Canada Responds to Bill Maher

Bill Maher, host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" (HBO) recently used Canada as an example of what America has to be worried about becoming. Bill poked the bear. If he were Canadian he would have realized you don't poke bears. Ever.

[@edgundaker5982]

The smallest dog always barks the most...😂😂😂

[@moonbalancedd]

You should have pointed out that him saying Canada spend 13% gdp on healthcare as a lot is mischievous when you know that US spends 17% gdp on healthcare.

[@johnhess3886]

Then we need to address our government health care spending too.

[@dallassegno]

The point is that it's "Free" not that it's just A LOT

[@cutecats532]

I haven't liked Bill Maher since 2016.

[@patriciazoerner]

Oh, when he said Trump wouldn't leave peacefully if he ever got into the White House?

[@richravizza]

Critical theory can only be applied to the the right says the commie.

[@GuinevereKnight]

Love you Canada! Sour grapes it sounds like from Maher... Must be tough with such a great neighbour when You think You are the best... Love from Scandinavia ❤️🤍❤️

[@jnielsen90]

This has got to go right on that Bill Maher show thread.....I'll take care of that for ya :D

[@cannonwriter]

Get to work.

[@jnielsen90]

It has been unleashed 😂

[@marklande3752]

You know, there’s capitalism in America to, they never shut up about it. Be nice to have a $200K + knocked off they price of a house. And yes 1.2 million and 900,000 students in a year will absolutely affect the rent a single mom pays and your granny will have to compete with a family with 5 kids to get that prized dr.

[@user-fj5qf7gt6n]

Recently I saw a comedian on youtube call Canada America's hat, but America is Canada's jock strap... One of the cleverest I've heard is that for Canada it's like living above a crack house. Lunatic fringe as Tom Cochrane would say.

[@richravizza]

When America spits, Canada swims.LOL

[@thomaslenox3071]

Always nice to hear the other side of the story. Thanks Canada!

[@martinsgiroux]

True. Also, healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction, not a federal one.

[@fedev80]

You conveniently forgot to address the gender ideology nonsense happening in Canada, and the sexualization of children.

[@Ryusuta]

Except that's not a thing outside of paranoid right-wing fantasies. Just like it wasn't a thing when gays were accused of it in the 1980s. And just like it wasn't a thing when blacks were accused of it in the 1950s. Same right-wing fearmongering, different decade.

[@dallassegno]

A labor shortage and an unemployment problem. Crazy.

[@jefferyfite7122]

Brian Calvert represents a specific Canadian opinion, not Canada itself. The title is deliberately misleading.

[@patriciazoerner]

It's a joke, Dear.

[@johnhess3886]

Is Canada actually spending 13% of their budget on Health Care? If your comments were true then the Us would be spending 26% of our total GDP on healt care. We are not.

[@jefferyfite7122]

Is Canada actually paying for healthcare for illegal immigrants in Canada? If they were their health care system would be going broke at a fast pace. I tend to doubt it. Hopefully they're not stupid about that like the USA.

[@stephenfoulon-ff6fy]

ahhh math not your strong point??

[@tonymorse7178]

Paying double...twice as much....don't need numbers

[@patriciazoerner]

I love it! Michigan gal, here. Sorry about the Detroit air quality drift. We're doing what we can about that...driving an electric car and almost done installing geothermal.

[@jefferyfite7122]

How do you like Toronto using our state as a trash dump? Their 'commodity' trucks come over the Blue Water bridge every morning. You can lose count real quickly. It's disgusting.

[@alixloriston650]

Bill while fighting wokism seems more woke by saying stupidity that himself did not verified before…

[@user-jg3om7iw5y]

hey Bill! time to tell your staff to get some perspective

[@user-jg3om7iw5y]

excellent !!!

[@dallassegno]

It's not us. It's you

[@stefanjohansson3670]

So true, fact counts

[@RBB52]

We really need to thank Bill M. Hopefully, from his depiction of Canada, the rightwing crazies will not want to come up to Canada.🤣🤣

[@coolmacatrain9434]

Canada is in a complete mess... are you people utterly blind?

[@glerieelektra9545]

I notice recently brown speckles on Bill Nose when he speaks about touching topics . Things have change since when he was a free spirit, now he kneel down to the big bosses in order to staying alive, too bad ! he use to be great!

[@antonionalesnik4706]

One thing that isnt free or guaranteed in Canada?...speech 😢

[@jefferyfite7122]

Biden and Trudeau equals censorship.

[@cron1165]

Canada doesn't have free speech? Since when? Canada ranks far more free than even the US in every statistic and world index in existence

[@user-op7ri1hy3w]

B.S. Redneck paranoia. The yokels on the right love to feel sorry for themselves.

[@purplemonkeydishwasher3263]

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[@cathleenmackinnon4669]

Drop the mic!!!

[@LexiBabbles]

❤

[@Splinter-kc8zi]

I'm with you but for your denying a link between population growth and housing prices. And no, it's not the "foreigners fault", it's simply true that supply/demand realities are relevant in the housing sector, as they are in other sectors. Not that demand growth is the only problem here, supply issues have certainly contributed as well. But it's clear that our federal government failed to anticipate and prepare for the varied affects of such a population explosion. It may have also underestimated the total growth of resident population from all sources (including international students, asylum seekers). I've bristled every time federal government ministers have tried down deflect criticism over their policy failures with the incendiary line "don't blame 'the foreigners'". Exactly who is blaming "the foreigners"? The foreigners don't set our immigration targets or population policies (to the extent we have any). And it bears emphasis that our predicament comes down to total numbers of people, not their origins. If our population surge came from high domestic fertility rates rather than immigration we'd still face major challenges. (Ask any boomer about the downsides of rapid population growth.) So again, "foreigners" are not to blame in this instance, but our policymakers sure are. Canada can and should continue to welcome significant numbers of immigrants for all kinds of reasons...and with fertility rates hovering around 1.5 children/woman we can do so, to a point, without suffering major growth pains. But it's time to get real and do our homework re the diverse economic, social and (especially) environmental effects of surging population growth - because the total numbers matter, they always have and always will.

[@bar8393gm]

Jesus , this sarcastic delivery was a really bad choice. Was he was going for comedy. If he stood there and used a factual tone he would have achieved more. I can’t even finish watching it. I appreciate the counterpoint, but not if I have to consume it like this.

[@ir8542]

Please send this to him and follow up...if you need to crowdfund to sue him count me in🎉

[@michaellamb9596]

Perfect example of sticking to a lie long enough until people start believing it.

[@dustinbissell996]

This video is triggering a cringe seizure in me. Smug condescending people like this are why Canadians hate the Liberal party and will vote them decisively out of power soon...

[@geraldbrowne]

Calvert is ignoring the obvious plight of many Canadians that are suffering. America is doing better in every metric. GDP, healthcare, income tax costs, housing,

[@mhausenfluck]

Really? How many Canadians are going bankrupt due to medical bills?

[@geraldbrowne]

@@mhausenfluck they are dying of poor healthcare outcomes. And inability to access medical care. Canadians are going bankrupt for costs of living.

[@daddylonglegs202]

Housing costs are high because people are paying high costs for a house. It is capitalism, but more specifically, supply and demand. Opening the flood gates to immigrants, which we do need for the labor market, is undoubtably adding demand. Also, we don't have a health care system. The walk in clinics have burnt out doctors who never get a diagnosis correct. In northern B.C. we are sending people home from the hospitals to die because we don't have the beds, doctors, or equipment to treat them....I don't want people to loose a house to get access to helathcare, but lets not pretend we don't have people loosing access to helathcare to preserve our existing system. We. Need . Reform

[@cannonwriter]

This is what our first draft looked like but it wasn't very funny.

[@cutecats532]

There are more houses sitting empty in the U.S. than homeless people, immigrant or local. Inflation isn't happening if people's wages aren't increasing with the cost of living, it's just price gouging. And people pay for a house because they have to if they don't want to be homeless, but thanks for trying to blame buyers for high house prices because they tried to find a place to live.

[@chinary8]

What the problem is is WHERE the demand is coming from. SPeculators of all shapes and sizes, many bringing dark money into the country too.

[@tonymorse7178]

Mr. Brian does not see the obvious. Pierre's popularity is proof. Common sense is obviously not Brian's strong suit....just sayin'

[@ramonzapata2450]

What a communist point of view of housing, shameful. The Healthcare in Canada is terrible, you can never get an appointment with a specialist, the timeframe for being to see a physician is easily north of 6 months. Canada has gone completely woke under its current government. Better to be honest about one’s problems rather than finding lame excuses

[@StevW7374]

😂🤣😂🤣😂 I know a shit ton of canadians that have moved to, worked in, and served in the armed forces(along my side) here in the USA. I wonder why!? I have family there and spent time there (unfortunately). My thing is I don't get why you all love being forced to participate in everyone else's life or vice versa and letting the government tell you they're the ones taking care of you. Do you really love being treated like children that government knows better than you, that you are unable to think for yourselfs, that you are unable to take care yourselves ?

[@concankid4202]

Pierre Poilievre will fix all of those problems.

[@paulinesvisuals]

No he won't. He'll gut healthcare, education and anything else so he can give tax cuts to corporations & the rich. Conservatives do that EVERY SINGLE TIME they're in power. PP has always voted against anything that makes Canadians lives easier and yet he's Canada's major welfare queen, living off of taxpayers his entire adult life.

[@imisstoronto3121]

no he wont Hes a canadian version of MAGA😁😁

[@concankid4202]

@@imisstoronto3121 Exactly my point, thank you.

[@littlechange1659]

@@imisstoronto3121no Pierre Poilievre won’t save Canada. Trudumb is like Gavin Newsom, Truedumb has economically destroyed Canada so badly that a divine being could save us from the pain he has created.

[@oleandra3759]

Bill had it right, point for point. I love the way leftists do “comedy”- completely devoid of any humour, just talking points said in a “comedic tone”. If you love communism so much there are a few countries I could recommend. Capitalism is freedom and has, unlike, communism, lifted millions and millions out of poverty. You’re smug and foolish- quite the winning combination

[@stephenfoulon-ff6fy]

Canada isn't capitalist? Better tell Galon Weston, he may want to move

[@oleandra3759]

@@stephenfoulon-ff6fy did someone say it isn’t?

[@dallassegno]

Canada is a stable combination of far right fascist consumer wing and communism for the plebs.

[@user-jw1yy8yp6c]

Only Canadians whine defensively like this.

[@chinary8]

A particular kind of Canadian too. A comfortable one.

[@jefferyfite7122]

​@@chinary8He lives in a bubble. Its hard to take people like him seriously.

[@DouglasGlover-ip4vy]

Apparently Canada is great. Why is it then that Trudeau seems to be more hated than Trump or Biden? I also love how smug Canadians don't seem to understand how much worse for them it would be if they didn't share a border with the USA.

[@macc240038]

This year, Canadians could expect to wait 6.6 weeks for a CT scan, 12.9 for an MRI scan, and 5.3 weeks for an ultrasound. Dec 7, 2023 Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2023 Report  Fraser Institute Before the COVID-19 pandemic, patients in Canada waited an average of 50 to 82 days (7.1 to 11.7 weeks) for a CT scan, and up to 89 days (12.7 weeks) for an MRI scan. In the US we schedule those for a few days later. Where is this guy getting his information?

[@ThePrairielad]

Depends on priority, you will get either a CT Scan/MRI/Ultrasound or any other procedure right away if it is deemed by doctor needed right away (emergency) Yes, one can wait long at times, but not the case for life threatening situations, where your health is serious jeopardy for having to wait Is our "free" HealthCare system the Utopia, no it is not and improvements needed, but at least in emergencies we do not have to worry about a Medical Bill

[@jnielsen90]

Maybe depends on the Province you're living in I guess, here in B.C. I'm on disibility and need to get EKG scans, CT Scans, Ultrasounds, and x-rays constantly.....they are scheduled and performed within the same week every single time here in Victoria, I've never waitied more then 4-5 days at maximum for any kind of medical need (with the exception of life threatening medical needs which are done same day), lab requistion or referral to a specialist. I have a family doctor though which is definitely a huge advantage then having to schedule appointments etc. with a random doctor you'll see at a walk-in clinic or hospital emergency. So don't know where you're getting that information from that it takes a month and a half to two and a half months wait time for these scans....?

[@jnielsen90]

​@@ThePrairielad It must be so strange to walk in to a doctors office in the USA for a Canadian......they must have like a cash register and credit card readers etc at the front counters, and probably like lists of prices and stuff on the wall.....as you walk in bleeding everywhere the staff asks you how you would like to pay, and you reply "I have been shot twice and I don't have any money, I'm bleeding everywhere...help me please!".....and they reply "unfortunately we can't help poor people without money, you'll have to go to the emergency room at the hospital thats in you're network.....would you like me to call an ambulance that will cost you $150 dollars to take you there? By the way we'll have to bill you for the cleaning of the office because of all this blood you're getting everywhere in here........Sir? "meanwhile you have blead out and died already" :D

[@paulinesvisuals]

You can blame the premier of the province for that since they decide where the funding goes or they take the money from the feds but don't spend it. I have American friends and they have to wait for services too AND pay for it, whereas we don't.

[@robgraham5697]

You're using the Fraser Institute as an information source? What's next? Using the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights as a source for information on the perils of firearm possession?