The end of Canadian dream

[PIK]

45 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:

We have allowed dual citizenship forever. It has created many issues with individuals as well as groups (Hong Kong dual citizens and the house price upsurge).

In my mind, dual citizenship should not be available nor tolerated. You are either Canadian or not.

300,000 fake Canadians in Hong Kong, that we have to save if china moves in. And this practice of women flying in just to have their kid born Canadian must stop.

[ExFlyer]

1 hour ago, PIK said:

300,000 fake Canadians in Hong Kong, that we have to save if china moves in. And this practice of women flying in just to have their kid born Canadian must stop.

As I said, dual citizenship should be abolished.

[Queenmandy85]

I stopped reading all the whining trolling way back. My response is we live in the most wonderful country on earth and we must count our blessings. Love thy neighbour and HAPPY CANADA DAY to you all.  ??❤️

Edited June 30, 2023 by Queenmandy85

[myata]

4 hours ago, SpankyMcFarland said:

an expensive European city

That's right. There are many, many less expensive and still great cities in Europe. Take a note how grocery prices are much higher, even for locally grown ones. Why? Because the inflation is great! we can ding them more on that pretext and they'll love it.

A factual example today: on the way stopped at Service Ontario to check something about the license. Took a ticket, number 47. Calling 95.. what, wait so they have to roll it over a hundred and begin again. That would be hours, pretty f@cked up, no? Is this a "service" really, in what world? Why should I pay for the thing that does nothing for me? Why the society needs those outrageously expensive "services" that don't work for it? Because: everything is a monopoly. If you have cheap flour, milk and oil and hundreds of independent bakeries, you'll have great, fresh, great tasting and cheap bread. And if you have three supermarket chains owned by the same multigazzillion CEO you'll have "bread product" at outrageous price. Same with politics. Monopolistic facade vs. real, quality thing in the real world. No, can't have both no way.

[myata]

2 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

I stopped reading all the whining trolling way back. My response is we live in the most wonderful country on earth and we must count our blessings.

On a retired MP pension (for zombie-pushing the button) but of course who would be complaining (can't buy the weather but hey it's enough for annual patriotic vacation). And we even can have free Fireworks by our most generous government!

[PIK]

3 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

I stopped reading all the whining trolling way back. My response is we live in the most wonderful country on earth and we must count our blessings. Love thy neighbour and HAPPY CANADA DAY to you all.  ??❤️

So why ruin it for everyone else?

[myata]

1 hour ago, PIK said:

So why ruin it for everyone else?

It may not be by intent, only a by-product of the life cycle. Gobble at the trough till you absolutely can't then sit back, belch and try to squeeze a bit more.

[I am Groot]

13 hours ago, August1991 said:

Here's something to think about (when you hear about "equality" south of the border):

-GDP per capita in Alberta is 2x what it is in PEI. (IOW, according to StatsCan, people in Edmonton -on average- produce twice as much stuff as people in Charlottetown.)

IMHO, we have a good country - une société civilsée.

 

Why does anything you wrote make Canada a good country?

5 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

I stopped reading all the whining trolling way back. My response is we live in the most wonderful country on earth and we must count our blessings. Love thy neighbour and HAPPY CANADA DAY to you all.  ??❤️

What makes it "the most wonderful country on earth"?

[myata]

3 hours ago, I am Groot said:

What makes it "the most wonderful country on earth"?

MP, judge, public executive pension for example. And .... ..... ...... ..... no sorry, that's about it.

Edited July 1, 2023 by myata

[Queenmandy85]

5 hours ago, I am Groot said:

Why does anything you wrote make Canada a good country?

What makes it "the most wonderful country on earth"?

The natural beauty where you can hike and ski, get away from people when you need to. We live in a nation where wild life remains wild. I just got home from the lake, having had hours of entertainment from my friend and neighbour, Joe Squirrel. I was visited by chipmunks, a young river otter, bald eagles, a pair of falcons, deer, a woodchuck, a grouse and a variety of ducks. On my way home to Saskatoon, three grizzly bears crossed the highway infront of me in the East Kootenays.

We have the blessing of a cultural blend of dozens of ethnicities. Also, this is a nation where we have a history of being able to participate in the political discourse without rancour. We have Peace, Order and Good Government regardless of the people in power. We are truly blessed.

[herbie]

I'm with Queenmandy85

Take your lithium and you'll feel better in the morning.

[myata]

8 hours ago, herbie said:

Take your lithium and

But of course, and why would one need the reality then? Like one can vote it away, can always try though.. again and again. The firm and eternal foundation of the great Canadian dream. Happy holiday!

Edited July 1, 2023 by myata

[myata]

8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

The natural beauty where you can hike and ski, get away from people when you need to. We live in a nation where wild life remains wild. I just got home from the lake, having had hours of entertainment from my friend and neighbour, Joe Squirrel. I was visited by chipmunks, a young river otter, bald eagles, a pair of falcons, deer, a woodchuck, a grouse and a variety of ducks. On my way home to Saskatoon, three grizzly bears crossed the highway infront of me in the East Kootenays.

Great. Russia and China have all that too. New Zealand, Switzerland you name it. Next.

8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

We have the blessing of a cultural blend of dozens of third world ethnicities.

Fixed for you, the current reality. Eyes, and senses in general, they evolved for some purpose in the evolution.

8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

being able to participate in the political discourse without rancour.

Could it be because the "discourse" was limited to an absolute minimum theoretically possible, to loud snoring of the happy populace? Like talking in an echo chamber to great rounds of applause (wait, we saw that somewhere)

8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

We have Peace, Order and Good Government

As proclaimed by our Great Government. All hail the Government (heck, what a crazy deja vu)

8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

We are truly blessed.

Better cut it off here, just in case. Happy holiday!

[Dougie93]

8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

The natural beauty where you can hike and ski, get away from people when you need to. We live in a nation where wild life remains wild. I just got home from the lake, having had hours of entertainment from my friend and neighbour, Joe Squirrel. I was visited by chipmunks, a young river otter, bald eagles, a pair of falcons, deer, a woodchuck, a grouse and a variety of ducks. On my way home to Saskatoon, three grizzly bears crossed the highway infront of me in the East Kootenays.

We have the blessing of a cultural blend of dozens of ethnicities. Also, this is a nation where we have a history of being able to participate in the political discourse without rancour. We have Peace, Order and Good Government regardless of the people in power. We are truly blessed.

it's 90% mosquito infested wasteland,  frozen for half the year

the governance is utterly dysfunctional and increasingly totalitarian

like being imprisoned in North Dakota,  run by the Chinese Communists

hence why any Canadian who makes it rich

immediately moves to Malibu, next door to Wayne Gretzky

[Dougie93]

16 minutes ago, myata said:

Happy holiday!

Dominion Day

British North America

under the rule of the British Crown

by the British North America Act 1867

a Scots German Empire seeking a Northwest Passage

Victoria Regina Imperatrix, Mother Canada

God save the Queen

[myata]

15 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

immediately moves to Malibu, next door to Wayne Gretzky

And so, away (and as far as at all possible) from the Good Government? No way, you have to be l-ing!

[Dougie93]

3 minutes ago, myata said:

And so, away (and as far as at all possible) from the Good Government? No way, you have to be l-ing!

California is only poorly governed by American standards 

by Canadian standards, California is a libertarian paradise

[Dougie93]

13 minutes ago, myata said:

 No way, you have to be l-ing!

I would also argue that America is better for getting out into nature

from Big Sur, across the Mojave, to the Grand Canyon

that is full of wonder

I've spent half my life in the Canadian bush, and it's all the same :  boreal forest ; mosquito hell

 

[myata]

17 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

boreal forest ; mosquito hell

There has to be something! Let's see, MP, federal judge and public exec pensions, that's certain. Bears like in Russia, no pandas though. And then .... .... ....

Edited July 1, 2023 by myata

[Dougie93]

4 minutes ago, myata said:

There has to be something!

 

Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

 

Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie
The sea route to the Orient for which so many died
Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones

 

[myata]

A colonial, resource dominion of a foreign power that struggled to find a purpose, place in the world and identity and failing, over and again. Quite easy to see why too: in spite of claims and chanting of hymns it has no real zeal for freedom and advancement. Don't touch me things are working somehow since the times of Adam and we don't need anything more here. Backwater, colonial mindset, sleepy already. Good night.

[Dougie93]

27 minutes ago, myata said:

A colonial, resource dominion of a foreign power that struggled to find a purpose, place in the world and identity and failing, over and again. Quite easy to see why too: in spite of claims and chanting of hymns it has no real zeal for freedom and advancement. Don't touch me things are working somehow since the times of Adam and we don't need anything more here. Backwater, colonial mindset, sleepy already. Good night.

we are not foreign

this is British North America

there is nothing here but that which we built

it is only the resources which we conquered

that makes our hearths & homes on the edge of this savage wilderness

a wife & family, a dream home on a dream property

serving Regiment, Colours & Commander-in-Chief

live the adventure, and sing about it as you go

[myata]

38 minutes ago, Dougie93 said:

live the adventure, and sing about it as you go

Or can just live, enjoy it and have fun. For everyone else, the conquest adventure.

[I am Groot]

10 hours ago, herbie said:

I'm with Queenmandy85

Take your lithium and you'll feel better in the morning.

It sounds to me that it takes very little to satisfy either one of you.

[PIK]

11 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

The natural beauty where you can hike and ski, get away from people when you need to. We live in a nation where wild life remains wild. I just got home from the lake, having had hours of entertainment from my friend and neighbour, Joe Squirrel. I was visited by chipmunks, a young river otter, bald eagles, a pair of falcons, deer, a woodchuck, a grouse and a variety of ducks. On my way home to Saskatoon, three grizzly bears crossed the highway infront of me in the East Kootenays.

We have the blessing of a cultural blend of dozens of ethnicities. Also, this is a nation where we have a history of being able to participate in the political discourse without rancour. We have Peace, Order and Good Government regardless of the people in power. We are truly blessed.

So that gives Trudeau the right to destroy this nation with his post natural state policies?