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Yeah, but I'd still stack our politics over the politics of most other countries any day of the week. Every country has some weird stuff. Canada is relatively b

Yeah, but I'd still stack our politics over the politics of most other countries any day of the week. Every country has some weird stuff. Canada is relatively boring on this front, in my opinion. Example: One of our biggest controversies of the past few years involved our PM going on a vacation to an island[1]. That's about it. His family was invited to be guests on a private island, and we haven't stopped complaining about it ever since, because surely there's no explanation other than absolute and total corruption. I'm only being slightly cheeky about this. Like I said... boring. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_affair

buildbot 4y ago
Rob ford is not boring in my opinion! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford
- arcticbull 4y ago
  Unfortunately.
jfabre 4y ago
Huh, you forgot the time when the PM decided to call on the emergency act to get rid of the trucker protest in the capital. Which was annoying for the residents I concede, but was 99.99999% peaceful.
- jfabre 4y ago
  And may I add, proceeded to freeze the bank accounts of all the leaders without due process.
- jonny_eh 4y ago
  It wasn't just annoying, it was increasingly dangerous: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/canada-ottawa-protests-trucker-coronavirus-vaccine/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/canada-ottaw...
  - jfabre 4y ago
    I don't see anything in this article that backs your claim.
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    It was scary to some who did not want loud noises but it was the least dangerous place in Canada at the time.
- bryanlarsen 4y ago
  If I blew a 120dB train horn outside your house at 3AM "annoying" isn't the word you'd use, you'd call the cops.
  - jfabre 4y ago
    Much less annoying than most protests in the USA where people literally destroy private property and loot businesses. So yeah, it was annoying.
    - bryanlarsen 4y ago
      The correct word for both is "criminal".
ipaddr 4y ago
The prime minister has been caught many times giving out federal money to entities close to him and his family. That story above resulted in 50 million being given out to island friends. Just recently they gave out 1 billion for a student job program that didn't create those jobs. This foundation wecharity was paying 300,000 in speaking fees to Trudeau's wife, mother.. finance minister and other party friends. Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Nevermind the multiple times he proudly wore blackface, brownface when he was younger. Boring no.. and very little to be proud of.
- abrichr 4y ago
  > Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Source? All I found was this which debunks this claim: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fact-check-neither-justin-trudeau-nor-the-trudeau-foundation-have-shares-in-acuitas-therapeutics-idUSL1N2UT27X https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fa...
- nickelcitymario 4y ago
  Look, I'm not disagreeing with you about any of that. But if you're going to say Canadian politics are weird (which is the actual point I was addressing), you need to look at it in context of the other nations. I stand by my contention that we're boring and not-weird compared to what I see every day in the U.S., the U.K., most of Europe, Russia and the former soviet states, China (!), most of Asia, the middle East, South America... I mean I struggle to think of too many countries with politics less weird and more boring than Canada. The closest that comes to mind might be Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands... the nordic countries I suppose. I'd joke that it must be the cold that does it, but then we would have all of Russian history (and present news) to contend with. Coincidentally, I happened to hear an ad for a podcast here in Canada called... Canadian Politics Is Boring: https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ So it's not like this is an isolated opinion.

buildbot 4y ago

Rob ford is not boring in my opinion! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford

arcticbull 4y ago
Unfortunately.

jfabre 4y ago

Huh, you forgot the time when the PM decided to call on the emergency act to get rid of the trucker protest in the capital. Which was annoying for the residents I concede, but was 99.99999% peaceful.

jfabre 4y ago
And may I add, proceeded to freeze the bank accounts of all the leaders without due process.
jonny_eh 4y ago
It wasn't just annoying, it was increasingly dangerous: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/canada-ottawa-protests-trucker-coronavirus-vaccine/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/canada-ottaw...
- jfabre 4y ago
  I don't see anything in this article that backs your claim.
- ipaddr 4y ago
  It was scary to some who did not want loud noises but it was the least dangerous place in Canada at the time.
bryanlarsen 4y ago
If I blew a 120dB train horn outside your house at 3AM "annoying" isn't the word you'd use, you'd call the cops.
- jfabre 4y ago
  Much less annoying than most protests in the USA where people literally destroy private property and loot businesses. So yeah, it was annoying.
  - bryanlarsen 4y ago
    The correct word for both is "criminal".

ipaddr 4y ago

The prime minister has been caught many times giving out federal money to entities close to him and his family. That story above resulted in 50 million being given out to island friends. Just recently they gave out 1 billion for a student job program that didn't create those jobs. This foundation wecharity was paying 300,000 in speaking fees to Trudeau's wife, mother.. finance minister and other party friends. Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Nevermind the multiple times he proudly wore blackface, brownface when he was younger. Boring no.. and very little to be proud of.

abrichr 4y ago
> Not to mention the conflict of interest with his family own family owning vaccine companies and his anti-science approach to pushing vaccines. Source? All I found was this which debunks this claim: https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fact-check-neither-justin-trudeau-nor-the-trudeau-foundation-have-shares-in-acuitas-therapeutics-idUSL1N2UT27X https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-trudeau-acuitas/fa...
nickelcitymario 4y ago
Look, I'm not disagreeing with you about any of that. But if you're going to say Canadian politics are weird (which is the actual point I was addressing), you need to look at it in context of the other nations. I stand by my contention that we're boring and not-weird compared to what I see every day in the U.S., the U.K., most of Europe, Russia and the former soviet states, China (!), most of Asia, the middle East, South America... I mean I struggle to think of too many countries with politics less weird and more boring than Canada. The closest that comes to mind might be Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands... the nordic countries I suppose. I'd joke that it must be the cold that does it, but then we would have all of Russian history (and present news) to contend with. Coincidentally, I happened to hear an ad for a podcast here in Canada called... Canadian Politics Is Boring: https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ https://www.canadianpoliticsisboring.com/ So it's not like this is an isolated opinion.