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Ah, right. Missed that, my bad.
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I've just mentioned Canada twice, now. That's hardly being on a kick. It's just a matter of being surprised, is all. Whenever Canada is mentioned here by the kind of blogs and news I read, it's always in reference to your government's sterling pacifism, welfare system, treatment of the disadvantaged, etc. Yet then something like this happens, far worse than anything yet committed by any of the US municipal police forces associated nationally with heavy-handed behavior (LA, Houston, Chicago). What am I supposed to think when this shows up, or Canadians elect for themselves a fresh new northern Bush, after seeing what our Yale-educated oil brat achieved?
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Well, I guess Canada is good at using our welfare system to exploit the disadvantaged in somewhat of a nonconfrontational manner...or something. Seriously though, Canada's policies have always made just as little sense as the rest of the world, especially in the last couple years. I don't actually blame it all on Harper (though I'm definitely no fan), but rather the entire federal government and all its elected members. I personally think they're all a bunch of juvenile dolts, which is why nothing gets done in our parliament. Its all the same party posturing over and over again, with little results. The only thing that I find gets people fired up, as a university student, is opposition to several pieces of legislation that slip through the cracks, like instituting a more American position on downloading music and the removal of funding from Canadian films that the government finds "offensive", which is really just censorship. Other than that, the vast majority of people I talk to (all 20-somethings like me) are extremely apathetic these days about Canadian politics and where our country is going, even more so than usual. Yay Canada...
