How's Trudeau doing, Canada?

Getting back to the question in the OP, The Economist thinks that Trudeau is doing well:

Liberty moves north: It is uniquely fortunate in many ways—but Canada still holds lessons for other Western countries

(Note that the article was written before the US election, so refers to both Trump and Clinton as possible President.)

Just wait till Trudeau starts giving hair-care tips to The Donald…

Hardly fair at all. There are always circumstances that come up - family or job being the biggest drivers in effectively pushing people to go where ideally they never would. And that leaves aside the people that simply can’t take living in a a city.

Great. That explains why someone would live in the sticks, it doesn’t explain why they’re justified complaining about the cost of living in the sticks.

Living somewhere remote and expecting it to have the same services of the city with the same cost shows a worrying lack of understanding of the infrastructure of civilization.

Here it is: Statement by the President on the Passing of Fidel Castro | whitehouse.gov

This nails it as far as I can see.

The “usual suspects” are the ones making a big deal of it. Essentially those supporters of the Conservative Party of Canada, who have been trying desperately to smear Trudeau ever since he was elected as an MP. They hate him with the passion of a thousand burning suns and he will never, NEVER do anything right. It has driven them slightly insane that he punted their Dear Leader Harper out of power.

They’re trying every play from the Republican playbook. If we SAY it’s a scandal long and loud enough, it WILL be! Not gonna happen, I’m afraid.

So he said some unduly kind things over a dead guy. We’re a very polite people, we’re cool with it.

It’s kinda amusing to watch them try though!

It’s like the conservative party of Canada has somehow forgotten that we have had normal relations with the government of Cuba for 45 years. There are flights there. There are Canadian business interests there. Canadian tourists go there regularly. There are not a lot of South Florida ex-pats living in Canada.

So Trudeau did not scream that Castro was a bastard after he died. We’ll get over it.

Trudeau; a disgrace to the Free World that fought to rape the kind of Communism Castro promoted and engaged in. Canada, you can keep him while he continues to praise communists and lets this continent become more Islamic with those refugees!

The Free World fought to rape Castro Communism. And Trudeau cockblocks the Free World. I don’t know which side I’m on anymore!

Like living over a meth lab.

I miss Robin Williams.

Everything’s a tradeoff. Property is cheap in the sticks, as are property taxes. Communications and travel is expensive.

In big cities folks love to bitch about the cost of housing and taxes but forget about the cheap comms, travel, public transport, etc.

Everybody takes for granted the good parts & whines about the bad parts of wherever & however they live.

Nothing much to see here either.

We will. Have fun with your Nazis.

While I may not agree with what Trudeau said, I think it’s miles ahead of someone who uses “rape” approvingly as a political metaphor.

You might want to review your posts for coherence before hitting “Submit.” If the Free World was trying to rape Communism, that does not speak well of (your idea of) the Free World.
That said.

Do not hurl personal insults at posters outside The BBQ Pit.

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As opposed to (a number of) conservatives who spent the last decades reacting in horror, horror I say, over the mere existence of the leader of one small country who stopped promoting revolution decades ago.
I’ll take lackadaisical over manufactured hysteria.

Er, um, “Being a Canadian these days is …like living over a meth lab!”, is a currently popular meme in Canada and meant as humour.

I’m not seeing anyway for it to be interpreted as a PERSONAL insult. Who was it personally directed at?

Any chance the moderation is a titch amiss here? (Just asking!)

Are the people he had killed less dead since he stopped promoting revolution decades ago?
Ya know who else stopped promoting revolution decades ago? Stalin - should he get a pass since that too was decades ago? What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?

I did not know that. A fine metaphor. Thank you.

I’ve opened an ATMB thread to ask for clarification: Williams quote a personal insult?