I have been shot at thank you very much. For just doing my job trying to help people. A good chunk of Americans certainly have been shot at with feeding the war machine for decades and having one of the highest mass murder and gun ownership rates in the world.
There are cops, who are bad enough in general and then there are those that couldn't become cops. If you can't make that cut imagine what you can do now that you're Gestapo.
Yes It's unusual for parents to allow their ten year old kids to walk that far alone in our rural area and spend hours away unsupervised in a busy tourist town. It never used to be but the influence of American society via tv radio movies and more inundating people in Canada every day has certainly changed opinions like this. We got phone calls when they were little playing outside in the yard on their own. A coyote was going to eat them. Now we get calls that someone will kidnap them. It's rather ridiculous. There have been decades of cop shows and news reports telling folks people are bad. Now they really believe that.
What is strict? When I was a kid that was a wooden spoon or a belt. Across the backside or hands. As well as a long list of chores. The strap still hung on the wall of the principal's office at school as a warning but didn't get used anymore. Mostly suspensions and expulsions were the flavor of the day.
I got called a strict parent on Lemmy not so long ago because we limit screen time in our house to an hour a day with some exceptions. Our kids walk to town alone at 10 years old though (2 km one way) and have the knowledge and awareness to manage on their own. We trust them and they in turn make mostly good choices. They are kids after all.
The landlord's and speculators include many political figures, lobbyists and bureaucrats as well as wealthy Canadians, large businesses and pension plans. None of these groups will ever answer or change unless forced. No one is doing the forcing so....
It already has become unsafe. The regime has cut food testing and all the people who do that work months ago in favor of contracting those services. Problem is no one has been contracted and it can only be assumed with the massive cuts it will not be.
This applies to Canadian goods because our former reciprocal goods trading for fresh foods was tested in the country of production, using standardized testing for export to Canada with the exception of a few specific items and tests for pesticide and insecticide residues. That means the US tests all the food they export to Canada prior to export and we do not retest prior to sale.
At least he worked for it and earned it. Not like the inherited generational wealth that received this award or those who impersonated indigenous people. It's just another popularity contest anyway.
How American of you. If you can't learn, you can't win.
I was a union member my entire working life and a steward many times. Various unions for different things. There were some unions I wouldn't protest for. Many of them are big national unions. They're just as bad as the government. I still learned shit from them. Like what not to do.
The clownvoy unfortunately was so effective in disruption it caused reasonable Canadians to question actual protest pretty hard. That it was organized by complete idiots for fucked up reasons is terrible. As protesters however we certainly could learn from their actions.
The explanation is money. Now let's stop this shit. Time to get organized. Start or join a protest group. Let's not wait until it's too late like south of us.
Where are my protest people? Nova Scotia and Ottawa. I'll take any links or contacts you've got. I'm done with this shit. I'm out of the loop with the young family and old man shit but it's time to buck up or shut up.
I have. I get berated. Fuck america.