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"It's a funny thing they don't want the Canadian flag, but they want our money. I've never seen such a bunch of whiners in my life," he said in 1998 after complaints that there were too many Canadian flags on view at the Nagano Olympics.

He also described freestyle skier Jean-Luc Brassard, who was Canada's flag-bearer at Nagano, as "a French guy, some skier that nobody knows about."

I guess it's not nice to tell the truth in Canada...

You know, every single person who's a member of the Free Republic would have to be censored on Canadian TV...

The government-controlled CBC network is about as liberal as can be. When that snowboarder from Canada tested positive for pot at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, there were several CBC announcers making a hero out of him, spending hour after hour glorifying the kid at the expense of all the other Canadian athletes.

Don Cherry was the only CBC employee who went on the air and told kids that they shouldn't do drugs and shouldn't hang around others who use drugs. Cherry was actually yelling into the camera: STAY AWAY FROM THE STUFF. IT'S NO GOOD!

But in Canada, that kind of common-sense advice is considered by most hosers to be intolerant and ignorant.

The CBC was also mad at Cherry after he criticized the Canadian government for its opposition to the USA's war in Iraq. Cherry said he could understand not sending troops, but he couldn't understand the lack of at least verbal support for a reliable and loyal neighbor like the U.S.

I've been wishing for several years now that Cherry would move down here and become a commentator on a U.S. network. Our country would be a better place with him in it.