minority?" question). You don't solve racism with reverse-racism(I'm being generous calling it racism when in reality it's more about skin colour than anything else).

What are you talking about? Canada is one of the most capitalistic countries in the world. It's been moving right for the past 30 or so years. Look at this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_of_the_World This is a common index used to measure capitalism. Canada is 5th in the world tied with the United States? I'm not saying capitalism is a bad thing. However, moving left is hardly a bad idea and, in my opinion, I think is the direction Canada should be moving.

You know which other country used this most excellent strategy? Argentina. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_eco...sis_(1999–2002) I'm not saying that Canada is the same as Argentina but constantly relying on selling assets to "balance" the books will eventually lead to something similar to the little problem that they had.

Norway has very high tax rates. Norway nationalized it's oil industry. They seem to be doing fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...rcentage_of_GDP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Min...leum_and_Energy Face it that both left and right can suck. It all depends on the people managing the nation.

The only problem with Cyprus is that it has 800,000 people, only has 8,000 square kilometres, and the people their are relatively wealthy making it more difficult to pay them to relocate easily. If we're going to be theorizing the best bet would be to pick a small, poor, and low population density nation and pay them to relocate. Also while paying the country accepting these new citizens as well. The numbers would be high but I'm sure most of the population would gladly live if they are helped with a better standard of living elsewhere. Worst case they could just buy the less populated portion of a smaller nation such as Suriname.

Israel should just pay France a few billion dollars and buy French Guiana. It has fairly good territory and very few people. Enough that they could simply pay them to relocate and cause few problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_guiana Anyways the problems with Israel right now all started due to a retarded religious requirement to have Jerusalem in Israel. Stupid Zionists ruining it for all the decent Israeli's in the world.

Finances, education, and climate are the top reasons we don't have many children. -Educated people in general have less children. This is a fact. -Financially and due to regulations you actually have to care for your children to some degree. Unlike in many 3rd world countries children cost money rather than make it. -Our climate makes sure that during 4-5 months of the year that child will be in the house a good portion of the time. It's tough to have many children in a small apartment and you can't really have them play outside all day. My half-sister in Uruguay has 5 children and because the weather is sub-tropical she can have them outside all year long making it much easier to take of. I can't imagine her deciding to have that many children here in Canada. If we want people to have more children we simply have to remove some of these burdens on our population. Obviously we don't want to make our population less educated and we can't really change the climate. So realistically the solution would be financial. Increase the benefits for parents that have children until we reach the growth rate we're aiming for. Without a doubt it would be hideously expensive. Norway does it and it seems to work for them. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4786160.stm