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Q: Which country has the best performing economy in the world?
Q: Which country has the smartest high school graduates in the world?
A: Singapore

With oil and other commodity prices in the dumps and our manufacturing sector greatly eroded, what can Canada learn from Singapore?
1) Education
2) Business friendly government
3) Low taxes
4) "Clean" government
5) Diversity
6) Meritocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/asia/singapore-smartest-kids/
 

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Don't you worry about the invasion of the Muslims living
there? It is not sheltered by the ocean like North America!
 

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Seems like Singapore follows the Japanese and Chinese model for Islamic immigration.

The Japanese tend to see many Muslims as fundamentalists who are unwilling to give up their traditional point of view and adopt modern ways of thinking and behavior. In Japan, Islam is perceived as a strange religion, that any intelligent person should avoid.

The Republic of Singapore won its independence from Malaysia in 1965, when Singapore had 75% Chinese Buddhists and 15% Malay Muslims. Today, nearly 50 years later, Muslims still comprise the same 15%.

How has Singapore been able to do this without ethnic cleansing and without receiving a single human-rights violation complaint from the UN or that notorious Multinational Muslim Mafia OIC?

Simple, the Chinese-Buddhist-dominated Singaporean Government uses two pronged approach:

(1) Strict non-immigration policy for Muslims
(2) Strict legal prohibition of interfaith-marriages between Muslim men and non-Muslim women in Singapore.

In Singapore, no Muslim male is allowed to marry a non-Muslim female, period. No Large Scale Muslim Immigration is Allowed. No asylum seekers. No economic parasites. Except for some individual cases of highly educated professionals, Singapore never allows large scale immigration of Muslims from any Muslim country.

Islamic Proselytizing By Interfaith Marriage is Legally Prohibited: There is no legal restriction on interfaith marriages in Singapore except for the interfaith marriages of Muslim men to non-Muslim women.

To enforce that law, Singapore maintains two separate Marriage Registries. Registry of Muslim Marriages (ROMM) for Muslims and Registry of Marriage (ROM) for non-Muslims. Polygamy is legally prohibited. On the other hand, Buddhists can freely marry Hindus or Christians or any other religionists or even Atheists. But the cross marriage of a Muslim man to a non-Muslim bride is not allowed unless the woman is a willing convert to Islam. Singapore Government strictly enforces Muslim Law Act (1968) and ROMM is one significant part of that act in keeping the Muslim population at roughly 15% of total 5.4 million Singaporeans.

Singapore is determined not to allow it to be turned into another Burma (Myanmar) where Muslims are the cause of civil unrest, increased crime, rape, and forced marriages with Buddhist women. Unlike in Burma, forced conversions of Buddhist girls or women into Islam is prohibited.

In Burma, Bengali-Muslim men can freely marry up to four Burmese-Buddhist women, and all Buddhist wives are later force-converted to Islam. An illegal Bengali-Muslim man can create a massive 20-members Muslim family in just 10 years.
In almost every case of interfaith marriage between a Muslim man and a Buddhist girl or woman in Burma, the Muslim husband always tells his prospective Buddhist bride that she would be allowed practice Buddhism after their marriage. Later the Buddhists brides are forced to convert to Islam.

In Singapore, it is felt that if a Buddhist female is required to convert first to Islam legally well before marrying a Muslim man, she would think seriously before blindly marrying a Muslim man.

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/12/28/how-singapore-culls-its-muslim-population/
 

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"Upon independence from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore faced a small domestic market, and high levels of unemployment and poverty.[SUP][31][/SUP] 70 percent of Singapore's households lived in badly overcrowded conditions, and a third of its people squatted in slums on the city fringes. Unemployment averaged 14 percent, GDP per capita was US$516, and half of the population was illiterate.[SUP][50][/SUP][SUP][51]"

Amazing how far Singapore has advanced in 50 years. It's unemployment rate to-day is 2%, GDP per capita is north of US46,000 and it has foreign reserves north of US$225 billion.

"In April 2013, the country was recognised[SUP][by whom?][/SUP] as an increasingly popular tax haven for the wealthy due to the low tax rate on personal income, a full tax exemption on income that is generated outside of Singapore and 69 double taxation treaties[SUP][61][/SUP] that can minimise both withholding tax and capital gains tax. Australian millionaire retailer Brett Blundy, with an estimated personal wealth worth AU$835 million, and multi-billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin are two examples of wealthy individuals who have settled in Singapore (Blundy in 2013 and Saverin in 2012). Additionally, Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart owns property in Singapore[SUP][91][/SUP] and American investor Jim Rogersmoved to Singapore in 2007—Rogers has identified the 21st century as an era in which Asia will dominate and wishes for his two daughters to learn Mandarin as a key outcome of the relocation.[SUP][92][/SUP][SUP][93][/SUP] Chinese Media TV celebrities Jet Li and Gong Li have also taken up naturalised Singapore citizenship.[SUP][94][/SUP][SUP][95]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Singapore[/SUP][/SUP]
 

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#1,2 and 3 will not happen in this country for the next 4 years
thanks for the northern peso Justin
falling $ is suppose to help exports,but thanks to high corporate taxes,businesses have left for more friendly destinations--thank you liberal provincial governments
for anyone who has ever planned to retire outside of Canada,your retirement fund has taken a 7% decrease in the 2 months since dumb dumb won
 

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Singapore was very fortunate to have one of the world's BEST political leaders ( Mr Lee Kuan Yew) in the last 60 years aided by a few smart and able henchmen in the early years to build the poor island without any resources apart from labour into now one of the richest nation in the planet. It is known as the Monaco of the East. Nonetheless no nation is perfect and Singapore does has its flaws. But everything is relative. Although its students consistently top the global education polls in terms of rankings, they generally lack vision and creativity.
 
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SkyRider

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Singapore was very fortunate to have one of the world's BEST political leaders ( Mr Lee Kuan Yew) in the last 60 years aided by a few smart and able henchmen in the early years to build the poor island without any resources apart from labour into now one of the richest nation in the planet. It is known as the Monaco of the East.
Question: Why can't Canada duplicate the Singapore model?

Although its students consistently top the global education polls in terms of rankings, they generally lack vision and creativity.
Do Canadian students have vision and creativity?
 

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Question: Why can't Canada duplicate the Singapore model?

In the truest sense nothing is impossible. I'm sure you can google all the right answers.

I will just throw out one.

There is always trade offs. In Canada "Freedom" is BIG right or maybe a constitutional right. Although Singapore is democratic it is also " Authoritarian" ruled although not in the same way like North Korea. You can't just organized a protest and march in downtown anytime you like. Protests are restricted to a very very small public space. LGBTs are not unlawful but they don't have the peace of mind or total freedom to go around declaring publicly who they are

Do Canadian students have vision and creativity?
I will answer this question with a question. Which countryman/woman do you think is most likely to win a Nobel Prize in a Sciences or Medicine or produce the next Steve Jobs or Apple? Singapore or Canada?

PS: apology first answer is in your quote box. I won't bother to reedit it properly.
 

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Do Canadian students have vision and creativity?
Our high school education in science and
math is easy like abc compared with that of
the U.K. and much of Asia. That gives students
more leeway to cultivate vision and creativity.
 

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Question: Why can't Canada duplicate the Singapore model?

Do Canadian students have vision and creativity?
There are many, many reasons why Canada cannot duplicate the Singapore model. Singapore has some very huge economic advantages. Firstly, its location the port of Singapore is so perfectly located and so incredibly well protected from weather, it is quite amazing. Also, the climate is very consistent, and the state is tiny so logistics, governance etc etc are all easy to accomplish. That said, we can learn a few things from Singapore, the most important is, if you have a problem, someone else already has had it, find the best solution and copy it.
 

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With oil and other commodity prices in the dumps and our manufacturing sector greatly eroded, what can Canada learn from Singapore?
Nothing. Canada will learn nothing from Singapore.

You can't tell a white person to go be Chinese, you just can't. He wouldn't know what to do.

The cultural difference probably too wide to gap.

The other reason, if you're interested in another long article about Chinese people Rocky, is that my take is that Chinese people were the original economic neo-Liberals of the world. As we know unfortunately the neo-Liberal does not gain power often in the Great White North. I hope Rob Ford feels better. A true neo-Liberal.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-social-darwinism-made-modern-china-248/

Lastly, white people should stop taking drugs. Makes you stupid. But, that not my culture.
 

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One of the last countries you'd want to copy is Singapore.
 

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There are many, many reasons why Canada cannot duplicate the Singapore model. Singapore has some very huge economic advantages. Firstly, its location the port of Singapore is so perfectly located and so incredibly well protected from weather, it is quite amazing. Also, the climate is very consistent, and the state is tiny so logistics, governance etc etc are all easy to accomplish.
On the other hand, Singapore does not have oil or other commodity resources and is even short on water. It also gave up manufacturing, like Canada, years ago.


That said, we can learn a few things from Singapore, the most important is, if you have a problem, someone else already has had it, find the best solution and copy it.
Either copy the solution or avoid the problem in the first place so you don't even need a solution.
 

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Happy? #90 on the list?
To people in the free world where we can poke fun
at our leaders in the most abusive manner
without fearing retaliation from the government
living in Singapore could be depressing. No secret police
there but you have to be careful even with something
as innocuous as to caricature the prime minister in political
cartoon.
 
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