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How much do you make a year? Here if you earn a million a year, you pay 56.3% in income taxes. If you earn 35k a year, you pay 28.7%.
What economical or social aspects are super regulated? We have among the most free markets in the world and the highest social mobility
What do you mean with freedom? What freedoms do we not have?
What uncontrolled acceptance of refugees?
Source for these bombs exploding?
Number of people seeking asylum (of which roughly 50% gets accepted):
We are not. Our birth rates are much higher than in Southern and Eastern Europe:
Wow, someone got offended, LOL.
What things are banned and regulated? Everything is banned in Sweden. They're the most paternalistic country in the west. They have one of the most strict drug policies in the western world (you can pretty much get up to 6 months just for being high), over-taxed alcohol, banned many types of "unhealthy" food, prostitution (crazy Nordic model making things much worse), not to mention that you can't rent a place (apt) because of statist regulations and waiting lists. What uncontrolled acceptance or refugees? Are you kidding me? Bunch of unintegrated muslims in Swedish city suburbs. Rape wave and crime on a rise (google it up). There's no society as segregated as Swedish. Norway is not much better, and yes, Finland IS better, but Finland alone is not majority of Scandinavia. Granades? Just google it up (mostly in Malmo), it will show up easily. I mean why are you even asking me these kind of questions? You're ether trolling or you're super uninformed about your own region. These are pretty well known facts.
You forget that I spent the better part of more than half a decade in my career, trying to get Canadians (especially English Canadians) interested in Canadian stuff and measuring and analysing their interest in it.
The issue isn't so much the lack of quality of the stuff that's produced, but rather the level of interest from the average person, which tends to be quite low (though there are occasionally exceptions).
I sincerely wish that wasn't the case, even if you don't believe me.
Its not that I don't believe you AJ, I just don't think you have a full awareness of the interest many of us have in Canadian produced English language content.. If there was no interest or demand it simply wouldn't be produced. I wouldn't say the content is consumed as much as the American cultural juggernaut productions but i'm just not quite as far on the other side of the spectrum as you are in terms where you think Canadian interest in Canadian content being so low. Its probably further across the spectrum than you observe but that is my opinion.. Besides AJ, I know what the heck I watch and I definitely consume Canadian produced content in the English language and I enjoy it! I'm not the only one either.
Australia has legalized prostitution, and Canada has introduced Nordic model. If this represents other aspects of society, I can only say I'm leaning more towards Australian liberalism.
Canada is also more politically correct and reserved than Australia. Australians tend to be more outspoken. This means that you're more likely to hear non-PC (and therefore illiberal) things out on the streets in Australia than in Canada. This isn't always indicative of liberalism overall in society though, as many Canadians may think illiberal things but simply keep that to themselves. But for some people it's important to not hear such things out in the open. The cover kept tightly on the boiling pot, so to speak.
Canada is also more politically correct and reserved than Australia. Australians tend to be more outspoken. This means that you're more likely to hear non-PC (and therefore illiberal) things out on the streets in Australia than in Canada. This isn't always indicative of liberalism overall in society though, as many Canadians may think illiberal things but simply keep that to themselves. But for some people it's important to not hear such things out in the open. The cover kept tightly on the boiling pot, so to speak.
Non-PC means LIBERAL.
When I say liberal, I mean classical liberal or (cultural) libertarian. FREE. Just look at the semantics of the word. Liberal in a sense of not being annoyed by the rules, "musts" and "shoulds" (nether conservative or pseudo-"liberal"/progressive).
How can strict economy regulation be seen as a liberal thing? How can semantics "fascism" (PCness) be seen as a liberal thing? There's nothing liberal about (post)modern pseudo-"liberalism".
When I say liberal, I mean classical liberal or (cultural) libertarian. FREE. Just look at the semantics of the word. Liberal in a sense of not being annoyed by the rules, "musts" and "shoulds" (nether conservative or pseudo-"liberal"/progressive).
How can strict economy regulation be seen as a liberal thing? How can semantics "fascism" (PCness) be seen as a liberal thing? There's nothing liberal about (post)modern pseudo-"liberalism".
OK, I understand there is a bit of confusion on here with definitions. I guess I am too used to discussions with Americans on City-Data... For Americans liberal = progressive/left wing (to some degree).
In Canada I wouldn't use the term "liberal" that much in such discussions and if used, it's more "Liberal" and refers to the political party by that name which is fairly centrist in the Canadian political context. Sometimes a bit more to the left, sometimes a bit more to the right.
OK, I understand there is a bit of confusion on here with definitions. I guess I am too used to discussions with Americans on City-Data... For Americans liberal = progressive/left wing (to some degree).
In Canada I wouldn't use the term "liberal" that much in such discussions and if used, it's more "Liberal" and refers to the political party by that name which is fairly centrist in the Canadian political context. Sometimes a bit more to the left, sometimes a bit more to the right.
So, what would be seen as European/Classical/Libertarian "liberal" in Canada?
So, what would be seen as European/Classical/Libertarian "liberal" in Canada?
I don't think anything fits at the moment. The outgoing PM Stephen Harper thought himself as a classical liberal and his party also had some similarities in outlook with the American Republicans (though not necessarily on the extreme fringes of the American GOP like the Tea Party).
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Like her a lot.
