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pdxleaf
··In Art We Trust
The Canada Appreciation Thread
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskI’m traveling to Canada in June. Anyone care to show me the secret Canadian handshake?
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MRC
·I’m traveling to Canada in June. Anyone care to show me the secret Canadian handshake?
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Pastorbottle
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Is there a tariff on Canadian astronauts?
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Is there a tariff on Canadian astronauts?
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ExpiredWatchdog
·More like a ban.
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Pastorbottle
·Here is the solution:
The Hawaiian islands would of course become Canadian Hawaii
The Hawaiian islands would of course become Canadian Hawaii
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ExpiredWatchdog
·Don't forget the Canadian Ocean!
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Canuck
·Liberation day! This just in! Tariffs affecting Canada voted down by the U S senate! Let’s see where it goes from here.
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Dr.Sascha
·Don't forget the Canadian Ocean!
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ExpiredWatchdog
·However, with sufficient balls, congress can override a veto. Doubt there's enough balls in DC tho...
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Pastorbottle
·However, with sufficient balls, congress can override a veto. Doubt there's enough balls in DC tho...
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Archer
·I would not expect anything different in this great country…one of the two leaders debates is moved up in time just the day before it happens, because of a hockey game. 🥰
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Pastorbottle
·I would not expect anything different in this great country…one of the two leaders debates is moved up in time just the day before it happens, because of a hockey game. 🥰
The electons are held 6 weeks from the day the election is announced, it can be tricky for them as the public holidays and school holidays vary from state to state as can the football finals because some states are Rugby League and others are Australian Rules Football! the Pollies here know not to mess with the public's priories!
We have a Federal election in about 3 weeks time, so we are about 1/2 way through an election campaign and thankfully it will be over soon, and we can not have to listen to them and their campaign bullshit for long!
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kkt
·My grandmother was Canadian, Scotch-Canadian from Saskatoon. My grandfather was born in the United States but mostly raised in Czechoslovakia. He and his family returned to the United States in the mid 1930s and lived in Detroit, where he met my grandmother in 1939 when she lived in Windsor. They married and lived in the United States, but I do remember when I was a small boy in the 1960s her talking about whether to become a naturalized U.S. citizen or not, and how torn she felt between cutting ties to her native country vs. being able to vote in U.S. elections and the possibility of having more difficulty traveling with a different passport from her husband.
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Archer
·Here in Australia The Prime minister decides the exact date of the election when it becomes due, but there are some considerations 1st is that it will always be a Saturday and 2nd is they never let it clash with public holidays, school holidays, or a major event like the football finals. This is to ensure that the date is the most convenient for the greatest number of voters.
The electons are held 6 weeks from the day the election is announced, it can be tricky for them as the public holidays and school holidays vary from state to state as can the football finals because some states are Rugby League and others are Australian Rules Football! the Pollies here know not to mess with the public's priories!
We have a Federal election in about 3 weeks time, so we are about 1/2 way through an election campaign and thankfully it will be over soon, and we can not have to listen to them and their campaign bullshit for long!
A particular government then decided in 2007 that politicians were calling elections when it was most beneficial for them to do so, and therefore we should have fixed election dates, so they made a law setting elections every 4 years. But they still maintained the power to call an election early, so the only real effect was to change the maximum time from 5 years to 4. Of course, they were the first government to not follow the spirit of that law, and call an election when it was best for them to do so, just about 18 months after their own law was passed.
I'm not necessarily a fan of fixed election dates, so I'm not terribly upset that they are not followed. For example with our fixed dates, we would have had an election this fall per the schedule (third Monday in October is the fixed date, 4 years after the last election), but pretty much no one in the country, regardless of political affiliation, wanted to wait for that. All of the major party leaders were asking for an early election, and the polling showed that the vast majority of Canadians wanted an early election.
The length of the campaign here has a range (37 to 51 days), and the shortest range is what the current PM chose for the election we are in now, so our election is April 28th.
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Pastorbottle
·Until fairly recently, we didn't have fixed election dates - elections were called after parliament was dissolved by the current government, or they were defeated if a minority. Governments could last 4 years traditionally, but no more than 5 years between elections.
A particular government then decided in 2007 that politicians were calling elections when it was most beneficial for them to do so, and therefore we should have fixed election dates, so they made a law setting elections every 4 years. But they still maintained the power to call an election early, so the only real effect was to change the maximum time from 5 years to 4. Of course, they were the first government to not follow the spirit of that law, and call an election when it was best for them to do so, just about 18 months after their own law was passed.
I'm not necessarily a fan of fixed election dates, so I'm not terribly upset that they are not followed. For example with our fixed dates, we would have had an election this fall per the schedule (third Monday in October is the fixed date, 4 years after the last election), but pretty much no one in the country, regardless of political affiliation, wanted to wait for that. All of the major party leaders were asking for an early election, and the polling showed that the vast majority of Canadians wanted an early election.
The length of the campaign here has a range (37 to 51 days), and the shortest range is what the current PM chose for the election we are in now, so our election is April 28th.