Odd headline
It is not dependence. Contrary to this ‘special relationship’ garbage about the UK, the closest relative America has in the world is Canada.
So the little brother made good and got a decent job. Great, now he can pay us back for all the people we had to beat up in High School to protect his wimpy ass.
That’s the situation here. That’s our relationship.
I hope they can develop an oil shale process that’s marketable.
The wizard now has transformed Evil Big Oil into "energy." And what He (the anointed one) said was good.
Cool.
It is alot easier to invade Alberta and hold it in a pinch.
Regarding the ‘wimpy’ sub-topic within this thread, it is true that Canada presently has a more conservative government that what we have in the U.S., and what we’re liable to have after November this year.
It is also true that our Canadian friends are more than pulling their weight in Afghanistan, in fact they’re doing MORE than they should have to, and the U.S. needs to kick some asses at NATO to get more assistance for our allies.
Now having said all that, with the exception of Canada’s current Harper government, and a brief conservative reign for Joe Clark back in the ‘70s (thanks again Joe, for helping some of our fellow Americans escape from Tehran after the Assahollah and his buddies took over), Canada has generally been ruled by liberal-left socialists like Trudeau and Chretien who would be more at home with the likes of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, than with the likes of Ronald Reagan.
And let’s not forget that were it not for America’s military and resources during the Cold War, Canadians might well be speaking Russian right now, and Stephen Harper would most likely be in some Soviet gulag up in Whitehorse along with any other Canadian patriots who would have resisted.
As a closing thought, it has always puzzled me why Canadians, who pride themselves on their support for, and their embracing of the importance of human rights, find it morally acceptable to spend their hard earned money on vacations to Communist Cuba, helping to prop up Castro who coincidentally has the worst record on human rights in this hemisphere.
BTTT