Canada is the freest country on earth
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:06 pm
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/02/mov ... -the-free/
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According to a new report from the Legatum Institute, a think tank based in London, 94 percent of Canadians believe they have the freedom to live their lives as they choose, while roughly 92 percent believe the country is a good place for immigrants. Canada, the report found, is the freest country in the entire world. It’s also the most tolerant of immigrants. (Disclosure: Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab channel is published in partnership with Legatum.)
The United States, the self-declared “Land of the Free,” ranked 15th for personal freedom. According to the most recent data made available by Legatum, 87 percent of people surveyed expressed satisfaction in their ability to live their lives as they see fit. And the United States didn’t rank too far behind Canada on the question of how welcome immigrants are, with more than 84 percent of respondents saying they believed it was a good place for them to live.
The United States, the self-declared “Land of the Free,” ranked 15th for personal freedom. According to the most recent data made available by Legatum, 87 percent of people surveyed expressed satisfaction in their ability to live their lives as they see fit. And the United States didn’t rank too far behind Canada on the question of how welcome immigrants are, with more than 84 percent of respondents saying they believed it was a good place for them to live.
But...but those horrible Fascists in the CPC destroyed our freedom.
Public_Domain @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:10 pm
BartSimpson @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:13 pm
Public_Domain Public_Domain:
That's the fun thing about the West. Freedom is all in the feeling.
True freedom lies in the right to resist wrongful authority. Free men will do such things.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:14 pm
In the socialist world there is a difference in the interpretation of freedom. We in the West have the freedom to, while they espoused a freedom from.
DrCaleb @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:17 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
But...but those horrible Fascists in the CPC destroyed our freedom.
You joke, but some of the most oppressive governments in history started with the mass surveillance of their population by an unaccountable police force. That's what Bill C-51 is all about! Moar government in my internetz! You are with us or you are with the child pornographers!
Should people just accept it as something they cannot change, or vote the fuckers out?
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:22 pm
Keep in mind the daupin supported it too, and the LPC said they'd get rid of the GST once in power. Naw, they'll keep the bad shit and just say, 'but we didn't legislate this.'
Public_Domain @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:25 pm
BartSimpson @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:26 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
Should people just accept it as something they cannot change, or vote the fuckers out?
Sometimes voting them out just isn't enough.
BartSimpson @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:30 pm
Public_Domain Public_Domain:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
In the socialist world there is a difference in the interpretation of freedom. We in the West have the freedom to, while they espoused a freedom from.
I'm going to just tell you you're incorrect and that anyone seeking information on this specific topic would do better to look the philosophy up for themselves than to take this kind of statement at face value.
Shep is right and you'd do well not to argue with him on this one.
But you will anyway.
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Public_Domain @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:31 pm
Public_Domain @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:33 pm
DrCaleb @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:34 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
Keep in mind the daupin supported it too, and the LPC said they'd get rid of the GST once in power. Naw, they'll keep the bad shit and just say, 'but we didn't legislate this.'
Possibly. A C-51 revamp is supposedly high on his 'to do list'. I'll wait till he's sworn in as PM before finding displeasure in his performance.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:43 pm
Public_Domain Public_Domain:
yet I'm a socialist. So...?
You are are you? A socialist by whose definition?
We wouldn't want to impose something as bourgeois as an education on you now would we. Every socialist movement, government and group that has existed to date, you've vehemently denied they were 'socialist'.
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I'm sensing a horseshoe theory coming this way...
Well when you start going on about 'politics' and 'economics' I sense something that's attached to a horse too.....only it's not its shoe.
Public_Domain @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:01 pm
Public_Domain @ Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:03 pm