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Same. Am Canadian, already south. This is not the place. I'm looking at Northern Europe (good privacy laws) or Singapore (the rules are draconian, but very clear).
Netherlands, although not perfect still has some classical liberal ideals. Singapore is a "Disneyland with the Death Penalty", who in their right mind would go there.
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Same. Am Canadian, already south. This is not the place. I'm looking at Northern Europe (good privacy laws) or Singapore (the rules are draconian, but very clear).
Singapore would be a toss up in terms of privacy, but it is excellent and friendly for work-focused, law-abiding, norm-conforming kind of people. I don't mean it in a bad way.
I expect Canada to become a police state (its already on the way) and the brain drain to accelerate. Bill C-10 and C-36 are horrific China emulating policies, loose definition of "hate speech", bypassing courts in favour of human rights tribunals with 100% conviction rates and no requirement of evidence, preventative enforcement by police. With C-36, even saying something truthful, if causes perceived harm is a punis…
I expect Canada to become a police state (its already on the way)
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I wouldn't agree it's as bad as you make it sound. However, I'm also not sure which other first world country has lower taxes, more "freedoms", higher salaries and cheap housing though.
The US is a very obvious example. Take a look at housing affordability indexes, Canada is behind the EU average and certainly behind the top EU destinations. Also behind Australia, the UK, the US. Toronto and Vancouver are literally 2 of the most unaffordable places on the planet. Also the US, UK and half the EU have lower taxes. The only places with comparable taxes have better healthcare and cheaper or free educati…
House are out hand tho, but this is more related to older generation greed than gouvernement..
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Suspension of civil liberties in response to political unrest is not an uncommon response. We've seen it in the US. That doesn't make it right. I'm not Canadian, so perhaps I shouldn't arm chair quarterback Canadian history, but you asked what I would do. I'll respond to a similar scenario that hits a lot closer to home for me: would I have supported the detention of hundreds of Muslims after 9/11, without any eviden…
The difference is, a province in a democratic nation, so democratic that we have allowed votes on separation over the years, yet we had terrorists deciding they're going to split a province, without vote, without democracy, by violence. That they intend to seize power by force. It was a very, very tumultuous time. It was the civil war that almost was. And with many civil wars, 99.99% of the population did not want vi…
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The US is a very obvious example. Take a look at housing affordability indexes, Canada is behind the EU average and certainly behind the top EU destinations. Also behind Australia, the UK, the US. Toronto and Vancouver are literally 2 of the most unaffordable places on the planet. Also the US, UK and half the EU have lower taxes. The only places with comparable taxes have better healthcare and cheaper or free educati…
A quick verification reveal that at 100k you pay 33% income tax in Quebec, and this is before any deductions. Education is very affordable at about 3k/year for university. House are out hand tho, but this is more related to older generation greed than gouvernement..
And the house prices absolutely can be pinned on governments, we're one of the few countries globally that allows non residents to buy property.
Never thought I’d say this, but this makes me want actual Republicans now in Canada to fight such complete ordure.
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The US is a very obvious example. Take a look at housing affordability indexes, Canada is behind the EU average and certainly behind the top EU destinations. Also behind Australia, the UK, the US. Toronto and Vancouver are literally 2 of the most unaffordable places on the planet. Also the US, UK and half the EU have lower taxes. The only places with comparable taxes have better healthcare and cheaper or free educati…
> In what country can you give away 40% of your paycheck making less than 6 figures to then pay for dental work, prescriptions and education out of pocket while needing to make 3x the average salary to afford an average house? Yeah, I dunno... Maybe there's a little bit of the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" effect going on here, but as an American, if I hadn't read the rest of your post, I would ha…
In Canada, Toronto and Vancouver are the only real 'destinations' and they're SF and NYC expensive but with jobs that pay less than half...
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The difference is, a province in a democratic nation, so democratic that we have allowed votes on separation over the years, yet we had terrorists deciding they're going to split a province, without vote, without democracy, by violence. That they intend to seize power by force. It was a very, very tumultuous time. It was the civil war that almost was. And with many civil wars, 99.99% of the population did not want vi…
FLQ predates seperation votes. For all we know, without the October crisis, our democratic society might have gone the Spain/Catalonia way.
Without the FLQ, and moderate Quebeckers seeing lunatics and murderers, trying to usurpe democratic process, with extreme acts of violence, maybe things may have indeed been different.
But when moderates recall the acts of violent radicals, maybe they think "I'm not sure I want to vote for anything associated...", or "If they thought violence was OK then, what laws may they pass when in power?"
The stigma of the FLQ rubbed off on peaceful separatists for a long time...