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The Canada the author refers to is gone.

by gdevenyi 9mo ago

jonapro 9mo ago
Quite the statement there bud. Care to back it up?
- gdevenyi 9mo ago
  Every province except Alberta is in dire financial states(Venezuela events will finish them off) . We have no gold reserves. In the next 5 years there will be a mortgage cliff for those who bought at the peak. Major Universities are about to be bankrupt. Canada is going to get very poor soon. These social goods will be gone, and we will be worse for it.
  - jleyank 9mo ago
    They still have power, they still have food, they still have minerals and other stuff dug out of the ground. They still have water. Unless you think the world will cease being a consumer economy, they'll do ok. And Toronto and Vancouver can take all of the refugees from Silicon Valley when it implodes financially.
  - ChromaticPanic 9mo ago
    Is this the new "We're going to turn into Greece" scaremongering the Conservatives were slinging 15 years ago.
Waterluvian 9mo ago
Hard to know what accounts to bother responding to these days. This is likely one of them as it fails to offer any worthy substance beyond a barely whined grievance. But I have first hand experience that the things described in this post are absolutely not gone. I suspect there are agents of lesser minds at work hoping to stir instability. We aren’t swindled as easily as other peoples.
- gdevenyi 9mo ago
  This is not a greivence this is a lamentation.
glouwbug 9mo ago
It was a time of post WWII boom and unrivalled economic prosperity. For the vast majority of human existence wealth like that was never offered to regular commoners. Canada today might be expensive to rent in and buy in, but the quality of life in terms of safety, culture, political stability, nature, and medicine (minus the temporary shortage in health professionals) is still unmatched globally. Canadians who complain about Canada haven’t faced or lived life outside of Canada
- amrocha 9mo ago
  I’m Canadian, have lived in 4 different continents, and there’s plenty of countries that are just as good or better than Canada out there. Case in point, I live in Japan. Some things are worse than Canada, but the things that are better line up with my priorities in life. Don’t fall for the americanism of being blind to the rest of the world and thinking we’re the best. There’s plenty of areas for Canada to improve on.
  - garbawarb 9mo ago
    If I may ask, how did you end up in Japan?
    - amrocha 9mo ago
      I liked it well enough when I was travelling that I decided to try and live here, so I got a job and a work visa. That was almost 4 years ago now.
  - tavavex 9mo ago
    > Don’t fall for the americanism of being blind to the rest of the world and thinking we’re the best. That's not what the person was saying, though. They never implied that Canada is the best, they only said that Canada is a good place to live in, and that people who try to say otherwise (like the parent of this thread) lack perspective. Any Canadian that lived in other first-world countries (except maybe the US) will probably say that in many ways, the other countries can be better than us. We've got plenty of issues, but Canada's still up there. There's some things that are good here, some that need a lot of work - but on average, it's still really good by world standards. There's nothing wrong with saying that we need to improve in many critical areas, but there is in posting ragebait talking about 'true Canada' being long gone, Canada being a failed state and so on, like what you see above and across many parts of the internet.
gdevenyi 9mo ago
I find it very amusing the number of 'Canadians' in this thread saying how great a place it is after prefacing the comment explaining they now live in the USA.

The Canada the author refers to is gone.

jonapro 9mo ago

Quite the statement there bud. Care to back it up?

gdevenyi 9mo ago
Every province except Alberta is in dire financial states(Venezuela events will finish them off) . We have no gold reserves. In the next 5 years there will be a mortgage cliff for those who bought at the peak. Major Universities are about to be bankrupt. Canada is going to get very poor soon. These social goods will be gone, and we will be worse for it.
- jleyank 9mo ago
  They still have power, they still have food, they still have minerals and other stuff dug out of the ground. They still have water. Unless you think the world will cease being a consumer economy, they'll do ok. And Toronto and Vancouver can take all of the refugees from Silicon Valley when it implodes financially.
- ChromaticPanic 9mo ago
  Is this the new "We're going to turn into Greece" scaremongering the Conservatives were slinging 15 years ago.

Waterluvian 9mo ago

Hard to know what accounts to bother responding to these days. This is likely one of them as it fails to offer any worthy substance beyond a barely whined grievance. But I have first hand experience that the things described in this post are absolutely not gone. I suspect there are agents of lesser minds at work hoping to stir instability. We aren’t swindled as easily as other peoples.

gdevenyi 9mo ago
This is not a greivence this is a lamentation.

glouwbug 9mo ago

It was a time of post WWII boom and unrivalled economic prosperity. For the vast majority of human existence wealth like that was never offered to regular commoners. Canada today might be expensive to rent in and buy in, but the quality of life in terms of safety, culture, political stability, nature, and medicine (minus the temporary shortage in health professionals) is still unmatched globally. Canadians who complain about Canada haven’t faced or lived life outside of Canada

amrocha 9mo ago
I’m Canadian, have lived in 4 different continents, and there’s plenty of countries that are just as good or better than Canada out there. Case in point, I live in Japan. Some things are worse than Canada, but the things that are better line up with my priorities in life. Don’t fall for the americanism of being blind to the rest of the world and thinking we’re the best. There’s plenty of areas for Canada to improve on.
- garbawarb 9mo ago
  If I may ask, how did you end up in Japan?
  - amrocha 9mo ago
    I liked it well enough when I was travelling that I decided to try and live here, so I got a job and a work visa. That was almost 4 years ago now.
- tavavex 9mo ago
  > Don’t fall for the americanism of being blind to the rest of the world and thinking we’re the best. That's not what the person was saying, though. They never implied that Canada is the best, they only said that Canada is a good place to live in, and that people who try to say otherwise (like the parent of this thread) lack perspective. Any Canadian that lived in other first-world countries (except maybe the US) will probably say that in many ways, the other countries can be better than us. We've got plenty of issues, but Canada's still up there. There's some things that are good here, some that need a lot of work - but on average, it's still really good by world standards. There's nothing wrong with saying that we need to improve in many critical areas, but there is in posting ragebait talking about 'true Canada' being long gone, Canada being a failed state and so on, like what you see above and across many parts of the internet.

gdevenyi 9mo ago

I find it very amusing the number of 'Canadians' in this thread saying how great a place it is after prefacing the comment explaining they now live in the USA.