Is Canada the place to be?

A friend of mine sent me some photos of well armed American citizens with the caption, "The average American has had enough."   At first I was not surprised to see the photos as this has been the main theme of the political left, the politically correct, and the progressive left liberals to disarm Americans.  Let's be honest, Americans have been seen as a deadly society.  The reality though is only one sided, meaning that the media must take the responsibility for over emphasizing an armed population when more people are killed in car accidents, suicides, old age, health issues and knives far more than guns, and yet guns are being depicted as the major cause of death in the United States.

The reporting continues in that since the covid-19 virus as appeared, and combined with that the cancelation movement (those that wish to destroy history), black lives matter etc. that gun sales in the United States has more than risen by 200% and that most of these guns are being purchased by females.  As a result, Canadians and many other western cultures do not understand the ability of the American people to have the right to self protection, protection of property, and the right to carry a weapon.  This concept is foreign and not understood by many outside the United States.

The Second Amendment that gives the American people the right to "bare arms" is enshrined in the history that made the country from the very beginning.  The right to bare arms is not only entrenched in the Constitution of the United States, but also in the Declaration of Independence that began the war for independence and the revolution against the British rule.  One can not therefore separate the Declaration of Independence from the Constitution of the United States as the two are intertwined.

The revolutionary philosophies that were developed to establish the United States were new at the time.  These philosophical theories at the time were new and never used in the creation of any other country, nor were these same philosophies used to create new governments as one would expect with the French Revolution.  The idea that the people have come together to form a country has never been done before nor have they been used since 1776.  The idea that "the people of a nation, are the source of authority to give a government the permission to lead the people collectively as a country, has never been done anywhere else in the world.

In Canada, the constitution is nothing more than a piece of legislation that needed to be passed not so much by the country of Canada at the time, but needed to be passed by the British Parliament to give the colonies in North America an opportunity to come together to form a union of sorts for the purpose of trade, protection, and good government.  Nowhere are the people made part of the Canadian Constitution (the British North American Act 1867 and The Constitution Act of 1983).  The people are considered nothing more than occupants of the colonies to be ruled over by another form of government.

The Canadian Human Rights Code never came into being until sometime in the 1950's and was never enshrined in the Canadian Constitution.  The Canadian Bill of Rights is only a piece of legislation that has been attached to the legislation that creates Canada and can be amended or repealed at anytime by the government in power at the time.  The government of Canada is not Parliament like one would expect, but rather the government of Canada is the executive power which is made up of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.

Unlike the Constitution of the United States, Canada's constitution is not written in stone.  It can be changed at anytime by any government that sees fit to open the legislation and change what ever section in part or the whole that the executive branch decides.  The people have nothing to say about it.  They can protest or argue but in reality it is the executive branch of the government that has the final say.

Is Canada the place to be?  That is up to the individual that wants to live in this country.  On the other side of the coin, the United States is still a country where people want to flock to, believing that they can make a better life for themselves.   Canada is a country that has "profited" in some ways to the American Dream, but have not been able to create the atmosphere that is present in the United States.

People can not protect themselves in Canada, nor can they protect their property, by the use of lethal force.  By law, a person can only use as much force as is being used against him/her self.  And even that has come under fire and seen as excessive force.

People may believe that Canada is a more peaceful country, and it likely is.  At the same time, there is a deep misconception that the people of Canada give the authority to lead the country to Parliament.   The people do not.   The people can only elected a chosen representative of the party that does not represent the constituency in Parliament, but rather represents the party to the constituents.  Once more, the people are an inconvenient presence that gives credence but not authority to the government to lead the nation.  This leading the nation is also questionable as often times Canadians have found the government to rule that nation instead of leading the nation.

So the question Is Canada the place to be is only determined by the person who contemplated the question.