We do ok sometimes. During covid we were top-10 on fighting global inflation, for example. We’re still full of moron conservatives who act like they’re in the US and we’re attached to the center-right party like we’re in an abusive marriage(they literally act like there’s no one better and threaten us with Conservatives winning in order to get votes which is coercion and theft in my books). Montréal is the only city which can be said to be significantly well built but the obviously corrupt mayoral candidate and her obviously corrupt party are polling high while turnout will likely be low. I’m not kidding there, during a housing crisis she’s hanging out with developers, was found to have taken an illegal security deposit recently, and one person in her party is a journalist who took money to speak favourably about corporations.
The center-right party, meanwhile, is doing some heinous, even further right shit and even tried to demand that the highly exploited Air Canada flight attendants end their strike. Luckily the union told them to fuck off anyway. That said, I haven’t seen them do the same to the public transit workers who will be striking for a month here in Montréal so time will tell if they think public transit is as important as an airline.
We are not doing great, and it’s getting worse largely because we don’t laugh the far-right into obscurity and we’re locked into a highly abusive, strategic voting relationship(I’m not personally, but I will accept that I am still Canadian and part of the country as a whole).
You danes and your proportional representation living pretty good compared to us peasants in Canada being enslaved by 2 big corporate parties.
I was under the impression Canada was actually doing pretty all right? Might have assumed wrong!
We do ok sometimes. During covid we were top-10 on fighting global inflation, for example. We’re still full of moron conservatives who act like they’re in the US and we’re attached to the center-right party like we’re in an abusive marriage(they literally act like there’s no one better and threaten us with Conservatives winning in order to get votes which is coercion and theft in my books). Montréal is the only city which can be said to be significantly well built but the obviously corrupt mayoral candidate and her obviously corrupt party are polling high while turnout will likely be low. I’m not kidding there, during a housing crisis she’s hanging out with developers, was found to have taken an illegal security deposit recently, and one person in her party is a journalist who took money to speak favourably about corporations.
The center-right party, meanwhile, is doing some heinous, even further right shit and even tried to demand that the highly exploited Air Canada flight attendants end their strike. Luckily the union told them to fuck off anyway. That said, I haven’t seen them do the same to the public transit workers who will be striking for a month here in Montréal so time will tell if they think public transit is as important as an airline.
We are not doing great, and it’s getting worse largely because we don’t laugh the far-right into obscurity and we’re locked into a highly abusive, strategic voting relationship(I’m not personally, but I will accept that I am still Canadian and part of the country as a whole).
However countries with more accountability and transparency outrank us in international metrics.
Canada usually lies between 11-14th globally. Our media isn’t free to fully report what’s going in.
Thank god, Denmark didn’t relent on Hans Island.
Can you really be all right when you border the US?