[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[burns]

On Saturday 03 December 2005 17:27, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> A couple of decades back, I spent considerable time in Saskatoon,
> Edmonton, and Calgary,  Good people.  A bit too conservative for my 20
> year old self.  They had some scathingly funny things to say about their
> countrymen in Ontario and Quebec.
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So, the stereotype US view of Canadians as nation of politically correct 
liberal wusses is no more accurate than any other stereotype. Those types of 
folks live do exist, but do not uniformly represent the Canadian view... 
unfortunately they are urban professionals with too much money and far too 
egalitarian education, but not enough brains between them to put in a lunch 
bag. 

A prime example is the Toronto humane society which for a number of years was 
taken over by a bunch of card-carrying yuppie animal rights activists. They 
were going to make a big fuss up in Bruce County one year at an egg farm, 
claiming that it was cruel to the hens to take their babies (the eggs) away 
from them, causing the hens to feel depressed and deprived as a result. 
Sometimes you just wonder if aliens have taken all the stupid people and 
given them good jobs, Lexus cars and black designer clothes... what did they 
do with all the normal people?

One last thing to clear up, except for a few idiots that don't know what they 
are talking about, most Canadians don't dislike Americans. Americans are our 
friends and neighbors and the people with whom we share the closest bonds of 
family and friendship. We can no more dislike Americans than we can dislike 
ourselves. However, there are a few issues that, like family members, we may 
not always see eye-to-eye on. Iraq was one of those. 

We absolutely agree on the War on Terrorism - in fact we still have a combat 
brigade and some special forces units in Afghanistan. I was one of 100,000 
people in the City of Ottawa who walked off their jobs the week of 9/11 to 
stand together on Parliament Hill in a spontaneous outpouring of grief and 
solidarity with America and anger at those who perpetrated it. We just 
weren't sure invading Iraq was a good idea and we were afraid that you might 
be making a terrible mistake. Making that decision was all the harder because 
of our friendship. Canada has been there beside the USA in every conflict 
except two - Vietnam and now Iraq.

-- 
Burns