40 million people, sitting on the 2nd largest land mass on earth, atop a King's Ransom of oil, gas and minerals.
Canadians are lovely people. They should be the America's Norway, with their own $2 trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund. Pleasant Climate warriors, ironically swimming in a sea of petrodollars, while enjoying their beautiful country.
Instead Canadians seem too obsessed with Trump, to understand they should be wealthy enough from their natural resources alone, to ignore Trump's antics until his term ends.
Canadians do not need to rid themselves of Trump, time will take care of that. He is a US President, with 75% of both terms behind him. Canadians need better Canadian governance, that maximizes their natural resources and prioritizes the Canadian standard of living. Trump is temporary. Unless Canadians change their voting habits, Canada's economic malaise is not.
Spot on Ronda. They remind me of Russia. All that wealth and opportunity but do nothing with it.
Is the virtue signaling they love to do (and we definitely have ours here in USA) anything to do with being descended from England? The English love to virtue signal too and do it with the best of them. And the Canadians came basically from the USA as loyalists to the crown when we had our revolution and left England. They sided with the English and headed north to be with King and Queen. Has to be a relation in their actions from all of this. They relate and tie to London on everything? (see Mark Carbney). Blood is thicker than water.
Thanks for something positive about the U.S. Lately, we’re hearing way too much from the socialist wing of the Democratic Party about how awful everything is here. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no place like home.
Sorry but their is no “socialist” wing that is the party today a full
Socialist take over with a Marxist/Leftist wing.
The fact that party leaders not failed to halt this (especially after Bernie runs as a “democrat”) is on them. They let the DSA high jack the party for zero gain.
It is, as always, the balance between individual libertarian sovereignty and the collective common good. The former is conservative, relies on base human moral behavior that is generally shaped by religious principles. It is also male and patriarchal in its gendered tendencies (based on the gender roles shaped by biology and evolution). The other is feminist and matriarchal. It is left and liberal. It is collective vs individual. It seems to care for others from the view of the mother looking at children. And it is also infantile in that way, as the mothers insert themselves into the culture and society of the child.
Arguments for the collective common good are easy to deliver because who does not want to be cared for by a loving mother? Who does not want a hug after we fail and make mistakes, and can really shed our bad feelings about? Who does not want to remove the sting of accountability and all the stress that would come with the alternative of self-discipline, self-determination, persistence, hard work and responsibility?
The argument for the father and that of individual sovereignty is the more difficult path, but with much better outcome opportunities for the individual, and thus the collective overall. But it comes at a cost of stories of tragic individual circumstances that can be exploited and stir emotional impulses that foment irrational motherly responses.
The US design as per the founders favored individual sovereignty over the collective common good precisely because they knew that the collective common good would more likely be achieved by enabling the individual the full right to pursue their own self interests. They new from historical attempts at all different types of governance, that the design they envisioned would best serve the overall human condition. The success of the US proves they were correct. They understood that this true human nature, and that attempting to social engineer for the common good would always require constraints on individual pursuits that would always migrate to a level of authoritarianism.
Canada does not have the same founding design, and thus it is more slippery down that slope of pursuing the collective common good, and more authoritarianism, over individual sovereignty.
Canada is run by a mothering system. The US by a fathering system.
Yeah, Canadian concept of self is "not American ". This is unhealthy and prevents them from developing a culture of their own. Contrast with Mexico. They may be "so far from God and so close to the United States " as President Diaz said but they are a people with their own culture and history which is BTW older than the US.
I wonder ifvwe are really comparing like with like. I would have thought that it would make more sense to compare Ontario with somewhere like NY and use a province like, say, Saskatchewan, as a better baseline to compare with Kansas
Having lived extensively in both countries, my own feeling is that if you have money, you can have a fantastic quality of life in the US. BUT for the median, I would guess the quality of life is better in Canada. It's the old inequality vs entrepreneurialism paradigm and the manner in which the respective countries give weight to one or the other at the margin.
We have family in Nova Scotia.Just sat down with Massachusetts cousins who visited 'Novvy' recently - they related that everyone seemed to be on government assistance 🤷🏼♀️ that it was depressing..
40 million people, sitting on the 2nd largest land mass on earth, atop a King's Ransom of oil, gas and minerals.
Canadians are lovely people. They should be the America's Norway, with their own $2 trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund. Pleasant Climate warriors, ironically swimming in a sea of petrodollars, while enjoying their beautiful country.
Instead Canadians seem too obsessed with Trump, to understand they should be wealthy enough from their natural resources alone, to ignore Trump's antics until his term ends.
Canadians do not need to rid themselves of Trump, time will take care of that. He is a US President, with 75% of both terms behind him. Canadians need better Canadian governance, that maximizes their natural resources and prioritizes the Canadian standard of living. Trump is temporary. Unless Canadians change their voting habits, Canada's economic malaise is not.
Spot on Ronda. They remind me of Russia. All that wealth and opportunity but do nothing with it.
Is the virtue signaling they love to do (and we definitely have ours here in USA) anything to do with being descended from England? The English love to virtue signal too and do it with the best of them. And the Canadians came basically from the USA as loyalists to the crown when we had our revolution and left England. They sided with the English and headed north to be with King and Queen. Has to be a relation in their actions from all of this. They relate and tie to London on everything? (see Mark Carbney). Blood is thicker than water.
Thanks for something positive about the U.S. Lately, we’re hearing way too much from the socialist wing of the Democratic Party about how awful everything is here. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no place like home.
Sorry but their is no “socialist” wing that is the party today a full
Socialist take over with a Marxist/Leftist wing.
The fact that party leaders not failed to halt this (especially after Bernie runs as a “democrat”) is on them. They let the DSA high jack the party for zero gain.
It is, as always, the balance between individual libertarian sovereignty and the collective common good. The former is conservative, relies on base human moral behavior that is generally shaped by religious principles. It is also male and patriarchal in its gendered tendencies (based on the gender roles shaped by biology and evolution). The other is feminist and matriarchal. It is left and liberal. It is collective vs individual. It seems to care for others from the view of the mother looking at children. And it is also infantile in that way, as the mothers insert themselves into the culture and society of the child.
Arguments for the collective common good are easy to deliver because who does not want to be cared for by a loving mother? Who does not want a hug after we fail and make mistakes, and can really shed our bad feelings about? Who does not want to remove the sting of accountability and all the stress that would come with the alternative of self-discipline, self-determination, persistence, hard work and responsibility?
The argument for the father and that of individual sovereignty is the more difficult path, but with much better outcome opportunities for the individual, and thus the collective overall. But it comes at a cost of stories of tragic individual circumstances that can be exploited and stir emotional impulses that foment irrational motherly responses.
The US design as per the founders favored individual sovereignty over the collective common good precisely because they knew that the collective common good would more likely be achieved by enabling the individual the full right to pursue their own self interests. They new from historical attempts at all different types of governance, that the design they envisioned would best serve the overall human condition. The success of the US proves they were correct. They understood that this true human nature, and that attempting to social engineer for the common good would always require constraints on individual pursuits that would always migrate to a level of authoritarianism.
Canada does not have the same founding design, and thus it is more slippery down that slope of pursuing the collective common good, and more authoritarianism, over individual sovereignty.
Canada is run by a mothering system. The US by a fathering system.
We know which is better... much better.
I find Canadian speed limits signs a perfect reflection on their need to be subservient to some higher unaccountable entity.
Even in the UK speed limits signs remain staunchly on the King’s Imperial measure.
Yeah, Canadian concept of self is "not American ". This is unhealthy and prevents them from developing a culture of their own. Contrast with Mexico. They may be "so far from God and so close to the United States " as President Diaz said but they are a people with their own culture and history which is BTW older than the US.
I wonder ifvwe are really comparing like with like. I would have thought that it would make more sense to compare Ontario with somewhere like NY and use a province like, say, Saskatchewan, as a better baseline to compare with Kansas
Having lived extensively in both countries, my own feeling is that if you have money, you can have a fantastic quality of life in the US. BUT for the median, I would guess the quality of life is better in Canada. It's the old inequality vs entrepreneurialism paradigm and the manner in which the respective countries give weight to one or the other at the margin.
Where's Karl today? Isn't this all The Don's fault? Maybe he is late today that's all.
We have family in Nova Scotia.Just sat down with Massachusetts cousins who visited 'Novvy' recently - they related that everyone seemed to be on government assistance 🤷🏼♀️ that it was depressing..