The new GG's installation speech was a decent example of something that keeps bothering me. Arbour told young Canadians "don't underestimate how lucky you are to grow up here" and described a country "pretty well on the way" to being perfect. Canada is still, on the whole, a good country. But that is a very particular perspective. It is the perspective of people for whom Canada works.
And there's a growing tendency among those people who are comfortable, credentialled, institutionally secure to treat any honest reckoning with where the country is falling short as a kind of disloyalty. Mention that the economy is sclerotic, housing is broken or that the healthcare system isn't delivering or that living standards have stagnated, and you're either being unpatriotic or importing MAGA talking points.
The effect is to make criticism of real problems socially impermissible among exactly the people with the power to address them.
@CP24 Gotta love being in Cubanada where these are the ONLY options available… did any U.S. host cities do either of these things? A graph showing the decline of life here overlayed with the increase in taxpayer subsidies to media would be interesting
@ryangerritsen Dude should be forced to wear illiberal red every time he broadcasts so he shows he’s been bought and paid for like a race car sponsorship…country is filled with parasites and retards