Write off Canada as a place to move to
Canada is beginning to look just as repressive as the US.
Canadian authorities detained an American activist filmmaker at the Ottawa airport late Wednesday night, confiscating his passport, camera equipment and most of his belongings.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada agents stopped Alex Jones, whose films include Martial Law 9/11: The Rise of the Police State, and questioned him for nearly four hours before letting him go with only one change of clothes and telling him to return Thursday morning.
“It’s really chilling, like a police state,” said Mr. Jones of his detention.
Mr. Jones and his crew, camera operators Ryan Schlickeisen and Aaron Dykes, travelled to Canada to film a documentary about the Bilderberg group, a secretive group of former politicians and business leaders who are meeting in Ottawa this week.
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I emigrated to Canada last year, having applied in early 2003. I can assure you it's not nearly as repressive as the US. Canada has its problems - after all, it's run by humans - but relative to the US, it's decidedly sane and civilized.
I can't defend what CIC did to Alex Jones, and reports of what actually happened are very conflicting. But we could compare Canada and the US point by point - from capital punishment to abortion rights to universal health insurance to verifiably fair elections - and the US would come up lacking every time.
Don't write off Canada as a place to live. It's not perfect - but it's damn better.
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