Can you imagine the PM and leading political party of Canada being as deeply committed to Canadian sovereignty and Canadian identity as the BQ and particularly Jacques Parizeau is to Quebec sovereignty and identity?

Whatever your feelings towards the BQ are, it can not be doubted that they are tremendously effective in advocating for laws and legislation that protect cultural identity and sovereignty.

  • dwazouEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    American influence is the worst thing that ever happened to Canada.

    Take for instance Opioids.

    Canadians are now the second highest per capita users of opioids on the planet, only behind the USA.

    Opioid sales in Canada have increased by +3000% since the 1980s.

    https://www.mironline.ca/the-opioid-crisis-a-canadian-perspective/

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31845436/

    According to a recent study, Canadian and American doctors are 7 times more likely than European doctors to prescribe Opioids after a surgery:

    https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/september/patients-in-the-us-and-canada-are-seven-times-as-likely-as-sweden-to-receive-opioids--surgery

    How did it happen? English-Canada doctors go to conferences with their american colleagues. They liked them. They socialized. They trusted them.

    • “Wow, we are so similar haha”!

    • “It was nice attending this conference with you. See you next year !!”

    Health Canada is also responsible for this disaster.

    A number of studies have pointed out Health Canada’s failures to control the promotion of opioids in Canada, allowing Purdue to spread misinformation about OxyContin in particular and opioids in general

    Based on little evidence, in 1996 Health Canada approved the drug for the management of moderate pain, ignored the risk of addiction, and allowed the statement in the product monograph that the risk of misuse is low. In addition, the product monograph provided no recommended maximum dose, allowing the drug to be marketed and prescribed with no upper dose limit.

    It also took Health Canada more than ten years to revise misleading claims that appeared in the OxyContin product monograph

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310031/

    Again. Health Canada largely trusts the US FDA. They attend the same conferences every single year. They socialize. If the americans say something is safe, the Health Canada officials largely trust them.

    The Opioid Mess is exactly what happens when you trust the most institutionally corrupt nation in the West because they sound friendly and speak English. Thank god Quebec doctors kept reading french newspapers and listening to french regulators. They largely avoided this Opioid plague.

    • Daryl@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      4 hours ago

      And yet the most effective and less harmful drug proven to work against inflammation and inflammatory post-op pain - CBD oil - was not only banned, but any research into its usefulness was made illegal as well.

    • Daryl@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      5 hours ago

      It is credible to say that the Opioid crisis was actually a .made-in-Vietnam’ crisis, in the sense that it gained a lot of traction from the returning American Vets from Vietnam, who were horribly injured (both mentally and physically) but ignored by the American system. They had no alternative but to seek solace from their emotional as well as physical pain in opioids.

      Vietnam was the worst defeat of America in their entre history, It completely destroyed America. and for absolutely no good reason. Under the same system that America tried to quash, Vietnam is now an economic and industrial powerhouse, a major exporter to America… A complete and senseless waste of American lives and resources. Moreso in that the bottomless pit for money became so all-encompassing to the American economy that funding for the entire space endeavor completely dried up, along with funding for physics research. America hasn’t won a serious Nobel prize in Physics in decades.