These fucking suck. The Bella Ciao one is especially cringe with it being an actually historically significant piece. The juxtaposition of a song about rebel fighters in Fascist Italy being used for Canada's slap-fighting with the US would probably get a chuckle out of me if I didn't know that so many Canadians genuinely see themselves that way.
YES! My jaw hit the floor at the final chapter. After going through everything that was wrong with the country, the story becoming more and more hopeless...The hope litterally is "That one time we won a hockey game before I was born."
"patriotic songs"
Probably slightly powerlevel given the average "Canadian" these days but I proudly own an Ensign flag because fuck the maple leaf. We have one flag, it's the Ensign, and any Liberal apologist who suggests otherwise is far too lost to be a proper citizen. Pearson needs digging up and annually berated for allowing the "post-national" nonsense via changing colours and imagery we're now subjected to courtesy of Trudeau Junior.
Thank you. I had these questions before - if Canada had "American-like suburbs", "American-like accent", and such stuff 15+ years ago.
Yes, Canada is an example of where the US would currently be if it weren't for the Constitution and it shows just how powerful the Constitution really is. Politicians in the US often try to find as many loopholes as they can, but in the end they can only do so much when these are absolute rules set in stone. The Canadian government can and always could do whatever the hell they want and that's where the underlying problem begins. It's the reason we kept Trudeau for so long and it's the reason Motherfucker Carney is now our supreme leader. Without our own personal constitution we were fucked from the start and it was only a matter of time we'd end up here.
The leaves have merely been gathered into a pile, disposal date TBD
The 10th Amendment is (usually) a huge part in this and states having absolute authority on things the feds do not have power in. In theory, only what's listed in the first seven articles as federal powers are the only things that the feds are allowed to do, then any power you can think of, are defaulted to the states. That was a reason that triggered the Civil War in regards to slavery (being property rights at the time).
Unfortunately we don't have anything equivalent to the 10th Amendment, at least as explicitly defined in the Canadian constitution. Division of powers is quite vague (shared powers are a common feature, especially for more modern concepts) and a lot of issues are left in sort of purgatory since neither the provinces nor Ottawa wants court adjudication lest said powers wind up being permanently assigned. Good example is resource rights: technically they fall under provincial control, but the Trudeau-era Libs have made serious attempts at usurping that power through red tape and bureaucratic manipulation, and have dragged their heels over rollbacks mandated by province-led court victories. Also becomes a major quagmire once inter-province projects are considered because suddenly that enters federal domain.
This is AI generated slop- modern Canadians can't even make their own anti-American songs without relying on chat GPT any longer.
He has a sound principle.... Backing your currency with tangible assets is a great way to drive bond sale once you become a separate country .
