Gloating: a Canadian Past-time

Quite:

Nearly half of Canada's population has a big roadblock ahead of them when it comes to post-pandemic economic recovery — and it's not the novel coronavirus but a fundamental set of skills for daily life.

Poor reading, writing and numeracy skills in adults make up a literacy gap in Canada with consequences for both democracy and the economy. Experts say the gap is due in part to an abundance of jobs in the past that do not require the daily use of reading comprehension and information synthesis skills.

 

Rather, schools are puppy mills, skills aren't required or reinforced, poor breeding and let's not forget the arrogance and complacency of a population that has been told how much better it is than the Americans.

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Canada's former chief of defence staff says he thinks the country is unlikely to encounter civil unrest similar to the sectarian election violence gripping the U.S. ahead of its upcoming transfer of power.

 

Sheep don't often start insurrections.

I'll leave this right here: 

The Americans have always taken care of this sort of stuff for us — surely they’ll come through again, right?

Not this time. The hard-won lesson of the global pandemic is if you don’t save yourself, don’t expect anyone else to do it for you.

 

Let's hear again of how the Americans are big losers, Canada. 

Also:

Elections Canada on Saturday named returning officers in all federal ridings nationwide. And cabinet in a Ministerial Mandate letter said it will speed a bill to enforce pandemic rules in a vote: “What happens when a province unfortunately goes through a very severe outbreak and has stay-in orders for its population?”

 

I don't believe that there will be an election. 

A party's ability to launch campaigns aside, the Liberals have all the power that the Chinese will afford them. Why would they waste their time with what is clearly a sham?

One can choose the demonised yet weak and not-too-dissimilar Tories or the Liberals and their plutocratic regime.

Say what one will about the Americans and their storming of whatever Bastille they can reach. At least they care to do more than grumble.

Soon, Canadians won't even be able to do that: 

Now, it seems that attitude is being extended online, with the government deciding what is and isn’t ‘offensive,’ rather than letting us decide on our own.

It’s a serious infringement on self-determination, the idea that – as adults – we should be free to make our own choices.

After all, the government is simply another group of adults, and they should be focused on delivering basic services and defending core rights, not making themselves our moral arbiters.

 

It is not about an informed ability to discern. It is about raw power exercised over another.

And Canadians are happy to let that happen.