Well said Speedbird eh!
From my perspective, age and experience, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments.
For fellow canadians who feel so strongly about canada, I'd agree that it is a clean, safe, and modern country, but that's it. As for being the best country in the world? I guess it depends on what you're smokin'.
Sorry, I don't agree.
I am a patriotic canadian (small "c") and anything but nationalistic. (Thanks to Quebec!!
) My vision of Canada no longer includes this spoilt 'petit province'. (but that's my opinion, isn't it?)
We don't live in true democracy thanks to an antiquated Parliamentary system inhereted from the Brits.
AS for aviation here. It's a joke. True, our licencing is better than most countries but nowhere near the standard it should be.
Those of you working overseas know quite well and are much less likely to return when Air Canada fires up the "B" scale hiring machine in a few weeks. And, why would you want to pay the exorbitant tax rates clean, safe and modern bring with it?
Dubai is clean, safe and modern. Isn't it?
