Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ...
by belval on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:11PM
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> Yet again, a Canadian (thinks he) knows more about other countries' affairs than his own.
On behalf of Canadians I'm sorry about whatever it is that we did to make you feel this way.
Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ...
by dghughes on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:46PM
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> Yet again, a Canadian (thinks he) knows more about other countries' affairs than his own.
Yeah there's a story there.
Plus their apparent belief in having mind reading abilities is disturbing.
Re:I Walked Across Luxembourg – A Hike from the West to the ...
by TMWNN on Thursday August 24, 2023 @02:43PM
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Sorry, not my fault that you misunderstand what Governors-Generals do (and don't do) or what happened with the 1975 dismissal.[1] Or you now pretending that you knew what had happened in the 1979 federal election (let alone the earlier cases, especially 1896) before I told you about it.
[1] Or The Dismissal, depending on who you ask
What does this even mean? It's not like G-Gs the world over consult with Buckingham Palace before every action. Kerr acted as he believed was the correct course. You may or may not agree, but the 1975 dismissal was not a case of that Governor-General somehow cheating to get away with a flagrant violation of the rules G-Gs follow.
More to the point, Australians did not agree with your interpretation. The Coalition won the biggest majority in history in the federal election called one month after the dismissal. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_federal_electi...>
>We have the same system here in Canada but if such a thing happened here there would be riots in the streets.
The same thing did happen in Canada. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%E2%80%93Byng_affair> No riots.
Yet again, a Canadian (thinks he) knows more about other countries' affairs than his own. I can guarantee that Canadians as a whole were more aware of Trump winning the 2016 US presidential election by earning more electoral votes than Hillary despite receiving fewer popular votes, than the fact that the same thing (of one party forming a federal government by winning the most seats, despite winning fewer popular votes than another) had happened several times in Canadian history, such as in 1979. I doubt that this has changed even though this happened again in the two most recent federal elections to Trudeau's benefit.