The main reason I'm willing to vote for Pierre anymore is primarily out of the hope he'll at least delay the oncoming collapse by long enough for me to have the time to get my shit together & hopefully land myself a new home in a less fucked country, rather than continuing to bulldoze our way to the point of no return as fast as possible like the libs have been doing
That's already happened. Were you not here the last 10 years? We're in a post-collapse Canada. Not to be too whitepilled but it can only get better.
Can a Canadian explain this to me? I am so confused about when and why Canada has elections. Is there not a set schedule? Do you just have to wait until the people currently in charge decide to do it? I’d there term limits to any of the offices? How in the world can anything function when elections can be whenever??
No set schedule, but one gets automatically called 4 years after the last one. End result is that they get called when it suits the liberal party the most, as they can call it when their popularity is highest and get the votes in just before people realize they were full of shit
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The Canadian constitution does not lay out even the basic requirement that elections be held.
I suppose this makes sense only because Canada wanted to be ruled by a royal family rather than complete independence. I still can’t comprehend how this hasn’t led to real conflict. It seems like a system designed for manipulation.
The constitution was ratified in 1982!
True enough.
Imagine if the speaker of the house also ran the executive branch with other members of congress picked for cabinet posts. That is the Westminster system. The Governor General represents the crown and signs legislation but has a ceremonial role. Previously they would be international ambassadors and represent the nation.
Population of 95%+ cucks and brainwashing victims. Straight up China-level disconnection from reality, maybe greater considering that China at least has an economy and makes a lot of shit. Average person literally doesn't know a fucking thing about our country, laws, political system, etc. In fact, they've often been taught totally incorrect information as though it was fact. Also, the average person is such a pussy that the idea of political violence not only isn't an option to them, but instead is "that bad thing that happens in America or something" that they use to feel morally superior to others.
It is. That's why Alberta is leaving, it's literally taxation without representation the way things are stacked against Alberta.
It makes me feel bad to say, but it really is hopeless. There are no parties in the plural sense. There's a single party with a different faces. It's maintained by an established elite and caters to their interests, which are naturally opposed to the interests of the common people. Regardless of which party is in power, the end goals of each are the same.
If Alberta leaves, it'll be renamed New Khalbertastan within a decade. Which, of course, is what the provincial and federal elites desire.
Canada doesn't have a constitution in the same sense the US does. The USA needed a clear foundational ground hence why their constitution lays basic political orgsanisms. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms which is what people usually think is our constitution is moreso the equivalent of the US Bill of Rights. Like the UK, we just have a long series of acts of parliament slowly changing the role and scope of each political body.
As a fellow American, yep, it is about as bullshit as you imagine. Have a lead in the polls? Call a new election. Its why there might be an election in the spring: As its a general election, it means that all the MP's are up for election as well, which in turn affects the balance of power in the Parliament (functionally, House of Representatives). Now, to make it more fun, the PM is also the leader of the party, and they don't have primaries. So they can kick out someone who has been "Complicated", air drop a new candidate on the party line, and then remove an dissenting voices. Their Senate is toothless all told as well.
Fuck I wish I had those kind of options available to me, at best I could maybe get Portuguese citizenship from my dad's side (grandparents came here under Turdo the 1st (& they've collectively voted exactly as you'd expect up until my gen)), but that'd depend entirely on whether they still even have the proper documents, much less would allow me access to then & unfortunately while my mom's side is a mutt of Ukrainian & several EU/UK nationalities, they're also either founding stocks or count as close enough to not matter
Most Canadians don't know about what goes on. Our largest media organization is the government run CBC. Which is notorious for nepotism and controls a lot of our media narrative. The Canadian establishment uses American politics as reality tv for the boomer crowd and the millennial crowd that still thinks it's 2003. Questioning the Liberal party or any opposition to the direction the government takes routinely gets dismissed as "American."
As a result of living in a country in which one's labour and education are significantly degraded, citizens of the developed world are often unaware of their innate value and appeal.
I disagree. I consider the Laurentian elites to be functionally bilingual individuals that inhabit the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. The Laurentians do as much of a disservice to Francophones as they do to Anglophones.
Quebec should get everything east of Ontario, Manitoba everything west, and then both should firebomb Ontario after sending all the roaches there for a cheeky 'holiday.'