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I'd be surprised if Canada makes it another 10 years. It sounds to me like people up there have had it.

• version_five 4y ago
  I'm Canadian. The issue is there are at least two completely different populations (not counting french Quebec though basically the same applies). Toronto, Montreal and maybe Ottawa + Vacounver are very liberal (in the elitist american coastal sense) and have nothing in common with the rest of the country, but control almost all of the politica because of their populations. The rest is ignored at best, occasionally leading to enough people being pissed off to try and stand up like what happened this year. You can imagine whether it's electric cars or gun control or covid restrictions, the frightened majority in Toronto has nothing in common with the rural population, but they enforce their fear on the rest of the country and use them as a scapegoat or political target whenever they can because it's easy. Meanwhile, the country has huge problems, the economy is an illusion propped up by massive government spending, healthcare is horrible and costs us more in tax than anywhere else. Our prime minister is the intellectual equivalent of a "valley girl" and refuses to engage in any substantive issues. Anyway, the behavior of our government this year really does signal to me that canada is a failed state and something needs to change.