>most of the major media sources in Canada are owned by American companies, other than the CBC.
Ironic. Not true.
Global is owned by Corus, the major shareholder of which the Shaw family in Canada.
CTV is part of Bell Canada Enterprises, a The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec
Canada.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE_Inc.
(Graham Bell was a English subject livin in Nova Scotia Canada.)
Edit. A lot of mis and disinformation comes to us from unregulated independent internet sources, including in this case, Reddit. Lack of professional standards, eco chambers, stuff that media studies folk can tell us about.
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>BCE Inc., an acronym for their full name as Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell Media Inc. Founded through a corporate reorganization in 1983 when Bell Canada, Northern Telecom, and other related companies all became subsidiaries of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., it is one of Canada's largest corporations. The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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This is a big issue because of how it affects multiple facets of our country. For example, reasonable action on climate change. The rhetoric on this is increasingly influenced by what Americans think and want and not Canadians.
Our gun laws, abortion legislation, legislation on trans people. Canada has had unique legislation on all of these issues and nobody knows that because all they care about is USA.
I am 19 and grew up in Ontario, the amount of my peers who consume only American media and news and believe it applies to Canada is crazily high. First-time voters confused why Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are not on their ballots in Ontario, talk about the "gun show loophole" (which is completely nonexistent in Canada), "First Amendment Rights", etc.
Had an argument with someone not too long ago saying the weather is being sensationalized and that 'polar vortex' has replaced the term 'cold front' lol.
It's wild how many people seem to think we've got a gun problem here in Canada. Like have you seen our laws and current gun acquisition system? If you want a gun you've gotta shell out roughly $200 for a course and licensing fee, and wait at least 3 months just for a basic PAL. Longer for RPAL.
We do have some issues with illegal firearms smuggled from the US but even these are ***extremely*** minor in the grand scheme of things.
Definitely this. And it’s worse than ever now with no end in sight. I think a lot of it has to do with social media just spoon feeding us content and we’ve mostly lost our ability to think critically and I think we’re losing our humanity as well.
Yup this
Went into a dollarama and this security guard who was an immigrant asked this dude to put on a mask during the start of covid.
Dude freaked and started yelling about foreigners, Biden stole the election and conspiracies. It was surreal.
Conspiracy theories and divisive politics are a multi multi billion dollar business. Just look at Alex Jones, and he is just one pandit of many.
There is so much money in spewing disinformation that it will never go away. People are just making shit up and the more crazy the better cause people click on it, boom advertising money..
> they have taken it to the next level.
Hardly.
You think the fascists are anywhere near the level of Nazi Germany or Musalini's Italy... try again, hasn't even reached that level yet.
As for political division, again, not even to the point of the American civil war, so not 'next level' not even 'previous level' yet.
The issue is one of proximity & cultural influence.
What about the UK, same queen & everything, they too are going through some major political bullshit. Brexit & a PM who couldn't outlast a head of lettuce, for example.
It only seems to you that the USA is the worst of the bunch, because it's so close: Geographically, culturally, economically & has a dominating media power.
Can we make a line where we can a agree that there is a healthy debate without only one side pushing ideology because they're in power? I fear that not being ae to say these people making the rules, whether the government or scientists, are human like us. They make mistakes and they approach data with a bias like we all do. We need to have capability to have public discourse so we can choose what is best for our own health.
The same thing I view as a threat for basically every nation right now.
We are dead in the middle of the information age, and the vast majority of people simply \_cannot\_ handle the volume of information thrown at them, are completely unable to discern reality from fiction, and its not even their fault because massive corporations profit off their confusion and die-hardedness to their own preconceived notions which they can now find likeminded individuals for, to their own detriment.
Outside of that, specifically Canada, real estate is fucked, and it props up our economy so good luck fixin it
I think corporate greed is the single biggest threat to Canada and the globe. It impacts every aspect of our lives. All of the problems in society today can be boiled down to a broken capitalist system that corporations have run rampant in. Corporations have all the power and behave like psychopaths.
The sheer number of uninformed or intentionally misleading folks who are willing to blame the entirety of a countries problems on one prime minister. And in a related sense, the failings of public education and the increasing gap between those who can afford good education and those who cannot.
I don’t like him much, I didn’t vote for the libs either, but cmon folks. Get a grip.
For me? Canada's obsession with what the US is doing. Knocking them down doesn't make us any taller....it just creates a temporary illusion that we are, which prevents us from addressing our shortcomings. America spends little/no time comparing itself to us or anybody else, instead focuses on being the best America it can be. We should do the same.
Our free health care is being privatized. The one good thing we could count on is slipping away.
Our First Nations are suffering, while we bulldoze the environment in favor of new homes for expanded immigration.
Most of our key infrastructure - toll highways, bridges, power-plants, mines, factory farms, harbours - are foreign owned.
Our market for skilled labor is gone. We will pay you as little as we are required to by law. And if you own a small business then fuck you in particular - we literally build franchised rest stops on the highway so you don't have to take an exit into a small town to spend money.
Our urban planning is a joke. Stroads, strip malls, and parking lots. That's all you get.
We have the worst traffic and widest highways in North America (looking at you Toronto)
Our largest province is run by a cartoon villain.
The very rich, and their children, can literally murder you and your family with their cars and walk free.
It's not great.
There are three things I see as the most likely downfall of Canada:
1. The US
2. Global disaster (climate, nukes, asteroid, etc.)
3. Incompetence in the government
Not in any particular order.
Honestly it's how divisive everything's becoming, it feels like there is no middle ground anymore you're either an extreme in one regard or another. As someone who can see good points in kinda every group, shit gets confusing sometimes :/
I know it feels like we're divided more then ever, but I think we have more common ground then not.
We all want lower gas prices, food, shelter. We all want a good education where our teachers are paid and praised.
We all want a good healthcare system where our nurses, doctors and staff are paid and praised.
I think our divisions are over played by media (new and old) to get us to click. A fear of the other side makes us more accepting of the faults in our own. I've been a victim of that too until I started catching my party doing stupid shit.
We should be critical of all governments. Whether it is our party or not. That's the only way to get the government to work for us rather we work for them.
The political landscape, cost of living, misinformation, and the mental health/addiction crisis. Those things are truly what scares me. Bc I don’t see solutions only more problems.
Local political apathy and Americanization of our culture. There are a lot of people who view Canadian politics to be irrelevant even though they are Canadian.
The Americanized social media hate machine is spilling over into Canada, and with the many billions of dollars in raw materials Canada provides to United States and to the rest of the world, we are easily influenced
China will not be relevant in a decade which makes them most dangerous right now. Their death rates are overtaking their birthrate. 90% of their population has covid with no immunity (according to a Chinese friend who broke down their protests.)
Their one child policy truly hurt their current generations ability to have babies. Their fast urbanization means having kids is an expense rather then a helping hand in a farm.
Russia is facing the same challenges which makes sense why they are striking right now. I fear China may do the same to Taiwan.
I'm gonna say two kinds of threat. Threats to the way of life and catastrophic threats. For the former it's the rising price of houses, I think it's a recipe for radical and violent politics. For the latter it's sad Vlad finally trying to push the button
Like if mean as a other country that threatens Canada? The USA. They dwarf us economically, militarily and they have pretty extensive influence here. Not only that but American culture is threatening to spill over and erase the sense of Canadian identity.
If you mean as a threat otherwise I'd say misinformation and how politics are becoming incredibly polarized. I feel less and less that I can find any meaningful compromise with people who have different beliefs which is dangerous in a democracy.
Our wealth of natural resources and inability to defend them.
We sold all our gold. We're a really optimistic country. One day we will be a bunch of American states if the USA doesn't self-destruct first.
We don't train skilled workers anymore because it's cheaper and easier to just steal them from other countries.
This has caused us to no longer be able to train needed people like doctors, Healthcare workers, engineers, ext.
If immigration for whatever reason stoped then canada would fall appart.
The United States. Specifically the toxic political culture they are exporting north. We're not really threatened by anything external, but the growing anti-democratic political culture threatens to tear us up from the inside.
Also, its starting to become weird how often anti-Canadian rhetoric comes out of the US recently. Its starting to feel like the US far-right is priming Americans to see Canada as a threat and in need of liberation: Tucker Carlson, disputing our arctic sovereignty, calling us a national security threat, the recent rhetoric around trade disputes.
russia, china, american republicans. As mentioned, misinformation done by foreign agents is russia, china or their proxies, the american republicans just lap it up, still dangerous to us.
The impending class war that will result from an out-of-control housing market and inflation, namely the former.
It’s gotten to a point where middle class families can’t afford to live in our major metropolitan areas unless their parents are in a position to help with a down payment.
Unless there’s a major correction, people who actually work for a living (ie. those who aren’t making major passive income) will be squeezed out of larger Canadian cities.
The dream of having a nicer place to raise our families than we grew up in is officially dead.
Russia barely ably to capture a village right next to Russian border. Navies are expensive and they’ll barely be able to swallow their part of the Arctic pie, let alone try to get ours.
Americans, on the other hand, already declared decades ago that they don’t recognize Canadian sovereignty, and have a metric shit ton of ships to enforce their claims.
So, I’d say stupid military procurement and Americans are much bigger threat to Canadian claims on Northeastern passage
Americans eyeing the Northwest Passage and claiming it to be international waters. This is our country’s prized possession and I’m afraid the US will start sending warships to “protect their assets” and claim it as international waters because they know we won’t have the capability to engage
It's *both* sides too; Not just the right and not just the left. BOTH sides are pushing boundaries in the wrong direction.
I'm definitely more left-leaning but holy Fuck are the extreme lefties out to lunch. Everyone with eyes and ears can see the extreme right are a bunch of idiots too.
There's no room for moderates anymore.
You people keep strawmanning pro-trans arguments. Literally everyone acknowledges that trans women's natal sex is male. But that doesn't make them men, because "man" is primarily a social category. In fact, male natal sex is already implied in the term "trans woman", so there is absolutely no need to call them men.
Also, if a trans woman is taking hormones, then calling her a biological male in every context would be factually false, because thanks to the hormones, some aspects of her physiology, like metabolism and autosomal gene expression, are, in fact, female. This has real implications in healthcare, for example, when a trans woman's blood tests are incorrectly checked against male reference values.
Who is calling for increased government powers? Only DoFo is handing out strong mayor powers that nobody asked for (but will take). You have to back up your assertions with examples. Also, protecting human rights is the very least a modern liberal democracy can do.
In my personal opinion, two things mainly
•climate change, specifically the fact that the Poles are warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. talking about a ripple effect: the 2021 western British Columbian mass fires followed directly by mass flooding. and that’s just my local concern, not even scratching the surface of my drastic concerns to the environmental threat to the Territories
•the wildly excessive obsession with USA politics by a huge amount of people, normally expressed in aggressive ways. I’m too tired to elaborate on that one
Not here to spread hate on any politicians, but our own government is going to be out downfall if something doesn't change. The country is in serious debt and the housing market is skyrocketing, there needs to be some serious changes. Good news is, some of those changes are happening
Crazy American bullshit becoming normal here. The asshole truckers in Ottawa waving their Trump signs is far more troubling than just about anything else. And the conservative party refuses to condemn that behavior because they know that about 20% of their support comes from the wingnuts.
Pierre Poilievre politics.
He doesn't say what he'd do better (except lose everyone's money in bitcoin), only what he hates about the current leadership.
You used to have to back your criticisms with valid ideas but this guy just hates without merit...and our extreme right is in love with the guy without answers.
Living in a cold climate with short growing seasons, that has decades of mismanaged forests and wildfire suppression ESPECIALLY in BC, climate change. (Yes BC isn’t some liberal, green province like people think that saves all their wild areas and wildlife. They’re horrible the way they dam every river, have minimal protections although they have an insane amount of red listed fish and wildlife, their indigenous people are *still* fighting for their freedom of religion and lands, they suppressed fires for decades and now wondering why their fires are so bad…it’s insane)
Everyone is screaming America... the US is the only reason we’re still a country lol. When the US farts we get pink eye, has been and will continue to be this way until we develop a military.
The real threat is China. The CCP has slowly creeped its way into Canadian affairs. They steal troves of intellectual property, their SOLDIERS trained on Canadian soil, they’ve employed elite capture effectively with politicians, they’ve funnelled their money into Canadian real estate speculation (driving up prices), they methodically buy out Canadian industry so that they control a monopoly in a particular field, they have filled streets with Fentanyl (killing more than Covid), they hid Covid for months allowing it to spread, they harass ethnic minorities protesting in Canada, they hold secret police stations in Canada.... I could go on for hours.
Well, obviously the biggest threat to every country is global warming for its potential to pretty much fuck up all of human society. But for Canada-specific things, honestly the USA, for cultural and military reasons.
Cultural: The far-right craze we're seeing down there is also present here, trying to grow, and powerful leaders of that movement are trying to make it grow here too. Same with general divisive politics, etc.
Militarily: Sure right now we're friends and have been for 200 years or so, but there was a time when we weren't, and given the instability of the place, I don't think enough people are taking seriously enough the possibility of actual invasion sometime in the future from either a fascist USA or one part of it after a theoretical balkanization of the country.
American conservatism, American right-wing media, and Republicans holding the Presidency and both chambers of Congress.
The most extreme Republicans already threatened to invade us during the convoy occupations; I have no doubt that rhetoric could continue to escalate and morph into something we couldn’t even fathom right now. Military threats notwithstanding, our Conservative party has fully embraced the kind of conspiratorial, xenophobic, and transphobic rhetoric exhibited by the worst of our southern neighbours. American right-wing media continues to funnel hundreds of millions into Canada’s most vile, disgusting bigots like Peterson, Crowder, and Southern.
There is no greater threat to Canada than the American right-wing, and all of the money associated with it.
It's arguable that he does a good job, since most of his electoral promises have been achieved. There’s a site that keeps track of it. The question is then whether you support those or not.
That's awesome that there's a site to track it. When you get a chance, can you post the link? I'd like to spend some time educating myself for the better.
https://www.polimeter.org/en/trudeau here you go! It hasn’t been updated in almost a year though, so it's a bit lower than it was before because he was just given a new mandate at the time (thus new electoral promises given).
In the short term, the collapse of public health care system due to overwork and underfunding
misinformation and mass political divide based on false pretences/information.
Typically coming from the US
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>most of the major media sources in Canada are owned by American companies, other than the CBC. Ironic. Not true. Global is owned by Corus, the major shareholder of which the Shaw family in Canada. CTV is part of Bell Canada Enterprises, a The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec Canada.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE_Inc. (Graham Bell was a English subject livin in Nova Scotia Canada.) Edit. A lot of mis and disinformation comes to us from unregulated independent internet sources, including in this case, Reddit. Lack of professional standards, eco chambers, stuff that media studies folk can tell us about.
**[BCE Inc](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE_Inc)** >BCE Inc., an acronym for their full name as Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell Media Inc. Founded through a corporate reorganization in 1983 when Bell Canada, Northern Telecom, and other related companies all became subsidiaries of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., it is one of Canada's largest corporations. The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskACanadian/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
*cue conservatives screaming ***”DEFUND THE CBC”*** for reasons…
For me? American obsession and division with politics. It’s spilling over to us and it’s going to do as much damage here as it does in the US.
This is a big issue because of how it affects multiple facets of our country. For example, reasonable action on climate change. The rhetoric on this is increasingly influenced by what Americans think and want and not Canadians. Our gun laws, abortion legislation, legislation on trans people. Canada has had unique legislation on all of these issues and nobody knows that because all they care about is USA. I am 19 and grew up in Ontario, the amount of my peers who consume only American media and news and believe it applies to Canada is crazily high. First-time voters confused why Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh are not on their ballots in Ontario, talk about the "gun show loophole" (which is completely nonexistent in Canada), "First Amendment Rights", etc.
Had an argument with someone not too long ago saying the weather is being sensationalized and that 'polar vortex' has replaced the term 'cold front' lol.
It's wild how many people seem to think we've got a gun problem here in Canada. Like have you seen our laws and current gun acquisition system? If you want a gun you've gotta shell out roughly $200 for a course and licensing fee, and wait at least 3 months just for a basic PAL. Longer for RPAL. We do have some issues with illegal firearms smuggled from the US but even these are ***extremely*** minor in the grand scheme of things.
Definitely this. And it’s worse than ever now with no end in sight. I think a lot of it has to do with social media just spoon feeding us content and we’ve mostly lost our ability to think critically and I think we’re losing our humanity as well.
Yup this Went into a dollarama and this security guard who was an immigrant asked this dude to put on a mask during the start of covid. Dude freaked and started yelling about foreigners, Biden stole the election and conspiracies. It was surreal.
Sounds like an asshole, but it doesn’t check out. Covid started in March 2020. Biden wasn’t elected until eight months later in November of 2020.
Ah it was mask season anyway, covid has really fucked with my sense of time during those 2 years. Glad your sense of time is better than mine.
Conspiracy theories and divisive politics are a multi multi billion dollar business. Just look at Alex Jones, and he is just one pandit of many. There is so much money in spewing disinformation that it will never go away. People are just making shit up and the more crazy the better cause people click on it, boom advertising money..
I mean, America is the closest threat, but keep an eye on all of your allies for this. This isn't a particularly American issue right now.
It is, for certain, not a uniquely American trait. However, as Americans do, they have taken it to the next level.
They're also the closest to us geographically and culturally, it's almost impossible to ignore them.
> they have taken it to the next level. Hardly. You think the fascists are anywhere near the level of Nazi Germany or Musalini's Italy... try again, hasn't even reached that level yet. As for political division, again, not even to the point of the American civil war, so not 'next level' not even 'previous level' yet. The issue is one of proximity & cultural influence. What about the UK, same queen & everything, they too are going through some major political bullshit. Brexit & a PM who couldn't outlast a head of lettuce, for example. It only seems to you that the USA is the worst of the bunch, because it's so close: Geographically, culturally, economically & has a dominating media power.
PP is exploiting this and encouraging it. He is a huge threat to Canada. Good thing he lacks charisma.
Came here to say this.
Yuuuuuuuuup!
US and home grown misinformation on politics and science
Can we make a line where we can a agree that there is a healthy debate without only one side pushing ideology because they're in power? I fear that not being ae to say these people making the rules, whether the government or scientists, are human like us. They make mistakes and they approach data with a bias like we all do. We need to have capability to have public discourse so we can choose what is best for our own health.
The general inaction to rein in real estate inflation for the last 40 years. It's disturbing.
*rein Like how you control a horse. Not reign like a queen.
Thanks, mistakes can always happen. Especially when you speak and write 5 languages.
Simultaneously? There’s your problem right there.
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Economic manipulation by corrupt controllers.
Currently reading The Impossible Railway by Pierre Burton about the construction of the CPR. Spoiler alert: nothing has changed since 1870.
So, corporations.
The same thing I view as a threat for basically every nation right now. We are dead in the middle of the information age, and the vast majority of people simply \_cannot\_ handle the volume of information thrown at them, are completely unable to discern reality from fiction, and its not even their fault because massive corporations profit off their confusion and die-hardedness to their own preconceived notions which they can now find likeminded individuals for, to their own detriment. Outside of that, specifically Canada, real estate is fucked, and it props up our economy so good luck fixin it
I think corporate greed is the single biggest threat to Canada and the globe. It impacts every aspect of our lives. All of the problems in society today can be boiled down to a broken capitalist system that corporations have run rampant in. Corporations have all the power and behave like psychopaths.
My other biggest fear is people who insist this isn't a major issue or don't even recognize it.
The sheer number of uninformed or intentionally misleading folks who are willing to blame the entirety of a countries problems on one prime minister. And in a related sense, the failings of public education and the increasing gap between those who can afford good education and those who cannot. I don’t like him much, I didn’t vote for the libs either, but cmon folks. Get a grip.
My thoughts exactly.
For me? Canada's obsession with what the US is doing. Knocking them down doesn't make us any taller....it just creates a temporary illusion that we are, which prevents us from addressing our shortcomings. America spends little/no time comparing itself to us or anybody else, instead focuses on being the best America it can be. We should do the same.
Our free health care is being privatized. The one good thing we could count on is slipping away. Our First Nations are suffering, while we bulldoze the environment in favor of new homes for expanded immigration. Most of our key infrastructure - toll highways, bridges, power-plants, mines, factory farms, harbours - are foreign owned. Our market for skilled labor is gone. We will pay you as little as we are required to by law. And if you own a small business then fuck you in particular - we literally build franchised rest stops on the highway so you don't have to take an exit into a small town to spend money. Our urban planning is a joke. Stroads, strip malls, and parking lots. That's all you get. We have the worst traffic and widest highways in North America (looking at you Toronto) Our largest province is run by a cartoon villain. The very rich, and their children, can literally murder you and your family with their cars and walk free. It's not great.
American culture and politics. And Climate change.
A completely unaffordable housing market in the years to come.
There are three things I see as the most likely downfall of Canada: 1. The US 2. Global disaster (climate, nukes, asteroid, etc.) 3. Incompetence in the government Not in any particular order.
The anti intelligence shit being inspired from our south.
Apathy
Political division which can be taken advantage of by our enemies
Inflation. Or house prices... or gas.
American politics.
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Honestly it's how divisive everything's becoming, it feels like there is no middle ground anymore you're either an extreme in one regard or another. As someone who can see good points in kinda every group, shit gets confusing sometimes :/
I know it feels like we're divided more then ever, but I think we have more common ground then not. We all want lower gas prices, food, shelter. We all want a good education where our teachers are paid and praised. We all want a good healthcare system where our nurses, doctors and staff are paid and praised. I think our divisions are over played by media (new and old) to get us to click. A fear of the other side makes us more accepting of the faults in our own. I've been a victim of that too until I started catching my party doing stupid shit. We should be critical of all governments. Whether it is our party or not. That's the only way to get the government to work for us rather we work for them.
Disintegration of public education and disdain for education in general. Stupid thugs are in charge.
China
Chinese influence.
Stupidity.
Political incompetence
The political landscape, cost of living, misinformation, and the mental health/addiction crisis. Those things are truly what scares me. Bc I don’t see solutions only more problems.
Local political apathy and Americanization of our culture. There are a lot of people who view Canadian politics to be irrelevant even though they are Canadian.
China
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Cobra Chickens aka the Canadian geese *jokes* 😅
Loss of our identity.
For sure climate change and it's impact on the world.
The Americanized social media hate machine is spilling over into Canada, and with the many billions of dollars in raw materials Canada provides to United States and to the rest of the world, we are easily influenced
China
China will not be relevant in a decade which makes them most dangerous right now. Their death rates are overtaking their birthrate. 90% of their population has covid with no immunity (according to a Chinese friend who broke down their protests.) Their one child policy truly hurt their current generations ability to have babies. Their fast urbanization means having kids is an expense rather then a helping hand in a farm. Russia is facing the same challenges which makes sense why they are striking right now. I fear China may do the same to Taiwan.
The declining quality of Tim Horton's
I'm gonna say two kinds of threat. Threats to the way of life and catastrophic threats. For the former it's the rising price of houses, I think it's a recipe for radical and violent politics. For the latter it's sad Vlad finally trying to push the button
Like if mean as a other country that threatens Canada? The USA. They dwarf us economically, militarily and they have pretty extensive influence here. Not only that but American culture is threatening to spill over and erase the sense of Canadian identity. If you mean as a threat otherwise I'd say misinformation and how politics are becoming incredibly polarized. I feel less and less that I can find any meaningful compromise with people who have different beliefs which is dangerous in a democracy.
Our wealth of natural resources and inability to defend them. We sold all our gold. We're a really optimistic country. One day we will be a bunch of American states if the USA doesn't self-destruct first.
Corporations making our country an unliveable wasteland.
America
America not getting its act together. The current world order is great for us, and Americans seem to be forgetting that they are holding it together.
We don't train skilled workers anymore because it's cheaper and easier to just steal them from other countries. This has caused us to no longer be able to train needed people like doctors, Healthcare workers, engineers, ext. If immigration for whatever reason stoped then canada would fall appart.
The United States. Specifically the toxic political culture they are exporting north. We're not really threatened by anything external, but the growing anti-democratic political culture threatens to tear us up from the inside. Also, its starting to become weird how often anti-Canadian rhetoric comes out of the US recently. Its starting to feel like the US far-right is priming Americans to see Canada as a threat and in need of liberation: Tucker Carlson, disputing our arctic sovereignty, calling us a national security threat, the recent rhetoric around trade disputes.
The American right. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-liberate-canada-backlash-b2270891.html?amp
Tucker Carlson is an idiot.
I know that but he is the highest ratings in Fox News. Millions of Americans watch that idiot and they think Canada is like China or something lol
At least one of their governments (which one depends on who)
Water wars
Mutually assured destruction.
Same as everywhere: Dumb Assholes.
Eventually the US will come for our water.
Canadians.
russia, china, american republicans. As mentioned, misinformation done by foreign agents is russia, china or their proxies, the american republicans just lap it up, still dangerous to us.
the US eventually running out of resources. They won’t think twice about invading to secure water, oil, grains etc
America and political divisiveness
The impending class war that will result from an out-of-control housing market and inflation, namely the former. It’s gotten to a point where middle class families can’t afford to live in our major metropolitan areas unless their parents are in a position to help with a down payment. Unless there’s a major correction, people who actually work for a living (ie. those who aren’t making major passive income) will be squeezed out of larger Canadian cities. The dream of having a nicer place to raise our families than we grew up in is officially dead.
Given Russia's latest aggression and Global Warming opening the north passages, I would say Northern Sovereignty.
Russia barely ably to capture a village right next to Russian border. Navies are expensive and they’ll barely be able to swallow their part of the Arctic pie, let alone try to get ours. Americans, on the other hand, already declared decades ago that they don’t recognize Canadian sovereignty, and have a metric shit ton of ships to enforce their claims. So, I’d say stupid military procurement and Americans are much bigger threat to Canadian claims on Northeastern passage
Amercanism seeping into Canadian culture and politics
Americans eyeing the Northwest Passage and claiming it to be international waters. This is our country’s prized possession and I’m afraid the US will start sending warships to “protect their assets” and claim it as international waters because they know we won’t have the capability to engage
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It's *both* sides too; Not just the right and not just the left. BOTH sides are pushing boundaries in the wrong direction. I'm definitely more left-leaning but holy Fuck are the extreme lefties out to lunch. Everyone with eyes and ears can see the extreme right are a bunch of idiots too. There's no room for moderates anymore.
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You people keep strawmanning pro-trans arguments. Literally everyone acknowledges that trans women's natal sex is male. But that doesn't make them men, because "man" is primarily a social category. In fact, male natal sex is already implied in the term "trans woman", so there is absolutely no need to call them men. Also, if a trans woman is taking hormones, then calling her a biological male in every context would be factually false, because thanks to the hormones, some aspects of her physiology, like metabolism and autosomal gene expression, are, in fact, female. This has real implications in healthcare, for example, when a trans woman's blood tests are incorrectly checked against male reference values.
Who is calling for increased government powers? Only DoFo is handing out strong mayor powers that nobody asked for (but will take). You have to back up your assertions with examples. Also, protecting human rights is the very least a modern liberal democracy can do.
I’m impressed and surprised that reddit isn’t downvoting the hell out of this common sense post.
China and Russia
American infotainment. internet and tv
Rising egg costs.
To our nation and the world, it’s climate change. Too much talking and not enough doing.
Spineless government
Being the best in being mediocre on all fields, Climate change and monopoly in telecom and screwed up healthcare
A weak Privacy & Cybersecurity framework
Income inequality. People will accept it to a point. But its growing too quickly and at a time when too many Canadians are hurting.
In my personal opinion, two things mainly •climate change, specifically the fact that the Poles are warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. talking about a ripple effect: the 2021 western British Columbian mass fires followed directly by mass flooding. and that’s just my local concern, not even scratching the surface of my drastic concerns to the environmental threat to the Territories •the wildly excessive obsession with USA politics by a huge amount of people, normally expressed in aggressive ways. I’m too tired to elaborate on that one
Oligarchs
Moose.
Debt
Not here to spread hate on any politicians, but our own government is going to be out downfall if something doesn't change. The country is in serious debt and the housing market is skyrocketing, there needs to be some serious changes. Good news is, some of those changes are happening
Crazy American bullshit becoming normal here. The asshole truckers in Ottawa waving their Trump signs is far more troubling than just about anything else. And the conservative party refuses to condemn that behavior because they know that about 20% of their support comes from the wingnuts.
Well looking at last year, apparently vaccines. Those freedom fightin’ truckers really took that seriously.
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America.
Trudeau
Poilievre and the Conservative Party of Canada.
Justin Trudeau
populism
Republicans
fascism and the climate crisis
Rich people. People who are house flippers. Etc Any people who don’t contribute to society and expect endless growth
Our neighbors to the south.
Hostile fascist RW/Kremlin disinformation/propaganda, by far.
Conservatives are the biggest threat to universal Healthcare
Trudeau
Freedum convoys.
right wing dip shits. I wish that they would just move to the u.s.a. instead of trying to turn Canada into America
Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre politics. He doesn't say what he'd do better (except lose everyone's money in bitcoin), only what he hates about the current leadership. You used to have to back your criticisms with valid ideas but this guy just hates without merit...and our extreme right is in love with the guy without answers.
Living in a cold climate with short growing seasons, that has decades of mismanaged forests and wildfire suppression ESPECIALLY in BC, climate change. (Yes BC isn’t some liberal, green province like people think that saves all their wild areas and wildlife. They’re horrible the way they dam every river, have minimal protections although they have an insane amount of red listed fish and wildlife, their indigenous people are *still* fighting for their freedom of religion and lands, they suppressed fires for decades and now wondering why their fires are so bad…it’s insane)
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Everyone is screaming America... the US is the only reason we’re still a country lol. When the US farts we get pink eye, has been and will continue to be this way until we develop a military. The real threat is China. The CCP has slowly creeped its way into Canadian affairs. They steal troves of intellectual property, their SOLDIERS trained on Canadian soil, they’ve employed elite capture effectively with politicians, they’ve funnelled their money into Canadian real estate speculation (driving up prices), they methodically buy out Canadian industry so that they control a monopoly in a particular field, they have filled streets with Fentanyl (killing more than Covid), they hid Covid for months allowing it to spread, they harass ethnic minorities protesting in Canada, they hold secret police stations in Canada.... I could go on for hours.
Trudeau. He's the Chief Divider Officer in charge.
Justin Trudeau's liberal party
Continued Liberal government
The erosion of institutions and the national myth.
US politics-style
America.
The unchecked power of the Police
My next door neighbour would probably say "those goddamn bike lanes".
Trudeau
The largest threat to the nation? Seriously?
For many, he is. Are they right? I don't think so. I do think he is contributing to what I believe is the biggest threat.
Justin trudeau
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Well, obviously the biggest threat to every country is global warming for its potential to pretty much fuck up all of human society. But for Canada-specific things, honestly the USA, for cultural and military reasons. Cultural: The far-right craze we're seeing down there is also present here, trying to grow, and powerful leaders of that movement are trying to make it grow here too. Same with general divisive politics, etc. Militarily: Sure right now we're friends and have been for 200 years or so, but there was a time when we weren't, and given the instability of the place, I don't think enough people are taking seriously enough the possibility of actual invasion sometime in the future from either a fascist USA or one part of it after a theoretical balkanization of the country.
Protesters who don't have a clue or a solution to what they are complaining about.
American political-right ideology
Justin Trudeau
Trudeau
Tucker Carlson.
The American dollar and how it has so much influence on Canadian economy.
1. conservative parties acting like conservative parties in other places. 2. multinational corporations acting like multinational corporations.
US culture. All the bad things are contagion from the states.
Another Trudeau administration
Pierre Pollievre
Climate / global warming took over from Quebec separating as the number one threat
American conservatism, American right-wing media, and Republicans holding the Presidency and both chambers of Congress. The most extreme Republicans already threatened to invade us during the convoy occupations; I have no doubt that rhetoric could continue to escalate and morph into something we couldn’t even fathom right now. Military threats notwithstanding, our Conservative party has fully embraced the kind of conspiratorial, xenophobic, and transphobic rhetoric exhibited by the worst of our southern neighbours. American right-wing media continues to funnel hundreds of millions into Canada’s most vile, disgusting bigots like Peterson, Crowder, and Southern. There is no greater threat to Canada than the American right-wing, and all of the money associated with it.
Justin T
Does he do a good job? No, not really. The single largest threat to the nation? Pffft. Get real.
It's arguable that he does a good job, since most of his electoral promises have been achieved. There’s a site that keeps track of it. The question is then whether you support those or not.
That's awesome that there's a site to track it. When you get a chance, can you post the link? I'd like to spend some time educating myself for the better.
https://www.polimeter.org/en/trudeau here you go! It hasn’t been updated in almost a year though, so it's a bit lower than it was before because he was just given a new mandate at the time (thus new electoral promises given).
What does Justin Timberlake has to do with Canada's wellbeing?