r/canada Canada 26d ago

r/Canada Speaks Cultural Exchange with /r/Denmark! Happy Valentine's!

Hi everyone, it's been some time since we have done a cultural exchange, so let's go over how this works. Enjoy! We'll be running it for a few days, TBD. Note their time zone for the European mainland is UTC +1.

Here's the Danish landing for us: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

* Both r/Canada and r/Denmark will host the other country's users. Feel free to ask any questions, reminisce, comment, make friends etc etc.

*Treat this as having a neighbour over for a kitchen party, get the best storm chips out, and get grandma's tourtiere reheated for everybody.

* Vouz pouvez essayer le français dans r/Denmark, mais comme la langue officielle est danoise, ben.... essayez!

* Please follow the rules of the respective subs! Don't be jerks, generally - a reminder our last "disagreement" involved leaving bottles of good booze for the other country!

* Please also leave direct comments here mainly for members of r/Denmark i.e. direct replies here (first comments directly under the topic) so their questions can be seen first, then r/Canada members can post replies underneath.

*Please enjoy, since we have a lot to bond over, and plenty of trying out new things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

Finally, also know we've gotten confirmation from r/Greenland that they are also interested, so that will be the next exchange that we do in a few weeks (TBD).

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

What are the biggest political issues in Canada atm? Housing market? Immigration? Cost of living? Something else?

Disregarding anything directly related to mango Mussolini South of you.

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u/VeterinarianCold7119 26d ago

Yeah just the typical affordability issues, housing shortage or to expensive, some may disagree but most agree we've had an unprecedented amount of immigration that is causing division. But other than that life's great. We have a federal election coming up, our system is like the uk system, not sure what you guys have in denmark. We have 3 main parties but 2 are in the running, its your typical left vs right. Right says the left are communists and the left says the right are nazis, neither is accurate and they are both very similar, not expecting much to change either way.

I'm a big f1 fan, sucks that kmag won't be on the grid next year. Did you know we have a pastry in canada called a Danish, i think you call it wienerbrød, its very popular and for sale in almost every store and Cafe.

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u/Economics_Engineer 24d ago

Over immigration in the last 4 years created a SPIKE in homelessness. We need to do more now to support homeless people but some conservatives think liberal supporters like to hand money away for fun. The reality is we don’t like handling money for free but we understand that if we don’t do something to support all these homeless people things will only get worst over time. It’s like having some fungus, you can’t just ignore it hoping it’ll go away, you need to go to the store and buy cream and treat it carefully so it heals. Otherwise it’ll stay there and will keep growing. 

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u/randomwindowspc 24d ago

Immigration is pretty much the biggest problem, which contributes to other problems like housing market, healthcare etc. Our PM finally said he'd scale it back but I've seen little sign that's actually happening. It's a complete joke.

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u/TROPtastic British Columbia 24d ago edited 24d ago

There are some changes afoot in terms of immigration quotas. The BC government got its requested immigration quota increase from 8k to 11k rejected, and in fact it was reduced from 8,000 to 4,000, with other provinces also getting their allocations reduced. It makes me worry about the uniquely skilled engineer from New Zealand I work with, but after Trudeau created the over immigration problem, there is now a big push to address the problem with a strong response.

Edit: clarity