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Canada ranked as 2nd best country in the world. (www.cicnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Despite what Canada's nation hating extreme right would have you believe.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (31 children)

What's your frame of reference? I mean, you live in the second best country in the world and you're complaining.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (20 children)

The cities are completely unaffordable.
All of the parties are in favour of using TFW programs to suppress workers rights and not doing anything about blatantly illegal anti-worker activities.

The Trudeau government is welcoming immigrants at a rate of at least 3% of the population per year(not the problem), but not spending a penny on infrastructure to support that kind of increase(a big problem)

Carbon offset credits are a complete joke.

The ISPs are in charge of the body that is supposed to regulate and rein them in.

BC is being devastated by climate change and Ottawa isn't lifting a damn finger on it.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Extra-judicial killings? Industrialized rape? Daily mass murders? Famine?

You listed a bunch of first world problems. It's hard to imagine what hardship truly is when you live in the second best country in the world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its all relative, and clearly you aren't having the hardships that a lot of our country is currently enduring.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have been places that makes me appreciate Canada for what it truly is.

I have perspective.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No - you're a well off white guy who doesn't experience the bad parts of Canada.

Broadly - sure - Canada is awesome.
Sprinkle in some nuance and the pimples are obvious if you open your eyes.

There is always room for improvement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a socialist who had spent time in truly horrible places. I have perspective. Canada has problems, yes, but they are first world problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its not fair to dismiss the problems of the people who lead very difficult lives in this country because someone on the other side of the planet has it worse there.

Where is your perspective on that?

"Sorry, I know you have an unhappy and difficult life but you should just learn to be greatful because I saw people over yonder who have a different kind of difficult life."

You keep saying people need perspective, I think you do. You look at this country through rose coloured glasses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't dismiss the legitimate complaints of people who live in Canada. There are problems. I've said that repeatedly throughout these comments. What I'm saying is that Canada isn't any of the things the neo-Nazis and the tankies say it is. It isn't a dictatorship. It isn't turning into a third world shithole. Our Prime Minister isn't a Marxist and neither was his father. Canada is a great country and a great place to live. Wealth inequality is a big fucking problem. Corruption is a big fucking problem. The erosion of workers rights is a big fucking problem. Capitalism has run its course and it's time for a change. That doesn't mean that Canada is a bad place to live and the people who say it is is are entitled, whiney idiots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree wholeheartedly with all of that. If you've stated those things throughout these comments, for some reason I cannot see them, so I apologize for harping on you.

I just disagree that it is the 2nd best country in the world to live in. Where it accurately lands I cannot say, but #2 is not it. And that's okay. I still love this country.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I just disagree that it is the 2nd best country in the world to live in. Where it accurately lands I cannot say, but #2 is not it. And that’s okay. I still love this country.

I do as well. I think it's the best country in the world to live in. I've been lots of places, many high on that list and many very low on that list, and I would not choose to live in any of them instead of Canada.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Our Prime Minister isn’t a Marxist and neither was his father.

Well... the Canadian media did spent an inordinate amount of time trying to prove the Trudeau was not the love child of a self-proclaimed Marxist, which was quite strange as it makes absolutely no difference who his farther is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that it was the media that did that. I suspect that it was the alt-right media ("alt" being their preferred pronoun instead of the more accurate "extreme").

And...who is father is only matters to the right. No one else gives a shit about what other people are doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure that it was the media that did that.

Global News, National Post to name a couple.

I suspect that it was the alt-right media

I wouldn't exactly call those outlets left leaning, but alt-right?

And…who is father is only matters to the right.

And that earlier commenter who was overly concerned about who his father was, making sure we knew he was the one that wasn't a Marxist, as if that matters. Crazies to be found everywhere, I suppose.