Dont worry hippies... After you learn that fairy tales never come true and you run out of grass you will soon realize that the left way of life does not actually work. News flash - here in the real world of a global economy you have to remain competitive, big unions and govts that want to tax corps will cause them to move even more to other countries... Your pricing yourselves out of jobs.
To all of you complaining about the election results it makes me laugh.
As a Canadian citizen and registered/educated voter, thanks Aljazeera for covering this issue :)
Yes it has. The conservatives (typically from the rural/country areas) have changed long standing Canadian values including climate change. I used to be proud of my countries involvement in international issues and we were a leader in green science and technology but now I am ashamed of my government.
Historically the country that has the relatively free-est economy has higher growth rate enjoys greater prosperity has lower unemployment and greater individual freedom. As Canada slowly moves away from socialism and statism and America has embraced for some time the idea of big government and top down central planning it will be inbteresting to see the reversal of fortunes. Already Canada has much lower unemplyment, rate higher growth, smaller deficit..
@txn4yt7mc5 That's debatable. Canada didn't have a great a financial crisis as the US did because of banking regulation. Canada will never have a deficit like the US because of American military spending.
@DexArtist You can tell there's an american that can't even tell other countries on a map when they don't realize that Canada has multiple parties and is not simply a matter of a right/left divide.. go back to your sandbox.
As a canadian, i almost know nothing about the canadian goverment, i know waaaay more about the europeans, usa, and the rest of the world than i know what the fuck is going on in canada! Maybe because we dont have many problems here, the living standard is the best in the world. Compared to the living standards in the states, canadians are royalty!
Canada isn't so much conservative's but it's a combination of the conservatives being more united and rigid, with the liberals being more independent and fragmented between three different parties.
Until Canadians consolidate, the conservative party will get a free ride.
the only conservative you get on this show has no fangs, hes like your good lil conservative who never really says anything too smart
fox does this also sometimes gets a no balls liberal on the show ( they get an average liberal lol) but for real they would be scared to have Chris Hitchens
all i know is building more prisons when crime is on the decline is not very useful. It also depends on where the world economies is going though, i mean less people with jobs means more people with nothing to do and no money which is a recipe for disaster. maybe they are on to something who knows
It is slow, leaves unfortunately, the harpers is a very good politician, you only see his moderate policies in public but during private speeches the conservative talking points are used in full force
The fact of the matter is that only 38% of Canadians supported the present government. It's dumbfounding to think that the significant majority of the people in an active democracy are forced to allow a small government to pursue legislation said majority are directly opposed to. It's simply a failure of our system that allows the present leadership.
8:30 I love how he's acting like no one knows shit about Canada and he has to compare it to another country to get the idea of their politics across to the viewers.... just say it... They're pretty much a 'liberal version' of the US except they all say "aboat". Ok moving on now..
Part 3 Well I don't think the conservatives are entirely to blame for the economic crisis. The Liberal platform actually contributed greatly for increased the deficit, but that's beside the issue and failing economic. Like the America's Canada didn't really make use of their surplus. There were no mechanism to save surplus to deal with situations like this. The conservative party made the same mistake.
More social programs and aid from the government is NOT the answer it will only result in higher taxes, What Canada needs is fewer government regulations for private sectors to expand and hire workers. Public sector never do things as effective as private ones because they lack competition and the taxpayers have to pay for them as well.
@yourtreat2 Maybe you should go back to high school and learn the difference between centrally planned socialistic economy and free market capitalism.
Part 2 Canada as a semi-periphery state took advantage of it's diplomatic organizations. The Harper government has changed this dependancy and had to increase it's arm to compensate. Why should Canada care about Kyoto if we don't emit as much as other nations? Well Canada is actually one of the biggest polluters in the world. We have to look at the CO2 emissions per cap. Our primary energy source is partly to blame. Most Canadians don't live in the North and we have to question the heat argumnt
WTF is with north america and these "conservatives". It is hard as hell to find a right wing party as crazy as the US and canada conservatives in europe. If there is one, it's a serous minority party
The Harper government is very odd. They present a economically conservative monetary policy, but they continue to spend a lot of money on unnecessary programs. The UN security console bid had a lot to do with Canada's recent views of "Palestine". The Harper government may have done a great job in economic recovery, but the maintenance of the economic system has a lot to do with the MIXED structure of the banking system. Neo-liberalism isn't working.
Allot of people seem to not understand context. Canadian conservatives and the conservative party are like american liberals and the Democratic party and on top of that only 39% of the population even voted for the conservatives and that's the highest they could possibly ever hope for.
Harper and his regime were elected by less that 40% of Canadian who voted or about 20% of Canadians overall. The problem is that there are a number of liberal/progressive parties but only one conservative party so the progressives end up splitting the vote which results in the conservatives sliding through to victory. That's why many Canadians are working to establish a new electoral system based on proportional representation in which case the conservatives would never become government again.
@BayAreaOrBust Yes, and they could very likely continue to win unless either 1) the centrist/left parties unite or 2) the public coalesces to vote for only one of the centrist/left parties.
@1140Cecile I think the problem is actually more specific than that. We have electorate areas in ontario with 50,000 people in it, and for some reason this counts for the same amount of votes as some hamlet in alberta with 4000 people. This makes no sense at all. As a citizen of a major city there's almost no point to voting at all.
@smokydave This is an extreme exaggeration. There is some discrepancy in the population of Canadian federal ridings (electoral districts), but most ridings have between 70,000 and 130,000 people. This is why Toronto has 57 ridings, while the entire province of Alberta has only 26. Ironically, Alberta is actually under-represented in terms of number of ridings per capita.
@1140Cecile Yeah but you are forgetting the Liberals have been elected into majority power with fewer than 40% votes. Didn't hear any complaints about parliamentary reform before the election; only after the Liberals lost.
@1140Cecile canada is a conservative country. get over it. canada is not liberal, is not a fence sitting, politically-correct-paranoidacy... get out of ottawa, toronto or quebec and learn what the real canada is about.
@Glaxist Numbers dont apply to you do they? Theres only one conservative party, two left parties and we end up splitting the vote. Mr harper only got 40% of the vote
@1140Cecile That's first past the post for you. Anyways, the last person to get more than 50% of the vote was not a Liberal, but PC Brian Mulroney in 1984. Even then, it was barely 50%. The fact is proportional representation will mean no party will ever get power.
KICK THE EVIL ZIONISTS OUT CANADA! Drown the zionists in the MACKENZIE RIVER! The zionists want to send your sons and daughters up to the traugh for sacrefice for a flawed ideology of racism and cynicism. .
yea, ideology doesn't really shape the country's crime rates etc etc. US is kind of an insane place to live. I didn't realize it until I spent a considerable amount of time living outside of the US to get the perspective of others. I don't think Canada should emulate the US politically nor economically. Socially the countries are very similar.
@lordblazer Ideology? Insane? Is that only if isn't your own ideology? The US is so "insane" that people break the law daily to live here. I'm not as influenced by the opinion of others, as you say you are. I live in and outside of the US, including Cananda. The US is the best place to live!
I never said you personally were. Also when I point out it being insane in the US. I go from the perspective I've gained from people living in other developed countries throughout my travels. Anyway my point was not to be antagonizing. You took it as such if that's the case then deal. US system only fits the culture here. Its not a shock that people will view it alien if they are use to the place they grew up in. I'm American. black seminole to be precise.
I agree for me the US has lots of perks within the system that other OECD countries just don't have one of them being flexibility. We're more flexible than anything, but outside of that social instability, high crime. lots of reasons people from other rich countries would love to visit us but not live here. Anyway we're not really #1 in HDI soo I think you took offense because I wasn't being a cheerleader screaming USA #1. Anyway learn not to take offense so easily.
@lordblazer There will always be crime. Which "perks" are you referring to?
One of the reason we have high crime is because the government makes people dependent on them. Our "poor" have no idea of what poor is really like in other countries. Our "poor" are really quite rich, but many think they should have more, therefore they commit crimes so they may acquire it, instead of earning it. Our leader is now practicing a very volatile game of class warfare that is making it worse.
will message you the data concerning HDI and gini index. we're not absolutely the worse country to live in, but we are not the best, I think we should really stop saying that.
@lordblazer If you are referring to the US as NOT the worst country to live in, I agree. I don't need data that I don't believe is factual to tell me that. The US certainly is the best, as people are flooding here!!
thjey're flooding here from poorer, developing countries. You get people coming here from wealthy countries also, but its rare for those people to settle here. Also realize Canada has people flooding to go there too. Same with the UK and France, etc. Anyway just because immigrants are wanting to come doesn't make it the best as immigrants pretty much compete to get into any country with an advanced economy.
HAHHAHA the evil racist zionists are pushing the us aside and going to canada!! haha t he racist righwing zionists are finding friends in new places and they dropped america like a hotcake!! hahha
It looks like the Blacks, Muslims and all the other various 3rd world leaches have worn out their welcome in yet another successful white nation.(which does not now nor will ever need them)
I guess you parasites will just have to find another host to drain the life from.
Here is what people need to understand about Canadian politics. Most Canadians identify themselves centre-left on the political spectrum and identify with left leaning parties but the god damn problem now is that there are two left wing parties who eat votes from each other during election times. If the Liberals and NDP united like the PC and Alliance had did, they can easily form a strong government and hold on to power for a long time. But boy seriously the left in Canada cant see this?!?!?!
I hang my head when I say that our 'fearless leader', Herr Harper is goose stepping right in line behind the 'Dali Obama'. All world governments do not represent the interests of it's respective citizens, we need to see that it's a 2 way split between the globalist theocracy and the rest of us. There really are people who think it is their 'right' or responsibility it is to run our world. Most of them are politicians and bankers and they actively run or seek it for that very reason.
Canadians seem to have lost a lot of brain cells since electing Harper, I can slowly see them becoming more and more like Americans.....cringe God forbid!
@SpoonHysteria I didn't vote for the guy....Canada use to be better is my point, Britain has been kissing America's butt for a lot longer than Canada I know it's shameful
From a Canadian perspective I think the problem is not Stephen Harper but the STUPID Left in our Country. I am centre left on the political spectrum and boy Stephen Harper is doing what Jean Chretien and the Liberals used to do the Right Wing in our country by play off each other. The Right Wing in Canada became smart and united and created one party led by Stephen Harper and they are doing what they said they would do! My Question is why cant the damn Left in Canada unite!!!!!!!
@supablackman85 left has too much ego in them..... also , NDP is too much to the left, and many liberals would go to PC , if NDP would start Nationalise mines and hydro plants !
@arka67 Not exactly, this is pure propaganda by the right that the NDP would nationalize everything and raise taxes on the middle class. The NDP has changed considerably and are very pragmatic look at the provinces they govern, they talking about balanced budgets, economic growth and government efficiency. Most Canadians have high regard for NDP premiers like Roy Romanow, Gary Doer and Darrell Dexter who are seen as sensible and pragmatic. All and all your claim is false and without base.
@supablackman85 ow, please ! today on CJAD Tarpp ? said he would increese taxes on middle class. There is also a socialistic wing in NDP (in Parlament) which simply want to make USSR out of Canada !!
@arka67 My friend please speak with reason and not on assumptions and propaganda from SUN Media or NationalPost. First off all every political party knows one thing for sure- There are two "holy grails" in Canadian politics. 1) Balanced budgets and 2) Universal Healthcare. The NDP understand this and you should read their platform. They explicitly talk about reducing taxes for middle class families and having a balanced budgets. In fact they go as far as talking about cutting government waste.
@arka67 I think most Liberals would no shift to the Conservatives.You are assuming a Red Tory PC is similar to the Alliance. Which is not the same. In politics, demography is destiny. If the Liberals and NDP united they would easily shut out the Cons from Quebec and major urban centers in Canada. Plus, if the Liberals and NDP united they would easily solidify the immigrant vote which is fundamental in order to win key battleground ridings in Ontario. Its a wrap for the Cons!
What Canadians need is electoral reform! Harper was elected by 39% of the population, so yes it's fair to say most Canadian's didn't elect him. Harper was also the Prime Minister who spread misinformation that a coalition government was undemocratic, and he shut down or "porogued" parliment to hold on to power.
Stephen Harper is the worst PM Canada has had. He has taken credit for financial recovery, even though he spent the entire past Liberal government's surplus. They need to redistribute seats in this country, or else the uneducated rural folk will continue to destroy cities.
Stephen Harper doesn't represent me or most Canadians, he's allowing The USA to get thier grubby fingers on our freedom, fuck Stephen Harper he's a traitor
The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), for example, stands as one of the Canada's most powerful institutions: it decides who will become a prosecutor, a lawyer, a judge.Since almost all of Canada's prime ministers have been lawyers, LSUC can influence who will lead this country. Yet, LSUC is filthy corrupt: no crime exists which they have not and do not commit: lawyers have even been summarily disbarred for refusing to promote the rape, torture and murder of Canadian children.
@haichtee heh heh heh. If that were true, zionist butcher henry morgentaler would never have been given the governor general's award (for most valuable canadian citizen) because he tortured, dismembered and murdered thousands of Canadian children. ...ooops, I mean because he aborted thousands of Canadian children.
@Theagenthollyhock good riddance, i just hope he tortured them first before the murder. The world is over populated anyways, we can stand to loose a few billion as well.
If you review the documentary, The Silent Scream, which is available on YOUTUBE, you will discover that many children are, in fact, tortured prior to being murdered....oooops, I mean aborted. Some are born live, then strangled or skulls crushed or dismembered.
Truly it is a shocking display of human behaviour; that for the sake of five minutes of convenience, one would stoop to torture and murder their own flesh and blood, their own defenceless child?
@stbl85 Could keep kids out of trouble, but why would you want that, put them in jail, makes a small percentage rich. Lets all be slaves to politicians and the rich, now that is something that makes sense
I grew up in small Canadian hamlet of 900 people (with, I might add, about twelve churches). Located in vineyard country, life was innocent. Then, I became a Canadian human rights lawyer. Exposed to the most evil satanic corruption imaginable, I tell you the Canada I knew is dead. Foreigners (zionists, satanists) have reduced our legal institutions to predatory protection rackets designed only to serve the evil, the rich.
Canadians must try to save themselves in face of this evil.
@2012GreenGhost420 Harper is a Traitor and now Canadian Citizens can be arbitrariliy imprisoned by US authorities Harper and his friends should be hanged
@KaptKan1 are you trying to say that the US has bought over 6,336,000 gallons/capita of renewable water from Canada? Show me the receipt on that please...
@dscarey1994 You don't get shown receipts when you have been sold down the river -- even when that river has been sold. Go do some research and inform yourself instead of just denying things.
Now supposed "American Leftists" can't run to Canada! Better go to Mexico and... oh.. right into the shit storm started by NAFTA and the supposedly "leftist" presidents.
@alhazerad That time lag is no longer relevant; now it happens the same damn day: just look at the evil TSA goons in the USA being instituted as the "CATSA" here in Canada. It's high time we took our country back and we need to throw ALL the establisment's phony parties out in order to do so.
as a politically active citizen i am afraid this report is extremely misleading. Canada is so liberal that when logical, worthwhile solutions are put forth if they are not boarder line socialist or communist then they are considered far right. this mass imbecility has caused the huge taxation and spending issues and creates free-riding system that encourages laziness and failure and punishes individuals with true drive and the best of intents.
The situation in Canada seems to be a gov't that is ignoring the will of its people. Hell atleast in America people are convinced to vote against their best interest. It seems to me that the voter's voice has been blatantly ignored in order to move in a more conservative direction that benefits multinational corporations. This is a trend within the OECD.
What is wrong with conservatism? Any ideology has its flaws. Even Liberalism as well. Be a free thinker. Rather than getting yourself polarized into a specific group!
Here in Canada when our Prime Minister is held in contempt for lying, cheating, stealing and withholding information. We reward him with a majority. Pretty sad eh!
@MrSteeper33 "We" don't do it; the MSM decide the silly election farces. Most Canadians know that the elections are a fraud so most don't take part in them. And that won't change until and unless a libertarian movement grows in Canada. That is little likely, unfortunately, because too many Canadians have been brainwashed by the socialists and national socialists of the MSM.
Short answer: No. It's because the parties on the Left are split. Together they received more than then Conservative Party. The situation is similar to the 90's. The Liberal party was able to gain consistent majorities because the parties on the Right were split. Once unified, they were able to be a much more formidable party at the polls.
No, our leaders are going further right, and our younger generation don't get out and vote because they were successfully disenfranchised by the kleptocratic reign of the Cons and the Libs.
I hate what my country is becoming. It is incredibly sad. I hope harper gets ousted from office soon. He does not speak for the hole of the country. @Geebus80 BC's min wage is just horrible at $8.50. training wage was a crime on itself. Trying to live off basic wages and juggle school is a nightmare for most people. Then having to pay off all the debt...
@akaJoo You really think minimum wage can be increased magically without consequences? Get educated. If min wage is increased, more and more employers will restrain themselves from hiring. Forget about many people working $8.50h and start worry more on people not getting hired at all.
@zen5678 The job market in BC is vary bad. No one can live off of $8.50 an hour on one job. If they are, they are renting a room or sharing a flat and just pulling through, god forbid an emergency. Also I am fully aware of the job market, I'm unemployed at the moment, and looking. Other provinces have higher wages that are comparable to their living expenses.
People hate stephan harper because he is not for so many government social programs like the NDP. These people just want to get something for nothing. Well it won't work. All these social programs will come in the form of higher taxes and high skilled workers will emigrate leaving the country nothing but a welfare state.
Canada is not moving to the right. The only reason Harper got in is because our left wing party(the NDP) got enough support to split the vote with our centreist party. Hopefully Harper will remain a painful four year fluke.
Has Canada discovered what "critical theory" and "polymorphous perversity" mean yet. Do they understand what the top-down social engineering "experts" have been doing to them?
@geebus80 How about you quit b!tching and start saving, building up skills so you can get a better job. IF you can afford the internet, why not go read books on trades on-line?
@geebus80 I agree. Why is this talking head even posing this question? Moving to the right? They are there. I have seen a lot of YouTube vids and I gotta say that the average Canadian is more Sheeple averse than the average American. Any thoughts on that?
@UNIVERSITYHI The average Canadian, if such exists, is more of a sheeple than his American counterpart. At least in the USA the young people are waking up; here they are mostly concerned with hi-tech toys and spreading STDs. It's sad, but true. One can only hope it will change.
@dscarey1994 Yes, but your "text book [sic]" obviously didn't point out that that water has, in fact, been sold to the USA. We're just a pumping station for it and "our" oil and natural gas.
@geebus80 "Liberals", small 'l' or large "L" alike are no better; they, and the NDP are outright socialists and pro-police statism, pro-tax and pro-war every bit as much as the Cons. A change of name is only that; what is needed is a change of political philosophy, namely to one of libertarianism, not "liberalism" or "conservatism" or "social(ist) democracy". We've been conned by the ruling oligarchy into playing shuffle the deck for far too long. Canada needs a Ron Paul and LIBERTY.
Dont worry hippies... After you learn that fairy tales never come true and you run out of grass you will soon realize that the left way of life does not actually work. News flash - here in the real world of a global economy you have to remain competitive, big unions and govts that want to tax corps will cause them to move even more to other countries... Your pricing yourselves out of jobs.
To all of you complaining about the election results it makes me laugh.
melloyello696 3 weeks ago
down with harper
jason0998 1 month ago
Most Canadians hate harper.
FXThug 1 month ago
Harper needs to be removed. Don't let Canada turn into a paranoid country of freaks like you know who
SpasticatedCunt 1 month ago
As a Canadian citizen and registered/educated voter, thanks Aljazeera for covering this issue :)
Yes it has. The conservatives (typically from the rural/country areas) have changed long standing Canadian values including climate change. I used to be proud of my countries involvement in international issues and we were a leader in green science and technology but now I am ashamed of my government.
D4M1R2 1 month ago
Every Winter Canada goes right
Supercreativecore 2 months ago
I'd like to talk to you about Canada... now a word about Singapore... -blackpeoplefromaljazeera
feverdreams1000 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Die Harper you dirty pig , I live in Canada everybody Canada is sucks sucks sucks .
MusicHDUniversal 2 months ago in playlist Season 1
Historically the country that has the relatively free-est economy has higher growth rate enjoys greater prosperity has lower unemployment and greater individual freedom. As Canada slowly moves away from socialism and statism and America has embraced for some time the idea of big government and top down central planning it will be inbteresting to see the reversal of fortunes. Already Canada has much lower unemplyment, rate higher growth, smaller deficit..
txn4yt7mc5 2 months ago in playlist Season 1
@txn4yt7mc5 That's debatable. Canada didn't have a great a financial crisis as the US did because of banking regulation. Canada will never have a deficit like the US because of American military spending.
pf611 2 months ago
@txn4yt7mc5 But Harper is not moving Canada towards a smaller government?
JohnDavenportJunior 1 month ago
It's 2012 and people are still using the Right wing/Left Wing paradigm #WakeUp
DexArtist 2 months ago
@DexArtist You can tell there's an american that can't even tell other countries on a map when they don't realize that Canada has multiple parties and is not simply a matter of a right/left divide.. go back to your sandbox.
smokydave 2 months ago
@smokydave Actually I am Canadian and a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada. I don't live in a sandbox, but great assumption.
DexArtist 2 months ago
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Abbadon380 2 months ago
@Hillsillverr Yeahh. Keep up the smart talk there, bud. Our standard of Living is bound to increase.
PeakOilCountdown 2 months ago
kioto = global warming fraud ?
Hillsillverr 2 months ago
As a canadian, i almost know nothing about the canadian goverment, i know waaaay more about the europeans, usa, and the rest of the world than i know what the fuck is going on in canada! Maybe because we dont have many problems here, the living standard is the best in the world. Compared to the living standards in the states, canadians are royalty!
Hillsillverr 2 months ago
Canada isn't so much conservative's but it's a combination of the conservatives being more united and rigid, with the liberals being more independent and fragmented between three different parties.
Until Canadians consolidate, the conservative party will get a free ride.
DimmedDiamond 2 months ago
the only conservative you get on this show has no fangs, hes like your good lil conservative who never really says anything too smart
fox does this also sometimes gets a no balls liberal on the show ( they get an average liberal lol) but for real they would be scared to have Chris Hitchens
shyF0x 2 months ago
all i know is building more prisons when crime is on the decline is not very useful. It also depends on where the world economies is going though, i mean less people with jobs means more people with nothing to do and no money which is a recipe for disaster. maybe they are on to something who knows
bummpin 2 months ago
wtf does HARON SADIKI know about canada....why dont u ask him about india
people love to make canada what they want to see
shyF0x 2 months ago
hey al jazzy....lets just say we will remember what side you were on
you bet on the wrong horse
shyF0x 2 months ago
It is slow, leaves unfortunately, the harpers is a very good politician, you only see his moderate policies in public but during private speeches the conservative talking points are used in full force
Rsd79 2 months ago
Desmarais
Onward258 2 months ago
The fact of the matter is that only 38% of Canadians supported the present government. It's dumbfounding to think that the significant majority of the people in an active democracy are forced to allow a small government to pursue legislation said majority are directly opposed to. It's simply a failure of our system that allows the present leadership.
ByTheBirchTree 2 months ago 4
8:30 I love how he's acting like no one knows shit about Canada and he has to compare it to another country to get the idea of their politics across to the viewers.... just say it... They're pretty much a 'liberal version' of the US except they all say "aboat". Ok moving on now..
DaFawky 2 months ago
Part 4 This was a debate?
Alpinex105 2 months ago
Part 3 Well I don't think the conservatives are entirely to blame for the economic crisis. The Liberal platform actually contributed greatly for increased the deficit, but that's beside the issue and failing economic. Like the America's Canada didn't really make use of their surplus. There were no mechanism to save surplus to deal with situations like this. The conservative party made the same mistake.
Alpinex105 2 months ago
More social programs and aid from the government is NOT the answer it will only result in higher taxes, What Canada needs is fewer government regulations for private sectors to expand and hire workers. Public sector never do things as effective as private ones because they lack competition and the taxpayers have to pay for them as well.
zen5678 2 months ago
@zen5678 What you need is to be de-programmed from your Tea Bagging and educated in a good college.
yourtreat2 2 months ago
@yourtreat2 Maybe you should go back to high school and learn the difference between centrally planned socialistic economy and free market capitalism.
zen5678 2 months ago
Part 2 Canada as a semi-periphery state took advantage of it's diplomatic organizations. The Harper government has changed this dependancy and had to increase it's arm to compensate. Why should Canada care about Kyoto if we don't emit as much as other nations? Well Canada is actually one of the biggest polluters in the world. We have to look at the CO2 emissions per cap. Our primary energy source is partly to blame. Most Canadians don't live in the North and we have to question the heat argumnt
Alpinex105 2 months ago
WTF is with north america and these "conservatives". It is hard as hell to find a right wing party as crazy as the US and canada conservatives in europe. If there is one, it's a serous minority party
normalais 2 months ago
The Harper government is very odd. They present a economically conservative monetary policy, but they continue to spend a lot of money on unnecessary programs. The UN security console bid had a lot to do with Canada's recent views of "Palestine". The Harper government may have done a great job in economic recovery, but the maintenance of the economic system has a lot to do with the MIXED structure of the banking system. Neo-liberalism isn't working.
Alpinex105 2 months ago
RIP Canada
BayAreaOrBust 2 months ago
Allot of people seem to not understand context. Canadian conservatives and the conservative party are like american liberals and the Democratic party and on top of that only 39% of the population even voted for the conservatives and that's the highest they could possibly ever hope for.
kjfhgbkjhfbv 2 months ago
anywhere the zionists go becomes fucked up!
OrganicKing 2 months ago
All these right wing Harper loves are so funny, all emotional and have to get in the last word, it's like talking to a bunch of teenage girls.
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago 2
I think this show is a little late.
ezzthemc 2 months ago
Harper and his regime were elected by less that 40% of Canadian who voted or about 20% of Canadians overall. The problem is that there are a number of liberal/progressive parties but only one conservative party so the progressives end up splitting the vote which results in the conservatives sliding through to victory. That's why many Canadians are working to establish a new electoral system based on proportional representation in which case the conservatives would never become government again.
1140Cecile 2 months ago 42
@1140Cecile SO does this mean the conservatives are winning right now?
BayAreaOrBust 2 months ago
@BayAreaOrBust yes they have a majority governent if that is what you are asking, since may 2011 :(
theotheranswer 2 months ago
@BayAreaOrBust Yes, and they could very likely continue to win unless either 1) the centrist/left parties unite or 2) the public coalesces to vote for only one of the centrist/left parties.
1140Cecile 2 months ago
@1140Cecile I think the problem is actually more specific than that. We have electorate areas in ontario with 50,000 people in it, and for some reason this counts for the same amount of votes as some hamlet in alberta with 4000 people. This makes no sense at all. As a citizen of a major city there's almost no point to voting at all.
smokydave 2 months ago
@smokydave This is an extreme exaggeration. There is some discrepancy in the population of Canadian federal ridings (electoral districts), but most ridings have between 70,000 and 130,000 people. This is why Toronto has 57 ridings, while the entire province of Alberta has only 26. Ironically, Alberta is actually under-represented in terms of number of ridings per capita.
lemonrind 1 month ago
@1140Cecile Yeah but you are forgetting the Liberals have been elected into majority power with fewer than 40% votes. Didn't hear any complaints about parliamentary reform before the election; only after the Liberals lost.
MrPinchyPants 2 months ago
@1140Cecile canada is a conservative country. get over it. canada is not liberal, is not a fence sitting, politically-correct-paranoidacy... get out of ottawa, toronto or quebec and learn what the real canada is about.
Glaxist 1 month ago
@Glaxist Numbers dont apply to you do they? Theres only one conservative party, two left parties and we end up splitting the vote. Mr harper only got 40% of the vote
TheInfamousCanadian 1 month ago
@1140Cecile That's first past the post for you. Anyways, the last person to get more than 50% of the vote was not a Liberal, but PC Brian Mulroney in 1984. Even then, it was barely 50%. The fact is proportional representation will mean no party will ever get power.
CIVDC 1 month ago
KICK THE EVIL ZIONISTS OUT CANADA! Drown the zionists in the MACKENZIE RIVER! The zionists want to send your sons and daughters up to the traugh for sacrefice for a flawed ideology of racism and cynicism. .
vanvanbluz 2 months ago
@vanvanbluz Finally someone gets it
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
It certainly will not hurt to for Canada to become a center right country, like the US.
ladylordess 2 months ago
@ladylordess
yea, ideology doesn't really shape the country's crime rates etc etc. US is kind of an insane place to live. I didn't realize it until I spent a considerable amount of time living outside of the US to get the perspective of others. I don't think Canada should emulate the US politically nor economically. Socially the countries are very similar.
lordblazer 2 months ago
@lordblazer Ideology? Insane? Is that only if isn't your own ideology? The US is so "insane" that people break the law daily to live here. I'm not as influenced by the opinion of others, as you say you are. I live in and outside of the US, including Cananda. The US is the best place to live!
ladylordess 2 months ago
@ladylordess Not better than Cananda.
haichtee 2 months ago
@ladylordess
I never said you personally were. Also when I point out it being insane in the US. I go from the perspective I've gained from people living in other developed countries throughout my travels. Anyway my point was not to be antagonizing. You took it as such if that's the case then deal. US system only fits the culture here. Its not a shock that people will view it alien if they are use to the place they grew up in. I'm American. black seminole to be precise.
lordblazer 2 months ago
@ladylordess
I agree for me the US has lots of perks within the system that other OECD countries just don't have one of them being flexibility. We're more flexible than anything, but outside of that social instability, high crime. lots of reasons people from other rich countries would love to visit us but not live here. Anyway we're not really #1 in HDI soo I think you took offense because I wasn't being a cheerleader screaming USA #1. Anyway learn not to take offense so easily.
lordblazer 2 months ago
@lordblazer There will always be crime. Which "perks" are you referring to?
One of the reason we have high crime is because the government makes people dependent on them. Our "poor" have no idea of what poor is really like in other countries. Our "poor" are really quite rich, but many think they should have more, therefore they commit crimes so they may acquire it, instead of earning it. Our leader is now practicing a very volatile game of class warfare that is making it worse.
ladylordess 2 months ago
@ladylordess
that's ideology speaking. you know what the gini index is right?
lordblazer 2 months ago
@lordblazer Any data collected from such agencies at say, the UN are suspect. However perfect equality is a myth.
ladylordess 2 months ago
@ladylordess
will message you the data concerning HDI and gini index. we're not absolutely the worse country to live in, but we are not the best, I think we should really stop saying that.
lordblazer 2 months ago
@lordblazer If you are referring to the US as NOT the worst country to live in, I agree. I don't need data that I don't believe is factual to tell me that. The US certainly is the best, as people are flooding here!!
ladylordess 2 months ago
@ladylordess
thjey're flooding here from poorer, developing countries. You get people coming here from wealthy countries also, but its rare for those people to settle here. Also realize Canada has people flooding to go there too. Same with the UK and France, etc. Anyway just because immigrants are wanting to come doesn't make it the best as immigrants pretty much compete to get into any country with an advanced economy.
lordblazer 2 months ago
@lordblazer The numbers don't lie, but often the people using them do.
An advanced economy does make it a much better place. No wonder people flood here.
ladylordess 2 months ago
harper makes newt gingrich look like ron paul.
bvrcrap56 2 months ago
HAHHAHA the evil racist zionists are pushing the us aside and going to canada!! haha t he racist righwing zionists are finding friends in new places and they dropped america like a hotcake!! hahha
vanvanbluz 2 months ago
harper is destroying our diplomatic relations with other countries
ryuson2000 2 months ago
It looks like the Blacks, Muslims and all the other various 3rd world leaches have worn out their welcome in yet another successful white nation.(which does not now nor will ever need them)
I guess you parasites will just have to find another host to drain the life from.
InsufferablePrick123 2 months ago
Here is what people need to understand about Canadian politics. Most Canadians identify themselves centre-left on the political spectrum and identify with left leaning parties but the god damn problem now is that there are two left wing parties who eat votes from each other during election times. If the Liberals and NDP united like the PC and Alliance had did, they can easily form a strong government and hold on to power for a long time. But boy seriously the left in Canada cant see this?!?!?!
supablackman85 2 months ago
Canada's right enabled canada to get oil sands jobs.
vanvanbluz 2 months ago
@vanvanbluz Canada's right have problems with long term critical thinking...
helioncry 2 months ago
no, the oild sands allowed canada to get oil sand jobs
haichtee 2 months ago
Leftists and Communists would indict a ham sandwich as a right winger.
wolfengheist 2 months ago
I hang my head when I say that our 'fearless leader', Herr Harper is goose stepping right in line behind the 'Dali Obama'. All world governments do not represent the interests of it's respective citizens, we need to see that it's a 2 way split between the globalist theocracy and the rest of us. There really are people who think it is their 'right' or responsibility it is to run our world. Most of them are politicians and bankers and they actively run or seek it for that very reason.
InfiniteMischief 2 months ago
by going right you mean moving away from the sinister forces of corruptions,... i would say no,
demented669 2 months ago
Canadians seem to have lost a lot of brain cells since electing Harper, I can slowly see them becoming more and more like Americans.....cringe God forbid!
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
@xxtruthbetoldx The Canadian government is not as right as the UK government, but okay lol
SpoonHysteria 2 months ago
@SpoonHysteria I didn't vote for the guy....Canada use to be better is my point, Britain has been kissing America's butt for a lot longer than Canada I know it's shameful
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
apparently enough people voted him in office. A different matter entirely to get him out.
SharkTheArdvark 2 months ago
From a Canadian perspective I think the problem is not Stephen Harper but the STUPID Left in our Country. I am centre left on the political spectrum and boy Stephen Harper is doing what Jean Chretien and the Liberals used to do the Right Wing in our country by play off each other. The Right Wing in Canada became smart and united and created one party led by Stephen Harper and they are doing what they said they would do! My Question is why cant the damn Left in Canada unite!!!!!!!
supablackman85 2 months ago
@supablackman85 left has too much ego in them..... also , NDP is too much to the left, and many liberals would go to PC , if NDP would start Nationalise mines and hydro plants !
arka67 2 months ago
@arka67 Not exactly, this is pure propaganda by the right that the NDP would nationalize everything and raise taxes on the middle class. The NDP has changed considerably and are very pragmatic look at the provinces they govern, they talking about balanced budgets, economic growth and government efficiency. Most Canadians have high regard for NDP premiers like Roy Romanow, Gary Doer and Darrell Dexter who are seen as sensible and pragmatic. All and all your claim is false and without base.
supablackman85 2 months ago 17
@supablackman85 ow, please ! today on CJAD Tarpp ? said he would increese taxes on middle class. There is also a socialistic wing in NDP (in Parlament) which simply want to make USSR out of Canada !!
arka67 2 months ago
@arka67 My friend please speak with reason and not on assumptions and propaganda from SUN Media or NationalPost. First off all every political party knows one thing for sure- There are two "holy grails" in Canadian politics. 1) Balanced budgets and 2) Universal Healthcare. The NDP understand this and you should read their platform. They explicitly talk about reducing taxes for middle class families and having a balanced budgets. In fact they go as far as talking about cutting government waste.
supablackman85 2 months ago
@arka67 I think most Liberals would no shift to the Conservatives.You are assuming a Red Tory PC is similar to the Alliance. Which is not the same. In politics, demography is destiny. If the Liberals and NDP united they would easily shut out the Cons from Quebec and major urban centers in Canada. Plus, if the Liberals and NDP united they would easily solidify the immigrant vote which is fundamental in order to win key battleground ridings in Ontario. Its a wrap for the Cons!
supablackman85 2 months ago
Thank God for Harper .. other wise Canada would be Soviet Union of N.America !
arka67 2 months ago
@arka67 Canada was great under Trudeau, those were the golden years, now it's shit
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
@xxtruthbetoldx was good for socialists and communists and Fidel Castro ! but not for avarege canadians, who lost a lot of freedoms under Trudeau
arka67 2 months ago
@arka67 so if you aren't loving Harper you must be communist lol you right wingers have the craziest "logic"
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
@xxtruthbetoldx not at all, I personally do not like Harper, but still I can smell socialist like Trudeau from farawy !!
arka67 2 months ago
What Canadians need is electoral reform! Harper was elected by 39% of the population, so yes it's fair to say most Canadian's didn't elect him. Harper was also the Prime Minister who spread misinformation that a coalition government was undemocratic, and he shut down or "porogued" parliment to hold on to power.
eastexotic 2 months ago
Canadian politics is boring. And, Harper really is an israel worshipping ass hole!
elitept 2 months ago
What's next Harper? USA Army Bases in Canada?!?!?
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago 2
@2012GreenGhost420 there are already nuclear war ships sailing around Nanoose Bay....it sucks!
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
@2012GreenGhost420 Why not,they have lots of our oil under there homes.
DBSpy1 2 months ago
Stephen Harper is the worst PM Canada has had. He has taken credit for financial recovery, even though he spent the entire past Liberal government's surplus. They need to redistribute seats in this country, or else the uneducated rural folk will continue to destroy cities.
SpoonHysteria 2 months ago 2
At heart, we Canadians are tolerant, polite, not American, prudent, generous, loyal to our friends, modest. We come from every corner of the world.
Delta4ms 2 months ago
Stephen Harper doesn't represent me or most Canadians, he's allowing The USA to get thier grubby fingers on our freedom, fuck Stephen Harper he's a traitor
MrROTD 2 months ago
The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), for example, stands as one of the Canada's most powerful institutions: it decides who will become a prosecutor, a lawyer, a judge.Since almost all of Canada's prime ministers have been lawyers, LSUC can influence who will lead this country. Yet, LSUC is filthy corrupt: no crime exists which they have not and do not commit: lawyers have even been summarily disbarred for refusing to promote the rape, torture and murder of Canadian children.
Theagenthollyhock 2 months ago
@Theagenthollyhock You must be an advisor for the harper government. Master of truthiness and appeal to emotions.
haichtee 2 months ago
@haichtee heh heh heh. If that were true, zionist butcher henry morgentaler would never have been given the governor general's award (for most valuable canadian citizen) because he tortured, dismembered and murdered thousands of Canadian children. ...ooops, I mean because he aborted thousands of Canadian children.
Theagenthollyhock 2 months ago
@Theagenthollyhock good riddance, i just hope he tortured them first before the murder. The world is over populated anyways, we can stand to loose a few billion as well.
haichtee 2 months ago
@haichtee
If you review the documentary, The Silent Scream, which is available on YOUTUBE, you will discover that many children are, in fact, tortured prior to being murdered....oooops, I mean aborted. Some are born live, then strangled or skulls crushed or dismembered.
Truly it is a shocking display of human behaviour; that for the sake of five minutes of convenience, one would stoop to torture and murder their own flesh and blood, their own defenceless child?
Theagenthollyhock 2 months ago
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00P00PASC00PA00 2 months ago
@00P00PASC00PA00
what?!
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago
I love about harper buying F-35s. Hey! they are sexy looking fighter jets! Forget about spending in culture and arts.
ojyhofoy 2 months ago
@ojyhofoy
Well we have to prepare ourselves for when the Americans try to jump to border when their whole country goes to shit... oh wait it's already there
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago
@ojyhofoy
Arts? Why should the federal government spend as much as a dollar on that?
stbl85 2 months ago
@stbl85 Could keep kids out of trouble, but why would you want that, put them in jail, makes a small percentage rich. Lets all be slaves to politicians and the rich, now that is something that makes sense
xxtruthbetoldx 2 months ago
Say it ain't so. Canada was the only bastion of sanity in North America
ZingZee123456789 2 months ago
Canada strong and free eh
equinedentist72 2 months ago
I grew up in small Canadian hamlet of 900 people (with, I might add, about twelve churches). Located in vineyard country, life was innocent. Then, I became a Canadian human rights lawyer. Exposed to the most evil satanic corruption imaginable, I tell you the Canada I knew is dead. Foreigners (zionists, satanists) have reduced our legal institutions to predatory protection rackets designed only to serve the evil, the rich.
Canadians must try to save themselves in face of this evil.
Theagenthollyhock 2 months ago
Let's all vote Green next time...
is that like voting for Ron Paul?
Or worst, or better or the same?
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago
@2012GreenGhost420 I'd vote for Paul if I could
MrROTD 2 months ago
@KaptKan1 how do you know it happened then. Where is your proof?
cunt.
dscarey1994 2 months ago
I had enough of Harper before he got elected with Halliburton & Friends
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago
@2012GreenGhost420 Harper is a Traitor and now Canadian Citizens can be arbitrariliy imprisoned by US authorities Harper and his friends should be hanged
MrROTD 2 months ago
@MrROTD
In Canada or in the USA?
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago
@KaptKan1 are you trying to say that the US has bought over 6,336,000 gallons/capita of renewable water from Canada? Show me the receipt on that please...
dscarey1994 2 months ago
@dscarey1994 You don't get shown receipts when you have been sold down the river -- even when that river has been sold. Go do some research and inform yourself instead of just denying things.
End of discussion.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
@dscarey1994
It's actually sold to multinational corporations (not the USA). We sell them a year(s)-based contracts to pull out water out of the aquifers.
Just look at Nestle in Aberfoyle Ontario. Fucking Nestle wants to pull out water faster then it can be replenished.
For more info check out the Movie Blue Gold: Worlds Water Wars
2012GreenGhost420 2 months ago
Now supposed "American Leftists" can't run to Canada! Better go to Mexico and... oh.. right into the shit storm started by NAFTA and the supposedly "leftist" presidents.
MyChemicalBromance 2 months ago
everything that happens in the US happens in canada 8-10 years later. Canada will get our obama soon enough.
alhazerad 2 months ago
@alhazerad That time lag is no longer relevant; now it happens the same damn day: just look at the evil TSA goons in the USA being instituted as the "CATSA" here in Canada. It's high time we took our country back and we need to throw ALL the establisment's phony parties out in order to do so.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
It happened in the 1980s, but not as bad as today.... vote splitting is killing society.. We need electoral reform..
waterlizardz123 2 months ago
as a politically active citizen i am afraid this report is extremely misleading. Canada is so liberal that when logical, worthwhile solutions are put forth if they are not boarder line socialist or communist then they are considered far right. this mass imbecility has caused the huge taxation and spending issues and creates free-riding system that encourages laziness and failure and punishes individuals with true drive and the best of intents.
utubeismylastresort 2 months ago
The situation in Canada seems to be a gov't that is ignoring the will of its people. Hell atleast in America people are convinced to vote against their best interest. It seems to me that the voter's voice has been blatantly ignored in order to move in a more conservative direction that benefits multinational corporations. This is a trend within the OECD.
lordblazer 2 months ago
What is wrong with conservatism? Any ideology has its flaws. Even Liberalism as well. Be a free thinker. Rather than getting yourself polarized into a specific group!
ETworldjone 2 months ago 3
Here in Canada when our Prime Minister is held in contempt for lying, cheating, stealing and withholding information. We reward him with a majority. Pretty sad eh!
MrSteeper33 2 months ago 9
@MrSteeper33 "We" don't do it; the MSM decide the silly election farces. Most Canadians know that the elections are a fraud so most don't take part in them. And that won't change until and unless a libertarian movement grows in Canada. That is little likely, unfortunately, because too many Canadians have been brainwashed by the socialists and national socialists of the MSM.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
Short answer: No. It's because the parties on the Left are split. Together they received more than then Conservative Party. The situation is similar to the 90's. The Liberal party was able to gain consistent majorities because the parties on the Right were split. Once unified, they were able to be a much more formidable party at the polls.
harizotoh7 2 months ago
Let's hope.
reapfreak 2 months ago
No, our leaders are going further right, and our younger generation don't get out and vote because they were successfully disenfranchised by the kleptocratic reign of the Cons and the Libs.
Naedlus 2 months ago
@Naedlus You mean of the Cons and the Libs and the NDPeePees.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
Interesting to see what is going on in the West right now. Spain, France, Finland, Sweden, Canada etc. are all shifting to the right.
NORDSTRAND83 2 months ago
we do only talking but when it comes to voting we are lazy
aminlover9 2 months ago
ohh so is not physically moving? meh..
mixed123456 2 months ago
I hate what my country is becoming. It is incredibly sad. I hope harper gets ousted from office soon. He does not speak for the hole of the country. @Geebus80 BC's min wage is just horrible at $8.50. training wage was a crime on itself. Trying to live off basic wages and juggle school is a nightmare for most people. Then having to pay off all the debt...
akaJoo 2 months ago
@akaJoo You really think minimum wage can be increased magically without consequences? Get educated. If min wage is increased, more and more employers will restrain themselves from hiring. Forget about many people working $8.50h and start worry more on people not getting hired at all.
zen5678 2 months ago
@zen5678 The job market in BC is vary bad. No one can live off of $8.50 an hour on one job. If they are, they are renting a room or sharing a flat and just pulling through, god forbid an emergency. Also I am fully aware of the job market, I'm unemployed at the moment, and looking. Other provinces have higher wages that are comparable to their living expenses.
akaJoo 2 months ago
@akaJoo minimum wage in bc is $9.50 now
theotheranswer 2 months ago
people should stop calling every politician they don't like a fascist.
Szekler11 2 months ago
People hate stephan harper because he is not for so many government social programs like the NDP. These people just want to get something for nothing. Well it won't work. All these social programs will come in the form of higher taxes and high skilled workers will emigrate leaving the country nothing but a welfare state.
zen5678 2 months ago
Canada is not moving to the right. The only reason Harper got in is because our left wing party(the NDP) got enough support to split the vote with our centreist party. Hopefully Harper will remain a painful four year fluke.
soulinite 2 months ago
Has Canada discovered what "critical theory" and "polymorphous perversity" mean yet. Do they understand what the top-down social engineering "experts" have been doing to them?
pkpapers 2 months ago
@pkpapers I smell an Alex Jones fan.
soulinite 2 months ago
Stephen Harper is the worst most neo con prime minister we have ever had.
The man has shut down our democratic process to stop a parliament vote to kick him out. He has sold out our water resources.
He is working with corporate interests to make a north american union with no civilian input or oversight.
Also Canada has one of the highest developed nation tax rates in the world. BC has had its min wage frozen for 12 years!
Canada's people are liberal but its gov or neo con fascists.
geebus80 2 months ago 26
@geebus80 How about you quit b!tching and start saving, building up skills so you can get a better job. IF you can afford the internet, why not go read books on trades on-line?
zen5678 2 months ago
@geebus80 I agree. Why is this talking head even posing this question? Moving to the right? They are there. I have seen a lot of YouTube vids and I gotta say that the average Canadian is more Sheeple averse than the average American. Any thoughts on that?
UNIVERSITYHI 2 months ago
@UNIVERSITYHI The average Canadian, if such exists, is more of a sheeple than his American counterpart. At least in the USA the young people are waking up; here they are mostly concerned with hi-tech toys and spreading STDs. It's sad, but true. One can only hope it will change.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@KaptKan1 Far more dangerous than the malice of a few is the ignorance and apathy of the rest
mrb0mbay 2 months ago
@geebus80 he has sold your water resources? According to my text book, Canada is the 4th most water-rich country in the world.
dscarey1994 2 months ago
@dscarey1994 Yes, but your "text book [sic]" obviously didn't point out that that water has, in fact, been sold to the USA. We're just a pumping station for it and "our" oil and natural gas.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
@dscarey1994 I think he's saying water resources have been privatized.
RafaelFernandeSantos 2 months ago
@geebus80 "Liberals", small 'l' or large "L" alike are no better; they, and the NDP are outright socialists and pro-police statism, pro-tax and pro-war every bit as much as the Cons. A change of name is only that; what is needed is a change of political philosophy, namely to one of libertarianism, not "liberalism" or "conservatism" or "social(ist) democracy". We've been conned by the ruling oligarchy into playing shuffle the deck for far too long. Canada needs a Ron Paul and LIBERTY.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
If Bush had been Canadian, he would be Stephen Harper.
Kryptonian250 2 months ago 19
@Kryptonian250 And Obomber would have been Jack Layton; no difference and no improvement there.
KaptKan1 2 months ago
No more pot hippies, shows over
CityLoch 2 months ago