St. Micheals Medical Team said:
or is antiamericanism permeating as an underlying election issue?
IMO anti-Americanism is pretty much the only thing that passes for a universal Canadian cultural value. We are such a sad mish-mosh of individuals floundering about, the only thing anyone seems to agree on is that we aren't American. It's funny, if you hear someone railing against the United States try to get them to commit to why they think it is such a bad place, and then ask them what it is about Canada that makes us better. I've actually heard answers like "well, they think they are so cool, and think their country is the best in the world". Wow. Thinking your country is the best. How completely wretched of them.
That being said, this isn't an invitation to a dog pile.
I know why Canada is better than the US, but there are a god-awful lot of people that don't. And it doesn't seem like there is any latitude to accept that the US does
some things better than us. So in the absence of being able to answer what it is that makes us great Canadians, many people can just be content with the unfounded self satisfied smugness of "well, we aren't them".
That being the case, the Lieberals are the party of nothingness and status quo. Smoke and mirrors carry the day, with a healthy dash of arrogance. Look at the disdain that Jean Crouton had for our country in the way he conducted himself at the end of his reign. And now look at how
Celine Stephan Dion is acting. Who the hell is he to tell the PM what to say to another leader of a foreign nation?! I can almost guarantee that was as a result of seeing some sort of poll that suggests that Canadians see him as a poofy milquetoast, and he had to get all gangsta 'n stuff an git up in the PM's grill (fo shizzle, yo).
There has been so much Lieberal crap for so many years, I actually find myself becoming anxious about the next election. Surely, Canadians have not gotten rocked by decisive leadership, or a party that actually has a plan to move the country forward? I am
so hoping that all of the garbage they have been spewing (that hinges and counts on Canadians being uninformed clods) since the CPC has been in comes back to bite them in the arse. But there is that gunshy part of me that remembers that the good citizens voted them back into a majority after they dicked away 2 BILLION dollars with no accounting for it whatsoever.
I dunno. Time will tell, I guess.