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My point is that if you survey the feedback from people at Canadian Content the only conclusion you can reasonably reach is that people still have "faith"...."believe-in" governments that have demonstrably failed them time and time again! Some want government to be Big Brother and make every decision....use our court system to punish parents for not ensuring that their kids get their highschool diplomas....but hold the line at permitting parents to decide on whether their children ought or ought-not continue chemo-therapy.....
These people rail against the obvious stupidity of a government that was entirely complicit in having Mahar Arar kidnapped and sent off to be tortured by the American GESTAPO... and embrace that it makes sense for Canadians to stand by and do nothing while the United States of Rampant Parnoia pays the home of the Taliban and the recruiting center of Al Qeada half a million to put the grab on a fifteen year old kid..!
If there was ever a clearer indication that Canadians are in capable of conceptualizing and appreciating the obvious inadequacy and rampant failure of Canadian government and our social "institutions".....it would be difficult to imagine!
I want LESS government and MORE freedom to make up my own mind about what happens in my life and making my own choices about how I manage that existence while it seems obvious that a great many Canadians don't have the mental wherewithal to recognize how screwed they are ..... by a system that plays loose and free with morality and concepts of justice....that panders to the terrorist nation of America and demonstrates time and time again that there is no leadership and little integrity of any kind when it comes to Canada's government!
We're screwed because it seems from these threads and the feedback swirling around that Canadians have lost the facility to think!
Point well taken, Mike
Now I see where you are going with the govt. vs people thing, and it does apply in this case, no doubt
I can't prove it, but do believe that, in Canada, and definitely in CC, the majority of people are not cheering on any government. Is that not why we read really angry stuff aimed at the PMO, MP;s, Prov. govt.......on and on. I'm not their biggest fan for sure, any of em.
Do you not think a greater number of Canuks are growing more aware that their first position is that of being bent over a barrel? Speaking to people on the street, most have or know of a horror story, and they are not just a tad put out. They are furious. And they are letting the "powers that be", know.
I read lots of "letters to the editors" of various papers, and now..........as never before, functional illiterates are WRITING in to complain about something. Their grammar and spelling sucks, but they have something legit to bitch about, and realize that they don't have to take the BS any more. Any politician or person in power who fails to take that sort of thing seriously and chuckles up their sleeve, will rue the day.
As for who wants big gov and who doesn't; I don't think that because people don't want what I want, they're dunderheads...............just mislead....:lol: Keep on trukkin, Mikey. We gotta educate'em.
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screw you, Harpo)
