Discussing the politics of a country that the vast majority of HN readers do not understand in-deth in response to a rant by someone else who also only has cursory understanding is adding useless noise to HN.
Canada has never been about ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’, bar a small minority. In many areas it is closer to the EU than the U.S.
In fact these rants are self-defeating as they convince ever more voting Canadians that the whole fiasco was boosted to an unnatural degree by self-interested U.S. based groups, and thus further legitimizing the crackdown.
Canada has never been about ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’, bar a small minority. In many areas it is closer to the EU than the U.S.
In fact these rants are self-defeating as they convince ever more voting Canadians that the whole fiasco was boosted to an unnatural degree by self-interested U.S. based groups, and thus further legitimizing the crackdown.