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Meanwhile, in Canada - distrust?
Topic Started: Feb 21 2017, 07:48 PM (200 Views)
George K
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From The CBC:

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Populist anger is moving politics in Canada.

In a recent Edelman poll, only 43 per cent of Canadians say they trust their government — down from 53 per cent a year earlier.

And 80 per cent of Canadians feel the country's elites are out of touch.

The findings in the so-called Trust Barometer survey conducted annually by public relations firm Edelman is the first time in 17 years that Canada has joined the ranks of "distruster" countries in which more than half of citizens say they distrust their civic institutions.

Author and journalist Susan Delacourt says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be really concerned. This spike in distrust and cynicism is the same sentiment that propelled Donald Trump to the White House, and it is gaining ground here.

"We tend to be smug in Canada and candid and think that we don't have the problems we've been seeing in the United States … I don't think we should be, " Delacourt tells The Current's guest host Laura Lynch.

Compared to a year ago after Prime Minister Trudeau was first elected, Delacourt says trust in government and the media has slipped 10 per cent.

The decline in numbers, Delacourt suggests, is most likely because of what is unfolding in the U.S. before and after Trump's election.

"We saw a year in which the media and and the people inside the political bubble had failed to anticipate Brexit and failed to anticipate Trump. And I think that people out there are noticing," Delacourt tells Lynch.

In September, Delacourt wrote a column suggesting Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Trump have "similar disruptive styles to politics."

"Trudeau ran as an outsider. I don't know if you remember the first day of the 2015 election campaign. He was the leader who chose not to be in Ottawa. He portrayed Ottawa as a problem. He ran," Delacourt explains.

The challenge for Trudeau to restore trust in Canadians, according to Delacourt, is to live up to the promise made in his speeches, which is to connect people back to politics.

"How do you make people believe or get them to believe that what is happening inside the halls of power actually affects them in more ways than just their wallets?"

"That's often been the quickest and easiest way to the voters' heart is through their wallets," Delacourt tells Lynch.

"But there's got to be some kind of discussion of the values you hold are also similar to ones here."
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Renauda
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Yeah it's allegedly a hot topic up here right now. Though I don't see why or among what portion of the population.

Maybe just because it's a hot topic elsewhere.
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George K
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What's the general perception of Trudeau? From reading the press, I get the impression he's generally liked.

That true?
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Renauda
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George K
Feb 21 2017, 07:57 PM
What's the general perception of Trudeau? From reading the press, I get the impression he's generally liked.

That true?
I would say so. However, at present there is really no alternative in Ottawa - both opposition parties are in disarray following the last federal election. in any case I do not think that Americans can get their head around the fact that politics in Canada is very much at the provincial level and as a result regional in character.
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A Canadian Trump?
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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John D'Oh
Feb 22 2017, 06:07 AM
Mr. Wonderful. :lol2:
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Renauda
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Kevin O'Leary is an ass. He is also a media whore. Besides that he can't speak French.
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Renauda
Feb 22 2017, 06:10 AM
Kevin O'Leary is an ass.
A Canadian Trump?
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He is also a media whore.
A Canadian Trump?
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Besides that he can't speak French.
A Canadian Trump?

Is French a required language in Canada? I know the country is officially bilingual, but is French taught in schools, etc?
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Renauda
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Generally speaking yes, French is required curriculum although it varies from province to province. Here in Alberta French is a compulsory subject from grades 4 to 9. Grades 10 to 12 it is an option. There are also many French immersion public and Catholic schools available to which parents can choose to send their children from grades 1 to grade 12. There are pros and cons to this approach. Personally I feel that unless French is spoken at home and can be as such reinforced, French immersion from grade 1 is not a good choice.



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Red Rice
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Interesting... just as the US media elites are proclaiming Trudeau as the anti-Trump and the Savior of Western Democracy, he seems to be losing some of his luster in Canada.

And yes, Kevin O'Leary is a complete ass. What an obnoxious douchebag.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Renauda
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yeah, I am very disappointed about Trudeau's inglorious retreat from electoral reform. Actually not disappointed, right pissed off.
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I like Trudeau.
He's not his dad, but he'll do.
His dad would've skewered poor Trump in those meetings 2 weeks ago ... He was an oracular genius.
I can hardly wait for the end of May .. good stuff to come for investors and those waiting for legalization of certain medicinal remedies :cool2: .
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Axtremus
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Renauda
Feb 23 2017, 06:55 PM
yeah, I am very disappointed about Trudeau's inglorious retreat from electoral reform. Actually not disappointed, right pissed off.
What sort of electoral reform are you (or the Canadians who support Trudeau in general) expecting? If it's too complicated to explain, would you please point me to an article or webpage that describes the desired reform? Thanks in advance.
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Renauda
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Not the first past the post system we currently have.

go to google. Type in the following: Canada electoral reform federal . Read the relevant links.

You're welcome.
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