| | Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?Page 1 of 6 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) | I'm an avid reader and news junkie. For the most part, the US news has attracted my attention just because there has always seemed to be more going on down there. I loved being in nice and safe Canada and watching from afar. I now find myself addicted to the CBC waiting to see what happens next. Civil servants are openly rebelling against the government, Europe is slamming us, 25 years of social/environmental work has been squashed and our policies back dated to a pre-WWII era. Many Canadians are comparing their PM to Hitler.
Just curious if any in the US have even noticed that just North of them...the seeds of rebellion are being laid. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/28/2012 8:29:36 PM | | I kind of sigh and role my eyes when anyone uses the "like hilter" comparison. here, u.s, corporations, companies, politicians, whatever and wherever. It just seems like a cheap, easy, trendy, thoughtless comparison. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/28/2012 8:39:02 PM |
I now find myself addicted to the CBC waiting to see what happens next...
Well you better find a way to get yourself off of that addiction because Harper has already started to dismantle it by making sure funding has been cut.
Civil servants and other Canadians are getting upset because our current government is cutting programs and funding to many things that makes Canada great and attempting to turn Canada in to US light.
People that compare him to Hitler are irrational and delusional, but that does not mean he is not a douche bag who wants to suck up to private industry and spend our tax money on things like new fighter jets and war ships while reducing funding to social programs and other great public programs like the CBC. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/28/2012 8:47:43 PM | | Provincially, it's a liberal government out here in bc and you should see the cuts and flubs going on here. If I could I'd head to NS myself. but there are plenty supporters of them too, although a lot less these days. So just my opinion. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/28/2012 9:15:42 PM | The seeds of rebellion against tyranny have always been here, our ancestors brought them with them when they immigrated here. They planted them in our heart and we've used them against people like hitler, we just never had reason enough to rebel in our own country. With harper at the helm, we do.
The natives did and still do, they were poisoned, drugged, made sterile, and killed. We should pay close attention and learn from their experiences, AND apologize for not having their backs when they needed it. I hope we stick together this time round. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/28/2012 9:41:42 PM |
Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Nope. All I see is more of the usual general apathy - a whole lot of complaining about stuff and no one doing too much of anything meaningful - like voting in an educated way in the first place. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 4:56:04 AM | Europe is slamming us
Because Harper won't give them Canadian bailout money to keep Europe in a nanny state ... supporting unworkable social programs.
25 years of social/environmental work has been squashed and our policies back dated to a pre-WWII era
So anything that isn't pro-social/environmental is pre-WWII era, huh??  This is just the usual socialist whacko rant. Like Harper, I'm more about economic stability. Everything else is secondary.
Many Canadians are comparing their PM to Hitler
Not this Canadian. I compare threads like this one to Hilter. 
As post 2 said ... the comparison is trendy and convenient because Hilter is all-the-rage these days. Try to think of something more original next time.
Happy Canada Day to you too, Lint!! 
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 5:44:18 AM |
25 years of social/environmental work has been squashed
What's an example of either social or environmental work that has been squashed?
reducing funding to social programs and other great public programs like the CBC
Where oh where will I ever find another episode of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner? | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 7:13:16 AM |
Many Canadians are comparing their PM to Hitler
Really? Such a statement is insulting. Canadians, including this Jewish Canadian, are much more intelligent than 'the many' (what...10?) who compare Harper to the sociopath behind the Holocaust.
Hint about Europeans. I'm from France and my Girlfriend is from Denmark...Europeans don't care about Canada anymore than Canadians care about Finland or Hungary. They know where it is on the map, that it's cold and has lots of empty space. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 8:28:34 AM |
I kind of sigh and role my eyes when anyone uses the "like hilter" comparison. here, u.s, corporations, companies, politicians, whatever and wherever. It just seems like a cheap, easy, trendy, thoughtless comparison
I personally draw the comparison due to the systematic dismantling of all our policies and laws meant to protect designated groups and immigrants after taking away our abilities to measure when they were being damaged through changes to the Canadian Census, Employment Equity Act, and Federal Contractors Program. Data needed to prove there was some type of systemic discrimination is going on is no longer being collected so no one can justify the need for protections. Data did not support the rants of white guys saying all jobs were going to designated groups...not even by a long shot. Just wasn't/isn't happening.
Patrick Brazeau was appointed to the Senate because he supports Aboriginals with no Aboriginal/Treaty rights. Section 35 Aboriginals are the only group that has the constitutional right to be consulted on matters regarding the environment and that impact our natural resources. They can't veto, but they must be made aware. Aboriginals are still capacity building but as they do they learn how they can protect Canada from people like Harper and are the only group with the constitutional rights to be able to do it. He may say he's fighting for the rights of all Aboriginal people but if he really was, he would have taken a stand against the policies that have disproportionately impacted off-reserve Aboriginals with no rights to protect them. Aboriginals are doing pretty good considering the Human Rights Act didn't even apply to them until recently and they've been held back for years.
Harper is now free to cater to deep seeded biases that damage these groups. People will try to "fix" these groups instead of realizing its not them that's the problem but the policies that are damaging them that are the problem. This is indeed what Hitler did. He took deep seeded feelings of anti-semitism and little by little introduced policies that harmed them while still getting the popular vote because it catered to irrational biases that those less educated about policy have (the majority of the population). He promoted nationalism (hello....28 mil on the war of 1812 to show Canadians what a military power they once were). The list goes on and on...
Those who have the information to speak can't due to ethic policies (which have recently been expanded to include other organizations besides just the core public service) and the so-called whistleblower policy that is designed not to address wrong doing as promised but is a political weapon to silence people. In 5 years, not one case of wrongdoing in the government has been found despite almost a 1000 complaints. Everyone involved in the process is Harper appointed.
I don't see these comparisons as being cheap, easy, or thoughtless. I can provide proof to support everyone of my arguments and don't have to resort to name calling and unsubstantiated stereotypes to do it. I tend to think people who have to resort to stereotypes and name calling have little in their mental armory to fight back.
@Padawan61 I will be celebrating Canada day and with a clear conscious knowing I'm one of the ones who actually cares about this Country and takes the time to learn about all its policies so I can participate intelligently in the democratic process. Don't call me a piece of lint just because your ignorant and want to stay that way. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 8:46:57 AM | | No,I don't think we're about to revolt. While I'm not entirely happy with some of the programs our current government has brought out I still them over the previous Liberal government. The Liberals made a ton of cuts when they first came to power and then spent 14 years dangling carrots in front of our noses to stay in power. Nothing that is happening now is really any different than what's been happening for my lifetime. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 9:03:34 AM | Just curious if any in the US have even noticed that just North of them...the seeds of rebellion are being laid.
Nope...can't say that I have.
What does Canadian rebellion look like?
Besides a post on POF, I mean. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 9:18:28 AM | @ Nr 1 ...
I've thought Canadians were revolting for a long time ... this is news ... ?
Hell, the U.S. is gettin' more 'Canadian' every day ... or is it 'Soviet' ... ? It's so hard to keep track now ... | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 9:21:54 AM |
Don't call me a piece of lint just because your ignorant and want to stay that way. I'm almost peeing myself laughing over this one...
Time to unwad those panties... he was speaking to me, Lint Spotter. Don't worry though, I won't take exception to your thinking my screen name is a slur.  | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 9:40:42 AM | G Garbo
I tend to think people who have to resort to stereotypes and name calling have little in their mental armory to fight back.
Odd this coming from the delusional one that compared Harper to Hitler.
I like Canada and this why I live here. But it is has the most BORING politics in the world...right after Luxembourg and Switzerland...YAWN. CBC bottom feed everyday trying to fit something into a ten minute of news. News cast folks pray a duck will get caught in the ice so they will have something to broadcast.
I like living in a safe, stable, affluent and politically BORING country. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 10:06:33 AM |
I don't see these comparisons as being cheap, easy, or thoughtless
They are totally cheap, easy and thoughtless. If you want, you could compare the last liberal government of Canada directly to Hitler because they created a gun registery program....one of the first things Hitler did when coming to power in the early thirties. You can cherry pick any policy you want from any government in the world and draw thin comparisons if you really must. But all you're doing is proving yourself totally ignorant of both history and present day reality and insulting millions of people all over the world. If you must be melodramitic to prove your point, you don't have a point. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 10:54:44 AM |
Civil servants are openly rebelling against the government, Europe is slamming us, 25 years of social/environmental work has been squashed and our policies back dated to a pre-WWII era. Many Canadians are comparing their PM to Hitler.
I don't think there is a "revolt" in Canada- we're just too nice and mild mannered here- except when it comes to the Stanley Cup- then things get crazy. May have something to do with our other national passion- beer.
The civil service is up in arms for a very good reason. The government plans on cutting 20000 of them over the next few years. I think many people get upset when you separate them from a paycheck.
I don't know what it is about Harper. He just appears like a sneaky character through his expressionless mannerisms- kind of fake or wooden. His politics is definitely a right turn for Canada. He deals with the unions quite harshly and like many politicians panders to his base. Comparing him to Hitler- thats a large stretch.
He has it pretty easy right now really because the left is split, just as the right was split 20 years ago giving the Liberals cart blanche. I doubt we'll see an NDP government under Mulclair- he's to regional and panders to his base. The Liberals are lost in the woods.
A revolt- its a pretty tame one if it is at all. Typically Canadian- and I like it that way really. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 11:55:58 AM | never in my lifetime, have I even dreamed that we could ever produce, such a terrible government
and we have had some very bad ones
but the current one, is really tearing our whole society apart
we are becoming a first class police state
our economy has never been so terrible
spending is just crazy!,never imagined any government waist so much money!
on the other hand even the most basic,social programs are being destroyed
I am not a person, who, loves socialism, but this government is just foolish
there is not one day that goes by that I am not shocked by Harper
his personal protection is going to cost us 40 million!
4 time higher then anyone before him
, Canada has only seen one, political assassination
what would merit, such an increase??? | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 12:00:00 PM | @Padawan61 I will be celebrating Canada day and with a clear conscious knowing I'm one of the ones who actually cares about this Country and takes the time to learn about all its policies so I can participate intelligently in the democratic process. Don't call me a piece of lint just because your ignorant and want to stay that way
This is so typical of socialists. Anyone who doesn't share their beliefs are "ignorant" while those who do are "well-informed". Give me an f*ing break. I am quite informed on issues and policied THAT MATTER TO ME. I could care less about your socially conscious agenda.
And the only thing that matter is tax CUTS. If social programs must die because of it, I don't care. I get very little benefit from social programs in relations to the amount of taxes I pay. So I agree with the Harper government's policies. 
spending is just crazy!,never imagined any government waist so much money!
Like the vast amounts wasted by the damn Liberals?? | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 12:18:47 PM | Yes I've noticed and I find the current state of affairs in Canada to be quite disheartening. I previouly experienced Canada as being a sane country setting a fabulous world example, giving me a necessary reality check.
After enjoying the Jazz festival in Vancouver one summer I backpacked alone into the interior because it was actually safe for a woman to be alone in the wilderness, a fact backed by crime statitics. A woman can't even walk down the street alone at night in the usa, much less take a hike alone and feel perfectly safe in most areas.
Would you guys please get your PM under control, restoring sanity to north america? Thank you very much, I would seriously appreciate it. | |
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| Anyone else notice that Canadians are starting to revolt?
Posted: 6/29/2012 12:46:08 PM | Tax cuts
anybody that thinks this government is giving anyone a tax cut is stupid
Canada, has been spending like NEVER before, (in peace time)
we are not even getting our income taxes returned!!!
this government is doing so much damage to our country
i wonder if it could ever be fixed
the economy has NEVER been so bad, the environment crazy, we have lost the respect of the whole world!
even the american look progressive now
one thing is certain, "they 'would throw him out! | |
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