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still_one

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Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:47 PM Oct 2017

I am from the states, and I just got back from a tour throughout Spain, and a good number of my [View all]

fellow travelers were from Canada.

I mentioned to them how I was quite envious of those in Canada, especially based on what happened here in 2016, and I was caught completely off guard by their responses.

While they agreed trump, and what was happening in the states was complete madness, but they were not happy at all with Trudeau and his leadership. They complained that because of cut backs in the NHS, they now had long waits to see a doctor, which they said wasn't the case before, and I was given the impression that Trudeau was incompetent in their eyes. These were folks from all over Canada. Vancouver , Toronto, Ontario, Quebec, etc.

One interesting conversation I had with a lady from Quebec, was that after Quebec had their referendum on independence, which went down to defeat, economically things started to go down hill, and reflected that the Catalonians might be in for a similar ordeal in Spain.

Curious if those Canadians I was traveling with provided an accurate picture of the state of things in your country?

Of course based on what is happening here in the states, there are probably a lot of places that would seem more attractive to me.






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