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Poor lady was living in another country and fell for Canadas P.R campaign that presented us as being free and accountable as America is.
The police state, massive security industrial complex has divided and destroyed our social fabric and economy so that they and their dumb offspring can milk the system and maintain power. They don't want us to have a history or common goal as that would esure pressure for Access to Justice, transparency and accountability of them and government,
Another lost life in the Canadian abyss. Sad indeed.
Take heed Canada, the Toronto Police, OPP et al are NOT your ally, nor honest...
nationalpost.com
In the late 1990s, culture writer Lydia Perovic emigrated from Montenegro to the open, optimistic country of Canada and threw herself into its vibrant artistic and cultural communities. She was happy with her decision until about five years ago, when she noticed Canada turning inward, losing its will to be a nation and a culture, and growing increasingly illiberal in speech and imagination. This week she publishes Lost in Canada, a shrewd and moving account of one immigrant’s second thoughts about her second home, and a call for all Canadians to think harder about the future of their country and its culture.
Or, to give my own riff on Dante, after 20 uncomplicated years of living as an adopted Canadian, I find myself in a dark forest, for the belonging is lost.
I used to have it: I have been saying ‘we’ easily for almost two decades. I moved here from the 1990s wars in the Western Balkans as a graduate student to escape the relentless history of home, and in search of a functioning draft of a liberal democracy. Here, to the country that doesn’t quite gel, is decentralized into smithereens and interrupted with enormous empty spaces, none of which particularly disturbs it. Where mutual differences are vast and we’d rather not overanalyze what they mean, just live pretending that they don’t exist. Blandness: behind it is an uneventful competence in governance, fundamentally Red Tory political instincts (meaning, easy-does-it, conformist, communitarian — at least until the neoliberal era, and figures like Mike Harris and Paul Martin). Fair play as an agreed-upon ideal. And very little history.
The police state, massive security industrial complex has divided and destroyed our social fabric and economy so that they and their dumb offspring can milk the system and maintain power. They don't want us to have a history or common goal as that would esure pressure for Access to Justice, transparency and accountability of them and government,
Another lost life in the Canadian abyss. Sad indeed.
Take heed Canada, the Toronto Police, OPP et al are NOT your ally, nor honest...
Book excerpt: The Canada I fell in love with is gone
Lydia Perovic writes a shrewd and moving account of one immigrant's second thoughts about her second home
nationalpost.com
In the late 1990s, culture writer Lydia Perovic emigrated from Montenegro to the open, optimistic country of Canada and threw herself into its vibrant artistic and cultural communities. She was happy with her decision until about five years ago, when she noticed Canada turning inward, losing its will to be a nation and a culture, and growing increasingly illiberal in speech and imagination. This week she publishes Lost in Canada, a shrewd and moving account of one immigrant’s second thoughts about her second home, and a call for all Canadians to think harder about the future of their country and its culture.
Or, to give my own riff on Dante, after 20 uncomplicated years of living as an adopted Canadian, I find myself in a dark forest, for the belonging is lost.
I used to have it: I have been saying ‘we’ easily for almost two decades. I moved here from the 1990s wars in the Western Balkans as a graduate student to escape the relentless history of home, and in search of a functioning draft of a liberal democracy. Here, to the country that doesn’t quite gel, is decentralized into smithereens and interrupted with enormous empty spaces, none of which particularly disturbs it. Where mutual differences are vast and we’d rather not overanalyze what they mean, just live pretending that they don’t exist. Blandness: behind it is an uneventful competence in governance, fundamentally Red Tory political instincts (meaning, easy-does-it, conformist, communitarian — at least until the neoliberal era, and figures like Mike Harris and Paul Martin). Fair play as an agreed-upon ideal. And very little history.
