Happy Canada Day!

"CB" (jrcb) 07/01/2020 at 15:10 • Filed to: Hot potatoes I can make two jokes in these posts now? Awesome!, Canadalopnik

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2020: the Bricklin SV-1 of years.

Mid Engine > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:18

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis

Rough times

CB > Mid Engine 07/01/2020 at 15:19

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Oh man, the FLQ is nowhere near the worst part of Canadian history.

Mid Engine > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:21

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It was really bad, the tensions between English and French went on for well over 20 years. The FLQ were radicals, but there was also a ton of resentment and violence based on language for a long time.

CB > Mid Engine 07/01/2020 at 15:24

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As someone who lives in Western Canada, there's still a ton of resentment towards Quebec.

jminer > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:25

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Happy Canada Day!

I had no idea what Canada Day was (being an ignorant american) so I googled it and found out it commemorates when Canada was formed out of the unification of three separate Canadian provinces in 1867.

Happy creation of Canada Day!

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:27

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Saw one of these SV-1's on an elk farm in upstate NY maybe 10 years ago. Red and black. Such an odd car but 10/10 would Hoon... safely. 

fintail > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:35

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Mid Engine > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:35

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Western Canada also resents Ontario, so there’s that. Quite honestly the worst thing Canada still hasn ’t addressed is the how the First Nations people are treated.

CB > Mid Engine 07/01/2020 at 15:37

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I also work on a reserve frequently, and I 100% agree.

CB > jminer 07/01/2020 at 15:38

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Four, actually! Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia!

jminer > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:39

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Wikipedia lied to me then!

“which united the three separate colonies of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into a single Dominion within the British Empire called Canada.”  

Thanks for the correction!

CB > jminer 07/01/2020 at 15:42

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The Province of Canada was made up of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. It's all semantics.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:46

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Bricklin the original escape room. 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > jminer 07/01/2020 at 15:50

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My home province joined in 1870 by way of armed uprising.

not for canada - australian in disguise > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:57

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Fun fact: The SV-1 was never actually sold in Canada. It was built in New Brunswick solely for the reason that Canada had more attractive tax benefits for car manufacturers.

Hence why the Manic GT is the better Canadian sports car. Built in Canada and sold only in Canada because Renault said the Alpine A110 would be viable in Canada but didn’t actually bother to sell it to us.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > CB 07/01/2020 at 15:58

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we’re frie nds with a Br icklin owner, have never been by to see it (white one).

ranwhenparked > Mid Engine 07/01/2020 at 15:59

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Learn from us - give them some casinos, tax free cigarette outlets, and incinerator plants and just pretend like everything’s fixed now.

ranwhenparked > jminer 07/01/2020 at 16:00

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Yes, it was called Dominion Day until the achievement of full independence in 1982, at which point it was changed to the current name. 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Mid Engine 07/01/2020 at 16:02

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It’s true, Part of my job is to be able to speak both farmer and Toronto, If something is delayed, I just have to mention that Toronto is involved and all is forgiven.  And the First nations got and continue to get the shit end of the stick. 

jminer > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 07/01/2020 at 16:04

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So you live in the Texas of Canada?

jminer > ranwhenparked 07/01/2020 at 16:04

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That is a strangely aggressive name for a holiday. I can see why it was renamed.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > jminer 07/01/2020 at 16:06

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Next to Canuckxas, in Saskabamissippi of Canada. 

Thomas Donohue > CB 07/01/2020 at 16:07

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Quebec has been trying to get out ever since ....maybe they just proactively deleted them from history.

Mid Engine > ranwhenparked 07/01/2020 at 16:12

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Many of them live way up north, such niceties would be wasted. 

ranwhenparked > jminer 07/01/2020 at 16:13

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It was to celebrate becoming a dominion, the term used to designate a self-governing realm within the British Empire. The Statute of Westminster in 1931 basically affir med that all the dominions were independent countries in a personal union, but, in Canada’s case, the final step wasn’t completed until 1982 when the power to amend the constitution was transferred from the UK parliament to the Canadian parliament in the final British North America Act (also called the Canada Act).

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 07/01/2020 at 16:16

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As I understand it they’re basically or par with the Corvette of the mid 70s

ranwhenparked > Mid Engine 07/01/2020 at 16:18

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The results are kind of spotty down here anyway, the few that it's worked consistently well for are basically the Seminole and the Mohegan, at least until COVID19 wiped out the gambling and hospitality industries. 

jminer > ranwhenparked 07/01/2020 at 16:23

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That adds up. ‘Dominion’ feels like the term for a territory the British empire would dictate as still under it’s control but allowed to govern itself.

ranwhenparked > jminer 07/01/2020 at 16:44

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The US uses the term “co mmonwealth”, except in cases where a co mmonwealth is also a state

jminer > ranwhenparked 07/01/2020 at 16:52

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I think ‘Protectorate’ is the US equivalent of it.  Including places like Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and so on.

ranwhenparked > jminer 07/01/2020 at 17:02

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Puerto Rico is titled as a commonwealth, as was the Philippines in the transitional stage before independence. Guam is an organized territory, American Samoa an unincorporated territory. The last US protectorate was Cuba until 1934

Nauraushaun > CB 07/01/2020 at 18:46

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What did Canada do wrong out of curiosity?

Seems like everyone has a history to contend with. Australia sure did some stuff.