They act like they know what they’re talking about, we act like we care.
Although his letter blames the “Harper government” for stripping him of the franchise, he is likely unable to vote because of a 22-year-old law enacted by the government of Brian Mulroney.
Well Sutherland should start his own political party…
Just look at Mulcair, a dual citizen of France, running for the PMO.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Ill bet he hasn’t paid a dime in taxes to Canaduh
The beaver thing shows what happens when celebrities ad lib.
Maybe his wife’s Dad would want to off him now too?
I bet he chooses to pay U.S. taxes and not Canadian.
Quick, call the CDC! It looks like Harper Derangement Syndrome has spread to the US. This could see the entire US left having their brains turn to mush! No, wait, never mind, it’s too late.
Seriously, though, the last thing we need is self-entitled leftards who don’t live here voting for socialists to enact job and economy-killing legislation that won’t effect them because they don’t live here. Away wi’ ye, ye fookin eejit!
Cal2 beat me to it!
I don’t give a flying fluck what Donald Sutherland thinks about anything.
You can’t vote if you haven’t lived in Canada for five years. Okay I can agree with that, but how come you can come back to Canada after 30 years and lead a federal political party?
I guess it’s okay when the Liberals do it.
Yeah, Sutherland is every bit as much Canadian as Neil Young.
And America,where they both have lived for decades,is welcome to them both.
Sutherland’s just bitching because he was married to Tommy Douglas’ daughter for a few years,and like her,has always dreamed of a socialist Party coming into federal power to completely f*** up this Country. Now he sees that might happen,so he’s bitter he can’t vote,which I find surprising as we usually let anyone,even Paul Bernardo, vote in our elections.
According to Wkipedia’s page on DS, he also once or twice boffed Jane Fonda. Thank Allah THEY had no children together.
what I remember most is his portrayal of Oddball as a 60s hippy in a WW2 movie . about as pretentious at the time as Brando doing the one scene in the Missouri Breaks in drag . still a pretentious twit and probably called in my the Hair Apparent himself .
Trulander , with the Red Steal look.
You’re thinking of Kelly’s Heroes with Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas and some others.
If you don’t live here and don’t pay taxes why should you have a vote?
J just remembered. Donald Sutherland married the spawn of Tommy Douglas. That should be sufficient reason to deny him entry at the border.
Great actor…dumb-ass like most.
I wonder if this clown gets his health care back in Canada or if he is enjoying Obamacare?
that’s the one , terrible movie , supposed to be a tank commander , spoke like a doped up hippy . though actually he always does , slow and slobbery . crap actor , crap weasel .
okay Cal2 , tell us what you really think.
With his kind of money and success he gets the best health care money can buy and if he were here in Canada he’d head south for health care at the first sniffle. As some have suggested he is just a spoiled socialist demanding everything he wants and hoping to bask in a Socialist victory this fall. (I pray that doesn’t come)
Under this ruling I’ll be loosing my ability to vote in a couple years if I don’t move back. But unlike Mr. Sutherland I can’t afford to maintain residency in Canada while working in the US so its a choice I’ve made. The day I moved, I lose my ability to vote in the Alberta election and my home riding is most likely the safest of CPC riding so loosing my vote wont matter much.
Donald could make his home in Canada his residence, there are visas specifically for actors/athletes/ect that allow them to work pretty easily in the US. Problem is he’d face huge taxation implications, but I’m sure he never even asked his accountant that…
Donald, you’re an entertainer. Shut up and juggle.
Maybe someone should suggest to Canada Revenue Agency that Donald Sutherland, by his own admission, maintains significant ties to Canada, including a residence. It would appear that paying Canadian taxes would not be optional. Mind you he lives in California so his American taxes are probably higher meaning he would pay nothing in Canada anyways.
Oh, his Canadian home is in Quebec, one place with higher taxes than California. Maybe he should be filing Canadian and Quebec taxes if he already doesn’t.
Let’s see: his ex-f-i-l was a dipper and he has a home in Quebec? Now who has encouraged him to speak at this time, for this particular election?
Nope, I can’t think of anyone.
Simple enough. If you live and work here, then you can vote here.
Just another chance to lambast Harper. This statement, at this time, has specific reasons, and I believe he was coached or ispired to do it now “for the good of the party”. The fact that the Libs had 12 or 14 years to undo this law, and chose to keep it, does not matter. It is Harper’s fault! Gotta keep up the (unsubstantiated) evil Harper narrative, as that is all the left has.
inspired. Sigh. The things you glance up and see after hitting “submit”.
In Donny’s case they should have him submit to both a competency exam and a breathalizer before he votes.
What did I tell you about throwing out them negative waves?
Expats lost the right to vote under Trudeau (Pierre). It was about 1973, and I was in the Netherlands at the time. On a visit home, at Schiphol I watched the Canadian dollar lose 2% of its value. So naturally we were stripped of our right to vote because, after all, we “didn’t know what was going on in Canada.” In those days Pierre was pretending for the Canadian audience to be a great statesman. In fact in Europe if he were mentioned at all it was as a wealthy playboy.
… watched the Canadian dollar lose 2% of its value IN ONE HOUR.
Especially as his “home” is in Quebec – taxes? Ouch!
Ho hum. Just another lefty seizing an opportunity to take a cheap shot at Harper. Sutherland has no more interest in voting in the Canadian election than I have in casting a ballot in Somalia.
Americans who live outside the U.S.A. have to pay U.S. taxes. Thus, they get to vote. Like all leftards he tries to compare apples to beans.
And again with the not reading the linked article.
“The actor is presumably referring to a long-standing law under which Canadian citizens lose their voting rights if they have lived outside the country for more than five consecutive years.
First established in 1993, the “five years” rule was overturned last year by the Ontario Superior Court, opening the door for as many as 1.4 million Canadian expats to cast a ballot in the October federal election.
Last month, however, it was reinstated after a successful appeal by Ottawa.”
Last I checked, Ottawa is where they keep the federal government. Attempts to fob responsibility off on the Mulroney government are disingenuous; the current federal government chose to defend and appeal the ruling that would have struck down the five year law. It’s not HDS.
However long Michael Ignatieff had or Donald Sutherland has lived abroad, as a Canadian citizen they can run for office or vote in an election here if they move back here, as Ignatieff chose to do and as Sutherland has chosen not to do.
Poll up at http://bc.ctvnews.ca/ asking whether ‘off shore’ citizens should be allowed to vote. Right now, 62% say ‘no’.
Why not let them know what you think about Sutherland’s sense of entitlement.
A previous parliament enacted that law. If the current government doesn’t challenge court rulings that seek to strike down laws passed by previous parliaments, why should any parliament bother to enact any laws in the first place?
That’s the idea Tooner. Lets us Canadians continue being stomped on by Canadians of convenience and dual citizens ass hats like Sutherland and whoever else wants to crap on Canada. In no time Canadian heritage will become so blurred no one will give a shit what happens because there will be no more REAL CANADA.
Mr Sutherland conveniently forgets that American citizens, no matter where they live, have to file US tax returns yearly and may also have to pay taxes to the US as well as their country of residence. If he wants to have a say in our government, then he should put his money where his mouth is and pay Canadian taxes as well.
Donald Sutherland can damn well live in Canada if he wants a say in how it is run.
Typical celebrity….
My remarks in response to Largs were to point out the difference between Michael Ignatieff coming back to Canada where the voters could stomp on him vs. Donald Sutherland wants to live in L.A. and vote on who is to govern us but not him.
When I lived and worked abroad I didn’t maintain a domicile in Canada or pay tax here and it never occurred to me to enquire whether I could vote in Canadian elections. I think if anyone told me I could I wouldn’t have.
Hey Donald stay south of the border, we already have enough commies up here. By the way what was the total amount of taxes that you paid to Canada last year compared to the amount you paid in the USA. Just trying to ascertain where your real loyalties lie.
“Simple enough. If you live and work here, then you can vote here.”
That concept didn’t work out for the Romans and it won’t work out for us either.
Democracy is not a cultural suicide pact, it’s merely a stop-gap to allow the Legacy citizens to throw the corrupt politicians out short of having to resort to bloodshed to maintain the culture and economy we inherited.
Merely ‘working here’ doesn’t make them stakeholders or heirs of our nation, especially if their goal is overthrowing the status quo, which does appear to be their intent.
you don’t live in Canada you don’t vote in Canada.
Canadian voters file Canadian tax returns.
How is getting 1,400,000 more people to vote in an election that they have no skin in a good idea? OK, maybe let commie donny do it … only 1,399,999 shouldn’t be allowed.