Because canadians are so fucking busy pretending to be american, watching our news and pretending its theirs, pretending our president is theirs, pretending our sports are theirs, pretending our celebrities are theirs, that they dont have time for rational thought about their own country and at the end of the day just parrot what cbc or ctv says so they fit in with the cool democrat americans to oppose those nasty republicans. And then transpose all of that onto their own shitty country thats a tenth the size of the UsA with a wholly different set of problems that never get addressed properly because the whole damn nation is full of fucking larpers.
8 years of Obama and 8 years of Bush might have something to do with it. Also US has Fox news, yes they are controlled opposition but US has at least 1 MSM network that appears as right wing. Canada does not have that. So I reckon the resistance to the establishment known as populism has had a better chance to grow with 1 MSM network having a lot of influence over the years. Also US has a culture and constitution that cares more about individual rights than Canada does, US has this framework that its still built on (1st amendment, 2nd amendment). Lastly, US is just a more patriotic culture that leans center-center right, whereas Canada has been a leftist nation for a very long time.
It's the media that the people consume. Canada has some tremendous and brilliant people, but they have nothing to unite them against increasing ridiculousness. The US got very, very lucky with Trump and I hope Canada finds its way as we still have so much work down south of you all as well.
America is a country by virtue of fighting for their freedom from a tyrannical and oppressive British. Canada is a country because it was too much work for little gain to look after the colony and they just said fuck it. It's built on apathy.
The US is unique as they rebelled against the Crown and formed a sovereign state. Canada isn't truly sovereign, which is why we share a Head of State with two dozen other nations.
Secondly (this is not mentioned enough) the concept of United 'States' means a republic consisting of 50 states that (historically) maintained quasi-autonomy among themselves with a limited jurisdiction for thr federal government. This has eroded over time, but the original principle is still there technically.
In Canada the federal government has greater jurisdiction. Even regarding policies that SHOULD require provincial level approval, the feds enforce it regardless. Look at carbon tax as the best recent example.
Federal funding schemes are held ransom for provincial compliance (except Alberta where they are paying, not receiving) and to be fair this happens in the USA as well, but unlike in the USA there wasnt much appetite for sovereignty among Canadians. Perhaps WEXIT will change that.
Even the QC separatist bs in the 70s-90s was about getting more $$$ from the rest of Canada.
I would guess it has a lot to do with the South (before the civil war) and there focus on different cultural values which has been passed on by other generations.
Because canadians are so fucking busy pretending to be american, watching our news and pretending its theirs, pretending our president is theirs, pretending our sports are theirs, pretending our celebrities are theirs, that they dont have time for rational thought about their own country and at the end of the day just parrot what cbc or ctv says so they fit in with the cool democrat americans to oppose those nasty republicans. And then transpose all of that onto their own shitty country thats a tenth the size of the UsA with a wholly different set of problems that never get addressed properly because the whole damn nation is full of fucking larpers.
And pretending we can win the Stanley cup ever again.
8 years of Obama and 8 years of Bush might have something to do with it. Also US has Fox news, yes they are controlled opposition but US has at least 1 MSM network that appears as right wing. Canada does not have that. So I reckon the resistance to the establishment known as populism has had a better chance to grow with 1 MSM network having a lot of influence over the years. Also US has a culture and constitution that cares more about individual rights than Canada does, US has this framework that its still built on (1st amendment, 2nd amendment). Lastly, US is just a more patriotic culture that leans center-center right, whereas Canada has been a leftist nation for a very long time.
It's the media that the people consume. Canada has some tremendous and brilliant people, but they have nothing to unite them against increasing ridiculousness. The US got very, very lucky with Trump and I hope Canada finds its way as we still have so much work down south of you all as well.
And that one network has like 50% of the market share.
So we're like the one retarded kid in class where the teacher tells everyone to be mindful and constantly tell us how "smart" we are.
America is a country by virtue of fighting for their freedom from a tyrannical and oppressive British. Canada is a country because it was too much work for little gain to look after the colony and they just said fuck it. It's built on apathy.
The US is unique as they rebelled against the Crown and formed a sovereign state. Canada isn't truly sovereign, which is why we share a Head of State with two dozen other nations.
Secondly (this is not mentioned enough) the concept of United 'States' means a republic consisting of 50 states that (historically) maintained quasi-autonomy among themselves with a limited jurisdiction for thr federal government. This has eroded over time, but the original principle is still there technically.
In Canada the federal government has greater jurisdiction. Even regarding policies that SHOULD require provincial level approval, the feds enforce it regardless. Look at carbon tax as the best recent example.
Federal funding schemes are held ransom for provincial compliance (except Alberta where they are paying, not receiving) and to be fair this happens in the USA as well, but unlike in the USA there wasnt much appetite for sovereignty among Canadians. Perhaps WEXIT will change that.
Even the QC separatist bs in the 70s-90s was about getting more $$$ from the rest of Canada.
I would guess it has a lot to do with the South (before the civil war) and there focus on different cultural values which has been passed on by other generations.
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Canada is as populist as the US. Canada falls just for left wing populism.