Canada strips Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship

[UKBengali]

Says a Sri Lankan.

Whose country has debt repayments that are as high as it's revenues.

 

[Mamluk]

The percentage of vote won by Doug Ford is an indication the PCs are gaining popularity especially in areas where it was predominantly liberal. This will be a cascading effect for next year's federal election

Do you not like the Liberals? Western Conservatives are very anti-Chinese.

 

[MultaniGuy]

To be frank, Why would Aung San Suu kyi care? She is a Myanma citizen, not a Canadian citizen.

This would hardly affect her.

 

[bluesky]

To be frank, Why would Aung San Suu kyi care? She is a Myanma citizen, not a Canadian citizen.

This would hardly affect her.

Your point is Suu Kyi is not a Canadian citizen and she is not using it to travel abroad, so what if Canada denies this to her? Thing is, it is an Honorary citizenship issued to a person out of respect for her contribution to the world. Now, do you think really that it does not matter if she loses this Honor bestowed by a foreign govt? Should this not make a person of honor become sad because it causes her to lose dignity in the eyes of others?

 

[Gibbs]

No need to get offended mr burger.

Curry munching bongles suckzzz, garbage collector srilankan burgers rockzzz...

Happy?

Nah mate the rest of us munch curries you buggers just wash our dishes after..

Whose country has debt repayments that are as high as it's revenues.

A bottom feeding kitchen hand from a LCD bog talking economics.. Whats this world coming to..

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

Nah mate the rest of us munch curries you buggers just wash our dishes after..

And you collect the garbage after that mr srilankan burger garbage collector...

 

[bluesky]

A bottom feeding kitchen hand from a LCD bog talking economics.. Whats this world coming to..

I do not have to know if someone is a kitchen hand or not. But, no one is supposed to insult him by pointing out this. Why do you have to make a 'division of labor'? No work should be castigated and all works should be similarly respected.

Stop this Sub-Continent style of bias towards work where every other guy wants to portray himself the scion of a Maharaja or Nawab by disdaining any kind of manual work. Please respect works.

 

[Cybernetics]

He's actually quite well liked. even people who don't like his politics think he's a good guy, and the clash with Trump has only made Canadians stand behind him even more.

Now that the conservative party is split in two, we're likely gonna see a second term for Trudeau.

Some focus on the figure head some focus on the administration/party. Trudeau seems well liked by his base. I've seen him personally on a random occasion a few years ago and seems like a nice and personable guy.

Provincially speaking, it seem like Ontario is tired of the Liberal party due to a failed economic policy (ie, electricity generation) and corrupt elements. They've recently voted in PC and voted out the Liberals. As much as people want to feel good about the image of their government, in the end I think most people tend to vote according to their pockets.

Western Conservatives are very anti-Chinese.

Just based on observation I think for most Chinese in the West, the political lens is heavily weight towards economic outcomes. Whether this is good or bad would depend on perspective. If party A will provide good economic outcomes they vote A, if B will provide good economic out comes then they vote B. There isn't a deep sentiment for any political organization. Economic outcomes are supported by various policies like education, business/trade opportunities, employment, infrastructure, tax, security, etc. They also tend to dislike excessive welfare.

It seems like Liberals are seen as soft or slow on trade issues and domestic matters to support industries. It also doesn't seem like most Chinese care about "anti-Chinese" sentiment from conservatives that much, as long as no physical harm is done. Now the conservatives are trying to use their advantage as being seen as the economically focused party to cultivate a voting base from the Chinese community. To build a moat around new voters they are also painting the Liberal party as causing physical harm to Chinese through policies like the refugee policy and political correctness.

Recently a Syrian refugee by the name of Ibrahim Ali murdered a 13 year old Chinese Canadian girl in Vancouver. One can expect the conservatives to fuel and capitalize on this situation, which they did. They are trying to damage the refugee policy of the Liberal party. There was another situation where a Muslim girl fabricated a story of a Asian man (Asians in that community are Chinese) cutting her hijab and the media within a hour reported on this and made this into a major issue. After investigation proven to be false and the girl admitted it.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-a-hijabi-hoax-that-fooled-canada

Now it would seem like the Liberal party is causing physical harm to the Chinese community and using it as a floor mat to support its political correctness campaign, while the Conservative party is supporting the interests of the Chinese community. Events like these will push more Chinese voters towards the Conservative party because it appeals to their economic focus and desire for personal safety, while Liberals party is painted as the opposite.

@Nilgiri Since you live in Canada it would be nice to hear your inputs. I'm not as knowledgeable of the political situation in Canada as you.

 

[bluesky]

@Nilgiri Since you live in Canada it would be nice to hear your inputs. I'm not as knowledgeable of the political situation in Canada as you.

Why @Nilgiri? he will like Canada to punish Bangladesh for not killing the illegal Rohingyas.

 

[Cybernetics]

Why @Nilgiri? he will like Canada to punish Bangladesh for not killing the illegal Rohingyas.

I am not familiar with many people who are interested and knowledgable about Canadian politics. If I knew a Bangladeshi member who lives in Canada and is familiar with Canadian politics I would tag him or her as well.

Personally I don't think Canada has any power to "punish" Bangladesh so that desire by anyone would be irrelevant.

I want to convey the point that the current Canadian government is filled with people that speak louder than they can act. We can see that backfire in the incident with Saudi Arabia.

 

[bluesky]

I am not familiar with many people who are interested and knowledgable about Canadian politics. If I knew a Bangladeshi member who lives in Canada and is familiar with Canadian politics I would tag him or her as well.

Personally I don't think Canada has any power to "punish" Bangladesh so that desire by anyone would be irrelevant.

I want to convey the point that the current Canadian government is filled with people that speak louder than they can act. We can see that backfire in the incident with Saudi Arabia.

You seem to have a louder voice than a Canadian politician can have, shooting incessantly from the hip. Canadian internal politics have nothing to do with its wish to criticize Burma.

 

[Jlaw]

I am not familiar with many people who are interested and knowledgable about Canadian politics. If I knew a Bangladeshi member who lives in Canada and is familiar with Canadian politics I would tag him or her as well.

Personally I don't think Canada has any power to "punish" Bangladesh so that desire by anyone would be irrelevant.

I want to convey the point that the current Canadian government is filled with people that speak louder than they can act. We can see that backfire in the incident with Saudi Arabia.

I live in Canada. Canada has no international power to punish any countries. We talk more than we do.
And no news talk about Rohingya. We don't give a shit about them, only politicians pretend to care. In Canada Bangladeshi are non players in the economy or in politics. They only talk tough on PDF with a touch of alternate universe fantasy.

 

[UKBengali]

I live in Canada. Canada has no international power to punish any countries. We talk more than we do.
And no news talk about Rohingya. We don't give a shit about them, only politicians pretend to care. In Canada Bangladeshi are non players in the economy or in politics. They only talk tough on PDF with a touch of alternate universe fantasy.

Who cares what a Chinese living in Canada thinks?

 

[Divergent]

About time.

 

[Nilgiri]

Some focus on the figure head some focus on the administration/party. Trudeau seems well liked by his base. I've seen him personally on a random occasion a few years ago and seems like a nice and personable guy.

Provincially speaking, it seem like Ontario is tired of the Liberal party due to a failed economic policy (ie, electricity generation) and corrupt elements. They've recently voted in PC and voted out the Liberals. As much as people want to feel good about the image of their government, in the end I think most people tend to vote according to their pockets.


Just based on observation I think for most Chinese in the West, the political lens is heavily weight towards economic outcomes. Whether this is good or bad would depend on perspective. If party A will provide good economic outcomes they vote A, if B will provide good economic out comes then they vote B. There isn't a deep sentiment for any political organization. Economic outcomes are supported by various policies like education, business/trade opportunities, employment, infrastructure, tax, security, etc. They also tend to dislike excessive welfare.

It seems like Liberals are seen as soft or slow on trade issues and domestic matters to support industries. It also doesn't seem like most Chinese care about "anti-Chinese" sentiment from conservatives that much, as long as no physical harm is done. Now the conservatives are trying to use their advantage as being seen as the economically focused party to cultivate a voting base from the Chinese community. To build a moat around new voters they are also painting the Liberal party as causing physical harm to Chinese through policies like the refugee policy and political correctness.

Recently a Syrian refugee by the name of Ibrahim Ali murdered a 13 year old Chinese Canadian girl in Vancouver. One can expect the conservatives to fuel and capitalize on this situation, which they did. They are trying to damage the refugee policy of the Liberal party. There was another situation where a Muslim girl fabricated a story of a Asian man (Asians in that community are Chinese) cutting her hijab and the media within a hour reported on this and made this into a major issue. After investigation proven to be false and the girl admitted it.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/fatah-a-hijabi-hoax-that-fooled-canada

Now it would seem like the Liberal party is causing physical harm to the Chinese community and using it as a floor mat to support its political correctness campaign, while the Conservative party is supporting the interests of the Chinese community. Events like these will push more Chinese voters towards the Conservative party because it appeals to their economic focus and desire for personal safety, while Liberals party is painted as the opposite.

@Nilgiri Since you live in Canada it would be nice to hear your inputs. I'm not as knowledgeable of the political situation in Canada as you.

Liberals are the consummate weather vanes...they change direction depending on the prevailing wind (unlike conservatives and NDP who tend to be more staunch to certain positions).

Lately more and more asians in both US and Canada are leaving liberal party and democrat party because of exactly what you highlight...the political correct movement is basically causing massive reverse discrimination due to the better economic performance of East Asians. A classic case nowadays is their threshold marks needed in SAT etc and extracurricular to get into say harvard (and most ivy league) compared to other groups (rather than having same merit based standard for all).

It was very disturbing as well how liberal party in canada brushed that serious incident of that refugee attacking+murdering that chinese girl under the carpet and suppressed discussion of it too.

All this is adding to what @Jlaw is saying, whatever personal support/dislike is of Trudeau in the "polls"....a lot of actual voting/turnout for liberals (esp in traditional votebanks they enjoyed earlier) is eroding big time now because people do not like this groupthink escapism that liberals are going all in with. I personally know many liberal friends, who like Trudeau personally, but think his policies (and his party policies) suck big time...they will not be voting for him again. People increasingly want to know the exact position someone holds (on critical issues) and that they will stand by such.... before giving them their vote. It is welcome phenomenon. It is why Liberals lost power in the two biggest provinces this year (though there was anti-incumbency in action there too).