Harper's Tim Hortons Photo-Op Mocked After He Asks To Not 'Handle The Cash'
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Not done much traveling have you!! My first big trip was in 1980 and was treated to an American couple browbeating a hotel clerk for not having space for them!!. They had pushed in front of whole groups of people trying to pick up the keys for reservation they were smart enough to make ahead of time. They were so nasty those waiting apologized for them!!
Even last year in Europe there were a few Cdn. flags stitched to back packs of young Americans.
Since that time the US has managed to made enemies of nearly every young nation in the world.
Did you ask if they were American or did you just know ?
Could they not have been rude Canadians mocking Americans ?
Must have because if you will remember Canada did miss the last one. Mainly because the previous government left him with a country in great shape. The Conservative didn't take long to spend us into a recession.
LOL People talk to you quite freely when they know you are Canadian. (Or used to) That couple used their US nationality as a threat. Also, we have accents just as the Americans do. I can often tell which part of Quebec many French speakers come from as well as those originating from France.
What Harper did after the recession was mostly appropriate.
Deficit spending is reasonable when you are in that kind of situation.
Deficit spending is reasonable when you are in that kind of situation.
A tax break is now a subsidy....:roll:
The Difference Between a Tax Break and a Subsidy - Reason.com
The Difference Between a Tax Break and a Subsidy - Reason.com
In countries with well-developed tax systems, subsidies provided by reducing companies' tax burdens are commonplace. Examples include tax exemptions (when a tax is not paid), tax credits (which reduce a tax otherwise due), tax deferrals (which delay the payment of a tax) and a host of other instruments. In common language these preferential tax treatments are called tax breaks or tax concessions; public-finance economists refer to them as tax expenditures.
https://www.iisd.org/gsi/subsidy-types
https://www.iisd.org/gsi/subsidy-types
Its sort of like the reception you get by visiting areas of the states frequented by travelers from Quebec. You have to explain that just because you are Canadian you are not an a-s-s-hole and that past behaviour came from residents of Quebec only. My experiences. I am sure there are a-s-s-holes from everywhere.
Yup, I have some friends that go to Florida every year, and because they speak with a french accent, they have to be ready with the disclaimer that they come from Ontario.....not Quebec:lol:
Ontario plates on their vehicles help a lot...
Birdie might be just lucky if she speaks English without a French accent!
No it wasn't!! We were not in recession. He took over a very robust economy and literally destroyed it. He spent us into recession!!
Don't be stupid. I do not nor have I ever had a problem in the US with a Quebec license plate. However, I was driven practically into the ditch in Ontario while traveling with 5 children in the car. It was by a car with 4 young males and an Ontario license plate, screaming to go back to Quebec!! In Alberta, whiled getting out of my van, I was told "We don't speak French here". Didn't even wait for me to open my mouth. So ignorance is alive and kicking.
Even Jed Bush got a taste of prejudice when he answered a question in Spanish. Mind you, Trump is not my idea of a sensible, sane individual.
I will say, that people who cannot speak the language of a country, often come across as either rude or defensive. Keeping that in mind generally stops judging whole populations on how one perceives one or two individuals.
In the 80's the Separatists brought in a law which stopped most French speaking children from learning English. It has had the effect that the English speaking persons who stayed after the separates were elected, are the bilingual ones and have the advantage. Now of course most French speakers who want to travel and come from places in Quebec where English is rarely heard, are realizing, they are hostages.
Most those in the government send their children to private schools or out of the Province for their education. What is still to be realized is that a language that does not change ...dies.
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Let's be clear. It is not possible for the Canadian Government to spend us into a recession unless you live in a fool's paradise.
He if not increasing program spending can be called a cut why can't tax breaks be called subsidies?
From "Is Harper Canada's Worse Prime Minister"
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/05/18/news/harper-worst-prime-minister-history
"When he was elected in 2006, Harper inherited a booming economy. With commodity prices surging, the economy was growing at three per cent per year, with an unemployment rate of 6.6 per cent. The government was running a surplus of more than $13-billion, and net debt was $492-billion (and falling).
Fast forward to now and the unemployment rate is 6.8 per cent and climbing, with job growth anemic: only 121,000 jobs were created last year (three-quarters of which were temporary), which did not keep pace with population growth of 308,000. The commodities boom has cooled, in particular with oil prices plunging."
Now, read the whole history of Harper's terms as Prime Minister. Open your eyes to reality and see the true picture.
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