[Windcatcher]

Tell me about it...I don't get it either. What in God's name did we do to Canada to earn the ire? We opened our trade, enriching the country, we're pretty clearly on the side of English-speaking Canada when it comes to cultural issues, and we've made it abundantly clear that we're prepared to throw ourselves in front of a proverbial *train* to protect their security. Aa far as I know, we've asked for nothing in return. Good grief!

[fieldmarshaldj]

"What in God's name did we do to Canada to earn the ire?"

Penis envy, plain and simple. We're well hung, and they're just a bunch of little pricks.

[Darkwolf]

Good summation. There's nothing to add. I wish some Canadian would get the chip off his shoulder and calmly explain where this comes from. I mean, is it as simple as that they resent us becuase they depend on us for so much of their economy?

[Slings and Arrows]

What in God's name did we do to Canada to earn the ire? We opened our trade, enriching the country, we're pretty clearly on the side of English-speaking Canada when it comes to cultural issues, and we've made it abundantly clear that we're prepared to throw ourselves in front of a proverbial *train* to protect their security. Aa far as I know, we've asked for nothing in return.

And that is why they hate us.

[BigSkyFreeper]

What in God's name did we do to Canada to earn the ire?

You answered your own question below:

We opened our trade, enriching the country, we're pretty clearly on the side of English-speaking Canada when it comes to cultural issues, and we've made it abundantly clear that we're prepared to throw ourselves in front of a proverbial *train* to protect their security. Aa far as I know, we've asked for nothing in return.

That's why they hate us.

[Brian Allen]

<< Darkwolf
Tell me about it...I don't get it either. What in God's name did we do to Canada to earn the ire? We opened our trade, enriching the country, we're pretty clearly on the side of English-speaking Canada when it comes to cultural issues, and we've made it abundantly clear that we're prepared to throw ourselves in front of a proverbial *train* to protect their security. As far as I know, we've asked for nothing in return. Good grief! >>

Envy.

The only one of the Seven Deadly Sins that has no "reward" -- and whose inevitable products are hatred and rage.

Collectivized envy as a defining attribute.

[beaver fever]

"Tell me about it...I don't get it either. What in God's name did we do to Canada"

Well I don't know maybe it could have something to do with NAFTA, a so called free trade agreement we signed with you the last time we had a conservative government. (Brian Mulroney. Remember the "Shamrock Summit"?)

The US has tried for fifteen years to argue that Canadian softwood lumber is subsidized and has lost it's case in the WTO, GATT and the NAFTA review panel (where the US has a majority and still lost.)

Failing in every review process the DOC imposed a trade penalty against Canadian softwood of 25%. The argument was a "trade penalty" wasn't a tariff (illegal under NAFTA)which is just a play on words.

Meanwhile you pass the Helms Burton amendment that awards the money collected from Canadian mills to American mills as compensation for unfair trade practices.

At last count Canadian companies have paid out $3.2 Billion in penalties to the US Government of which $102 Million has been paid to US sawmills for doing diddly squat in terms of improving their own efficiency or securing wood supply.

As it stands now Slocan Lumber, the most efficient mill in BC provides all it's wood supply from second growth forest planted eighty years ago. The own their wood because they and their predecessor companies grew it.

Then there's Canadian Beef, barred from the US by a Montana beef lobby who are so concerned about contaminated Canadian Beef that they took advantage of the BSE epidemic (of three head of cattle) to buy up 30,000 head of calves in Alberta for dimes on the dollar and imported them into the US. Meanwhile Alberta ranchers are going broke.

That's two examples of, "What we did to Canada????"

Maybe you could think of a couple of others.

If you are hoping for a conservative government in Canada in the next election removing these two issues might be a good idea considering it is the conservative west that that is hurting most from these issues.

To put it in perspective, if a conservative Alberta rancher has to choose between the BFE blockade and gay marriage as the most important issue affecting them you can guarantee it's going to be his ranch.

[Antioch]

I've been studying this phenomenon since the Reagan years, and I'm still at a loss to explain it to Americans. As near as I can tell, our beautiful country is simply infested with socialists. It's about 70:30 ratio. During the brinkmanship of the Reagan years, when the USSR had thousands of MIRVS aimed at us, these idiots were actually cheering for Gorby. I was appalled that they had NO idea of what communism, NEVER heard of something called the Politburo, KGB, GRU, or gulag and actually believed that the Soviet "people" had a say in politics and just wanted the same thing as them i.e. "peace." There was no question that Reagan was the warmonger. Universally, their grasp of history stopped at about the date of their birth. Crazy.

During the re-coronation of Chimpus Khan (beloved defender of the realm), they reeeeally went Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs. At times I felt I was living in a giant outdoor DUmmieland. Declare a basic self-evident truth at the dinner table (like, say, the sole reason we can afford universal health care is because we rely on the USA to defend the 'effen country) and you would be blamed for "spoiling the evening".

We once had a proud past during Confederation, the opening of the West and the Great War, but somehow in the last 50 years, we lost our identity. Against this ennui we see the USA, a nation that knows exactly what it is, can defend itself AS AN IDEA and doesn't care what you think. But what turns many of my countrymen into real mental cases is the vague feeling that Christian faith underpins it all. It actually has a place in public discourse in America

But Canada is not your adversary (nor is France or Germany or any mere geopolitical entity) Your eternal and implacable foe is the creeping "dictatorship of relativism," that Benedict XVI, with angelic intelligence foresaw.

The nonsensical drumbeat of prounoucements by this gaggle of secular humanists is not going to go away - they're hellbent on "educating" you. Like Michael, Hillary, Whoopy or Chirac, these "world citizens" are the apostate mutations of a free society. Their one absolute in life is a craven fear and hatred of ANY reminder of their creatureliness.

For them, truth is an emotional position statement on a cool T-shirt determined by a majority vote. It gives them community and allows them to project their internal desolation onto evil America.

Help them! They need compassionate correction.