Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "“Trump’s Behavior is Unpresidential, Unprovoked, Unkind, Almost Certainly Illegal” - Jim Balsillie" video.

I didn't hear him say anything that sounded even remotely woke. Perhaps I missed it. Can you give me a phrase or a timestamp, please?
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@cleverusername1894 "In reality, Canada is doing quite well." You clearly don't live in a big city. Either that or you make really good money. By what metric is Canada doing well? By any International ranking of countries with socialized medicine, we are last or close to it in nearly every category, including wait times, people dying on waitlist, doctors, per capita, amount of time it takes to get a diagnosis, etc. plus we pay the most per capita to get the least results. In the bigger cities like Vancouver, even if you make $100,000 a year you cannot afford the rent on a one bedroom apartment if you use the traditional metric that says the roof over your head should be less than 1/3 of your net pay. Crime and homelessness is way up. By what metric is Canada doing well? GDP per capita has been falling since 2015. Again, by what metric is Canada doing well?
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Even as a child, I never understood multiculturalism. How can highlighting people's differences create better outcomes? It made so much more sense to me hearing the American propaganda of "you're not black or brown or white, you're an American." We've taken it so far now that there are people that get upset if you so much as cook food or wear clothes not from your own culture FFS. (With the obvious exception of everybody being allowed to utilize anything created by white people.)
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@cleverusername1894 Good lord. Please link me that page that says we're 4th in Quality of Healthcare. And you're bragging about those placings in the high teens? Sorry about your standards. There are not many western nations and we're in the bottom percentile even by your own stats.
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@thombran "Wherever post-modernism, neoliberalism, and globalism rear their ugly head, a genuine community dies forever." Amen. It's so wild that when Westerners go anywhere else in numbers enough to alter anything, other westerners demonize them and call them awful colonizers, and invaders, but when the reverse is true, it's celebrated. Imagine Tokyo being 37% Japanese. They would never let that happen.
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@edt8660 "and the last time I visited Canada it worked there too." Where did you visit? I'm unaware of anywhere it works in Canada. Our big cities are so fragmented. Most neighbourhoods are pretty homogenous. People stick with their own so the culture is dying. There is no culture of assimilation. If you have a whole bunch of fragmented cultures that stick to their own, then there is no overarching culture, which means by definition it's ruinous to the culture of that country.
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@edt8660 "Multiculturalism does not mean each culture needs to stick to its' own kind. " But that's what happens. The theory behind it is irrelevant compared to the real reality of the actual real world outcomes. And the outcome is not surprising. People are tribal and always have been. It's not a coincidence that there are cities in Toronto and Vancouver that are almost exclusively Indian, and you have Richmond, which is almost exclusively Asian. And within the cities you get enclaves as well. The Eastern Europeans come here and find the nearest cultural centre where they can find people from their home country and they more or less stick to that. It's a very bad thing. It's also very disrespectful to the new country. If I move to another country, I can't imagine just sticking to my fellow ex pats, and other people who happen to look like me. I would try to fit in, language included. It's extremely rare that I hear English being spoken in public now. At least where I live. Where I work as well. I can't see a rational argument where that boats well in the long-term. Most people speak the language of their homeland and stick to their own kind. Perhaps you think that is a good thing, but I do not.
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@ I appreciate you actually giving me your reasoning. That said, I don't see that as woke at all. He said the tariffs will disproportionately hurt the poor and working class. They will. It's just math. I don't see pointing that out as being woke. I think you're concerned a bit too much by the Let Them Eat Cake thing. Make no mistake, pretty much every friggen government policy benefits the rich. That's just how it is. Trump is not worried about his next meal so he doesn't put that as high on his agenda as the millions of people who are food insecure, thus I think it's an apt phrasing. Small town Saskatchewan farming communities now have people of food assistance. That was inconceivable until very recently. If the concept of leftists and woke were never a thing, I don't think you'd be so upset about what he is saying. It's a rich dude saying he's worried about how the working man will pay the bills. That's not a far leftist university communist position at all. He's not saying we need men in women's sports, he's not saying DEI is great at combating white supremacy, he's saying the tariffs will cause daily necessities to up in price and he is right.
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