Comments on: What country has the strongest civil liberties? http://lawiscool.com/2009/06/28/what-country-has-the-strongest-civil-liberties/?nucrss=1 The law school blog and podcast from Canada Mon, 07 May 2012 13:10:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Liam Young http://lawiscool.com/2009/06/28/what-country-has-the-strongest-civil-liberties/comment-page-1/#comment-5770 Liam Young Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:52 +0000 http://lawiscool.com/?p=1711#comment-5770 In answer to your question, we have a government made up of autocrats that are unable to respect the law of the land. Yes, we have moved forward in a number of areas, but we're slipping back in most others: 1. voting (lowest turnouts, blurred landscape and differences between parties, lack of proportional representation); 2. media (one of the most tightly held media communities on the planet with excessive limitations to what we can see online or via TV); 3. growing police state (more than $50 billion spent per year on defense when we barely even have an army. Where is it all going?); 4. ineffective trade policies; gag orders on public information coming directly from the PMO. 5. No respect for small businesses. Let's face it: Canada is a banana republic backwater and we're failing on most counts. In answer to your question, we have a government made up of autocrats that are unable to respect the law of the land. Yes, we have moved forward in a number of areas, but we’re slipping back in most others:
1. voting (lowest turnouts, blurred landscape and differences between parties, lack of proportional representation);
2. media (one of the most tightly held media communities on the planet with excessive limitations to what we can see online or via TV);
3. growing police state (more than $50 billion spent per year on defense when we barely even have an army. Where is it all going?);
4. ineffective trade policies; gag orders on public information coming directly from the PMO.
5. No respect for small businesses.

Let’s face it: Canada is a banana republic backwater and we’re failing on most counts.

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