tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503206839949701676.post4795506612100092613..comments2018-12-25T01:12:33.264-08:00Comments on Crawling From the USA: How We Do It in Canadachas_mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10365057094888352212noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503206839949701676.post-81794152480043297192009-07-01T05:49:24.978-07:002009-07-01T05:49:24.978-07:00This seems like the appropriate place to tag this....This seems like the appropriate place to tag this...<br /><br />Happy Canada Day!! eh?!<br /><br />or... as us old fogeys like to still (occasionally) call it....<br /><br />Happy Dominion Day!!<br /><br />(from salt spring - where until july 12 you can see some of the best photography this side of toronto)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8503206839949701676.post-38222130189070890292009-06-17T09:30:45.618-07:002009-06-17T09:30:45.618-07:00Concise take on our political scene. Canadians, li...Concise take on our political scene. Canadians, like many other countries, tend to have a knee jerk reaction when it comes to politics. When one party does something we don't like, Canadians tend to punish the party by voting in a new one. Shortsighted, yes, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The problem here is that we don't get to vote for our leader. The leader of whichever party wins becomes the Prime Minister...so the voter is stuck between a decision on do I vote for the guy in my riding because I like him regardless of his party, or do I vote for the party...even though I can't stand the person who I am voting for to get the party elected...logic...or emotion?<br /><br />No one here wants another election because the last one, which was a grab for more power, cost the taxpayers a great deal, and resulted in almost the exact same situation as we were in before it. No movement at all. What followed was a massive uproar as the three other main parties looked at forming a coalition government and everyone went wild (as much as Canadians ever do). A coalition government actually would have been a good thing and would have been far more representative of the population as a whole....but it's "different" and therefore "bad" to most people. <br /><br />And so it goes... ;)<br /><br />(I enjoy your postings, it's interesting to view my home through a newcomers eyes)Paigenoreply@blogger.com