Re: [OT] Canada is not a serious country

shawn  <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:11:35 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:
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The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:47:14 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:
 

On Feb 11, 2025 at 8:29:56 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
 

Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net> wrote:

The Horny Goat wrote:
 

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:38:39 -0500, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

It still makes me angry that Canadian voters tossed out
the best PM in my lifetime, Harper, and replaced him with
Trudeau FOR NO GOOD REASON. All Trudeau offered was nice
hair, lies about the Syrians, and a lot of SJW nonsense
that is driving this country ever closer to Third World
status. (The Heir-Apparent, Mark Carney, will be even
WORSE because he's dedicated to Net Zero.)
 
We need an election SO BADLY it's impossible to overstate
it. According to Brian Lilley, who has sources within the
Liberal Party, the Liberals are scheming with the NDP to
prop up the Liberals until the absolute last possible
minute under the constitution, which would delay the
election until September 2026 (repeat 2026, NOT 2025)!
That would give them ample time to do MUCH MORE damage to
this country.

 
I don't know about Harper being the best PM in my lifetime
(bear in mind that I met Diefenbaker in person as a child
- which wasn't all that much of an accomplishment as I was
a 9 year old and my grandfather was running federally at
the time - for non-Canadians Dief was roughly in the last
days of Ike and JFK but left office for good in 1967) but
no question his replacement was a shadow on him.
 
Bottom line is by modern standards fiscally responsible
and despite the rhetoric he didn't do anything incredibly
shocking unlike Mr 45/47. Of course you could say much the
same of Paul Martin Jr too. (Martin Sr ran for his party
leadership and lost on the last ballot to Pierre Trudeau)

 
Diefenbaker was still in the House of Commons as a front
bencher in the early to mid 1970s. He was a shadow of
himself then, but still there physically, if not mentally.
 
I'll never forgive Diefenbaker for the Avro Arrow fiasco.
Canadian engineers and scientists did a tremendous job
on the creation of that jet which never got a fair chance
to impress the rest of the world.
 
OB TV: There is a Canadian made-for-TV movie "The Arrow"
which will explain the work behind the ground-breaking
engineering that helped to create the most advanced jet
airplane of its time and how the whole project not only
got scuttled, but literally destroyed on the decision
made by John Diefenbaker.
 
Nyssa, who holds a grudge a LONG time

 
I thought Diefenbaker was a wolf.

 
No, that's Wolfenstein.
 

Probably one of the most notable items about Dief was that his first
run for public office was a one on one (e.g. no other candidates) vs
William Lyon Mackenzie King (later Canada's longest-serving prime
minister ever) and was winning - until he got a MOST unwanted
'endorsement' by the Saskatchewan Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
which pretty much tanked his campaign. He finally won his seat in
1940.
 

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Oh my God people did none of you watch DUE SOUTH?

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That was a Canadian show. Why would you expect Canadians to have
watched such a show? ;)

I loved that show. It was set in Chicago but produced in Toronto. Once a
year they'd send a production crew to Chicago to shoot exteriors. Always
cracked me up the seemingly random buildings they chose to stand in for
well-known Chicago buildings, apparently because they liked the
buildings they used better.

I did hate the way David Marciano was written out. The show was out of
production for two or three years, then returned to production. They
brought in Callum Keith Rennie, an excellent actor, to be the new
Broadhurst and for several episodes referred to him as "Ray", still
pretending he was Marciano's character to protect an alleged undercover
assignment. I thought it was disrespectful of the new actor.

Marciano eventually returned for a few episodes.

Dief got recast as well but no one pretended he was undercover. You had
to suspend disbelief that the two Huskies were half wolves. (Which half?_