As a Canadian who lived in South Korea for 16 years and returned in 2019 the decline of Canada is shocking to me.
As Asian cities and countries develop and progress seeing Canadian cities is sad. One example of positive development: the city of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam went from maybe half a dozen traffic lights in 2005 to hundreds of traffic lights, new walk lights everywhere and separated bike lanes along many busy roads. Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have great infrastructure and super friendly people in their cities. Malaysia is almost first world.
Amazing that such stupid policies have overtaken governments in Canada at all three levels and become the norm.
Good article. Unfortunately, not at all surprising.
What you call leftists I simply call liberals (I don't differentiate). May be difficult for you to accept, but the truth is that liberal ideology demands perpetual revolution. And the ''radical' or 'extreme' leftists merely represent the vanguard of liberalism. Hoping that there is some moderate/reasonable/fixed liberal sweet spot is both silly and delusional. Liberalism has no limiting principle in which to appeal.
Liberalism is perpetual destruction and a total inability to build or create anything. It is at core a reaction to whatever exists. In Canada that means the original sin of colonization by the British, and the horrors of a first world country. There is a belief that progress is automatic, as if antibiotics, energy supplies and banking just materialize automatically. It is the philosophy of adolescents.
Alas, this is all too common across the West. Most of the Anglosphere countries have a version of this in their main cities. Open drug use and associated behaviours like aggressive begging, wandering hordes of recent immigrants and general decay.
Where I am I have also noticed a visible decline in maintenance. Roads and pavements in a state of disrepair. Things not being done. I never see road crews and I used to see them daily.
There are many factors, but part of it is the growing competency crisis.
WOW! Would you be interested in being a guest on my Podcast to discuss your experience in Portland more? Canadianconservative@tutanota.com if you're interested.
As a Canadian who lived in South Korea for 16 years and returned in 2019 the decline of Canada is shocking to me.
As Asian cities and countries develop and progress seeing Canadian cities is sad. One example of positive development: the city of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam went from maybe half a dozen traffic lights in 2005 to hundreds of traffic lights, new walk lights everywhere and separated bike lanes along many busy roads. Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have great infrastructure and super friendly people in their cities. Malaysia is almost first world.
Amazing that such stupid policies have overtaken governments in Canada at all three levels and become the norm.
Good article. Unfortunately, not at all surprising.
What you call leftists I simply call liberals (I don't differentiate). May be difficult for you to accept, but the truth is that liberal ideology demands perpetual revolution. And the ''radical' or 'extreme' leftists merely represent the vanguard of liberalism. Hoping that there is some moderate/reasonable/fixed liberal sweet spot is both silly and delusional. Liberalism has no limiting principle in which to appeal.
Liberalism is perpetual destruction and a total inability to build or create anything. It is at core a reaction to whatever exists. In Canada that means the original sin of colonization by the British, and the horrors of a first world country. There is a belief that progress is automatic, as if antibiotics, energy supplies and banking just materialize automatically. It is the philosophy of adolescents.
Hard agree. It is demonic.
Alas, this is all too common across the West. Most of the Anglosphere countries have a version of this in their main cities. Open drug use and associated behaviours like aggressive begging, wandering hordes of recent immigrants and general decay.
Where I am I have also noticed a visible decline in maintenance. Roads and pavements in a state of disrepair. Things not being done. I never see road crews and I used to see them daily.
There are many factors, but part of it is the growing competency crisis.
There is definitely a competency crisis. We are losing our knowledge of how to upkeep our cities and there are fewer people filling in behind them.
Plus quotas.
WOW! Would you be interested in being a guest on my Podcast to discuss your experience in Portland more? Canadianconservative@tutanota.com if you're interested.
Seems to be in more and more major cities!
Portland seems particularly bad. Beyond redemption really. An absolute tragedy.