[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[Collins Richey]

On 12/3/05, burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:
> 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.
> <snip>
> 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.
>

You don't have to worry about that. Americans don't see eye-to-eye on
that topic either. You're either fer it or agin it, and there's not
much middle ground.

> 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.
>

Thanks again for painting a clearer picture of Canadians. I like the
real Canadians, not the stereotypes.

OTOH, I want no part of Candian style, government controlled, no
choice for anyone medical treatment!

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
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