Alas!

[evilhippo]

Well crap, Canada. Where the heck am I going to flee to now? Do you have any idea how expensive it is for me to fly to Europe? And I don't know anyone there! Goshdarnit.

If I had any right to be talking about Canadian politics, I'd point to my government here and go "OH MY GOODNESS PEOPLE, CAN'T YOU SEE??? WE MADE THIS MISTAKE SO OTHER PEOPLE COULD LEARN!!"

... it seems I've done that anyway. But this whole immediately "repairing ties" with the US thing? BULL CRAP. RUN AWAY! Build a giant wall so our nonsense doesn't leak out! You should have done that the second we re-elected Bush. Apparently it's too late. Just hope your leaders don't decide to invoke rules that make sure none of the laws apply to them anymore. Sigh. This wouldn't make me nearly so sad if your future government wasn't now immediately linked to ours and friendly to it. I'm sorry.

Do you know how many cowboys from Texas you've made happy? Do you know how many gay cowboys eating pudding you've made sad?

If this affects your music at all, I'm so coming up there and reeducating some people.

On the other hand, at least your three-party system makes the election results look interesting. Though, in attempting to divide you into red and blue provinces (a tried and true American practice), I discovered that your liberals are coloured red (at least as far as the CBC is concerned. I assume that's standard). This proves that, obviously, you haven't been paying attention. And you've got two shades of blue. Tsk tsk. And I see no signs of recounts. You've got this election thing all wrong.

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[jabberwockeyes.livejournal.com]

sadly, there is plans to build a wall between the US and Mexico. . . but that's to keep people out, not silly conservative ideas in.

[yuukihikari]

Yes, it is a sad, sad day -_-; *unimpressed with her country to say the least*

We had a TV ad campaign from the Liberals that basically stated that "The Conservatives will put a smile on George W. Bush's face. Well, at least someone will be happy."

Stupid country of mine.

One thing that really pissed me off, you know how you get a lot of voters who just go to polls and just pick 'whomever' without thought - the Conservatives were at the top of the list and the Liberals were at the bottom. Those voters don't look all the way to the bottom - retarded voters mark the top box and move on with life.Gremany and Australia are our choices of flee.

But on the positive side, it's a minority government. The Conservatives cannot pass anything unless they have a significant part of the opposition on their side - I don't think that'll happen. The government will probably last a year and a half, tops. Hopefully, when the next election comes, Canada will have seen the error of their ways.

I feel bad for coming off as so anti-american sometimes when I refer to Canadian politics. I don't hate America, I have a ton of American friends, but I hate that Canada is America's little whipping boy, always kissing ass. Our leaders refuse to stand up for our country and bend to the will of that which is bigger, stronger and more powerful. My country finally showed a SPINE and didn't support the US in the last few years, we started to gain some sense of identity... all that might have been lost. =/ I want to be Canadian, not mini-American.

Molson's should start re-playing their "I AM CANADIAN" commercials

http://yuukinouchi.net/Random/molson-canadian-i-am.mov

=/ Whatever happened to that.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

But it's a start! All we have to do is shift a few markers a few hundred miles and fiddle with the paperwork and... voila!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Argh! I hate those voters! I remember going to the polls with my mom once several years ago and some newspaper or another was interviewing people as they left, and there were people that were proud of just picking random boxes. People also have a habit of just blindly voting "no" on any issue they don't know about. Grrr.

You could get rid of them in a year and a half? Ahhh, you're lucky! (You're also lucky that your leader can't still talk about 9/11 and get votes that way.) So, I imagine as long as the opposition doesn't manage to be foolishly annoying about blocking things, things could much more easily swing back the other way. The scary thing about minority governments though, is that if it doesn't swing back the other way in the next election, even if they get re-elected by a tiny margin, as long as they swing to a slim majority, they seem to think they have some sort of "mandate." (Me? Bitter about the Bush administration?)

I was proud of Canada for staying against our foolishness these past few years. As someone who's been mistaken for a real Canadian most of her college years (The flag on my backpack is safety-pinned, though, not sewn, so if people are paying attention they know I'm not really Canadian (-;), I much prefer you guys having an actual identity. Especially when I could point north and explain how at least someone's government gets it sometimes.

Omg... how long ago were the I am Canadian commercials? I know at one point I nearly had it memorized, mostly just because chocolatemoose did, too. (-: I think I have a letter from her somewhere that mentions her igloo and eating blubber. You know, they might have made a useful point in campaigning. Probably better for beer not to get involved in politics, though. ^_^

[windresistant.livejournal.com]

I don't care if I'm unpatriotic. I dislike this America thing. Canada wins, hardcore.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Though apparently all of Canada doesn't win hardcore. Darn rural conservatives. Just because they don't get out much.

Unpatriotic is the new black. And not like, emo-goth black, either. (-;