Canada - Elections Debate! "The System is Broken"
By Serene Zawaydeh. Canadian Jordanian. October 10, 2019.
It is important to listen to this Federal Leaders' Debate 2019 dated October 9, 2019.
This Debate is between Canada's candidates for Federal Elections. The Elections are on October 21, 2019. So get a feeling for what it is really is like in Canada.
It looks like it is a long debate - 2 hours video - but the sentences are so short - could take 10 seconds before someone jumps in so you cannot hear what that person says. This is probably a strategy so the listeners would not even understand what is being said about the other party - and most importantly regarding the current government led by the Liberal Party - Justin Trudeau, and previous Conservative government - Stephen Harper. Was that way too much information being shared!
In addition to Canadians in Canada, this video should be a 101 video for
- Anybody considering immigration to Canada, or any other country to know what it is like to immigrate to another country.
- Every permanent resident should listen to it, as they are in the process of becoming Canadian.
- New Canadians in Canada who already got their citizenship to help them make a decision to vote for the first time.
- Canadians outside Canada, who are living in other countries, who can vote, whether they vote or don't.
- Have family or friends who live in Canada? Listen to it too!
- Anybody considering immigration to Canada, or any other country to know what it is like to immigrate to another country.
- Every permanent resident should listen to it, as they are in the process of becoming Canadian.
- New Canadians in Canada who already got their citizenship to help them make a decision to vote for the first time.
- Canadians outside Canada, who are living in other countries, who can vote, whether they vote or don't.
- Have family or friends who live in Canada? Listen to it too!
The debate quickly touches upon a lot of important discussions, on
Top level Corruption and lies, tax evasion. Richest appointing lawyers so they won't pay taxes.
Unaffordable living and economic crisis, possible recession. Household debt reaches $2 trillion. $1.79 debt for every dollar made. People borrow to live. Bad idea. Yes. Clearly stated. This is what Canadians are doing to live.
Immigration - General sentiment right from the beginning of the debate - Immigrants are not welcome... Shared publicly what others think privately.
Discrimination - tops! Elizabeth May states that being "White" is a "Privilege". If this is new to you, the earth by Canadian standards, has two colors: White (people in Canada whose ancestors immigrated from Europe), and Non White - everybody from all around the world, or if they are Canadians born in Canada, second generation, no accent, but one of their parents came from any other country. The Federal term "visible minority" is used. People from China, Japan, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, are all non white. Note that Middle Eastern people would be referred to as White in USA but Non White in Canada.
Healthcare, lack of health care, the need for family doctors... in a country where doctors with experience and surgeons can't directly practice and have to go through lengthy procedures to have their degrees certified.
Human rights and indigenous people - Missing and murdered indigenous women - that is: Women were killed or went "missing" in Canada!
Need for clean water in 2019! Yup. Clean water! There is a video that shows black water in the tub in a First Nations Community in Canada!
Need to keep kids with their families to keep their language. Isn't this obvious? Well, if you did not study Canadian history... children were taken away from their families and were sent to residential schools and were not allowed to speak their language, to wipe away their identity. This went on for 149 years.
Quebec wants to leave Canada, and there were two previous referendums that did not go through. Quebec considers itself a separate part of Canada. "What could Canadians do that Quebecois do not do?" Quebec and Provinces.. although Quebec is one of the Canadian provinces.
In Quebec, Bill 21 bans public servants from wearing religious symbols. So would this mean that Jagmeet Singh would not be able to wear his Turban should he become a Prime Minister.
Quebec does not want a pipeline through its lands.
Jagmeet Singh, National Democratic Party, was referred to as Sheer more than once. As Andrew Sheer told him - we look so much alike! No wonder he had to grow a beard and cover his long hair with a Yellow Turban! Jagmeet is a lawyer, was born and raised in Canada. He was told to cut off his turban to Look like a Canadian while he was in Montreal. His answer was polite. A Canadian can look like whatever they want.
Have you seen Canada on the list of countries that give foreign aid to other countries? Well, some parties think that the money should stay in Canada and foreign aid should be cut down.
Inequality between men and women. Women actually get paid less for being women... Why promote the term Equality if there is no Equality?
A new source of revenue for the government: Imposing tax on people who make over $20 million. But the problem is that they would assign a lawyer and they would not pay the tax!
Did no one look at tax system since the sixties?! What was that about?
Canadians pay Provincial Taxes, and Federal Taxes. It would be a good idea for the Federal government to recognize that there is a Provincial Government, and to keep money with the Provinces - and Quebec!
Healthcare is not Federal issue. It is a Provincial issue. So why are Canadians paying Federal taxes if they are not getting services?
Andrew Sheer (Conservative) told Justin Trudeau to apply for Ontario's liberal party as there is a vacancy there.
Elizabeth May told Andrew Sheer that he is not going to win the Federal elections! She can't stand listening to the National party leader, who does not deserve a platform as Jagmeet Singh told him, with his anti-immigration policy. Does he not know that "Proud Canadians" come from different backgrounds, and it's not just him who is a "Proud" Canadian? His grandfathers were immigrants too!
Bloc Quebecois is not interested in Federal leadership, and wants to have Quebec on its own. Elizabeth May totally has unrealistic "Green targets" plus her "white" privilege in the year 2019 is false. Thinks it is so easy to just stop using fossil fuels and go Green?! Will Jagmeet Singh win? He did make sense, referring to Mr. Delay and Mr. Deny. But what would happen to his Turban if Quebec goes Solo?
