Spectators cheer during Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, 2012. (REUTERS/Chris Wattie)
Yahoo News: Canada ranks first in world for personal freedom and social tolerance
O Canada: you might be the land of the free now.
A new study reveals that the United States’ neighbor to the north has the “freest country in the world,” with the greatest tolerance for immigrants worldwide.
Canada’s ranking as the top nation in the world for personal freedom can be found in the Legatum Institute’s 2015 Prosperity Index. The London-based international public policy think tank released its findings Monday.
Typically, a country’s prosperity has been based on its material wealth, but at the Legatum Institute, this data is studied along with quality-of-life metrics.
“By combining those two types of data, the objective and the subjective, we really get a more complete picture of prosperity around the world,” Nathan Gamester, program director for the Prosperity Index, said in an interview with Yahoo News.
WNU Editor: They are of course publishing this right AFTER the Canadian federal election. Too bad .... I am sure former Canadian Prime Minister Harper would have used that in his campaign. But is it accurate .... not really. I live in Quebec .... minorities and immigrants are not welcomed or tolerated. And as for freedom .... put up a sign that is only in English in Montreal .... be ready for the threats and fines. And for business .... I can only speak for Quebec, but high taxes and regulations makes it impossible to get ahead .... especially if you are a young entrepreneur or small business. And while the "quality of life" is probably better here than most other places .... that actually reflects more poorly on the other countries that are on the list .... and not on what Canada is doing right or wrong.
4 comments:
Canada is situated in a cul de Sac with a friendly neighbor to the south that acts as a buffer. When that buffer overfills with illegals watch out.
If they can cross the Mediterranean, march though the Balkans to reach the good socialist safety net countries, they can cross the Caribbean march across the U.S. and reach Canada.
Elect Merkel as PM of Canada and let you roll out the welcome wagon.
Caution Editor, incoming rant...
Many times while discussing the state of things in Canada with fellow Canadians I'm confronted with some such study or report about the magical land of the North. My assertion is much like yours: glowing reports about Canada have more to do with the worsening state of the world than how wonderful it is here.
Canadians, by and large, are smug (just as Aizino said) and live in a fantasyland. Further to that, as a whole, they are in no way, shape, or form educated, passionate, or prepared to put up a fight about the direction we are headed. Hockey, beer and "support the troops" are not a national vision no matter how aggressively the drunk promoters push it.
The Qubecois language issue is utter b&&$#!+. What most of them speak is to French what ebonics is to English. That being said my Canada (too) includes Quebec and separatism is illegitimate in their case. They are not oppressed; they are a pain in the @$$.
I live in one of the first and most ethnically diversified areas in Canada. While we don't have riots or pogroms, racism and xenophobia are alive and well; especially in the outlying counties (note: rural Canada is, by and large, backward, parochial and racist). The workplaces and unions are full of it.
Since my time overseas, I've become critical of mass immigration. I don't, in general, like anyone without a strong awareness of and connection to the country, no matter where they are from (and a lot of them are from here). I know immigrants who are stronger Canadians than people who's families have been here for generations. There are more and more, especially recent ones, however, who should be deported post haste.
By the way Aizino, what you say about overflow is true. I have a sibling at Customs who hates Freedom House.
The planet has become a conglomeration of large, growing areas of danger, anarchy,exploitation and extreme poverty interspaced with shrinking, expensive, and surveilled pockets of relative security and order. Most Canadians don't get that nor do they have any interest to find out why things are they way they are. Our world is under the bootheel of extreme neoliberal imperialist capitalism which the Canadian elite, parties be damned, is fully committed to and most of the Canadian public can't even spell.
And while you've made it clear that you don't miss the Soviet Union, I sure as hell do.
More and more every day.
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