Re-election was coming up, and I guess choosing to ride that sweet "elbows up" energy was a safe way to victory, also once she swapped, the feds magically took interest in her riding and green lit funding for infrastructure projects.
Most "francophones" aren't gonna be Quebecois either in less than 50 years. Instead of being jeetified, Quebec will be Maghrebified with a generous dollop of subsaharan Africans and Haitians. This is neither good nor bad because it doesn't address the issue of population replacement.
Oh, it'll be good, because the frogs fucking deserve it.
Nawh more likely is she's planning on retiring by the next election and figures being part of the government will give her a bigger retirement payoff than remaining an opposition MP. Her Sarnia riding is in no way ever going to vote Liberal federally; the response to her floor crossing should be proof enough, the Imperial Oil refinery presence the exclamation mark. All the MPs who have crossed are being opportunistic and know they will never be re-elected, whether by voters directly or by the Liberal party dumping them in favour of their preferred candidate come nomination season.
Mine was downright invasive. Last one was all 'what is the primary language spoken in your house' and 'how many persons reside at your house' and stuff like that. Now my name is on every question and they're like a fucking Voight-Kampff test. WHAT IS YOUR ETHNICITY [BulkForceFive]? HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX, INCE- I MEAN [BulkForceFive]? WHICH OUTDATED AND PROBLEMATIC RELIGION DO YOU PRACTICE [BulkForceFive]?
You have an optimistically low percentage for how many Indians are in the country.
Wanting is different from doing. A lot of people want to leave Canada the same way they want to lose 5kg, i.e., it's some meaningless goal that they never work towards because they're lazy. Some people do have good reasons for staying, usually because they have to care for elderly family members, but the vast majority that want to leave remind me of those Democrat-associated Americans that all threatened to leave the US if Trump won.
I'd argue that Canada's most famous literary output is Anne of Green Gables, that classic of children's literature. I've met people from around the world that fondly speak about it. Anne is a big reason that people even bother to visit PEI and give the province their tourism dollars.
It is oddly huge in Japan. I think they even read it in school.
Its regularly assigned in the US in school as well. I had to read it growing up.
Largely down to it being one of the first English works translated into Japanese. IIRC it was quietly translated during WW2 by a Japanese Christian and published a few years after, which the time and the nature of the story both led it to it blowing up hard in popularity. It's also arguably one of the main reasons (besides the work culture) modern Japan loves slice of life series.
I don't think that Atwood is a bad author or anything. Cat's Eye was a childhood favourite of mine. I think maybe because the Handmaid's Tale was recently adapted for television, it might be more prominent in some people's minds. Just an effect of the pop culture zeitgeist. It's kinda ironic to think that this might be the most well-known piece of Canadian literature for a lot of people, considering the setting of the novel isn't even in Canada. At least Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, another piece of Canadian literature that made its way into pop culture back in the early 2010s, was overt in its setting.
Consider that what's known as "the most controversial novel ever written in Canada" is about a woman fucking a Bear, and I don't mean the hairy man kind.
And yet it isn’t part of the curriculum in any province these days, because the Marxists don’t want kids learning that Canada hasn’t always been this horrible.
I disagree, I think there's lots of age-appropriate books that have been written by Canadian authors that would fit well into the classroom. If countries like the US can regularly have secondary school level courses focused on national literature, I think a requirement could also be introduced into provincial school systems here. Most countries around the world already have educational requirements that students be exposed to national literature throughout their schooldays, as a way to foster national pride and cultural awareness.
When I was a kid there was the guy who wrote the McDonald Hall novels, which I loved. But I am struggling to think of a lot of YA authors that are Canadian. I do think part of that stems from the degradation of the print market. Videogames have stolen audience and everything being slop ensures they don't comeback.
One of the nicest things about have lived in the US is no classic rock station plays Loverboy. I actually heard more Rush and Guess Who in the US that I do in Canada.
There are Canadian authors, but it takes more effort to find them, and of those you do find you then have to filter out the trash. Combine that with education programs and publishing companies which are more about maintaining political correctness than literary quality and the process of finding suitable works grows harder. All of that too is before the issues with kids just not reading anymore for any multitude of reasons. Given my interests I know of several Canadian military history writers (and one prominent alternate history writer), but even that bucket is tiny compared to the number of American and European authors.
Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver have good music scenes. Even Calgary is getting good now. Halifax comes and goes and I think it's fallen off entirely.
