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Originally Posted by RACooper
heh... the worst insult you can throw at a conservative up here is "Republican"; because both the Bush/Neo-Con association, but mostly because you're accusing the person of republicanism... only the extreme far-right fringe hold to those values  |
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Well thankfully I don't live up there.
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I imagine part of the "insult" is that Canada isn't a republic. I would have thought, though, that Republicanism (
i.e., wanting to establish a federal republic in place of a realm governed by the Queen-in-Parliament) in Canada would be viewed as quite liberal (in the sense of wanting to completely overhaul the system of government) rather than far-right fringe.