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To: frankw1900 who wrote (20267)	12/31/2011 1:34:08 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

The Canada I once knew is long gone. The country never had a precisely defined set of laws at the national level probably because of the independence of the provinces, an independence that has slowly dissolved as each province or jointly all of them, ceded more power to the ill-defined federal government in Quebec, another province. It's a contradiction in terms. From this hodge podge no well defined due process has evolved, at least to the degree it has in the US. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Over the last 40 years we've seen the bad thing. Ottawa has garnered ever more power in the form of trendy socialist reforms. The provinces went along because each of them thought they could gain advantage over the others by having the others pay through Quebec's federal power. In the US we have this problem too. Legislators try to pull money from the joint kitty for their particular districts which results in misallocation of funds. In Canada, the effect of socialistic misallocation is multiplied many times, and this causes the once very independent provinces to rebel against Ottawa until Ottawa would concede the point. It was either concede or face open rebellion. We can't do that in the US due to our Civil War, but in Canada, which has a great tradition of rugged individualism both on an individual level and on a regional one, it is very possible. This leads to the good thing. Since federal power is limited by the above mentioned constraint individual provinces can more easily morph away from the expertism crafted tyranny imposed by Quebec. As soon as the provinces see that they don't need and can't be availed by Quebec they start constructing their own solutions and this is gradually leading them back to the constructive environment of the past when things had to stand on their own merit without the possibility of being bailed out by federal intervention. You don't need the experts in Ottawa. Being without them for awhile allows the ship of state to right itself. Going along with them creates a disasta. What do they know about local issues? It looks like the old Canada is making a come back.