Topic: What do You Make of Canada?

[pisskop]

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/25/arms-trade-treaty-canada-harper_n_3989587.html

OTTAWA - The Harper government faced sharp criticism Wednesday for its continued refusal to sign a landmark treaty to regulate the global arms trade.

A group of non-governmental agencies, called the Control Arms Coalition, said it was frustrated and disappointed that the government did not follow the United States and more than 90 other countries in signing the Arms Trade Treaty.

Meanwhile, the federal NDP accused the government of indulging in conspiracy theories because it continues to express concern that the treaty might have an impact on lawful gun owners within Canada.

The criticism was unleashed after Secretary of State John Kerry signed the treaty on behalf of the U.S. on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Kerry called it a "significant step" in keeping the world safe.

Couldn't find a good second (recent) article.

[ToddF]

Kerry called it a "significant step" in keeping the world safe.

Not that it's hard to do anymore, but Canadians are brighter than Americans, on average.

[Glock32]

Despite their forays into euro-style socialism (Trudeau's utopia) Canada appears to be regaining some sanity the past few years. I still consider it an attractive alternative to the US, if for no other reason than the fact that it's a huge country with only about 10% of the USA's population. Wilderness has always been the antidote to overbearing nanny statists.

[Libertas]

What makes Canada?     Tundra?   

Anywho...

If America goes full-retard (not a far walk from here!) and Canada holds or improves, would be a nice option.  Find me a nice isolated nook somewhere with good like-minded folks as neighbors (and we're a comfortable long walk apart from each other), heck, that's good!

[oldcoastie6468]

Despite their forays into euro-style socialism (Trudeau's utopia) Canada appears to be regaining some sanity the past few years. I still consider it an attractive alternative to the US, if for no other reason than the fact that it's a huge country with only about 10% of the USA's population. Wilderness has always been the antidote to overbearing nanny statists.

Just like the USA, Canada's central provinces and other rural areas have always been what we'd call conservative. And, just like the USA, they are almost always squashed by the large liberal cities (Toronto, Ottawa, etal.) and in its western provinces in the west.

[trapeze]

I have lived there.

In Calgary.

Minnesota doesn't have anything on Canada's plain provinces when it comes to cold ass winters.

Seriously, mind-numbingly, when-is-this-sh*t-ever-gonna-end-I-wanna-go-to-Florida-right-frickin'-now, cold ass winters.

Where plugging your car into an electrical receptacle just so the engine will turn over isn't even close to optional.

Where I live now (Colorado) is like winter for pussies compared to Alberta or Saskatchewan.

Central Canadian winters gives the phrase, "When you pry my gun from my cold dead fingers..." a whole new and quite literal meaning.

I don't ever want to go back. Not on a bet. Not ever.

[Pandora]

Especially if we're heading into another "little ice age", as is suspected by the climate watchers who don't have their heads up their butts.

[warpmine]

Especially if we're heading into another "little ice age", as is suspected by the climate watchers who don't have their heads up their butts.

Maybe that's why it's always warm to them, their head is forever up their butts.
It's always warm and it's now a familiar place to be for them.