Meanwhile the current government whose base is in the west is now getting closer to China-just as repressive as the USSR and cheating Newfoundland out of their oil money too. They also have created quite the deficit. Amazing the similarities.
"Canada Day" or "Dominion Day"
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Meanwhile the current government whose base is in the west is now getting closer to China-just as repressive as the USSR and cheating Newfoundland out of their oil money too. They also have created quite the deficit. Amazing the similarities.
Why should Alberta's wealth be singled out to be shared, and not BC's, Ontario's or Quebec's? Why didn't this grand equalization strategy extend across other industries? It was a usurpation of a provincial perogative that was not just or fair by any measure... and it cost people in Alberta jobs, businesses and homes. This is why the Liberal Party is such poison in Alberta and probably will be for a long time to come.
Improved relationships with who? 3rd world nations he sent aid to while he bankrupted the country he was supposed to be governing? If this is your definition of the "greatest leader of the western world", then give me the worst because I don't want and can't afford your idea of best.
Actually the trend to get closer to China was started long ago, and Harper's Conservatives have been the party most critical of the Chinese record of human rights and abuses, in memory. I'd love to see you explain how the feds are cheating the Newfs... and this deficit was at the behest of a minority parliament, created amidst opposition cries for more stimulus spending, and as a result of a far worse financial crisis than Trudeau had to deal with. Harper and his crew aren't A-students in my book but they're no Liberal Party of Turdeau.
Which has got bugger all to do with nothing! When we celebrate a birthday, we are celebrating the day we were born, Canada was "born" a Dominion. :smile:
Dominion has a ring of subservience to me. I don't know the etymology of the word, but it looks similar to domination. Who's dominating whom? The British Empire over Canada? The federal government over the people?
Republic, on the other hand, has a much better ring to it and an etymology any democrat can can get behind.
Republic, on the other hand, has a much better ring to it and an etymology any democrat can can get behind.
Well, I was born a baby and when I celebrate my birthday I don't call it a baby day. In fact, even when I was still a baby, I doubt my parents called it that.
Though I like to call it the anniversary of my birth because I'm obnoxious like that. You only have one birthday, you know. All subsequent celebrations are anniversaries
I pointed out to hubby that Toronto Dominion bank changed its name when it moved into the US, and just goes by TDBank down there.
Is the clock still set to 12 past Luongo?TDBanknorth Garden... Home of the Boston Bruins!
are semantics THAT critical??? Sounds like 'much ado about nothing"...
Happy CANADA DAY. :canada: One can read just about anything into words... but that does not mean it is true or a fact.
I remember Dominion Day - and learning from textbooks that spoke of the ports of Manchester. I remember some that made a distinction between Indians and Red Indians too. I remember The Maple Leaf Forever followed by God Save the Queen. But then, I'm older than dirt. Somewhere in some multicultural meleé Canada got politically correct. That wasn't an American thing. Somewhere, we lost an identity.
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Well, I was born a baby and when I celebrate my birthday I don't call it a baby day. In fact, even when I was still a baby, I doubt my parents called it that.
Though I like to call it the anniversary of my birth because I'm obnoxious like that. You only have one birthday, you know. All subsequent celebrations are anniversaries
But you do call it birthday! :lol:
I can't remember a politician in Canadian history that screwed the west more to curry favor in Quebec and Ontario than Trudeau. His one finger salute spoke volumes about how he viewed B.C.
What really bothers me is that except for the possible exception of Martin successive Liberal leaders got even worse.
DITTO that comment. Happy Canada day to fellow Canadians and a HAPPY July 4 to the US contingency. May it be special in many ways.
