Things I don't like about Canada.

[EastSideScotian]

I for one love the Queen, and I'm proud she's part of our country even if it's only a Figure Head. God Bless the Queen, may her son not pass on his Horse like face to future Royals. Sigh thankyou Lady Di, it's skip a generation.

Indeed, Maybe its us Eastern folk, But The Magority of people, I know Have Great Respect for the Monarchy. Not only is it Traditional, Its part of our Culture as Canadians. The British and the Monarchy helped explore and shape this Nation. Besides if we got rid of the Monarchy what would we do with all out Coins.....

As for what Id change, or dislike, I cant say I dislike much. I wish we would Have a Strong Millitary, along with Stronger Socail Programs. I wish the Doctors Office wasnt a 3 hour nap room. Our Immigration policys need a huge facelift, Immigration is good for us, but We really need to start looking at who we are letting into the Country, and we should make sure they have some useful skills outside driving a cab, or owning a pizza Place (sounds awful but it isnt its true) We need more forigen Doctors and Engineers, and hell even Teachers, not Cabbies and Store owners, nor possible Terrorist. We want hard Workers and people who can bring us new ideas. We have a Population, now we need to sustain it.

Id also Vote for less Tim Hortans, why? because their is something Unnatural about a 30 car pile up for people waiting to get thier tri-hourly Coffee fixes. Sure it taste good, but for lords sake we would be alot better off with we didnt need it evry 90-120 mins.

 

[Kreskin]

This is more localized and Provincial but my biggest pet peeve is living on Vancouver Island and having to pay $60-$75 per trip to the mainland (or back) often waiting in ferry line ups. Either build a damn bridge or give Island residents a discounted pass to use what is essentially an extension of highway one.

 

[Liliput]

I personally love the Queen, if for no other reason that having the Monarch has kept us from "royalizing" our government officals. I personally look at them as just public workers, even the PM. I don't look at them for moral guidance or whatnot. JFK was a great peson who did great things...but he was just a public worker, not a prince of anything.

Our queen is a real queen, a true royal family...so I say a loud Yah! to the Royals who help keep us from looking at our MPs as demi-gods.


Oh and the thing I dislike most about our beloved Canada is that we export too much raw materials! We are giving away a whole sector of jobs in the refinement/processing industries... WHY WHY WHY, I ask

 

[Daz_Hockey]

I personally love the Queen, if for no other reason that having the Monarch has kept us from "royalizing" our government officals. I personally look at them as just public workers, even the PM. I don't look at them for moral guidance or whatnot. JFK was a great peson who did great things...but he was just a public worker, not a prince of anything.

Our queen is a real queen, a true royal family...so I say a loud Yah! to the Royals who help keep us from looking at our MPs as demi-gods.


Oh and the thing I dislike most about our beloved Canada is that we export too much raw materials! We are giving away a whole sector of jobs in the refinement/processing industries... WHY WHY WHY, I ask

Royalizing? surely you mean "Royalising"?, tut tut, as my English teacher would say "your using bastardised English again!!".....thats quite a large part of what differentiates the US Canda and the UK you know!! like Centre, using a dipththong as well as using an S and not a Z..........sorry rant over!.

 

[Sassylassie]

I love Canada's connection to the Queen, like Easty said we have strong ties to the English in Nova Scotia. I'm proud of my heritage, Cape Bretain is more Scotish than Scotland. God Bless the Queen.

I also hate Taxes, all of them. Canada's habit of double taxing Pensions really pisses me off. I pay income tax on my Gross income and then my pension money comes out it's already been taxed upon receiving said Pension I'm taxed again. This is WRONG.

Kreskin, try taking the Ferry from NFL to NS a 16 hour trip and the cost is $285 one way. The ferry is old and battered, you must pay for a seat or you will sit on the floor. It is by far the most despicable god awful journey I've ever taken. You are treated like cattle, and french fries cost six dollars. In BC I found the Ferries clean, and the service par-none. I feel your pain thou.

 

[Gonzo]

The neo-conservatives. Who do moderates vote for now?

 

[Daz_Hockey]

The neo-conservatives. Who do moderates vote for now?

So you dont have anything like the Monster-Raving Loony Party in Canada then?

"Be super!!! Vote MORALOOPA!!!!"

Wahey!!!

 

[Gonzo]

We used to have the rhinoceros party. They were great. Their platform?

• repealing the law of gravity,
• reducing the speed of light because it's much too fast,
• paving Manitoba to create the world's largest parking lot,
• providing higher education by building taller schools,
• instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages,
• offering to retrain those constituents who want to become illiterate by enrolling them in a state educational institution,
• tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset, or moving them one metre west as a make-work project,
• legalising pot. And pans. And spatulas. And other kitchen utensils,
• building sloping roads and bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could "coast from coast to coast",
• making all sidewalks out of rubber to prevent inebriated people from hurting themselves when they fall down
• responding to the energy crisis, reducing energy costs for transportation by moving the cities of Montréal 50km west and Toronto 50km east,
• abolishing pumping oil out of the ground as that oil is there to keep the earth moving smoothly on its axis and if you withdraw the oil, the whole thing will grind to a halt,
• abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space,
• annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory, after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories (Nunavut did not yet exist) in Canada's backyard, in order to raise the mean temperature of Canada by one degree Celsius,
• replacing the Canadian Armed Forces with clones of Vladislav Tretiak,
• end crime by abolishing all laws
• making bubble gum the national currency, so that it could be inflated or deflated at will,
• breeding a mosquito that would only hatch in January so that "the little buggers will freeze to death",
• turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley,
• adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last,
• as an energy-saving idea, putting larger wheels on the back of all cars so that they will always be going downhill,
• selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California,
• putting the national debt on Visa,
• declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons,
• offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montréal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this),
• painting Canada's coastal sea limits so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times,
• counting the Thousand Islands to make sure none were missing,
• running Penny Hoar on a safe sex platform in Toronto,
• running more than one candidate per riding as an MP's salary is certainly enough to support more than one person,
• exploiting acid rain as an electrical energy source by placing dissimilar-metal electrodes in Canadian swimming pools in order to use them as batteries,
• making Canadians stronger by putting steroids in the water,
• banning lousy Canadian winters,
• moving the Vatican to Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec to promote tourism,
• putting the West Edmonton Mall on wheels and rolling it to areas of the country suffering from economic depression,
• turning the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine tunnel in Montreal into a free carwash by poking holes in the ceiling,
• transforming the Montreal Olympic Stadium into a gigantic beluga aquarium,
• annexing Greenland and creating a cartel with other northern nations in order to sell icebergs to the Saudis; the cartel would be called "Snopec",
• digging a canal from coast to coast, by hand, to reduce unemployment; and then, leveling the Rocky Mountains and using the canal to transport the material east to fill in the Great Lakes, in order to expand Canada's landmass.

 

[Curiosity]

I remembered another thing I don't like about Canada

Avril Lavigne

 

[Liliput]

Royalizing? surely you mean "Royalising"?, tut tut, as my English teacher would say "your using bastardised English again!!".....thats quite a large part of what differentiates the US Canda and the UK you know!! like Centre, using a dipththong as well as using an S and not a Z..........sorry rant over!.

*laughs and puts her head on the chopping block* Be gentle and swing swift.

 

[Gonzo]

Musicians I don't like from Canada?
Avril Lavigne
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Nickleback
Anyone from Canadian Idol

And probably allot more that I can't think off because I don't watch Much Music anymore.
Oh yeah, Much Music. Remember when they played videos? Now it's all reality t.v.

 

[CDNBear]

We used to have the rhinoceros party. They were great. Their platform?

• repealing the law of gravity,
• reducing the speed of light because it's much too fast,
• paving Manitoba to create the world's largest parking lot,
• providing higher education by building taller schools,
• instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages,
• offering to retrain those constituents who want to become illiterate by enrolling them in a state educational institution,
• tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset, or moving them one metre west as a make-work project,
• legalising pot. And pans. And spatulas. And other kitchen utensils,
• building sloping roads and bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could "coast from coast to coast",
• making all sidewalks out of rubber to prevent inebriated people from hurting themselves when they fall down
• responding to the energy crisis, reducing energy costs for transportation by moving the cities of Montréal 50km west and Toronto 50km east,
• abolishing pumping oil out of the ground as that oil is there to keep the earth moving smoothly on its axis and if you withdraw the oil, the whole thing will grind to a halt,
• abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space,
• annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory, after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories (Nunavut did not yet exist) in Canada's backyard, in order to raise the mean temperature of Canada by one degree Celsius,
• replacing the Canadian Armed Forces with clones of Vladislav Tretiak,
• end crime by abolishing all laws
• making bubble gum the national currency, so that it could be inflated or deflated at will,
• breeding a mosquito that would only hatch in January so that "the little buggers will freeze to death",
• turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley,
• adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks first, then buses, eventually including small cars and bicycles last,
• as an energy-saving idea, putting larger wheels on the back of all cars so that they will always be going downhill,
• selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California,
• putting the national debt on Visa,
• declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons,
• offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montréal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this),
• painting Canada's coastal sea limits so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times,
• counting the Thousand Islands to make sure none were missing,
• running Penny Hoar on a safe sex platform in Toronto,
• running more than one candidate per riding as an MP's salary is certainly enough to support more than one person,
• exploiting acid rain as an electrical energy source by placing dissimilar-metal electrodes in Canadian swimming pools in order to use them as batteries,
• making Canadians stronger by putting steroids in the water,
• banning lousy Canadian winters,
• moving the Vatican to Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec to promote tourism,
• putting the West Edmonton Mall on wheels and rolling it to areas of the country suffering from economic depression,
• turning the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine tunnel in Montreal into a free carwash by poking holes in the ceiling,
• transforming the Montreal Olympic Stadium into a gigantic beluga aquarium,
• annexing Greenland and creating a cartel with other northern nations in order to sell icebergs to the Saudis; the cartel would be called "Snopec",
• digging a canal from coast to coast, by hand, to reduce unemployment; and then, leveling the Rocky Mountains and using the canal to transport the material east to fill in the Great Lakes, in order to expand Canada's landmass.

All humour aside. If your ramblings around here are indicative of your train of thought, I would doubt not that you would be a card carrying member of the Rhino party.

I bet you find everyone of these ideas enlightening and intellegent.

 

[Gonzo]

Hey, hey, lets not get nasty, just because you don't understand what I "ramble" about. What do you mean by "I would doubt not that you would be a card carrying member of the Rhino party"? What does "I would doubt not" mean? Is that proper english?

 

[Sassylassie]

Whilst reading Gonzo's amusing post on the Rhino Party I couldn't help but notice that this party's Policies are similar to the NDP? Well as the NDP evolve in say five years.

 

[Kreskin]

I believe the Rhinos also wanted to pave over Parksville and rename it Parkville.

 

[al-gebra]

i hate canadians who bitch that canada is not enough like the united states. if you want to see their taxes squandered on weapons instead of services for families then they should move to the united states

 

[tracy]

i hate canadians who bitch that canada is not enough like the united states.

I'd add that I hate when Canadians bitch that the US is not enough like Canada. It's one thing to prefer certain things about Canada, but the arrogant morally superior attitude some Canadians have is just off putting.

 

[I think not]

your generalising again ITN.

I am not going "off" on one. But I'm just trying to get to the bottom of this inate dislike of the monarchy by you. What have they done to you?. Were you around when Washington or any of the revolutionaries were?. Do you know why they disliked the monachy EXACTLY?...or even why YOU do?.

Really, I don't think you do. Your country rid itself of the family a long time ago, and to be patriotic you feel you must dislike them too. Really, it's no different to the reason we Keep the monachy, because we feel we must after a period of history far longer than your country.

it's as simple as that.

And then they call us yanks arrogant. I suppose the arrogance in your post went way over your head.

I know the advocates that claim tradition/heritage, non-partisan politics, unifying force and indentity can't see beyond their nose.

I know that monarchs throughout history, all over the world, have oppressed the masses, and this apparently is something to be proud of.

I know claims made that monarchs are above corruption is a silly argument at best, since they are considered figureheads (according to monarchists) and hold no real power, the corruption issue is moot. It is analogous in claiming Bill Gates is above corruption.

I know that The Act of Settlement of 1701 prohibits a Catholic from rising to the throne and the heir of the throne cannot marry a Catholic, in the meantime the second largest religion in the UK , is Cathoilic. I know tht Scotts and Irish don't want anything to do with the monarch. So much for the unifying force.

As for the issue of indentity; it is propaganda that has been foisted upon the population by centuries of indoctrination in the schools, society and media. When I think of the UK, I don't think of your monarch, I think of George Orwell, William Shakespeare, your table manners, fish and chips, tea time, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, bagpipes, Magna Carta etc...The UK is much more than ceremonial robes, jewels and nobles running around the country picking up babies in hospitals for a photo shoot.

The monarchy is an archaic tribal hereditary system of privilege born out of a pair of sheets.

 

[hermanntrude]

Britain has the equivalent to the rhinoceros party. The Monster Raving Loony Party.

The guy in charge died recently, he was known as screaming lord sutch. He was my hero. Anyone who makes a mockery of politics has a good point.

 

[MattUK]

I dont think arguing for a President or a monarchy is arrogant. Its more what each is used to or preferrs. Neither one is right, and neither is wrong.

I would hate to have a President, I much prefer a PM who has to ask the Queen every time he wants to do something. But others think that is a waste of time, why have the Queen there? Why not just remove her and let the PM make all the decisions?

Its a battle that neither America nor Britain will win. The reason is that we are both right. We both have what we think is best for us.

Long live the Queen.