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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: lonestar2004]
    #4359729 - 07/01/05 01:37 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

The guy kept saying things like "The national mood just seems to be confused, cynical and crabby"...however this flies right in the face of the day to day experience of actual Canadians.

I don't know anyone in Canada who feels "confused, cynical and crabby" about their country. There doesn't even seem to be any media attention about this supposed "national mood", aside from this guy's article.

This reads like an article about Canada's future as written from an American's philosophy. I expect that most Canadians you talk to won't talk about any grand vision for the country's future. We don't have high-hopes of leading the world anywhere, nor do we feel the need to have a great national importance in the world.

We're just Canadian, you know?


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: RiverMan]
    #4360107 - 07/01/05 02:59 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Exactly! If Canada is to "lead" the world anywhere, we will do it only by example...never by force!

I would say that to remain low-key is a part of what it is to be Canadian.


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: lonestar2004]
    #4360231 - 07/01/05 03:29 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

You're going to beef up your military?

:lol:

Fat chance! The govt. has been talking about "beefing up" our military as long as I've been alive :smirk:

They can't beef up our military because not enough Canadians see a need to join the military. We're not fighting any wars, after all...whats the point in paying for a large standing army? :rolleyes:

Something that becomes very obvious about Canada, if you live here for a few years, is the disconnect between Canadian citizens and the Canadian government. They talk their talk and have their little scandals....while we go about our daily business and largely ignore what they say/do. :smirk:


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: Phred]
    #4372477 - 07/05/05 02:28 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

When the Canadian posters in this forum eventually get jobs they'll change their tunes about how wonderful it is.

Nice sweeping motion there!

What makes you think the "Canadian posters" as a group don't have jobs? What kind of logic is that?

For your information, I (for one) do have a job. I work full-time, and have worked full-time for several years now.

Working full time, and having so much of my paycheque taken from me, has not changed my "tune" about how wonderful it is to live in Canada.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I don't mind paying taxes for what I get. Perhaps you overlooked that statement the other times I've said it :wink:


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: Phred]
    #4372550 - 07/05/05 03:00 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Actually I hadn't even seen that post when I wrote my last, which is why the quote I replied to wasn't in the post you just quoted :smirk:


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: trendal]
    #4372582 - 07/05/05 03:08 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Also, please note that I have not, and will not, say anything like "I love high taxes"...because that's just plain silly.

I don't "love", or particularly like, high taxes.

I am willing to pay high taxes provided I receive benefits in return. I think I do receive benefits in return for the taxes I pay, so I am perfectly willing to continue paying them so long as the services remain.


Your assertion is equivalent to saying that someone who works long hours to get paid extra salary "loves working long hours"....when that isn't the case! They love money and are willing to work long hours to get it. :wink:


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: SoopaX]
    #4373001 - 07/05/05 05:21 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

I've seen how much private health insurance costs in the US, that's one reason. Private insurance companies don't have a history of providing health care to people out of work or the poor. There is no way to ensure universal access to health care with a multi-provider competitive system.

Canadians as a whole have chosen to give their tax dollars to a public health system time and time again in elections since we adopted public health care.


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: Phred]
    #4373064 - 07/05/05 05:42 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Ok go look at the post you think I replied to.

Now see that scroll bar on the right-hand side of the window? Press the little arrow thingie on top of it...

...scroll up...

and read the post I replied to. Then re-read the quote of yours I used in my post, and tell me which post you wrote it in?


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: Ancalagon]
    #4373151 - 07/05/05 06:12 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

I stand corrected.

A majority of Canadians have chosen public health care.


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: Phred]
    #4373447 - 07/05/05 07:45 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

I wasn't aware that it worked that way, but it doesn't change the fact that I was replying to the first post and not the second. Which post I clicked "reply" on is merely a technicality.

If I was replying to the second post, I probably would have quoted it instead of the first post :wink:


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: trendal]
    #4373454 - 07/05/05 07:47 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Actually, Phred, you don't have to click "Reply" for this to happen.

I usually use the quick-reply box at the bottom of the page, which is defaulted to "Last Post" :wink:

Edit: for instance this post, which was really a reply to you, shows up as a reply to my last post because I just wrote it in the quick-reply box.


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: Phred]
    #4373465 - 07/05/05 07:51 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

At any rate, this is a pointless argument.


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: niteowl]
    #4375697 - 07/06/05 12:38 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Phred doesn't live in America. I'm quite sure he lives in the Dominican Republic (the DR is apparently a bastion of freedom and liberty).


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Re: 2020 VISION What will Canada look like in 15 years? [Re: niteowl]
    #4375768 - 07/06/05 01:00 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah I use that word tenuously here :smirk:


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