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How sad. It's shown me the true nature of the Canadian: an authoritarian, America-hating collectivist. I will not be crossing their border ever again. No wonder they love to vacation in Cuba.

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Aug 3, 2022·edited Aug 3, 2022

Yup. That’s how this shitty country rolled. Most of my family were the same way. But remember: this country - outside of Alberta, and maybe Sask - looks to the gov to solve / pay for / fix EVERYTHING. It’s why our productivity is horrible, it’s why our healthcare (while “free”) is horrible, it’s why our media is horrible… we expect the gov to baby us, so none of what I experienced during C19 (and read above) surprises me.

Add to this toxic soup that maybe 3/4 of Canadians have an inferiority complex with the US - they all think they’re *better* than Americans and trash Americans at every juncture all while consuming US culture, enjoying US military protection and trading billions of dollars a day with the US.

This country was in rough shape pre-C19 and pre-Trudeau. Those two global catastrophes have only accelerated the demise of a once amazing country.

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American loving Ontario nurse here...fired for refusing to accept or promote clot shot after an honorable 25 year career. I was at nations capital Ottawa x2 with truckers. Part of a class action law suit ( shh!).to sue corrupt and incompetent government and employers. Planning to move to Alberta which is the most free thinking and conservative area of this dystopian country. Please know that many Canadians LOVE America.

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I’m one of those Canadiens that was in a position to stand up. I was fired knowing life would be tougher but healthier. My career was burnt to the ground. Good people became full out fascist’s (as we all are prone to be under the worst conditions) very sad to see. The good fight we have all put forward shining light on this (unvaccinated or regrettably vaccinated) is finally exposing them. Canadian’s have real pride in not being American for some reason and it’s a shame. We blindly follow the narrative our “leaders” tell us. I want my Canada back. A kind, welcoming country that is free from fear. Stay strong everyone, we are close to stopping this.

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My Canadian friend told me his theory as to why Canadians were/are so anti-Trump. He said their TV subscriptions only carry CNN and that you need to pay a premium for other channels like Fox.

With CNN coverage being almost 100% negative on Trump for 4 years can form negative impressions in a country that is only getting "fake news".

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Early during the pandemic, I had numerous spirited back-and-forths with a Canadian friend. He was adamant that if everybody just followed directions, covid would be gone. I told him that's why he's a subject and not a citizen.

Wonder if he still believes his government today.

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Truly heart breaking. My family came to Canada in 2008 and although I am staunchly against the 'left' and their idiotic policices it was never really an issue until Blackface got elected and he did the predictable "Chavez Dance". That my catch all for anyone who leads you on (remember Hugo Chavez was the darling of the progressive / regressive elite and once he had their fawning attention, he showed his true corrupt and dictatorial colours and the rest is history); then along came the rona and boom, Blackface and his minions peeled off their masks. My wife got jabbed, and her whole family (all 6 of them) plus her parents - all have had the rona several times since but don't seem to join the dots, or be willing to join the dots. My 2 kids are not jabbed because I put my foot down. So yes, even now Blackface, Arden etc still blame the Great Unwashed when they should be celebrating they have a very special control group. So, 3 years later my kids and I have not left the country, although I am considering flying somewhere and going through the despotic indigity of getting back into my own country - I have travelled to 70 countries including Africa and Latin America top to bottom and have never seen the likes of what is happening to Canadians entering Canada!!!!! Go Dutch Farmers!

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The pandemic has really opened up my understanding for how little the so called civilized human has evolved beyond animal behavior and why the proven failed ideologies of authoritarian collectivism keep being repeated only to fail again.

This is bad enough, but what really frosts me is that these same people, once they again collapse society, will cry for help from the rest of us to again fight for their freedom. And they will do so without any apology... without any admission of their responsibility for destroying what we had previously built.

We need some epiphanies for how we save ourselves and not them. Because they are forever the cause of everyone else's misery and suffering.

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To think I used to have so much respect for Canada... Live and learn.

Anyway, I'm in Europe. I was scared I'd lose my job (and with it my visa), but in the end, I didn't. Right now, the hardest part is the fact that I've lost so much respect for so many people around me. And then there are the little (or not so little) slights. For instance, a general practitioner I was trying to register with just declined me because I was uninjected (and that after I was on their waiting list for 11 weeks). I'm not sure if I even want to look for another one: I'm too disgusted with the entire medical profession.

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The family divisions are what break my heart the most.

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I am Canadian and an editor, and agree that there were few media outlets in the country skeptical of lockdowns, BUT … there were individual columnists, bloggers, tweeters etc who did speak out. I was on Facebook all the time in 2020 boosting Sweden and, yes, getting unfriended and shouted down. But the discussion was there for those ready to criticizeJustin’s massive overreach. Not that different from the big northern blue states, I’d say.

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I am so happy I live in America and not in Canada and Canadian response to COVID proved once more that, despite all shortcomings, America is still the best place to be. God Bless America!

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What can I say... In the 1770s, Canada was a haven for those who did NOT want freedom from the British Empire.

There are freedom-loving people in Canada, God bless 'em, but sadly they are overwhelmed by aggressive submissives even more completely than we are in the USA.

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My heart does not glow and I don't give a FF about hockey. Actually, I believe that "footy" (soccer) may actually be more popular now. Not among mainstream media but among parrticipants.

Great story from the freelance Montrealer though. I've experienced some of the same things but, being retired, it has not had so much impact. I've even enjoyed having an excuse to avoid a few family events that I prefer to avoid. Such as the recent 80-guest wedding of a young couple where bride's dad had to put out $36 grand for booze. Ha ha. Should not have agreed to open bar. Venue claimed it was the highest bar bill they'd ever seen. Dad has to get a mortgage on the house he thought was paid off, to pay the wedding bill. He had thought he was retired but probably no longer. I enjoyed avoiding quality time with a bunch of heavy drinkers though.

But I think the big problem in Canada has been the federal government. Some provincial governments need to accept blame too but the Feds take the cake. Aside from probably being the most incompetent government in Canadian history, it's made up of a gang of thin-skinned, inexperienced ministers. The "leader" of the gang is the worst of all. JT. Justin Trudeau. And we thought his dad Pierre was bad. Worst thing he did was have this son. JT is the thinnest of the thin skinned. The worst of the gang. On top of being incompetent. Doesn't even have a nice haircut any more. Keeps smiling while turning the screws on those he does not like or that criticize him. Very likely behind some of the leaders of the Trucker Convoy from last winter being held in jail pretrial for what was likely a longer time that they would have been sentenced to if found guilty of their alleged crimes. Also making concerted efforts to squeeze the life out of the economy. Determined to save the world from climate change while flying everywhere, constantly. Including a two week trip to Costa Rica just now with family and security and government planes and yada yada yada. He's the worst of the worst. We need to get rid of him ASAP but he might be able to survive another three years. I guess he can't totally destroy the country in that time but he can do, and already has done, a lot of damage. The worst of the worst. And I've only scratched the surface. Could go on and on. God help us. I'll take Donald Trump any day over JT.

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Until last week, I had been unable to attend services at my synagogue where I have belonged for over 30 years and where I had been a regular speaker on both the Sabbath and the High Holy Days with respect to sacred text. The COVID insanity changed all that. The protocols employed by the synagogue during the past 3 years have made it incumbent upon congregants to be masked, vaccinated and boosted along with tests demonstrating that they had no infections. As someone who does not wear a mask anywhere and who refuses either to get vaccinated [let alone boosted] or tested for COVID, I could not meet the protocol. But over the past 4-6 months or so, a number of these restrictions were lifted with the last one concerning vaccinations. The latest word on that subject is that the synagogue now embraces a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach to whether a congregant is sufficiently vaccinated or not. I have made it clear that I am not vaccinated and will not get vaccinated and will not ever wear a mask and will not get tested for COVID. Moreover, I will continue to avoid coming to services notwithstanding the new, more 'liberal' policies insofar as I believe if I were ever to contract SARS-2, it would be as a result of all the vaxxed, boosted and masked fellow congregants who would likely spread the disease to me. So I will continue to pray daily at home and remain a quite healthy 72 year old. Although I have been a baseball catcher since I was 10, I no longer catch while the County I live in has insisted that catchers wear a cloth mask while behind the plate. I wear a catcher's mask as well as all the other equipment that those of us who put on the 'tools of ignorance' wear when we take the field but I will not wear a cloth diaper on my face and breathe in extra carbon dioxide and bacteria. When it comes to COVID, I am the lone dissenter in my family. So far I pay no price for that unlike the author of this heartbreaking communication but were that to change, everyone knows that I will not yield to the regnant insanity regardless of the consequences.

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Aug 3, 2022·edited Aug 3, 2022

Well, as a Canadian I appreciate the support against Justin's policies; but there are some pretty broad stereotypes about us Canadians being submissive, etc. We fought well above our weight class in both world wars, and dissidents and third parties abound here.

Anyway, all hurt feelings aside, some of us Canadians spoke out as loudly as Berenson fans and other Americans did for another anti-Covid model, and did that for two whole years.

My contribution.... http://davidwinch.website/sweden-at-zero/

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