This video being legal to show on TV already means Canada is an amazing country with freedom. and humor. I am Thai and our laws regarding censorship of the monarchy is outrageous, I hope one day similar things like this can be seen on Thai TV and nobody responsible have to disappear afterwards.
If you read one Canadian book this year let it be Talking to Canadians by Rick Mercer. I grew up watching Rick from time to time and never really realized how special he is. But now I have a newfound love for the guy. He is a true Canadian role model.
sendmejunkify "Oh wait, no. It couldn't be this dude." Was funny enough over a year ago. Who would have thought (in retrospect) it could get funnier? Here we are in May 2020 and that dude (Jason Kenny I think) is now the Premier of Alberta.
i was more engaged than any class I have ever taken. I have learned more about politics than I have in my entire adult life, and also have laughed during the whole thing! A video not forgotten, Rick Mercer you are a Canadian gem and I cherish you greatly!!!!!
Canada was never part of the USA. During the civil war the British loyalists fled northwards, to Canada (mostly Upper Canada) while the French held lower Canada. Canada was only ever part of the English and French Empires, and the French lost Lower Canada so it all became British. The USA did try to take over but lost the war of 1812 against The British (with minor aid from Canadian Militias, much more aid came from Indians but for their good work we stuck them in 3rd world reserves. Go Canada!)
Thank you for this! I love how, at 3:45 he says “The advantage of our system is, if our Prime Minister decides to do something in completely insane, we have a system to remove him immediately“… And then they show a photo of George W Bush. How quaint that looks from the perspective of current times.
Despite Rick being rather real in the segment, that’s the one part where he’s out of his mind. If the governor general even lose a toe out of line there is typically a political crisis. Australia’s 1975 Constitutional Crisis being exhibit A and the King-Bing affair being exhibit B
+Brad Johnson THAT is correct. In fact, "constitutionally" the Brits can depose the monarch & become a full Republic .. ... even then, QE II would still remain the *Queen of Canada* (_she probably would have to move here or Australia_... LOL!)
Viennery No, the Commonwealth is a separate concept. Republics can be in the commonwealth. ***** Explained well, Elizabeth II is the Queen of Canada and the Queen of England, but the Queen of England is not Canada's queen, make sense? Think about it this way, I could be the CEO two companies, Canada Corp and England Corp. Being simultaneously the CEO of two companies does not mean England Corp owns Canada Corp any more than Canada Corp owns England Corp. Even though the CEO of both companies is the same physical person.
If my dad is the Police Chief and the Fire chief, and someone asks me who is the Fire chief, and I reply the Police Chief, is that wrong? As the Queen of England and the Queen of Canada are by tradition and likely by law currently one and the same person, isn’t the current Queen of England whether or not England becomes a full republic sometime in the future also the Queen of Canada? If so wouldn’t either designation as well as the Queen of whatever else she may be queen of, be a valid designation? Once England becomes a full republic that designation would no longer hold true as when my dad retires as the Police chief.
YES, SHE HOLDS THE TITLE ,,, BUT IT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY , ONLY !!! Canada is a Sovereign Nation .. Makes her own decisions etc. As all Commonwealth Nations do ...Canada ,only pays homage constitutionaly , lip service to the Crown ,, but Canada , also belongs , to the British Commonwealth of Nations .. Which includes many Nations World -wide .. Its a strong Commonwealth .. And in a 150 years the Bonds between these Nations has never been broken .... Canada has many Bonds with other Nations across the World that do not belong to the Commonwealth .. Holland , Belgium , who the Canadians Liberated , at great losses & to this very day those Countries Honour Canada & the thousands of Canadians that gave their lives for them & remain & lie buried in their grounds .. So let's not get too carried away here :))) Canada has Served the World well .. And never asked a thing back !!! Basically in the 60's & 70's we were for years , Peace Keepers , UNTIL we threw our lot in with the U.SA. We have always been there for them , in their Crisis's etc. ..UNTIL changes were made , but ,,one sometimes has to give their head a shake at what our neighbours are doing .. We Will & WILL Continue to remain Loyal as Friends , but , oh !! One does not want to get shafted , as it is unfortunatley being Economically done to us ... Fair Trade ??? Well , Fair Trade or the Word "Fair" , means , Every One Should get a piece of the Sausage , not JUST The Who One Cry & Whimper , OR BULLY !! if they don't get 85 % of it .. Give & Take , SHOULD BE THE NAME OF THE GAME !! A real Deal-maker or Negotiator should know how to make it work !! So all walk away satisfied !!
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, whereas Canadians are malevolently informed about the United States" Merrill Denison, Canadian Playwright
No I'm a Canadian and I think Canada is in the top 10 best countries in the world, but that person thought Canada was the best. And it's NOT simply because we aren't perfect.
I love this. He explains it clearly, but in a nice humorous way that if, say you got something wrong, it's fine .Because it's funney and you can laugh. Great way of explaining how our government works. Also, I shall be *down voting* every comment that refers to "remove the Queen" or some sort of similar thing.
@araya1 Its not always cold . . . I'm pretty sure you get winter too. . . and it depends where you live/visit. I live in Vancouver, and it basically rains all winter. . . we usually never even get snow.
Thank you for your rendition of our political system; you make it sound so ridiculous, which it is. Has anyone ever sat back and looked into the amount of money it takes to keep this morinic Democracy system ticking; I,ll bet you it's in the billions of dollars. No wonder we have such a deficit. If we were to take in all of our elections, the cost of MP's, MLA's, Civic leaders, government services, excluding law enforcement and other essential services, but embracing foreign councels - our country would be pretty well off. Proroguing government has been used too often and is not subject to holding our politicians to account, but if they were not being paid for the same period it would be a hard lesson for them to learn and tey would use it more wisely and wouldn't be as flippant about it.
"Has anyone ever sat back and looked into the amount of money it takes to keep this morinic Democracy system ticking; I,ll bet you it's in the billions of dollars." FYI "democracies" get better bang-per-buck than any other gov't system. Dictatorships generally have even higher taxes and the people get treated like shit for the privilege.
Well if that is true about being able to remove the sitting PM for 'doing something completely insane', then why is Justin Trudeau STILL able to enjoy the role and its many perks, as PM? What say you?
If you understood anything in the video it is because the Liberal government maintains the confidence of the house of commons and Justin Trudeau remains the leader of the party.
So hey, how bout we get the Queen out of our political system. Even though she has no power, but still. I dont like that immigrnats have to pledge an oath to the monarchy.
Do you have any idea what a huge pain in the ass that would be? I would much rather our elected representatives spend their time governing the country well, than carefully rewriting hundred year old documents to remove all references to the Queen and wasting a several million dollars holding a referendum.
Gabe wasn't insulting immigrants, Jay. He was saying that he took issue that new Canadian citizens had to swear an oath to the Queen. What else is the government doing? Going on vacation and lying? It wouldn't be that hard to change and we're going to have to do it all again anyway when Elizabeth dies and her son takes the crown and we have to change all the "Queen" and "Her Majesty" to "King" and "His Majesty".
No because people weren't that stupid when they wrote the constitution etc.. all the reference to the monarch use both genders already. And yes it would be that hard to change because it requires changing the constitution which requires unanimous consent of the provinces some of which have laws requiring referendums for their approval of significant changes to the constitution - and that is before you get into the whole "Quebec never approved the current constitution" debacle and have to deal with all those extra negotiations (see Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accords to see how well that has gone in the past). There is still an on going court case challenging Harper's change to the rules of succession of the Monarchy to treat male and female heirs equally - and that is a change that has broad approval among Canadians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-court-appeal-royal-succession-law-1.4541398
It does not. It says 'Queen' throughout the whole thing. I even believed you at first, but I looked it up on the Government's site and then I looked up the physical document. It says Queen throughout the whole thing from 1867 to 1982. Maybe I'm ignorant, and every document I've seen is filling in a blank where it says [Insert Gender Appropriate Monarchial Title] or it says 'Queen'. So, unless Canada wants to be officially ruled by Charle's wife, we're going to have to change it. Yes, there would be a political debacle. The Canadian Government is seemingly incapable of doing anything simply. What I am saying is it that it wouldn't be actually difficult to do, just annoying to get started. Or maybe it would be harder, considering the BNA Act is apparently still in Britain. Obviously, the rights of succession should be cognatic, it'd only be sexist not to. That's something that really doesn't matter since the direct heirs are all men. I support that change and I want the monarchy abolished.
@DigoGcontaeanChlair we don't sing God Save the queen...where did you find this? Though we don't have a single national identity (we are a diverse), in times of crisis we stand together.Diversity allows us to tolerate and understand each other thus allowing us to have an open mind and not a narrow one. So what if SOME of our areas are cold? We have tons of natural resources and many natives up live there and have been for thousands of years! if you don't like the cold, then live in the south!
"a system that seemed to be broken was actually hard at work" -thats an interesting thought its too bad emergency measures had to be implemented in the first place but its reassuring to know theyre there I was in afghanistan when this whole thing happened so it wasnt central to my daly life but my family did tell me about the shitstorm that was going on in Ottawa
bowtie , I live on the Michigan border and have had many good relations with the U.S. As people your some of the best . Maybe I've been lucky , but I've traveled all over the States and didn't see a police state , I was treated well and helped as well as possible . You see the rest of the world only hears what they get from media , what would you think from that view ? Get your government back as a service , not a thug .
Canada and Australia have an identical constitutional set up... The Queen ultimately still rules both nations. Neither country really ever achieved true independence...eg the sitting Prime Minister of Australia (Gough Whitlam) was actually sacked by the Governor General in the mid '70's Coupling the rule, power and the influence of the British Crown with the financial oligarchs and Banking tyrants of the City of London and you realise how the British Empire still rules so much of the world.
No question, however keep in mind, Canada was British at that point... the regiments who did the fighting were Canadian Regiments. Part of the reason the war of 1812 ended was after the Napoleonic wars came to a close, the regular british army units became available and the US didn't want to have to face them. The British didn't want to endure the cost of sending them overseas, so they signed a peace treaty putting the borders back to where they were pre-war.
I think the best form of government is a limited one. Its purpose should be to simply maintain order and uphold social contracts. Right now we have a system of robbing peter to pay paul. It could be considered a pyramid scheme if not for the fact that the government can create money from nothing. If it wasn't for this it would have fallen apart by now as with most governments around the world.
I am Canadian , born in Italy , so I've traveled and seen governments and ways of life all over . The reason Canada isn't questioning it's fragmented and bizarre way of government is because the country is too rich to complain . If the balance of wealth ran out , Canadians would then destroy their system , knowing that it has to be corrupt .Canada is the second largest country on earth with less population than manhattan , do the math , with resources alone every Canadian should be rich .
It is not a fair tale thank you very much. You live in America, I live in Canada. That's a fact that you learn if you study the war in Canada. I'm sure that in the U.S. they teach things about Canada that we've done in the past that seems ridiculous and cowardly just like we learn. I'm not saying that Americans are cowardly. I'm merely proving a point by saying someone has no right to say a country's cowardly when theirs has done many things similar too.
Given the United States failed in achieving any of its political objectives when it started the War of 1812 while the British Empire and its Canadian subjects succeeded in their primary objective of stopping America from taking over, I'd give the win to Britain and its then Canadian Colony. Most in US in 1800s rightfully considered the war a stupid mistake on our part. The Battle of New Orleans essentially happened after the war was over, and American military performance was generally inferior.
Canadian who lived in the USA for about 12 years speaking here. 1. Americans always talk shit about Canada, more so than I've heard in Canada. 2. America gets most of its oil from Canada, not the Middle East. A lot of countries get their timber from Canada as well. 3. You're just jealous because we have healthcare and our people don't murder each other every 5 seconds, and our economy right now is doing better. I hope you learned something, if not, sorry.
just because they beat back the insurrection of Filipinos and established a 'friendly' government to them doesn't mean they were treating them very well. Do you know how many Filipinos died when the Americans came and they rebelled against them? Did you know the American Congress withdrew their foreign aid after they essentially landed Japan as a permanent military base in the Pacific? There is a reason Manila isn't internationally renowned anymore, considering it was once 'pearl of the pacific'
You don't seem to know very much about the Philippines. I lived there for two years and speak Tagalog fluently. The overwhelming majority of Filipinos love Americans, and have named highways, schools, hospitals, etc. after U.S. General MacArthur. There wouldn't have been any bombing in the Philippines if it weren't for the Japanese (who bombed the Philippines first). To this day the Filipinos talk about the cruelty of the Japanese. Filipinos and U.S soldiers fought together during WWII.
Why do people insist on debating Canada's military. Our "Shitty" military has the most advanced training system in the world. So much so America just invested in it. A lot of our weaponry is being used my military's all over the world. We just invested billions into a fighter created and funded by a bunch of other powerful nations. Canada's military is much more invested then you think. We classify our special forces ops FYI. (JTF2- Joint Task Force 2)
International laws (where my opinion is based) regarding this matter is a little gray/confusing. What is clear though; when military vessels are attacked out of port, the attack it considered indirect. Any attack on civilian vessels own and/or operated by the said country (ie Canada) is considered a direct attack only if it happens in the said country's waters. If a military vessel is attack tied up in port & is attacked, the attack is considered direct, ie the attack of Pearl Harbor.
... Caribou but that attack was on Newfoundland. Which at the time wasn't apart of Canada. So even IF that sinking is seen as a direct attack, it still was NOT a direct attack on Canada. Again supporting my original comment & making your argument with me foolishly uninformed. LOL and you lectured ME about knowing what I'm talking about before commenting. Practice what you preach. You don't seem to understand the difference between a direct attack & a indirect attack. I, however do.
FYI I took the time to read Wikipedia page on the Battle of the St. Lawrence. You asked I Google it, so I did. It did not report or imply ANY direct attacks on Canada took place. All but one attack was on merchant ships & Naval ships leaving port or in the St. Lawrence. These attacks full in the realm of indirect, not direct. Which supports my original comment & rips apart your foolish, arrogant argument. The only attack that could be seen in a direct manor was the sinking of the SS Caribou...
Don’t be arrogant. I've studied 20th century warfare for over a decade. Don't lecture me about knowing or not knowing the subject matter before commenting. Given the extent I've studied the war & the fact I've never heard of any direct attacks on Canada, I doubt it ever happened. I NEVER said they didn't happen, I'm just sure IF they did, they aren't well known or I'd know about it by now. I even went so far as to clarify that I wasn't denying an attack ever happened so you wouldn't lecture me.
She's the head of state of 16 different countries, South Africa isn't one of them, so she isn't the Queen of South Africa. She is, however head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations, which does include South Africa. Her official title is quite long, too long to bother quoting. However she is the head of the Church of England, thus making her the "Queen of England" (along with being Queen of many other countries), as it's the Church of England through which she gets her crown (authority) from.
I don't know of any case of German U-Boats attacking our ports directly. They did for sure attack ships leaving port, but very rarely. All well known German attacks on Canada were in an indirect manor only, they never bombed, shelled, invaded, raided or threatened to do so. FYI just cuz I don't know of any direct attacks on Canada by Germany, I'm not saying they didn't happen, I'm just saying I doubt they did.
I for one am happy to retain ties with Britain. It is apart of our history, and our British heritage is what separates us from Americans and should never be severed. As for WW2. Canada's pumped out ammunition, food, and vehicles for the British war effort. Our navy kept the Atlantic shipping lanes open, allowing for both Canadian and US aid to Britian (although the US was not involved in the war untill 1941, they did send aid to England prior to '41).
1. The United States and Canada are huge trading partners, and have no chance of going to war with each-other. We also have great Britain to back us up if it did ever happen. 2. How could a population of 34,108,752 and rising be entirely homosexual? 3. Anything wrong with being gay? 4. There are so many grammar and spelling mistakes that I find your argument to be extremely unconvincing.
@AkivaII These are still not a prediction... You just reduce to scale to deal with microeconomics rather than the full pictures. You still finish with an estimation within a certain margin : just like the meteorologist does (max of, min of) rather than the climatologist... Except that the meteorologist and climatologist have one big advantage : it's easier to collect data with meteo than with economic, and the statistical&mathematical tools are rather similar.
@AkivaII It's not the job of economist to make predictions. I been clearly warned 7 times in the 4 courses of economics I had took: it is not a prediction game, all an economist do is give a rational expectation with many warning (if this, and if that). Plus, they kind of saw it coming: a survey given by the FRBNY in October 2006 say that 65% of "forecaster" expected something between 1% growth or less for 2007&2008 combine. It just that the system is full of gamblers.
@LiamUe I think you’re just missing my point of view. I live in BC, BC has a parliament building in Victoria but no parliament in it. It’s the home of the provincial legislature. However that being said BC still has a parliament, it’s in Ottawa. The federal parliament serves as parliament for all provinces & territories in the same way the British Parliament serves as the English Parliament too. Knowing that semantically I’m not wrong & nor are you. You are just missing my point of view.
@LiamUe Im not an migrant. I was born & raised in Canada, you assume too much. I do know the difference between British & English, I've worked with the British Army. Note how its not called the English Army. Nevertheless you have once again indirectly supported my argument. With Scotland having its own Parliament & Wales & Northern Ireland having their own Assemblies, the parliament may be known officially as the British Parliament, doesn’t mean it isn’t a body of authority over England.
@LiamUe How do you not know of the English Parliament??? It's located at Westminster Palace in Westminster (part of London) on the Thames River. The Palace has a huge clock tower called Big Ben. The Palace was built in 11th century & rebuilt in 1834 after a fire. Parliament has been located there for centuries. Again, how do you not know of it? BTW I swore an oath of loyalty to the Queen of Canada Elizabeth II, her Hairs, successors & officer there by commissioned. My love is irrelevant.
@LiamUe You just indirectly supported my argument. England is still a country with it's own Parliament. The parliament is the Queen's parliament in the same way all parliaments in the realm are the Queens. So by that logic she is still the Queen of England, not in title, but in legal & practical terms. I'm Canadian, in Canada, a totally different country from the UK, the Queen is officially, practically, & legally, "The Queen of Canada". I'm 100% she rules over England too.
@JimmyG228 - Depends on who you voted for at the time. In Australia, the two main political parties are The Labour Party & The Liberal Party. Liberal voters threw their support behind the Governor General's decision to sack the PM and dismiss his entire government out of office. Meanwhile Labour supporters cried foul about it. Gough Whitlam's famous speech was: "May we say God save the Queen..... Because nothing will save the Governor General" Type in "Whitlam Dismisal" on RUclips to find out!
@LiamUe You call out Rick about being wrong when he isn't... nice one. Queen Elizabeth II holds the title of Head of State of 16 independent sovereign countries. 1 of them of course being the UK. The UK is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain is an island made up of 3 none fully sovereign countries, Scotland, Wales & ENGLAND. The capital of the realm is London ENGLAND. So Risk is 100%, she is the Queen of England... plus several other countries.
And what Rick Mercer is describing about how the Governor General having the ability to dissolve Parliament and replace the Prime Minster is exactly what happened in Australia back in 1975 when our Governor General at the time (the late John Kerr), dismissed the Labour Party who was in power and sacked the Prime Minister (Gough Whitlam) making it one of the most controversal decisions ever handed down in Australian government history. A fact that politican historians still debate to this day
@taangerineeee youtube this "This is Toronto, Canada" it has pretty much all landmarks in largest city. you might want to mute the music though.... "Prince Edward Island, Canada Royal Tour Video" East coast, Provinces P.E.I and Newfoundland have the nicest people you will ever met on this planet, neighbor got free beer from random dude cause he was walking by his house lol :D. theirs the north "Frontiers North - Manitoba, Canada" just an example continued...
I think in order to finally convince Quebec to fully support Canada as a member and friend, we should end the British monarchy in Canada. I want them to speak English, I don't want to humiliate them, and most of all I don't understand why we should have a queen as our head who lives in our country one or two weeks in a year... God bless Ontario, god bless Quebec, god bless the Canadian!
@cymrutroll Oh my, oh oh my. Canadians are way nicer and politer, we have a population of 33 million or so. We were founded by England and france, and the country was original populated by first nations. An eskimo is a first nation who lives in the north. America was populated by first nations and was founded by england. They then bitched and fought and got their freedom from england, canada has not. And america has a population 250 million way more than canada. Canada =/= America, Canada>USA
@1988scottcarey what? apparently you havent because you dont realize that it was poor planning on the american side each time that led to such results. You're saying what about the american invasion of quebec which was also poorly planned (see Arnold's expedition to quebec)? Dummer's war was between indians and settlers before the US even existed...?? louisiana doesnt have a strong french population, its only like 9% and youre referring to the cajun?
@TheAmerican732 Our healthcare is universal - have you even seen the WHO rankings on the US? You're just in front of Slovenia, #37! I am not going to be lectured by an American on social problems. the USA upheld the Jim Crow laws until the 1960s, and to this day America has racist overtones. 1/30 of all British people marched against following the US into the Middle East, and we still haven't forgiven Labour for it. Socialism gave us the NHS... thank you Attlee and Bevan! watch?v=mCrHlAemaFw
@patnwat Really, nothing else? Well, good then. Gee, you really are focused on not having a long argument full of pointless backlash aren't you? Well, I admire that. You are actually the first person who I have had an argument with that is actually brief,and to the point, and your criticisms isn't rife with unnecessary swearing and stupid insults. So thankyou for just saying "k".
@josepineroify Canada has been completely seperate from the United Kingdom since 1982. Yes, that's right... 1 9 8 2. However, Canada as an entity has existed since 1st July 1867. Canada IS an independent nation, the Queen is simply the head of state. Elizabeth II is not actually British, she is kinda everything in the Commonwealth Realm - Australian, New Zealander etc (not to be confused with the Commonwealth of Nations)... watch?v=RqaEXxANA8M watch?v=t2Ne7NVHua0 watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10 (from 2:19)
@patnwat Don't you start telling me that I look like a fool, you prat! How dare you! Listen, you can comment on this all you want, but I don't really care about the advice. All I was saying was thankyou to this guy, and you just start bothering me about how I said it. I don't need that okay? And I'll have you know that I know alot of vocabulary, I don't know where you come from saying that I'm "trying to hard". And another thing, "buddeh", if you want to have a smart argument don't judge me!
@patnwat Um,patnwat, I don't know where do you come from but, I wasn't having a conversation with you, wasn't I? I think I have a right to give him my gratitude in such a manner and I don't need another commentator telling me not to "make a speech" about it. I'll make a speech if I want to. I mean, he made a speech when he was thanking me;and I have every right to both thank him and explain my previous purpose, so do not intrude in this conversation at all with your petty comment, you hear?!
You seem to be thinking that most Americans aren't intelligent. That's awfully rude! Pocket lint, really?! You don't know all Americans. I have family in Canada, I have been to Canada, and when I went to Montreal, I loved it there. I would love to learn about Canada. I'm sure there are many other Americans who feel the same way. You can't just judge all Americans based on a few petty comments. That's only a portion of people on the internet, not most of the population.
@xTsukiTsuki six of those years spent in an 'allied' country which continuously denied his presence. We had to look for him with drones and small SF groups, why? because ISI is completely inept, as is the entire Pakistani government. He lived in a massive compound, much larger than any surrounding buildings, 800 feet from a Pakistani police station and 1,000 yards away from Pakistani Military Academy.
@cornandbeefs The Economist, which is actually left leaning did an interesting article that touched based on the deceptive practices Canada uses to measure debt and calculated Canada's debt at 2008 numbers were 1.26 billion - again this number excludes debt held by certain governments and crown corps. Ontario hydro alone has over 30 billion in debt. The other thing about the US, a lot of other countries owe the US money including Canada.
@cornandbeefs What is your source on state debt, in order for your number to be true, the US state debt on average would need to be 38% higher than what is stated. . Furthernore you implied that 16K per person is the total of all debts in Canada. This is wrong - this is one measure of one type of debt not the total of all Canadians. This figure does not factor in a penny of provincial, municpal, intermediary debt, or debt held through crown corporations.
@darknessblack12 You take one measure of debt and try to portray it as all. The debt figure of the US includes state debt whereas the Canadian figure does not. Nor does it include the debt from crown corporations such the CMHC that has nearly 300 billion debt, or Ontario Hydro over 30 billions, plus dozens of others. Canadian provinces are nearly 10 times more in debt than the average US state. Canadian debt also does not factor in debt held through intermediares
@hop1pop Actually it has already been ruled out as being impractical. Canadian oil is amongst the most expensive in the world. Long transocean pipelines accross the ocean are not even practical for middle eastern oil which is a lot cheaper - Hence other than small ocean crossings it has not been done. Canadians were not the first ones to invent jet aircraft....not even close. The Nazi's were. Where did you even get that from?
@darknessblack12 .. is one the most indebt US state has only 8% debt as a % of GDP. Califnornia recent deficits have hit 24 billion dollars. Whereas Ontario with less than 1/3 the population has had deficits over 50 billion. Statistics Canada: 2009 Federal Budget - Provincial public accounts Ontario financing authority w w w dott CGA dott CT dott gov > then search "COMPARATIVE STATE DEBT BURDENS" By: Judith Lohman, Assistant Director February 18, 2011
@darknessblack12 I will actually even one up on you on this. The source I will be posting uses numbers from 2007 for Canada, one the best years for Canadian provincial debt and the numbers from the US will be from 2009, in the midst of the recession. Canada average province debt to GDP ration was 35% in 2007. Of course this is not including the massive debt accumulated in 2008, 2009, 2010. Now the average US state debt in 2009 was just above 4%. Heck California, which we all know is ....
@hop1pop Actually it is not economically feasible to export Canadian oil in mass overseas given it is amongst the most expensive in the world oil to extract and refine. Furthermore most of it is inland. Russia. You imply Canada is more stable. In some was yes and in many ways no. The average Canadian province has 10 times the debt of the average American state. Canadian indviduals carry more debt, Canadian banks also required more bailout money as well. There are other ways as well....
@hop1pop And in any case, economic dependence isn't necessarily a sign of one country being worse off. After all, our economic recovery from the recession was quicker thanks to our stable banking system, which explains why the dollar's at parity. You're the one who's shooting your mouth off x_x. Whether I argue for Canada's economic dependence on the US or not, the debate as to 'which country is better' is irrelevant.
This is grade 5 social studies in a nutshell.
Yesssss😂👍🏻👍🏻
Oh hell yeah haha
And yet most Canadians have no clue
Interesting that my Grade 12 history teacher is the one that showed it
Literally should be shown to any Non-Canadians if they ask how our country XD
Anyone here after Oct 21 2019
Me 😂
Haaa! You're a brave Argonaut Captain. :)
@@brianthedog6320 Me 2 heh
Me eh, the nostalgia makes me less depressed
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“She has a representative who is in charge of Canada”
*Shows picture of Stephen Harper*
“No not him next slide please” lol
Mr Mercer for Prime Minister!
This video being legal to show on TV already means Canada is an amazing country with freedom. and humor.
I am Thai and our laws regarding censorship of the monarchy is outrageous, I hope one day similar things like this can be seen on Thai TV and nobody responsible have to disappear afterwards.
Hello students currently sitting in Social Studies class watching this and thinking "YES!!! A VIDEO!!!"
If you read one Canadian book this year let it be Talking to Canadians by Rick Mercer. I grew up watching Rick from time to time and never really realized how special he is. But now I have a newfound love for the guy. He is a true Canadian role model.
Just finished his book last week and it was fantastic.
Just bought it… doing research for my trip to Canada next month
Newfound love. Well done, Sir.
Rick is brilliant! Loved this video.
If only he could be our PM. Love his wit & intelligence.
"Oh wait, no. It couldn't be this dude." Was funny enough over a year ago. Who would have thought (in retrospect) it could get funnier?
sendmejunkify "Oh wait, no. It couldn't be this dude." Was funny enough over a year ago. Who would have thought (in retrospect) it could get funnier? Here we are in May 2020 and that dude (Jason Kenny I think) is now the Premier of Alberta.
@@focusedeyeif you think the "couldn't be that dude" dude is Jason Kenney, you're wrong. It's John Baird. I'd recognize his yelling face anywhere lol
"Luckily, I was born here so I've never had to do it." Literally laughed out loud at that one.
But expected
What this was TEN years ago?! Also hey obligatory who’s here in the 19?
4/19/19
25/10/20...lol
26/10/2020
I laughed my ass off. CANADA ALL THE WAY
i was more engaged than any class I have ever taken. I have learned more about politics than I have in my entire adult life, and also have laughed during the whole thing! A video not forgotten, Rick Mercer you are a Canadian gem and I cherish you greatly!!!!!
Rick, once again, simply brilliant.
Canada was never part of the USA. During the civil war the British loyalists fled northwards, to Canada (mostly Upper Canada) while the French held lower Canada. Canada was only ever part of the English and French Empires, and the French lost Lower Canada so it all became British. The USA did try to take over but lost the war of 1812 against The British (with minor aid from Canadian Militias, much more aid came from Indians but for their good work we stuck them in 3rd world reserves. Go Canada!)
Thank you for this!
I love how, at 3:45 he says “The advantage of our system is, if our Prime Minister decides to do something in completely insane, we have a system to remove him immediately“… And then they show a photo of George W Bush. How quaint that looks from the perspective of current times.
Despite Rick being rather real in the segment, that’s the one part where he’s out of his mind. If the governor general even lose a toe out of line there is typically a political crisis. Australia’s 1975 Constitutional Crisis being exhibit A and the King-Bing affair being exhibit B
I'll take Stephen Harper back any day over Trudope
That's a bad choice as well moving forward hopefully we can get even better candidates .
The Queen of England is not the Queen of Canada, the Queen of Canada is the Queen of Canada.
+Brad Johnson
THAT is correct.
In fact, "constitutionally" the Brits can depose the monarch & become a full Republic ..
... even then, QE II would still remain the *Queen of Canada* (_she probably would have to move here or Australia_... LOL!)
+Brad Johnson The Queen of the Commonwealth quite frankly.
Viennery No, the Commonwealth is a separate concept. Republics can be in the commonwealth.
***** Explained well, Elizabeth II is the Queen of Canada and the Queen of England, but the Queen of England is not Canada's queen, make sense?
Think about it this way, I could be the CEO two companies, Canada Corp and England Corp. Being simultaneously the CEO of two companies does not mean England Corp owns Canada Corp any more than Canada Corp owns England Corp. Even though the CEO of both companies is the same physical person.
If my dad is the Police Chief and the Fire chief, and someone asks me who is the Fire chief, and I reply the Police Chief, is that wrong? As the Queen of England and the Queen of Canada are by tradition and likely by law currently one and the same person, isn’t the current Queen of England whether or not England becomes a full republic sometime in the future also the Queen of Canada? If so wouldn’t either designation as well as the Queen of whatever else she may be queen of, be a valid designation? Once England becomes a full republic that designation would no longer hold true as when my dad retires as the Police chief.
YES, SHE HOLDS THE TITLE ,,, BUT IT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY , ONLY !!! Canada is a Sovereign Nation .. Makes her own decisions etc. As all Commonwealth Nations do ...Canada ,only pays homage constitutionaly , lip service to the Crown ,, but Canada , also belongs , to the British Commonwealth of Nations .. Which includes many Nations World -wide .. Its a strong Commonwealth .. And in a 150 years the Bonds between these Nations has never been broken .... Canada has many Bonds with other Nations across the World that do not belong to the Commonwealth .. Holland , Belgium , who the Canadians Liberated , at great losses & to this very day those Countries Honour Canada & the thousands of Canadians that gave their lives for them & remain & lie buried in their grounds .. So let's not get too carried away here :))) Canada has Served the World well .. And never asked a thing back !!! Basically in the 60's & 70's we were for years , Peace Keepers , UNTIL we threw our lot in with the U.SA. We have always been there for them , in their Crisis's etc. ..UNTIL changes were made , but ,,one sometimes has to give their head a shake at what our neighbours are doing .. We Will & WILL Continue to remain Loyal as Friends , but , oh !! One does not want to get shafted , as it is unfortunatley being Economically done to us ... Fair Trade ??? Well , Fair Trade or the Word "Fair" , means , Every One Should get a piece of the Sausage , not JUST The Who One Cry & Whimper , OR BULLY !! if they don't get 85 % of it .. Give & Take , SHOULD BE THE NAME OF THE GAME !! A real Deal-maker or Negotiator should know how to make it work !! So all walk away satisfied !!
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, whereas Canadians are malevolently informed about the United States"
Merrill Denison, Canadian Playwright
No I'm a Canadian and I think Canada is in the top 10 best countries in the world, but that person thought Canada was the best. And it's NOT simply because we aren't perfect.
Being someone who loves politics, this is actually a very good funny representation how a parliamentary system works..
I love this. He explains it clearly, but in a nice humorous way that if, say you got something wrong, it's fine .Because it's funney and you can laugh. Great way of explaining how our government works.
Also, I shall be *down voting* every comment that refers to "remove the Queen" or some sort of similar thing.
sounds like it should fall under the oath of fealty, I agree, will do the same
@MenwithHill As required by law, a translation shall be posted for you shortly ;)
0:36 "We're on hold with Rogers..." OH MY GOD 😂
You guys must be happy having Trudeau!
This is why I love Canada...you make fun of your country. America would gripe. #IWishIWasCanadian
Do what I'm doing and immigrate. lol
The door is open. We wont miss you.
As an American who will be immigrating to Canada in the near future, this was rather helpful. Thank you lol.
God save our Queen!
As a proud Canadian I say, God save the Queen of Canada!
@araya1 Its not always cold . . . I'm pretty sure you get winter too. . . and it depends where you live/visit. I live in Vancouver, and it basically rains all winter. . . we usually never even get snow.
“No, not him… next slide PLEASE!”
I really enjoyed how hard he whacked the screen when Harper's face came up
After the 2015 election, watching this made me chuckle a bit.
Canada's birth year can be 1867, 1931 or 1982 depending on what you consider "independence"
He tries to take the piss out of the crown, then immediately tells us why it's the best system of government at 3:57!
Thank you for your rendition of our political system; you make it sound so ridiculous, which it is. Has anyone ever sat back and looked into the amount of money it takes to keep this morinic Democracy system ticking; I,ll bet you it's in the billions of dollars. No wonder we have such a deficit. If we were to take in all of our elections, the cost of MP's, MLA's, Civic leaders, government services, excluding law enforcement and other essential services, but embracing foreign councels - our country would be pretty well off. Proroguing government has been used too often and is not subject to holding our politicians to account, but if they were not being paid for the same period it would be a hard lesson for them to learn and tey would use it more wisely and wouldn't be as flippant about it.
"Has anyone ever sat back and looked into the amount of money it takes to keep this morinic Democracy system ticking; I,ll bet you it's in the billions of dollars."
FYI "democracies" get better bang-per-buck than any other gov't system. Dictatorships generally have even higher taxes and the people get treated like shit for the privilege.
3:50 - I bet the US especially wishes that they had this ability right now...
Send help pls
Well if that is true about being able to remove the sitting PM for 'doing something completely insane', then why is Justin Trudeau STILL able to enjoy the role and its many perks, as PM? What say you?
If you understood anything in the video it is because the Liberal government maintains the confidence of the house of commons and Justin Trudeau remains the leader of the party.
I wish this was how I was taught about government in school
Where do I apply to be Governor General
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Get rid of the queen!
The queen doesn't actually have any parliamentary powers. It's just a tradition.
Also it's nice to have an emergency lever if a PM starts acting like a dictator.
So hey, how bout we get the Queen out of our political system. Even though she has no power, but still. I dont like that immigrnats have to pledge an oath to the monarchy.
be thanks full of immigrants ,they work pay tax and welfare pay you every month
Do you have any idea what a huge pain in the ass that would be? I would much rather our elected representatives spend their time governing the country well, than carefully rewriting hundred year old documents to remove all references to the Queen and wasting a several million dollars holding a referendum.
Gabe wasn't insulting immigrants, Jay. He was saying that he took issue that new Canadian citizens had to swear an oath to the Queen.
What else is the government doing? Going on vacation and lying? It wouldn't be that hard to change and we're going to have to do it all again anyway when Elizabeth dies and her son takes the crown and we have to change all the "Queen" and "Her Majesty" to "King" and "His Majesty".
No because people weren't that stupid when they wrote the constitution etc.. all the reference to the monarch use both genders already. And yes it would be that hard to change because it requires changing the constitution which requires unanimous consent of the provinces some of which have laws requiring referendums for their approval of significant changes to the constitution - and that is before you get into the whole "Quebec never approved the current constitution" debacle and have to deal with all those extra negotiations (see Meech Lake Accord and Charlottetown Accords to see how well that has gone in the past).
There is still an on going court case challenging Harper's change to the rules of succession of the Monarchy to treat male and female heirs equally - and that is a change that has broad approval among Canadians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-court-appeal-royal-succession-law-1.4541398
It does not. It says 'Queen' throughout the whole thing. I even believed you at first, but I looked it up on the Government's site and then I looked up the physical document. It says Queen throughout the whole thing from 1867 to 1982. Maybe I'm ignorant, and every document I've seen is filling in a blank where it says [Insert Gender Appropriate Monarchial Title] or it says 'Queen'. So, unless Canada wants to be officially ruled by Charle's wife, we're going to have to change it.
Yes, there would be a political debacle. The Canadian Government is seemingly incapable of doing anything simply. What I am saying is it that it wouldn't be actually difficult to do, just annoying to get started.
Or maybe it would be harder, considering the BNA Act is apparently still in Britain.
Obviously, the rights of succession should be cognatic, it'd only be sexist not to. That's something that really doesn't matter since the direct heirs are all men. I support that change and I want the monarchy abolished.
> There is no test for her being of sound mind
You were damn right Rick
I forgot the Governor General can go behind Door #2 and ask another party if they have the confidence of the House.
@DigoGcontaeanChlair we don't sing God Save the queen...where did you find this? Though we don't have a single national identity (we are a diverse), in times of crisis we stand together.Diversity allows us to tolerate and understand each other thus allowing us to have an open mind and not a narrow one. So what if SOME of our areas are cold? We have tons of natural resources and many natives up live there and have been for thousands of years! if you don't like the cold, then live in the south!
School brought me here...
Awesome video and by the way I an Canadian !
The Queen of CANADA, Rick.
"a system that seemed to be broken was actually hard at work" -thats an interesting thought
its too bad emergency measures had to be implemented in the first place but its reassuring to know theyre there
I was in afghanistan when this whole thing happened so it wasnt central to my daly life but my family did tell me about the shitstorm that was going on in Ottawa
God save the Queen!!!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
We need a 2022 version of this!
I love Canadians (im swedish) :D
bowtie , I live on the Michigan border and have had many good relations with the U.S. As people your some of the best . Maybe I've been lucky , but I've traveled all over the States and didn't see a police state , I was treated well and helped as well as possible . You see the rest of the world only hears what they get from media , what would you think from that view ? Get your government back as a service , not a thug .
Canada and Australia have an identical constitutional set up...
The Queen ultimately still rules both nations.
Neither country really ever achieved true independence...eg the sitting Prime Minister of Australia (Gough Whitlam) was actually sacked by the Governor General in the mid '70's
Coupling the rule, power and the influence of the British Crown with the financial oligarchs and Banking tyrants of the City of London and you realise how the British Empire still rules so much of the world.
No question, however keep in mind, Canada was British at that point... the regiments who did the fighting were Canadian Regiments. Part of the reason the war of 1812 ended was after the Napoleonic wars came to a close, the regular british army units became available and the US didn't want to have to face them. The British didn't want to endure the cost of sending them overseas, so they signed a peace treaty putting the borders back to where they were pre-war.
I think the best form of government is a limited one. Its purpose should be to simply maintain order and uphold social contracts. Right now we have a system of robbing peter to pay paul. It could be considered a pyramid scheme if not for the fact that the government can create money from nothing. If it wasn't for this it would have fallen apart by now as with most governments around the world.
I am Canadian , born in Italy , so I've traveled and seen governments and ways of life all over . The reason Canada isn't questioning it's fragmented and bizarre way of government is because the country is too rich to complain . If the balance of wealth ran out , Canadians would then destroy their system , knowing that it has to be corrupt .Canada is the second largest country on earth with less population than manhattan , do the math , with resources alone every Canadian should be rich .
It is not a fair tale thank you very much. You live in America, I live in Canada. That's a fact that you learn if you study the war in Canada. I'm sure that in the U.S. they teach things about Canada that we've done in the past that seems ridiculous and cowardly just like we learn. I'm not saying that Americans are cowardly. I'm merely proving a point by saying someone has no right to say a country's cowardly when theirs has done many things similar too.
Given the United States failed in achieving any of its political objectives when it started the War of 1812 while the British Empire and its Canadian subjects succeeded in their primary objective of stopping America from taking over, I'd give the win to Britain and its then Canadian Colony. Most in US in 1800s rightfully considered the war a stupid mistake on our part. The Battle of New Orleans essentially happened after the war was over, and American military performance was generally inferior.
Canadian who lived in the USA for about 12 years speaking here. 1. Americans always talk shit about Canada, more so than I've heard in Canada. 2. America gets most of its oil from Canada, not the Middle East. A lot of countries get their timber from Canada as well. 3. You're just jealous because we have healthcare and our people don't murder each other every 5 seconds, and our economy right now is doing better. I hope you learned something, if not, sorry.
just because they beat back the insurrection of Filipinos and established a 'friendly' government to them doesn't mean they were treating them very well. Do you know how many Filipinos died when the Americans came and they rebelled against them? Did you know the American Congress withdrew their foreign aid after they essentially landed Japan as a permanent military base in the Pacific?
There is a reason Manila isn't internationally renowned anymore, considering it was once 'pearl of the pacific'
You don't seem to know very much about the Philippines. I lived there for two years and speak Tagalog fluently. The overwhelming majority of Filipinos love Americans, and have named highways, schools, hospitals, etc. after U.S. General MacArthur. There wouldn't have been any bombing in the Philippines if it weren't for the Japanese (who bombed the Philippines first). To this day the Filipinos talk about the cruelty of the Japanese. Filipinos and U.S soldiers fought together during WWII.
Why do people insist on debating Canada's military. Our "Shitty" military has the most advanced training system in the world. So much so America just invested in it. A lot of our weaponry is being used my military's all over the world. We just invested billions into a fighter created and funded by a bunch of other powerful nations. Canada's military is much more invested then you think. We classify our special forces ops FYI. (JTF2- Joint Task Force 2)
International laws (where my opinion is based) regarding this matter is a little gray/confusing. What is clear though; when military vessels are attacked out of port, the attack it considered indirect. Any attack on civilian vessels own and/or operated by the said country (ie Canada) is considered a direct attack only if it happens in the said country's waters. If a military vessel is attack tied up in port & is attacked, the attack is considered direct, ie the attack of Pearl Harbor.
... Caribou but that attack was on Newfoundland. Which at the time wasn't apart of Canada. So even IF that sinking is seen as a direct attack, it still was NOT a direct attack on Canada. Again supporting my original comment & making your argument with me foolishly uninformed. LOL and you lectured ME about knowing what I'm talking about before commenting. Practice what you preach.
You don't seem to understand the difference between a direct attack & a indirect attack. I, however do.
FYI I took the time to read Wikipedia page on the Battle of the St. Lawrence. You asked I Google it, so I did. It did not report or imply ANY direct attacks on Canada took place. All but one attack was on merchant ships & Naval ships leaving port or in the St. Lawrence. These attacks full in the realm of indirect, not direct. Which supports my original comment & rips apart your foolish, arrogant argument.
The only attack that could be seen in a direct manor was the sinking of the SS Caribou...
Don’t be arrogant. I've studied 20th century warfare for over a decade. Don't lecture me about knowing or not knowing the subject matter before commenting. Given the extent I've studied the war & the fact I've never heard of any direct attacks on Canada, I doubt it ever happened. I NEVER said they didn't happen, I'm just sure IF they did, they aren't well known or I'd know about it by now. I even went so far as to clarify that I wasn't denying an attack ever happened so you wouldn't lecture me.
She's the head of state of 16 different countries, South Africa isn't one of them, so she isn't the Queen of South Africa. She is, however head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations, which does include South Africa.
Her official title is quite long, too long to bother quoting. However she is the head of the Church of England, thus making her the "Queen of England" (along with being Queen of many other countries), as it's the Church of England through which she gets her crown (authority) from.
I don't know of any case of German U-Boats attacking our ports directly. They did for sure attack ships leaving port, but very rarely. All well known German attacks on Canada were in an indirect manor only, they never bombed, shelled, invaded, raided or threatened to do so.
FYI just cuz I don't know of any direct attacks on Canada by Germany, I'm not saying they didn't happen, I'm just saying I doubt they did.
I for one am happy to retain ties with Britain. It is apart of our history, and our British heritage is what separates us from Americans and should never be severed.
As for WW2. Canada's pumped out ammunition, food, and vehicles for the British war effort. Our navy kept the Atlantic shipping lanes open, allowing for both Canadian and US aid to Britian (although the US was not involved in the war untill 1941, they did send aid to England prior to '41).
1. The United States and Canada are huge trading partners, and have no chance of going to war with each-other. We also have great Britain to back us up if it did ever happen.
2. How could a population of 34,108,752 and rising be entirely homosexual?
3. Anything wrong with being gay?
4. There are so many grammar and spelling mistakes that I find your argument to be extremely unconvincing.
@AkivaII These are still not a prediction... You just reduce to scale to deal with microeconomics rather than the full pictures. You still finish with an estimation within a certain margin : just like the meteorologist does (max of, min of) rather than the climatologist... Except that the meteorologist and climatologist have one big advantage : it's easier to collect data with meteo than with economic, and the statistical&mathematical tools are rather similar.
@AkivaII It's not the job of economist to make predictions. I been clearly warned 7 times in the 4 courses of economics I had took: it is not a prediction game, all an economist do is give a rational expectation with many warning (if this, and if that). Plus, they kind of saw it coming: a survey given by the FRBNY in October 2006 say that 65% of "forecaster" expected something between 1% growth or less for 2007&2008 combine. It just that the system is full of gamblers.
@LiamUe I think you’re just missing my point of view. I live in BC, BC has a parliament building in Victoria but no parliament in it. It’s the home of the provincial legislature. However that being said BC still has a parliament, it’s in Ottawa. The federal parliament serves as parliament for all provinces & territories in the same way the British Parliament serves as the English Parliament too.
Knowing that semantically I’m not wrong & nor are you. You are just missing my point of view.
@LiamUe Im not an migrant. I was born & raised in Canada, you assume too much.
I do know the difference between British & English, I've worked with the British Army. Note how its not called the English Army.
Nevertheless you have once again indirectly supported my argument. With Scotland having its own Parliament & Wales & Northern Ireland having their own Assemblies, the parliament may be known officially as the British Parliament, doesn’t mean it isn’t a body of authority over England.
@LiamUe How do you not know of the English Parliament???
It's located at Westminster Palace in Westminster (part of London) on the Thames River. The Palace has a huge clock tower called Big Ben. The Palace was built in 11th century & rebuilt in 1834 after a fire. Parliament has been located there for centuries. Again, how do you not know of it?
BTW I swore an oath of loyalty to the Queen of Canada Elizabeth II, her Hairs, successors & officer there by commissioned. My love is irrelevant.
@LiamUe You just indirectly supported my argument. England is still a country with it's own Parliament. The parliament is the Queen's parliament in the same way all parliaments in the realm are the Queens. So by that logic she is still the Queen of England, not in title, but in legal & practical terms.
I'm Canadian, in Canada, a totally different country from the UK, the Queen is officially, practically, & legally, "The Queen of Canada". I'm 100% she rules over England too.
@JimmyG228 - Depends on who you voted for at the time. In Australia, the two main political parties are The Labour Party & The Liberal Party. Liberal voters threw their support behind the Governor General's decision to sack the PM and dismiss his entire government out of office. Meanwhile Labour supporters cried foul about it. Gough Whitlam's famous speech was:
"May we say God save the Queen..... Because nothing will save the Governor General"
Type in "Whitlam Dismisal" on RUclips to find out!
@LiamUe You call out Rick about being wrong when he isn't... nice one.
Queen Elizabeth II holds the title of Head of State of 16 independent sovereign countries. 1 of them of course being the UK. The UK is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Britain is an island made up of 3 none fully sovereign countries, Scotland, Wales & ENGLAND. The capital of the realm is London ENGLAND. So Risk is 100%, she is the Queen of England... plus several other countries.
And what Rick Mercer is describing about how the Governor General having the ability to dissolve Parliament and replace the Prime Minster is exactly what happened in Australia back in 1975 when our Governor General at the time (the late John Kerr), dismissed the Labour Party who was in power and sacked the Prime Minister (Gough Whitlam) making it one of the most controversal decisions ever handed down in Australian government history.
A fact that politican historians still debate to this day
@taangerineeee youtube this "This is Toronto, Canada" it has pretty much all landmarks in largest city. you might want to mute the music though.... "Prince Edward Island, Canada Royal Tour Video" East coast, Provinces P.E.I and Newfoundland have the nicest people you will ever met on this planet, neighbor got free beer from random dude cause he was walking by his house lol :D. theirs the north "Frontiers North - Manitoba, Canada" just an example continued...
I think in order to finally convince Quebec to fully support Canada as a member and friend, we should end the British monarchy in Canada. I want them to speak English, I don't want to humiliate them, and most of all I don't understand why we should have a queen as our head who lives in our country one or two weeks in a year... God bless Ontario, god bless Quebec, god bless the Canadian!
@cymrutroll Oh my, oh oh my. Canadians are way nicer and politer, we have a population of 33 million or so. We were founded by England and france, and the country was original populated by first nations. An eskimo is a first nation who lives in the north.
America was populated by first nations and was founded by england. They then bitched and fought and got their freedom from england, canada has not. And america has a population 250 million way more than canada. Canada =/= America, Canada>USA
@1988scottcarey what? apparently you havent because you dont realize that it was poor planning on the american side each time that led to such results. You're saying what about the american invasion of quebec which was also poorly planned (see Arnold's expedition to quebec)? Dummer's war was between indians and settlers before the US even existed...?? louisiana doesnt have a strong french population, its only like 9% and youre referring to the cajun?
@TheAmerican732 Our healthcare is universal - have you even seen the WHO rankings on the US? You're just in front of Slovenia, #37!
I am not going to be lectured by an American on social problems. the USA upheld the Jim Crow laws until the 1960s, and to this day America has racist overtones.
1/30 of all British people marched against following the US into the Middle East, and we still haven't forgiven Labour for it.
Socialism gave us the NHS... thank you Attlee and Bevan!
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@patnwat Really, nothing else? Well, good then. Gee, you really are focused on not having a long argument full of pointless backlash aren't you? Well, I admire that. You are actually the first person who I have had an argument with that is actually brief,and to the point, and your criticisms isn't rife with unnecessary swearing and stupid insults. So thankyou for just saying "k".
@josepineroify Canada has been completely seperate from the United Kingdom since 1982. Yes, that's right... 1 9 8 2. However, Canada as an entity has existed since 1st July 1867.
Canada IS an independent nation, the Queen is simply the head of state. Elizabeth II is not actually British, she is kinda everything in the Commonwealth Realm - Australian, New Zealander etc (not to be confused with the Commonwealth of Nations)...
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@patnwat Don't you start telling me that I look like a fool, you prat! How dare you! Listen, you can comment on this all you want, but I don't really care about the advice. All I was saying was thankyou to this guy, and you just start bothering me about how I said it. I don't need that okay? And I'll have you know that I know alot of vocabulary, I don't know where you come from saying that I'm "trying to hard". And another thing, "buddeh", if you want to have a smart argument don't judge me!
@patnwat Um,patnwat, I don't know where do you come from but, I wasn't having a conversation with you, wasn't I? I think I have a right to give him my gratitude in such a manner and I don't need another commentator telling me not to "make a speech" about it. I'll make a speech if I want to. I mean, he made a speech when he was thanking me;and I have every right to both thank him and explain my previous purpose, so do not intrude in this conversation at all with your petty comment, you hear?!
You seem to be thinking that most Americans aren't intelligent. That's awfully rude! Pocket lint, really?! You don't know all Americans. I have family in Canada, I have been to Canada, and when I went to Montreal, I loved it there. I would love to learn about Canada. I'm sure there are many other Americans who feel the same way. You can't just judge all Americans based on a few petty comments. That's only a portion of people on the internet, not most of the population.
@xTsukiTsuki six of those years spent in an 'allied' country which continuously denied his presence. We had to look for him with drones and small SF groups, why? because ISI is completely inept, as is the entire Pakistani government. He lived in a massive compound, much larger than any surrounding buildings, 800 feet from a Pakistani police station and 1,000 yards away from Pakistani Military Academy.
@cornandbeefs The Economist, which is actually left leaning did an interesting article that touched based on the deceptive practices Canada uses to measure debt and calculated Canada's debt at 2008 numbers were 1.26 billion - again this number excludes debt held by certain governments and crown corps. Ontario hydro alone has over 30 billion in debt. The other thing about the US, a lot of other countries owe the US money including Canada.
@cornandbeefs What is your source on state debt, in order for your number to be true, the US state debt on average would need to be 38% higher than what is stated. . Furthernore you implied that 16K per person is the total of all debts in Canada. This is wrong - this is one measure of one type of debt not the total of all Canadians. This figure does not factor in a penny of provincial, municpal, intermediary debt, or debt held through crown corporations.
@darknessblack12 You take one measure of debt and try to portray it as all. The debt figure of the US includes state debt whereas the Canadian figure does not. Nor does it include the debt from crown corporations such the CMHC that has nearly 300 billion debt, or Ontario Hydro over 30 billions, plus dozens of others. Canadian provinces are nearly 10 times more in debt than the average US state. Canadian debt also does not factor in debt held through intermediares
@hop1pop Actually it has already been ruled out as being impractical. Canadian oil is amongst the most expensive in the world. Long transocean pipelines accross the ocean are not even practical for middle eastern oil which is a lot cheaper - Hence other than small ocean crossings it has not been done.
Canadians were not the first ones to invent jet aircraft....not even close. The Nazi's were. Where did you even get that from?
@darknessblack12 .. is one the most indebt US state has only 8% debt as a % of GDP. Califnornia recent deficits have hit 24 billion dollars. Whereas Ontario with less than 1/3 the population has had deficits over 50 billion.
Statistics Canada: 2009 Federal Budget - Provincial public accounts Ontario financing authority
w w w dott CGA dott CT dott gov > then search "COMPARATIVE STATE DEBT BURDENS" By: Judith Lohman, Assistant Director February 18, 2011
@darknessblack12 I will actually even one up on you on this. The source I will be posting uses numbers from 2007 for Canada, one the best years for Canadian provincial debt and the numbers from the US will be from 2009, in the midst of the recession. Canada average province debt to GDP ration was 35% in 2007. Of course this is not including the massive debt accumulated in 2008, 2009, 2010. Now the average US state debt in 2009 was just above 4%. Heck California, which we all know is ....
@hop1pop Actually it is not economically feasible to export Canadian oil in mass overseas given it is amongst the most expensive in the world oil to extract and refine. Furthermore most of it is inland. Russia. You imply Canada is more stable. In some was yes and in many ways no. The average Canadian province has 10 times the debt of the average American state. Canadian indviduals carry more debt, Canadian banks also required more bailout money as well. There are other ways as well....
@hop1pop And in any case, economic dependence isn't necessarily a sign of one country being worse off. After all, our economic recovery from the recession was quicker thanks to our stable banking system, which explains why the dollar's at parity. You're the one who's shooting your mouth off x_x. Whether I argue for Canada's economic dependence on the US or not, the debate as to 'which country is better' is irrelevant.