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dbd33 Sep 16th 2016 2:39 pm

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by wheatsheaf (Post 12054415)
The impression I have received these past 7-8 weeks is that it has become a huge matter. The Conservative party contenders ( Dr Leitch?, Clemente, the biker dude et al...Leitch has a cute lisp) have raised it as a crucial be all end all, this 'values' thing. CBC have had several hours covering it as have the papers and on the web. The esteemed BBC know
better?

I can't say I know anything of the Conservative party contenders but aren't they irrelevant to Canadian politics? Trudeau is young, he could be in power for fifty years, these contenders will be long dead before they have a chance at power.

Stinkypup Sep 16th 2016 2:46 pm

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12054480)
I can't say I know anything of the Conservative party contenders but aren't they irrelevant to Canadian politics? Trudeau is young, he could be in power for fifty years, these contenders will be long dead before they have a chance at power.


:rofl::rofl::rofl:



:scarper:

wheatsheaf Sep 16th 2016 5:20 pm

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian (Post 12054422)
Although not Canadian values in themselves several suggestions have been

Women have equal rights in Canada regardless of what you believe or your culture dictates.
We don't subscribe to Female Genital Mutilation
Follow Canadian laws
No forced marriages although Jessica Alba could force me to marry her
No polygamists
Respect for religious and sexual diversity
Must drink at least one Tim Hortons coffee per week
Q&A: Kellie Leitch on screening immigrants, niqabs and abortion

Mark Carney is steering The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (on the wrong side of the street), and Tim Hortons are now opening up in the UK....perhaps even a stall in the house of commons!!. So some Canadian value products are being exported!! But still, other than the social requirements of a Timmie per day and perhaps the gait of an ice hockey player, everything else is enshrined in law. Are the laws not being applied? eh?

Shard Sep 16th 2016 7:11 pm

Re: Canadian Values
 
Optimism, politeness, non-confrontation, helpfulness, dissing the States, fixated on the price of gas, suspicious of government, hockey, and a penchant for winter driving.

Gozit Sep 17th 2016 4:01 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Stinkypup (Post 12054482)
:rofl::rofl::rofl:



:scarper:

:lol::eek:

I agree with almost everything in this thread; particularly the "Canada is so AWESOME its the BEST country in the WORLD WHY would you want to leave"

.....

"Brb, going to Florida for 4 months because Canada's winter sucks"

:rofl:

caretaker Sep 17th 2016 6:01 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by wheatsheaf (Post 12054522)
perhaps the gait of an ice hockey player

In the Leaf we say iced hockey.

Novocastrian Sep 17th 2016 6:11 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by wheatsheaf (Post 12054415)

There's many a time I have been thrown the phrase "you can tell a Brit but cant tell him anything" over the 30 years Ive been here by way of introduction.

Can anyone please help?

Even with their aphorisms Canadians are unoriginal.

I have a coffee mug (no, not that one) emblazoned on one side;

"How can you tell a Geordie" and on the other;

"Ye divn't. He canna be tellt."

<translation available for a small fee>

Stinkypup Sep 17th 2016 6:13 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12054941)
Even with their aphorisms Canadians are unoriginal.




I have a coffee mug (not no that one) emblazoned on one side,

"How can you tell a Geordie" and on the other,

"Ye divn't. He canna be tellt."

<translation available for a small fee>

Clearly living in Geordieland has sadly rubbed off ;)

Novocastrian Sep 17th 2016 6:15 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Stinkypup (Post 12054946)
Clearly living in Geordieland has sadly rubbed off ;)

Pre-fixed on edit. It's already dark here. I should light the candles.

Stinkypup Sep 17th 2016 6:37 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12054948)
Pre-fixed on edit. It's already dark here. I should light the candles.

I know, just ribbing you
Fog on the Tyne must be descending :cool:

caretaker Sep 17th 2016 6:43 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Stinkypup (Post 12054961)
I know, just ribbing you
Fog on the Tyne must be descending :cool:

Fog on the Tyne must be a cocktail.

Novocastrian Sep 17th 2016 7:05 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Stinkypup (Post 12054961)
I know, just ribbing you
Fog on the Tyne must be descending :cool:


Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 12054965)
Fog on the Tyne must be a cocktail.

Today was a lovely day in Newcastle (or it was when I got back here at about 2 pm) having spent Thursday in York visiting the Minster, the Treasurers House and the Theatre Royal in the evening and then Friday visiting the Goddards, Fountains Abbey and the Studley Royal water gardens then this morning a visit to the Mount Grace Priory on the way home.

The Fog on the Tyne is a ditty composed by Alan Hull, a former friend of mine and the force behind the group Lindesfarne.

It's good to be home. :thumbup:

Former Lancastrian Sep 17th 2016 7:20 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12054982)
Today was a lovely day in Newcastle (or it was when I got back here at about 2 pm) having spent Thursday in York visiting the Minster, the Treasurers House and the Theatre Royal in the evening and then Friday visiting the Goddards, Fountains Abbey and the Studley Royal water gardens then this morning a visit to the Mount Grace Priory on the way home.

The Fog on the Tyne is a ditty composed by Alan Hull, a former friend of mine and the force behind the group Lindesfarne.

It's good to be home. :thumbup:

I don't know if this law is still on the books but did you see any of our Scottish cousins in York and not on a Sunday?
In York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

Novocastrian Sep 17th 2016 7:23 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian (Post 12054994)
I don't know if this law is still on the books but did you see any of our Scottish cousins in York and not on a Sunday?
In York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

As Dr. Johnson said " Much can be made of a Scotsman if he be caught young enough".

I did see a Canadian though. It was embarrassing.

caretaker Sep 17th 2016 9:01 am

Re: Canadian Values
 

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12054982)
The Fog on the Tyne is a ditty composed by Alan Hull, a former friend of mine and the force behind the group Lindesfarne.

Nice tune! :thumbup: I'll take my laptop to the club with me the next while and when she comes in I''ll play that for my Novocastrian friend in the wheelie-chair, she'll probably love hearing Geordie again. We've done the virtual tour of her landmarks with her driving the little gold street-view man but a lot has changed since she left.


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