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A recent bill in Canada restored Canadian citizenship to thousands of people living abroad. I'm helping my friend move to Canada and giving her a place to live after she claims her citizenship. After she stays here three years, all her children get the same opportunity to claim citizenship. Am I operating an Underground Railroad?!
I feel people tend to forget that Canada almost voted in a Trump clone.
Ontario is governed by a Trump clone, as is Alberta.
Like, things can be bad in different ways. It's not meaningful to describe every corrupt politician as a Trump clone, Trump didn't invent sucking, and his form of suck is pretty unique.
Oh, we've commonly elected people just as evil as Trump. So have the Americans. Just not as stupid. Meanwhile, we threw away our pretense of "rule of law" at the Toronto G20 in 2010 just so Harper could impress China, and no following government ever did a damn thing about it.
But if you're talking about the last election, it was not even close, there was no "almost" about it.
Doug Ford is far dumber than Trump.
I don't think he's low-IQ-dumb at all. I think he's the shrewdest and most effective political manipulators Ontario has seen in my entire politically aware life. I think he has certain pathological drives and values that cause him to do things that any decent and informed person would find entirely contrary to the public good, but I don't think he does any of them because he doesn't know better.
Is that a "fuck trumpism with blood as the lube" "no almost" or an "all aboard the fascism-train" "no almost"? (I'm still ignorant on CN politics)
There was no Trump-like candidate that had a chance in hell in the last Federal election. It was a historic loss for the conservatives.
Trump saying that he was going to take Canada over probably did Canada a favor. It's hard to say the US is going in the right direction. with a far right, autocrat in power. Your conservatives can't emulate that then.
On the other hand, a Prime Minister with majority confidence has essentially unchecked power and can author and then pass any legislation she wants. The Canadian Prime Minister's office is far more powerful than the American President's office and we are perfectly able to dip in and out of tyranny as fashion dictates.