Canada: A Dead Country Walking
PJ Media,
by
David Solway
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
2/24/2020 12:54:32 PM
Canada is presently in the throes of social and political disintegration. A left-leaning electorate has once again empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic ideological shibboleths of the day: global warming or “climate change,” radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary government, environmental strangulation of energy production, and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation. Industry and manufacturing are abandoning the country in droves and heading south.
Canada is now reaping the whirlwind. The Red-Green Axis consisting of social justice warriors, hereditary band chiefs, renewable energy cronies, cultural Marxists, and their political and media enablers have effectively shut down the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 2/24/2020 12:59:09 PM (No. 328424)
Good! Maybe I can afford to go fishing and camping up there, again. And just maybe they'll be more courteous to their neighbors.
Seriously, this is what happens when you elect Justin Bieber to 'lead' your country.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/24/2020 1:40:37 PM (No. 328464)
Maybe we can make English Canada our 51st state after requiring all its liberals, commies, and Islamists to move to Quebec.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 2/24/2020 1:51:26 PM (No. 328473)
The downside is that we'll be where the refugees flee from the next Venezuela without their having to traverse half a continent to get here first.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 1:52:54 PM (No. 328477)
Many years ago, I led a working group in an international standards committee. I had dinner with a Canadian engineer when we had a meeting in SanFran, back when it was not such a disgusting place.
I was surprised when we were discussing Canada that he suggested, "I think that eventually Canada will become part of the USA". It had never occurred to me, and he seemed quite genuine and convinced that it would happen. We discussed it a bit, but I didn't take it too seriously.
Frankly, at this point, perhaps BC, Yukon and Alberta would be decent fits, but the eastern parts are a totally lost cause, in my estimation. We wouldn't want to tackle those loons. Well, some of the NE, extremely rural areas, Labrador and Newfoundland, I haven't been to, so not sure, but the parts around the Great Lakes.....no, thanks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 2/24/2020 1:54:11 PM (No. 328479)
Too true, #3! I'm afraid you're right, that refugees from Canada will be the next wave of illegals crossing our borders. Socialists will never be happy, not until they rule the entire world-and then destroy it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/24/2020 1:56:31 PM (No. 328486)
My brother and his wife live in B.C. They concur that the descriptions in Solway's analysis are accurate. They also concur that a political crisis is in progress and that Justin Trudeau is ignoring it because he doesn't know what to do to stop the mayhem. Indeed, Canada is becoming a zombie nation. There is a movement developing in Western Canada to leave. Wexit is gaining momentum. Presuming that British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Yukon are in on it.
Notice that our own msm is hiding this crisis from us while they bludgeon us with the coronavirus scare and primary election results. They certainly don't want to be seen as reporting another failed socialist experiment.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 2/24/2020 1:57:00 PM (No. 328488)
Just got back from a cruise. At one time I was eating lunch alone and was seated very close (our tables were 6” apart) to a Canadian couple and a couple from Scotland. They were deep in conversation and I ignored them until suddenly their voices lowered. The conversation had turned to the United States and they were both freely criticizing both our country and president. The man from Canada said that the US had had it good for the last 30 years and now it was the rest of the world’s turn. Because, you know, fairness and all.
I got up and left in disgust. Someone remind me again what Canada and Scotland have contributed to modern life as opposed to America?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 2/24/2020 1:59:46 PM (No. 328490)
Without its proximity to the US, Canada would just be a 'cold Guatemala'.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 2/24/2020 2:09:11 PM (No. 328502)
Canada, it borders on greatness
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 2/24/2020 2:11:13 PM (No. 328503)
Had to chuckle a bit about one posters fishing comment....been a few years now, but the wife and I went to Lac Suel in Ontario o a fishing lodge...It was beautiful, the lake, the area, the lodge, friendly people all about and definitely great fishing...my wife (after I told the guide she wasn't much of a fisherman) ended up catching two record size walleyes..they had a process if you released the fish the Gummint would send you a certificate...she has two now, what did I catch? Not so much, but we filled our limits every day, had superior shore lunches and the guide was Indian, who was born on the lake and knew every spot...Anderson's Lodge it was..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Vesicant 2/24/2020 2:20:12 PM (No. 328514)
On the other hand, The Red Green Show was actually pretty good.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/24/2020 2:41:49 PM (No. 328543)
I spoke with a man from Canada a few weeks ago while in the clubhouse at my golf course, and he was bad-mouthing Trump and all in favor of his impeachment and removal from office and was mad because they senate would bring in witnesses, and that Russia was involved, etc and so on and it was apparent he just watches CNN around the clock and had no clue of reality. I did not engage him in a debate and simply told him that I was not paying too much attention to any of it and that he might be right. I felt that this guy was the tip of the iceberg and just one cube from the ice tray as far as Canadians go. They deserve what they get from whom they elect.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
greggojo 2/24/2020 2:45:43 PM (No. 328547)
imho, This is a sad tragedy. Canada is a beautiful country with an abundance of natural resources (although it does have very cold winters, especially in the more northern regions). In a way, this story reminds me of San Francisco, and more generally, of California. Spectacular places destroyed by liberal politicians.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 2/24/2020 2:45:48 PM (No. 328548)
Now all the 1960s draft dodgers will want to flee back to the US. Under one condition fulfil your duty in the military before you can come back. Let that sink in. Build a northern wall next.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/24/2020 3:00:11 PM (No. 328561)
The whole anti-US thing lives in Ontario and points east. They control the federal gov by sheer population (hello electoral college and senate). I am as of November a US citizen. My family resides in Alberta and would happily join the USA if invited. Normal US Immigration rules should apply. Please do not judge Canadians by the attitude of Ontario and Quebec who think entirely too highly of themselves.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 2/24/2020 3:04:32 PM (No. 328563)
Here you have a writer enthralled by his ability to use 349 words when one will do! Just speak the straight truth, you fool. No one is awed by you wordiness! Rather, it is cringeworthy and offputting.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 2/24/2020 3:16:58 PM (No. 328571)
I wouldn't get too smug about it.
The USA is just one Trump away from being not much different than Canada.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/24/2020 3:22:38 PM (No. 328573)
I have had to travel through Toronto on international flights in 2018 and 2019. Both times, I was subjected to long delays and had to go through security twice on one occasion and three times the next. Once, Canadian security forgot to stop my boarding pass; my wife and I missed the flight and had to spend the night in the airport, sitting up in the departure gate. The security measures were only for flights gong to the United States. Call me crazy if you want, but it seems to me that these measures were instituted by the Trudeau government. It was never this crazy before that.
I may never return to Canada. On my next international flight, I'll make sure that I don't travel on Air Canada. They've gone nuts up there.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
watashiyo 2/24/2020 3:30:14 PM (No. 328580)
U.S.A.!!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 2/24/2020 3:30:18 PM (No. 328581)
I believe it is correct, I have heard that 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border. Only at Calgary did I find a nice big city well away from the border, about 130 miles, and of course, Edmonton, which is farther away from the US border yet. Seems like they are the only really Canadian cities away from the border, but maybe I am missing something, no expert on Canada just been there a few times.
A few years ago, I was visiting the Sault Ste. Marie area, and we drove over to Canada. We headed out north just to see what was there. Within about 30 miles, literally everything ended, no more homes, just trees. Eventually we came to a gas station trading post, a giant log cabin building. Nothing else north of there just a vacant highway on the north shore of the lake, a few buildings scattered miles apart. Amazing. Everything there is at the border, peters out very quickly as you go away from it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smcchk 2/24/2020 3:40:05 PM (No. 328591)
Let’s take Alberta. A nice extension of the West. Good pipeline country.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Newtsche 2/24/2020 4:23:00 PM (No. 328614)
Congratulations, #15, welcome!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Foghorn 2/24/2020 4:29:18 PM (No. 328623)
Canada has been headed this direction for a long time. The UK was becoming a socialist country, advancing the agenda of past politicians following the Saul Alinsky agenda. Canada follows the similar trend of Europe, down the socialist highway. India greeted President Trump by the thousands because India is now going to a more capitalist's system. Europe is also regretting the EU system of a few running the entire continent. Now that the UK has left the EU others may follow. Canada will change directions in a few elections.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
kdog 2/24/2020 4:34:40 PM (No. 328632)
I must have good luck. I get to Canada frequently by most standards and find Canadians to be great neighbors. The summer of Trump's first term I was in a campground and the people there were openly envious we had such a man as president and predicted the great run our country has had economically the last few years. They hated their own PM. Pot is legal there, so when in Rome... lol. I gave one of the men a Chris Stapleton CD when he gave me the flag of his ancestors Indian tribe. Threw the flag away, but kept the great memories of a nice few days.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/24/2020 5:24:50 PM (No. 328672)
In re #6, Wexit has now been replaced with Wecanexit. The folks in western Canada are very very p'od.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner 2/24/2020 6:00:51 PM (No. 328691)
Canada has been all but worshiping "multi-culturism" for decades. If we follow the lefties in our country, we will soon find ourselves in the same mess.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
red1066 2/24/2020 6:31:11 PM (No. 328717)
Haven't been to Canada since 2002. What I remember most, was the enormous number of foreign families. By foreign, I mean middle eastern and third world families. Kids galore. This was right after 9/11, and the Canadian border guard just waved us through with a smile on his face. Getting back into the U.S. was just the opposite. Armed border patrol with M-16's. Searched our trunk, searched under the car, asked about a dozen questions, and we had to show them our ID's Canada looked to me at the time as a staging area for Islamic terrorists waiting to enter the U.S.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Petronius 2/24/2020 7:04:39 PM (No. 328734)
#27, I had to travel to Ontario on business a year ago and it was pretty much the same. Waved on through to Canada, thorough search on return to the U.S.
It seemed that Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese and other foreign born peoples outnumbered the Canadians by a large margin.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/24/2020 9:24:40 PM (No. 328793)
Alberta should apply to join US.
Justy the boy will do nothing.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 2/24/2020 9:55:02 PM (No. 328808)
@#9: Indeed!!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Penney 2/24/2020 10:31:08 PM (No. 328828)
Canada is beautiful and Canadians love to travel in their campers & shop in the USA. Branson is full of them enjoying the shows. Many are lots of fun and have good humor. ...But, as they may say about us, some seem to display a tad of arrogance over Americans. Hubby worked along the border with many RCMPs and they were outstanding people, just great really.
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Canada is a preview of what the Dem candidates want for US. See why MEghan and Airy love Canada ?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
billp 2/25/2020 10:10:05 PM (No. 329788)
Oh please no, we don't need them invading from both the south AND the north.
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