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As a Canadian-U.S. dual citizen who has spent my whole life in Canada, and most of it in Toronto, I honestly can't justify settling down in Ontario. The taxes are high and complicated, the services are subpar (and I don't use most of them), and Canada largely lacks the civil rights stability enjoyed in the U.S. under the Constitution (as currently amended and interpreted), particularly regarding freedom of speech and the bounds of unlawful search.


This is one of the weirdest posts I have ever seen. Agreed that Canada doesn't have the 1st amendment but it's not like people feel they can't express themselves, unless what you have to say is threatening or offensive. In which case, you usually get away with it anyway. So unless one is a right wing christian that wants to post pictures of disgusting things or a racist that wants to put down other people I'm not sure why one would feel their civil rights were impinged.


Can you elaborate (with examples) how the freedom of speech (and other liberties) in Canada is in practice "less" than that enjoyed in the US?

Or are you speaking entirely theoretically?


lolwat


Please don't do this here.




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