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I spent a decade visiting Canada in the summers several years ago and have (had) several friends up there. A while back, one of my friends was asking me about Biden, and commenting on what a mess the southern border has become. I made the mistake of believing he had made a turn towards more conservative minded thinking and commented about some of Trudeau's atrocities. His reply was, "Actually, Trudeau is doing a pretty good job." I brought up the treatment of those involved with the Trucker Rally and my friend informed me that "Most Canadians wanted that to end and supported Trudeau." At that point I gave up going any further. Sadly, my friend has created distance between us.

The last time I was in Canada was before Trump was elected in 2016, and somebody in my group figured out I supported Trump. They spent the rest of my time there giving me shit about being a Trump supporter. I wish I could say it was in good fun, but it was mean spirited and made me feel very uncomfortable. West Coast Canadians are extremely liberal, and they don't pull any punches when it comes to harassing people that don't have the same opinions.

After that trip, we all met in Sedona, Arizona for some mountain bike riding, and they spent a good portion of that trip "teasing" me about being conservative minded. Even though I tried being understanding, it all became more than I was willing to deal with. I was never the one to bring up politics, and before Trump ran for office we all got along very well. Don't buy into the "polite Canadian" bullshit. They are as vicious and mean spirited as anyone.

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Problem is most people were watching the government funded media and were getting a very slanded view of the situation

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I live on Vancouver Island west of Victoria in a small unincoporated area called Shirley, everyone is super nice even when you don't agree politically. Many of the residents come from other places, other parts of Canada, or from the US. We seem to be an anomaly. Most of them know my husband and I did not get jabbed and support Trump and are against the govt, we supported the People's Party of Canada and Maxime Bernier. But we rarely talk of politics because everyone wants to get along. Since my husband died many of my neighbours have been amazing and supportive and kind and helpful. And they are all jabbed. Maybe they got placebos. No crazy behavior or anything.

Toronto is another story, I lived there for almost 3 years, at first everything seemed good, but over time I found myself around people who were materialistic and snobby and generally unpleasant.

The last time I was in Montreal, people stepped on my feet and pushed me trying to get on a bus. Toronto was great compared with that.

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I have spent a lot of time on the island, primarily in Cumberland or Victoria. All my friends either live on the island, West Vancouver, or Whistler. I am happy you have a good community where people are reasonable. I miss my Canadian friendships, but the crew I used to associate with believes their ideology so strongly that they can't help but make fun of me. It doesn't help that their entire circle feels just like they do. I've never been to Montreal or Toronto.

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I hope you are able to find people who are like the ones I know. I'm surprised about Cumberland it is such a small community and lots of artists etc. CBC, Global and CTV have tight grips on a lot of people.

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The Canadian MSM (aka Legacy Media) get $ Billions of subsidies from their federal government. It's been wall-to-wall Big Pharmafia infomercials right through the plandemic. But people are waking up. They no longer trust the legacy media, nor the politicians. The uptake on new vaccines is ridiculously low. Trudeau's far left party is way down in the polls. That said, like the rest of the continent, Canadians have been the victims of cultural Marxism big time: https://youtu.be/rB8dxgFI0vg

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There IS a mean spirit about lefties. It seems to be a cult where THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS. Then they accuse you of NOT CARING about your fellow PEOPLEKIND, planet, Grannie, LGBT, the overun hospitals, Ukraine (I DO care about the slaughter of Ukrainian AND RUSSIAN citizens), Palestinians (I DO care about the slaughter of Jewish AND Palestinian citizens). No, unless you agree with them, be prepared to be called names and essentially abused.

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There’s a variety of people EVERYWHERE. Yes, there are large clusters of people here (Van Isle) as you describe but I know many people who are fighting like hell against the tyranny that has swept in. We have some pretty amazing freedom fighting heroes here!

Regardless of the way that your pocket of (former) friends treated you, (sorry for your loss-I lost many ‘friends’ too), and the belief systems they may ascribe to, I will remind you that Canadian people led the Freedom Convey and inspired others ( NETHERLANDS, USA, Germany) to follow suit. We don’t all fall into a single narrative or hold a unified political opinion.

Badasses are indeed everywhere.

Casualties of war are oftentimes the innocent.

🇨🇦🇺🇸

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Well I'm Canadian and I think you better rethink your above statement. Don't write when you are only speaking from your small perspective

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He was arrested for "bumping into" the plains clothes police officer that stepped in his way (to try and stop him from following freeland). Ridiculous clown show.

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This is clearly a setup. Police officers are required to give their name and badge number when requested ( from my understanding-in Canada anyway). David asked him twice at least-and he never responded.

They are pure evil psychopaths.

https://www.corbettreport.com/our-leaders-are-psychopaths/

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it was a setup. Freeland and company (liberals) have an ongoing battle with Rebel News . Ezra wrote a book called the "Liberanos" (which was banned in Chinada) only journalism allowed in Canada is Main Stream Media, bought and paid for by none other then the Liberanos. I wont bore you here, this story I could spend days on trashing the LiberalNDP Uniparty and how in 8 years Justin Trudeau and his Minions have destroyed Canada. Frustrated to say the least!

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I hear you loudly and clearly.

The minions have been bought and paid for... lured/enticed/blackmailed/coerced/deceived/ all of the above.

True justice will eventually be served. I’ll stand on this notion.

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Freeland - WEF Board Director first, Deputy Prime Minister second, Finance Minister third and who are the unfortunate canuck taxpayers who get to call her 'their MP'???

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As I posted earlier on Vigilant Fox :

Wow. Canada IS a police state.

David Menzies did NOT assault anyone. The police were lying in wait to arrest him on false charges. So glad it was caught on video and that Menzies maintained a clear head throughout the false arrest. Wow.

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The GOON had extended his arm out to deliberately clash with David.

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Turdeau is scum.

Time to flush!

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SSSOOOOOONNN...

EVERYONE EVERYWHERE...

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Canadians get what they deserve. Comfortable cowards and excuse factories who can’t handle the truth.

All proud to be nice as if thats a virtue.

I was flabbergasted when i started hearing my friends and others criticize the Freedom Convoy. Go get boosted is my response. Fear and stupidity run this shithole banana republic and has for a very long time. You reap what you sow.

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