Afghanistan and Libya were the game changers for Canada and how the world views us. We are no longer peace keepers, we are the aggressors.
You can have all the money you want, but you can't eat it. It will not serve you at all when you are choking in your own effluent. Economics are not an indicator of prosperity for those who have none. Quality of life is and we don't got it. People may be living longer but they are being sustained by a cocktail of chemicals from Big Pharma. We used to take care of our sick and elderly, now our government (Harpo and his gang of thugs) and his fan club hold them in contempt.
I was once proud to be an ambassador of good will for Canada when I traveled, now I am ashamed. This is not the country I grew up in.
If america
did not go into Iraq and ignore afghanistan and stick to the course of dismantling the training camps and educate the people and bring them out of the dark ages in afghanistan we would be living in a far different world.
All we appear to have done is support the american agenda and do the heavy lifting in Afghanistan to allow for america to practice modern day imperialistic colonialism .
Canada has never been more than middling power, much of it spent in colonial or imperial shadows of Britain or the U.S. The little lamented period of trolling for international reputation was more a function of the deeply engrained inferiority complex Canada has developed.. magnified by mediocre, attention craving politicians like Mulroney and Chretien. We have always been better off when wen mind our own fences instead of running around like half baked preachers or prophets. We have more than enough problems at home to commend us as 'examples' to world.
My god man , you would do well in a communist party fundraising campaign of the 60's.
but alas you know nothing of the roots of your country.
you need deprogramming , you are under the spell of some maniacle mad man who has misguided grudges against false imperlistic canadian propaganda formed in the minds of wannbe commies upset from the dismantling of communism in the former USSR.
your hilarious.
sorry that two of my posts got lumped together..
had to rearrange them in order to not look like i was talking to cliffy...
weirdness..