Storming Of The Capitol Building

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(01-12-2021, 11:03 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Good luck. The Mounties don't **** around with illegal crossing.

(01-13-2021, 01:29 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: And yet Canada is considered so much more benevolent and progressive than the US.  You don't have to tell me though.  I had a friend working on a film in Toronto a few years back.  They discovered he had a DUI from over a decade from that time and revoked his visa.  The Mounties literally came and got him and escorted him out of Canada within six hours of his being notified.

Both cases, wouldn't have been the RCMP (well actually, the second sitch may have been...); first would be CBSA (same as your TSA), second would have been OPP (same as your State Police), though I will say, that if the FBI are the ones to remove people in these situations in the US, then it may have been the RCMP.

(01-13-2021, 08:33 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I love Canada. Been there a number of times and I have enjoyed all of it. They are more progressive than the US in some ways, but people who think of it as this liberal haven have another thing coming. Canada is a lot more like the US than most people tend to realize.

Bingo; you'd be floored at how many think exactly like the insurrectionists/terrorists/rioters/whatever, many I know personally... and my sister-in-law has been going out with a hardcore Trumper since 2014.

He's Canadian, with no ties to the US. And a complete asshole, POS human being.

(01-13-2021, 09:02 AM)BigPapaKain Wrote: That perception of Canada has less to do with their immigration laws and more to do with their shockingly low homicide/violent crime rate and universal health care (or at least, that's how it seems to me).

Well, when tax dollars are put towards proper things and handguns are illegal...

(01-13-2021, 09:12 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: That's pretty much the beginning and the end. When you look at their politics, some of the same stuff that our government screws up, they do as well.

I just think it's less-egregious here; down there, you guys see the effect that these blunders have had, happen almost immediately. Here, unless you are poor/homeless/along those lines, nothing ever changes: barring a debilitating health issue or losing your job, your life doesn't change here, if you're the middle class.

(01-13-2021, 11:43 AM)GMDino Wrote: Yes but what if you know someone who was breaking the law! 

All seriousness aside you have to wait up to ten years just to enter the country if you had a DUI in another country (10 years being the max sentence there for the crime).  They ARE strict but hey, "law and order" amiright?   Although I've heard some horror stories about the police there also "turning a blind eye" to some of the "lesser" citizens in certain parts of the country/city when they are needing help.  Every country has it's problems.

They make up for it by having, as you say, low homicide rates and universal healthcare and the majority of the citizens there seem to like it.

My wife and I had talked about a trip to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls after going to the US side in 2019.  2020 nipped that in the bud.  Our company does business there and the boss has never had anything but nice things to say about it as a visitor/tourist.

Jim Cornette has had issues coming up for wrestling events, in the past 15-20 years, due to him getting into fights with fans and the like (I don't {or ever have} listen to his podcast, but he's mentioned on there, quite a bit of what's happened).

Ugh, Niagara is nothing but wax museums and over-priced crap. To TRULY enjoy our country, get away from NF . Toronto is only about an hour away from NF (if you drive well) and it really is a nice city (it has its bad areas like anywhere else, but on the whole, it's great; my favourite place on the planet). If you love wilderness, you'd need to get a good hour and a half-2 hours north of Toronto, to see the lovely Canadian Shield lakes, rocks and the like. Going east, you see things very similar to the NE US (like in Maine and upstate NY). If you want mountains, you need to head out west to Alberta and BC, but that can't be done in the same trip, unless you plan on flying or staying for 1 month.

Lots to see and do :)

(01-13-2021, 11:50 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Yea I'd say the liberal paradise notion could be dispelled by the treatment of their own indigenous people by the powers that be, but ehh...

That is the only well-documented negative stain on our treatment of citizens; the aboriginals are worse than an afterthought, in the majority of rural Canada, sadly.

Some racial issues have come to light in the past year (black and Indian treatment, for starters), but there hasn't been a well-documented, systemic set of issues on that front (or maybe there has, but again; nothing that the general public is aware of).