I lived in Canada on and off from 1996-1998, and I have to admit, in some ways I miss it. Here’s a CTV reporter getting pushed around by Stephane Dion’s bodyguards:
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I was raised Canadian. I lived in the US for 12 straight years during my mid-twenties and late thirties from 1994-2006 . I am also a very proud American Citizen as of 2002. Since moving back to Canada two years ago, it has been a very unpleasant experience. It’s not the Canada I remember. The healthcare does not cover nearly what it used to, education has gone drastically down (thank you selfish Ontario Teacher’s Union), and the politics (and media) is a bunch of kindergartners who can’t play nice or even lead properly — you think US politics is bad. Socialism is running amok and nothing can get done to move the country forward.
Do you really think you’d miss Canada if you actually lived here now? I guarantee you would be sadly mistaken. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Well, luckily, I was a commercial user of Canadian health care; doctors there love foreigners who pay cash. But in any case, I said “some ways I miss it”. Try and get a poutine here. The CTV guys getting pushed around, and someone immediately apologizing, and someone at the station saying “this isn’t like him” and so on — in the US, none of them would have had a chance to call their attorneys yet, much less anyone to apologize.
But I had a chance to stay permanently, and didn’t.
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