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Go North Young Person

Saddle up the Palomino……

My daughter is a liberal….she is always going on about this issue….like abortion and women’s health, our GOP governor or education……she is appalled at the tone of the election process this year…..she has even said, in jest, that if Cruz or Trump wins the election that she will move to Canada…..we both get a good chuckle…..

But then I read this piece and had to send it to her…….

In a common election-year lament, more than a few people on Twitter have suggested they’ll move to Canada if Donald Trump becomes the next US president. Rob Calabrese has the perfect location in mind. On Monday, the Nova Scotia radio DJ set up a tongue-in-cheek website titled Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins to showcase Cape Breton Island’s charms and poke fun at Trump in the process, reports the National Post. “We’re living on an island where the population is decreasing. As a joke, we thought of it to maybe get the word out there that, ‘Hey, you should come here!'” Calabrese tells the Huffington Post. Among gorgeous photos of life on the island, home to 150,000, Calabrese spells out some of Cape Breton’s perks: “Women can get abortions, Muslim people can roam freely, and the only ‘walls’ are holding up the roofs of our extremely affordable houses.”

There’s also free healthcare and “nobody has a hand gun,” the site states. By Wednesday, it had received 35,000 unique visitors and Calabrese says he’s been overwhelmed by hundreds of inquiries. “I’m in disbelief,” he says. “It’s been taken seriously by some people, which is great and not intended, but I’m going to help them out as best I can,” he adds, per the CBC. One email posted to Calabrese’s Facebook page reads: “I’m actually looking for a change of climate—environmental, cultural, political—for a while now. I know this is a bit of a lark, but seriously I can’t deal with Trump.” “I know I wouldn’t want to live in a country where he’s leader,” Calabrese tells CTV News. “There are millions of people on this continent who, if they knew about the lifestyle here on Cape Breton, they would think, ‘This is for me.'” (Watch Johnny Depp mock Trump here.)

She was amused…..then pensive……

39 thoughts on “Go North Young Person”

  1. If the Syrian Refugees get wind of this Canadian Island paradise there won’t be room for anybody else there after awhile …. particularly if Canada has a really great welfare system in place.

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      1. So Trudeau is warmly welcoming little girls in pink sweaters and being told of the Refugees gratitude for the welcoming. Nice picture. Very heart warming. How long do you suppose it will be before Canada follows the lead of some of the EU countries who have been severely burned by migrant invasions and have started scrambling to close borders ( or at least control them) and walk back some of their original compassionate enthusiasm?

      2. It’s NOT going to happen, even if we do “get burned”, which is highly unlikely. First, we’re intentionally importing these folks. They’re not just showing up in human waves as they are in Europe. This is planned & under control. That’s a big reason, but there are others.

        We just don’t have that same European history of unbending uni-culture, which is what’s behind a lot of the cultural friction and backlash from the existing populace. We’ve got a history that’s more like America’s (circa a 100 years ago, that is). Trudeau’s dad, Pierre, was a longtime Liberal PM. He had a VERY open-door immigration policy. Not only did it not result in any overt problems…and this is the important part….those immigrants played an major role in re-electing Liberal governments.

        Unlike say…a certain nation to Canada’s south….there was no political incentive to vilify them, build walls, or burn crosses. The incentive was toward actually welcoming immigrants into the system without completely stripping them of their culture. Previous immigrants seeking to climb the societal ladder welcomed them into the local community of “Nation X-ers”. They signed them up to the Liberal party and rose up the political ranks because they could “deliver votes” to the party…and specific Liberal candidates. Corrupting, but handy. Even though the values of many immigrant communities were a much better fit with the Progressive Conservative Party, the Liberals had 30-40 year run of really making it work for them.

        Unsurprisingly, the Progressive Conservatives got increasingly less “liberal” toward immigrants who were, ironically, more conservative than the average Canadian. Our previous PM (an all around gaping asshole) dropped “Progressive” from the party altogether. He adopted a much more Ted Cruz (also from Calgary) approach to everything, including immigration. And just like the Cruz/Trump types, the strategy was to rally the shrinking & threatened older, whiter, vote. (With mixed results because Canadians don’t have the same history of so warmly embracing overt racism.)

        So hopefully, we’ve already had our (completely unprovoked) “culture war” on immigrants and worked those urges out of the political system. But it’s certainly worth noting that, during Stevie Herpes’ reign, our immigrant communities stopped feeling so welcome and they’ve gotten their backs-up a bit. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I know a major part of Europe’s problem is that immigrants are stuck in literal and metaphorical ghettos. They feel isolated from the rest of the country and tend to bury themselves in their past culture & its religion.

        I know this is hard to grasp, but unlike modern America, Canadian politicians like Trudeau can actually run on policies of accepting immigrants & refugees into the country…and WIN! Syrian refugees were an issue in the 2015 election. It worked well for Trudeau and hurt ex-PM Steven Herpes.

        So, given all that history, there’s NO way Trudeau will reverse that policy…no matter how much (or how little) of a disaster this Syrian thing causes. And he’s not a moron. He’s also stopped the Canadian Air Force’s bombing of Syria, which will certainly help ease tensions domestically. (Funny how even refugees that left in fear, never to return, don’t like seeing their old neighbourhoods go “boom”. Hopefully America will figure this out one day.)

      3. I wish we could figure it out…but it is an election and the refugees are a hot topic…..the issue is toxic and will be held back until the fervor is over….chuq

  4. No matter who wins this coming election, UNLESS THE WINNER IS DR. JILL STEIN…I am moving to Sicily in 2017. The United Slave States Of AmeriKKKlan is not where I want to live.

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  5. I was going to comment, but, it seems to have already gone round the bend on this one. Your granddaughter’s pensiveness might be appropriate…. Me, I don’t care; there are open woods everywhere in the Pacific Northwest… easy to get lost, when necessary… and, I’ve already marked out my escape route(s)…

    gigoid

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    1. There are bears too … and they are hungry. I have been there. If you go there to live remember to wash your hands thoroughly after eating and always hang anything edible as high in a tree as you can.

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      1. Son, I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest for more than 60 years. Bears are not a problem for anyone who has already met a few….and, washing hands is only necessary in hospitals. I’m pretty much immune to everything on THIS planet, having refused to insulate myself from the dirt and bacteria that live here… we get along just fine…

        Education and learning are the answers to fear, not more fears… and, I’ve learned how to protect myself in as many situations as can be imagined, as well as practiced… Knowledge and curiosity are power; fear is a weapon in your opponent’s hands…

        In order to learn, one must first admit they do not know….

        gigoid

  6. Ted Cruz in exchange for your daughter sounds like a pretty good trade to me 🙂 Every Canuck outside of Alberta (Canada’s Texas) was glad to get rid of this assclown for good.

    Never been to Cape Breton, but it’s reputation is pretty damn good. People from the Maritimes are a FUCK of a lot nicer than most Canadians are, certainly the ones living in urban Canada.

    But I do have a warning: Thanks to 10 years of PM Stevie Herpes’ rule of Terror….and decades of being marinated in American “kulture”, Canada sure ain’t what it used to be. And it’s going in the wrong direction. I’d say it’s about 10 laps of the toilet bowl behind America.

    Other than that…Free Health Care and very few lunatics with guns! 🙂

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      1. Keyword; “fewer” lunatics.

        I’ve got to be honest. Over the last few decades, lots of Canadians have “lost touch with their historical culture” as they say on native reserves. The results aren’t much different.

        We’re getting stupider, greedier, more selfish, more militarized, more enamoured with meaningless bullshit & lunatic ideas. Hell, some of us are even buying guns! But still, we’re much better across the board than you guys . I don’t want to give the potential refugees in your family anything but the straight goods. Too many refugees come with impressions the streets are paved with gold…Alberta Tar Sands oil maybe, but not gold.

        Oh, and “anti-stress” brownies are supposed to be legalized nation-wide within a year or so. Hopefully, that will help me care a lot less about …everything.

      1. That sucks. I meant you can go south to go to Canada..you don’t need to go North…one of the few places…Michigan joke I guess.

    2. And you can swim there too! That will come in handy when President Trump closes all the borders to Make America Great Again.

      May I suggest a quick swim to Canada’s sunny south, Amherstburg? While you’re there, you can check out the neat little Museums. I know a couple prominently feature the Underground Railway, including this one. http://www.amherstburgfreedom.org/home.html

      Amherstburg was a major terminus in the Underground Railway. Thousands of Americans (of a certain “dis-respected demographic”) were escaping tyranny, oppression and their inability to influence American “democracy”. They decided to come to the comfy confines of Canada where everybody is welcome, healthcare is free and the worst that can happen is that somebody gets all passive-aggressive on you, calls you a “hoser”, or (if you’re on the ice) “butt ends” you.

      I think there’s a decent chance history may soon repeat itself. So, I’m thinking of buying property there.

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      1. I lived there and found it to be the most repressive and intrusive socialist order in the country — The legals and the officials always had their noses stuck into every aspect of family life and every school room was a trap where teachers were obviously trained to interrogate kids about homelife and to report any suspect anomoly to the authorities … and everywhere you went there were always myriad eyes, cameras, and “Big Ear” devices listening to every word spoken. The Dollar was King of everything and even became the central focus of the Charismatic churches I dared to attend. “God promises to make everyone who lives right rich!” — I asked the wife of one of my employers about the Michigan obsession with money and her response was, “Thast’s what it’s all about buster!” I left as quickly as I could get out of there because I had this gnawing notion in the back of my mind that there must be places where life is more relaxed and less controlled and where the dollar took second place to other more enduring values and where the people were not so cut throat with each other .. each trying to scramble their way ahead of their neighbors. It was a disgusting 7 years.

      2. Geez John….socialistic? Really? Sounds like the crap from the 1950’s…..This entire country is obsessed with money…..this country where people screw their neighbors if it benefits them…..

  9. Geez John….socialistic? Really? Sounds like the crap from the 1950’s…..This entire country is obsessed with money…..this country where people screw their neighbors if it benefits them….. John Replies: “I lived in that quagmire for 7 long years and I know whereof I speak because I had to contend with it every day of my life. When I finally saw the movie entitled “The Doll Maker” which details much the same kind of crap I am talking about it was instantly recognizable to me. Crap or not the whole government from the state level to the local level seemed to be a low form of controlling tyranny where you had better shape up and be just like everybody else or suffer the consequences. Whatever has happened up there over the past 34 years is exactly what is deserved and I haven’t a shred of sympathy for any of them. They brought it upon themselves and I rejoice in watching them squirm.

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    1. As I will in November…..today Michigan’s GOP is acting more like a socialist regime then in the past….but I do not live there….so I guess I will bow to your wisdom….

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    2. A society full of people with ever diminishing economic prospects, yet they’re engaged in materialistic, money grubbing, bugger-thy-neighbour competition? Everyone watching your every move and just waiting to pounce? And it’s all wrapped up in a warm, cozy, blanket of constant surveillance thanks to Big Brother, who only asks for your love in return?

      Socialism may not be the right word for it (National Socialism perhaps)…but it certainly sounds like you had a taste of our inescapable future. Yummy -eh? And if you don’t like the taste of it…well, the SWAT team will be paying you a visit to force feed it to you. And you better get used to complying!

      You might have left Michigan and found a temporary refuge, but it’s coming for you. It’s coming for us all.

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