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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Oh. You suck, then .
No, seriously, are there really huge debates about weapons in Canada ? Do you have some Canadian organization akin to the NRA ? And is there really so many people denying evolution and all that ? I did not know.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/science-minister-s-coyness-on-evolution-worries-researchers-1.800906

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
As far as I know, they have no perpetual debates on weapons

We do.

because they have no, or next to no, mass shootings,

We do. As early as 1984.

they have no religious loonies

Should read on Roch Thériault, a.k.a Moïse. Or the very rich history of racists sects in Ontario and the Prairies.

they do not invade countries,…

Not alone. Which doesn't mean that much anyways.

They still require a oath of allegiance to the queen for a bunch of things, including naturalization, and that is definitely not cool.

For all my hatred of the Crown, it is nowadays nothing more than a cultural artefact.

Oh. You suck, then .
No, seriously, are there really huge debates about weapons in Canada ? Do you have some Canadian organization akin to the NRA ? And is there really so many people denying evolution and all that ? I did not know.

Canada has a fairly effective social safety net, and as such does not require religious nuttery to do that job for us.

Hey at least Mounties are cops that get respect. Our most famous police force is the NYPD... And yeah... The NYPD...

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
No, seriously, are there really huge debates about weapons in Canada ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry

Do you have some Canadian organization akin to the NRA ?

The conservative government pretty much fills that role, having issued mass amnesties from 2006 to 2011 to gun owners who refused to register their firearms. In 2011, they scraped the registry altogheter. Weither or not provincial governments can institute their own version of the registry is currently being debated at the supreme court. The cons have already said that they would refuse to give the data inside the previous registry to provincial governments that wishes to set up their own.

And is there really so many people denying evolution and all that ? I did not know.

I've lived in Alberta, where congregational schools are still a common thing. They either did not have a mandated educational program, or they didn't care to teach the biology section of it.