Canada Has Fallen

[Robertbarlage]

[Taiga]

[dmlfarmer]

...Before we were a violent authoritian dictatorship.

WTF!!! I have looked down the wrong end of an AK47 for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I have sat in a meeting in a country where there was a true foreign agent spook in attendencee and none other citizens of the country at the meeting dared even look at him. The fear was so thick you could cut it with a knife. I have been in a number of countries where if you tried to hug a cop you would have been arrested instantly.
If you tried even a 10% of the shit the occupiers in Ottawa or Coutts, or on the Ambassador bridge got away with in an actual dictatorship, you would have disappeared without a trace.

For F***sakes we just had a free election 6 months ago and another could be called anytime the members of all the opposition parties disagree with the government. The government of Canada let a relatively small group of protestors drive freey right acoss the country andoccupy our capital city and border crossing and disrupt fellow citizens and the economy for 3 weeks before moving in and removing the protestors without any killing, deaths, or even serious injury. And you think Canada government is violent or a dictatorship? Give your head a shake!

This has to be the most coddled, self centered statement ever posted here, and sadly it reflects many of the posters. ME ME ME, You want ____ but you do not want to have to do the work of selling you desires to everyone else in the country which is what happens in a democracy. No, you prefer extortion and when that does work you whine and cry and claim you are victims. Maybe grow up and actually see the world.

[Robertbarlage]

Elections Canada 250000 votes look it up.

[dmlfarmer]

Elections Canada 250000 votes look it up.

Sent in after the mailin deadline. Look it up. If people are too stupid to realize it is past the mail in deadline and they should vote in person instead it is not the governments fault. Another example of a whiny, I am a victim excuse.

[shtferbrains]

Agree with you DML on the violence scale the Ottawa protest barely registered on both sides. Not one cop car even got burnt.
No weapons caches announced.

Do you think the potential long term damage to our economy by enacting the EMA and saying they are going to be seizing bank accounts for weeks to come was worth the ability to force tow truck driver compliance

You do understand the effects of a brain drain?

[jazz]

For F***sakes we just had a free election 6 months ago

Keep telling yourself that dml. You know the stats. You know the rhetoric that was used.

US counted mail ballots for a week.

[dmlfarmer]

Agree with you DML on the violence scale the Ottawa protest barely registered on both sides. Not one cop car even got burnt.
No weapons caches announced.

Do you think the potential long term damage to our economy by enacting the EMA and saying they are going to be seizing bank accounts for weeks to come was worth the ability to force tow truck driver compliance

You do understand the effects of a brain drain?

Brain drain is overstated hyperbole! How many people swore they would leave US when Trump was elected? How many people swore they would leave US when Trump lost and Biden was elected? How many on here repeated said they would leave if Trudeau was relected? How many repeated say that Canada is done for and time to leave? If anyone actually believed what they are saying they would have packed up and left if not for their own sake, for their families. And I guarantee there are still thousands times more highly educated people wanting to immigrate to Canada from countries that truly are repressed, violent, and with living standards a fraction what they are here.

The real damage done to this country has been loss of faith by the business community that Canada can deliver due to blockades. It wont be people leaving it will be companies looking at alternative suppliers.
And that cost is so much more than tow trucks.

[jazz]

The real damage done to this country has been loss of faith by the business community that Canada can deliver due to blockades. It wont be people leaving it will be companies looking at alternative suppliers.
And that cost is so much more than tow trucks.

What was the cost of cancelling Keystone? Or are you going to try to sell us that same chestnut that the world didnt need the oil.

Trudeau cancelled at least $250B in projects with a stroke of a pen. At least another $100B in investment capital fled before covid.

Make an argument, but dont be a hypocrite.

[shtferbrains]

Your right. The brain drain happens when the a opportunity is better elsewhere because of government policy or poor economy.

Lived with it in Saskatcewan for generations while we collected equalization.
We thought we lived in a poor province but we just had poor government.