Less than half of Americans can name Canadas capital

These guys?

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if you must annex, only annex the western portion and the Prairie provinces (minus British Columbia). those are the provinces which are most likely to vote Republican. leave rustbelt Ontario and the Maritimes to fester, and we don't need yet another bilingual population element so leave Quebec alone!

 

Seriously... we're talking about Canada. Who cares?

 

You need to sell them to us.

You need our protection.

 

I'll remember that the next time I get to Canada. I've been wanting to visit Quebec for awhile.

 

protection from who exactly?

 

Glock is junk, H&K makes decent submachine guns, H&H and Prudey make pretty guns, not necessarily something practical, something to showcase more than shoot, I'll take a Remington any day. Plus the US has plenty of pretty gun makers. Beretta is ok, nothing so superior that cannot be matched by US manufacturers. So not all of it is total junk, but nothing really special either.

 

mapleleafer8, if you don't like being small and irrelevant, immigrate to the United States.

 

How is Canada small? maybe small politically but not geographically

 

May as well take it all and not have the hassle of the remaining areas trying to get some sort of international support, the howling and crying on the forums alone would be unbearable.

 

Clearly way too much for you guys to handle, which is why we should, and even be nice enough to allow you to administer parts of it when we are done, minus all your socialism of course.

 

team canada just collapsed against the russians again...losing 2-1

 

glendale arizona just paid 25 mil to keep the coyotes there for one more yr
thats socialism in a republican state

and what about texas purchasing a race track?
thats socialism in a republican state

what do you have to say about that?

 

I read this quite awhile ago, but it was interesting.



What's the Matter With Canada?

How the world's nicest country turned mean.
By Christopher Flavelle
Posted Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at 11:17 AM ET

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen HarperLast Sunday, news came that Canada—sensible, quiet, some would even say boring Canada—will hold an election on Oct. 14, its third in four years. Those outside the country may wonder what the problem is; in Canada, after all, health care is free, the dollar is strong, same-sex marriage is legal, and the government had the good sense to stay out of Iraq. You might think of Canada as the un-America, where the only debate ought to be whether to spend the country's growing oil wealth on faster snowmobiles, bigger hockey rinks, or Anne Murray box sets.

But beneath the calm exterior, Canada's political system is in turmoil. Since 2004, a succession of unstable minority governments has led to a constant campaign frenzy, brutalizing Canada's once-broad political consensus and producing a series of policies at odds with the country's socially liberal, fiscally conservative identity. Canada is quietly becoming a political basket case, and this latest election may make things even worse.

Just scan the headlines. In June, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned that Canada—for years the only G8 country to post regular budget surpluses—was likely to fall into deficit this year, thanks to a reckless cut to the national sales tax. In February, the government proposed denying funding to films and TV shows whose content it deemed "not in the public interest," sparking cries of censorship from a sector that has historically received public support. In 2007, a member of the governing Conservative Party proposed a bill that would reopen the debate over abortion, a topic that governments both liberal and conservative have avoided for decades.

The country is projecting its uncharacteristic behavior abroad as well. After decades of encouraging countries to increase their foreign-aid spending, Canada cut its own, from 0.34 percent of GDP in 2005 to just 0.2 percent last year. Long a beacon of human rights, Ottawa announced last fall that it would stop advocating on behalf of Canadians sentenced to death in other countries. And Canada is now the only Western country that still has one of its citizens held in Guantanamo, but Ottawa has refused to press for his release.

But nowhere is the rift between the old and new Canada more apparent than with regards to the environment. Canada was an early and enthusiastic supporter of the fight against climate change, and as recently as 2005 it was the Canadian environment minister who helped broker an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. Then last December, at a U.N. conference in Bali to negotiate a successor to Kyoto, Canada executed a neat 180-degree turn, trying to block an agreement that set a target for future cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions. Of the 190 countries at the conference, only Russia supported Canada's position.

Left-leaning Canadians blame the country's predicament on the current Conservative government, which was first elected two years ago. They're right, to a point. The Conservative Party, formed five years ago in a merger of the country's two right-wing parties, is Canada's first experience with an anti-government, socially conservative party in the mold of Reagan-Bush Republicans. Its leader, Stephen Harper, who is now the prime minister, once called Canada "a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term."

But the Conservative Party wouldn't be in power, let alone willing to risk such divisive policies, were it not for the collapse of the country's most formidable political institution, the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberals have been Canada's left-wing standard-bearers since the country's independence in 1867. And just as Canada's right-wing parties were coming together, the Liberal Party was coming apart.

In early 2004, Canada's auditor-general found that under the Liberal government, public funds intended to promote the federal government in the province of Quebec had been diverted toward advertising companies connected to the Liberal Party in the form of inflated payments. In response, the prime minister called a public inquiry, which only prolonged the controversy.

In the 2004 election, the Liberal government was reduced from a majority to a minority. Nineteen months later, it lost power entirely, and the party's leader resigned. The Liberals then embarked on a long, fractious leadership campaign—leaving the party exhausted and broke, and tempting the governing Conservatives to introduce ever more draconian policies with little fear of the consequences.

As the Liberals work on rebuilding, Canada's other left-wing party, the New Democratic Party, has grown at their expense; the Green Party, long a fringe movement in Canada, gained its first member of parliament when an independent MP joined the Greens; and the Bloc Québécois, which shares many Liberal positions but advocates for Quebec's independence, remains a force in that province. The Conservatives may not represent the views of most Canadians, but with four parties fighting for the left-wing vote, the Conservatives might win simply by sliding up the middle.

Italians and Israelis may have learned how to function under minority governments, but Canadians are still working on it. If the current election ends in a third consecutive minority government, the polarization of Canadian politics will continue, and with it the brutal, zero-sum politicking that has left the country in convulsions.

If the last week is any indication, that polarization is only getting worse. On Sunday morning, Prime Minister Harper began the race by predicting "a very nasty kind of personal-attack campaign." Two days later, his party briefly released an ad that showed a bird defecating on the leader of the Liberal Party. So much for Canadians being nice.

 

thats because we have neo cons at the helm ashenlady

 

Look, don't be trying to bring common sense and our own hypocrisy into this, that really ruins all the fun. As to keeping coyotes, I really don't know. As to getting a F1 race in Texas, that seems more like an investment than socialism, it has positive anticipated revenues for a modest entry fee.

 

investment? they're both run by the state, thats SOCIALISM
you have no problem pointing out when it happens in canada..

 

I guess you just proved to us why people in the U.S. don't know the capital of Canada.

Its not that U.S. children are less educated, but your coutry's capital is located in the most irrelevent area of Canada, which is also irrelevent on the world stage. If you watch news in Canada and new in the US, you'll notice that Canada talks more about Washington than we talk about Quebec. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard a news channel in the U.S. talk about Quebec in my life.

Also different groups of Americans aren't going to know the capital of Canada. An Hispanic man from New Mexico could probably tell you the capital of Carribean, Central American, and South American countries, but a white guy in Massachussettes could probably tell you the capital of Canada. Were not stupid. Our people are just more diverse.

 

eh...ottawa is in ontario not quebec

 

The F1 thing isn't socialism at all. Its an initial investment for the whole state which will benefit from revenues generated by the races. It won't be administered by the state. The Coyotes thing is a local issue, which should be left to the people of the city.

 

Humm.....I thought something like that. The Anti-Harparites are as unhappy as the folks here in the USA were with Bush.

 

its socialism, but i won't argue anymore about it
you won't ever admit it

 

they're not that far apart ideologically (sp) speaking

 

oh man I mean this is the kind of Liberal Canadians I have to deal with. he is the product of immiturity and raised off of the C.B.C.: Communist broadcasting Corporation. these kind of people make me embarrassed about being Canadian. I so wish I was an American to escape these non-educated idiots

 

you're not a real canadian if you wish you were american
plus obama is your avatar..