Well, I'm a Canuck (albiet one who's spent 75% of his adult life working in other countries). Every time I come back to Canada, I find a little more to dislike about the place.
Here's what sucks about my country:
- Very high taxes yet services paid for with tax money are poorly managed and poorly administered. Nor is the money spent in a fair manner. If you're white, male, single, and straight, you get nothing for the money you pay.
- Liberal white guilt rules the agenda when it comes to legislation.
-Victim mentality amongst the self appointed martyrs of the week.
- No real culture. We define ourselves by pointing out how we're different from Americans.
- Smugness when it comes to comparing ourselves to Americans based solely on meaningless UN statistics.
- It's bloody cold!
- Over-emphasis on the "rights of the individual" for the last couple of generations has led to too many people developing an over-inflated sense of entitlement. Leads people to ignore societal rules and niceties and then try to rationalize their behaviour by blaming some external factor. Can't believe the number of slack-jawed idiots in this country who think getting stoned just prior to (or even at) work who seem to think that such behaviour is somehow a statement against corporate greed. If you dare call them on it, somehow you're an a-hole, facist, etc. The same mentality applies to those in business. Individuals and corporations seem to think SOP is to screw over the customer and only right things if the customer complains loudly and long enough.
-Did I mention that it's bloody cold?
-Nanny state mentality. Everything must be regulated because some couldn't act in a responsible manner and screwed things up for everybody else.
-The fees that go along with said regulations.
-Lack of real freedom due to said regulations.
-and it's bloody cold.
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