Tories would make Canada uncool: filmmaker

CTV ^ | 1/17/06

[Dane]

Tories would make Canada uncool: filmmaker

Updated Tue. Jan. 17 2006 7:43 PM ET

Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Forget all that fearmongering about Tory intolerance - Albert Nerenberg is painting a truly nightmarish scenario of what a Conservative government could mean: boredom.

Nerenberg, director of the soon-to-be-released documentary Escape to Canada, warns that Stephen Harper might try to turn cool Canadians into sanctimonious squares.

"Canada could be on its way back to Dullsville if Canada elects a Tory majority that would turn things back," Nerenberg says in a decidedly light-hearted news release.

"I'm not saying the Conservatives don't have interesting ideas. In fact, as campaigners, the other parties have been more boring.

"I'm just a dumb hoser, but it seems to me the Conservatives have clearly come out specifically against the things that have put Canada on the map: same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization and their orbiting freedom issues."

Canada has often been ridiculed in the United States and Britain as a nice dull country. American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson went so far as to insult Canada as being "like Honduras except colder and less interesting."

But Nerenberg notes The Great White North has received major media coverage worldwide since 2003 as an exciting, interesting place thanks to our liberal views on gay marriage and marijuana use.

Even Britain's esteemed weekly magazine the Economist deigned to call Canada "cool."

Conservative MP Jason Kenney suggests voters wouldn't mind if Ottawa was a bit more boring.

"No more bags of cash, money laundering and sexy Ottawa scandals - maybe that will be boring but that's peace, order and good government," he laughed.

Nerenberg says his concerns about Harper's hipness were fueled just seconds after Harper became leader of the Conservative party. In the midst of convention cheers, Nerenberg asked the new Tory leader if thought Canada was cool.

Harper apparently didn't quite get it: "It has been one of the coldest winters on record," came the straight-faced reply.

Escape to Canada, to be released in March by Elevator Films, documents how the world took notice of Canada in 2003 during the "Summer of Legalization," when the courts briefly lifted legal restrictions on marijuana.

[Dane]

Typical inane liberal pap. It's all show and feelings to them and no substance.

[ChadGore]

Pissing off hollywood limo-libs Nothing would make my prouder.

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[Neville72]

"Nerenberg, director of the soon-to-be-released documentary Escape to Canada, warns that Stephen Harper might try to turn cool Canadians into sanctimonious squares."

How could anyone be more sanctimonious than Paul Martin and the Liberals. It's impossible.

[jmaroneps37]

As good an example of the disconnect between these people and America. ( and real Canada as well )

[JudyinCanada]

Gee, a filmmaker has spoken....I may have to re-think this whole Conservative position I hold.

I don't want to be boring...I want to be exciting and fun-filled and full of life....like Carolyn Parrish and Sheila Copps.

Thanks for posting, I can now start down the road to happiness as a smiling, loving liberal.

[skinkinthegrass]

Tories would make Canada uncool: filmmaker

*Mr. Bills' voice* OH! NOoooo! */Mr. Bills' voice.* :D

[The_Reader_David]

He says 'Dullsville' like it's a bad thing. Perhaps he needs to remember that "May you live in interesting times," was a Chinese curse.

[SittinYonder]

I'm just a dumb hoser,

The trouble with libs is they don't know where to stop. He'd have been much better off ending his statement here.

But in truth, this is what it's about for so many of them. Conservative values to them seem "uncool" and that's what they fear. Roll that in with a healthy dose of promises to take care of the poor and be nice to "everyone", and what dumb liberal hoser can resist?

[Fenris6]

Uncool VS Insolvent.

Being "cool" is for high-schoolers.

[D.P.Roberts]

Uncool!? Boring!? Dull!? You live in CANADA, duh.

[Kenton]

"Canada could be on its way back to Dullsville if Canada elects a Tory majority that would turn things back," Nerenberg says in a decidedly light-hearted news release.

No chance, Never happen, eh?

Light-hearted note to Mr. Nerenberg - If you're still using terms like "Dullsville", you've finally achieved a semblance of parity with American culture, albeit American culture of the B-movie genre of the late 1950s. That makes you one hep cat!

[TheForceOfOne]

I'm just a dumb hoser

Okay, I'll buy that part of it.

[Let's Roll]

So true.

Earth to film makers everywhere:

The average person isn't interested in "cool", they're interested in wholesome, productive lives.

Hweird didn't use to have a problem with that. I guess that must have been when it was populated with relatively wholesome, productive people instead of pathological pervs.

[Let's Roll]

Forgot to include -

Apparently their box office isn't telling them they're just making that cr*p for each other.

[KarlInOhio]

Nerenberg says his concerns about Harper's hipness were fueled just seconds after Harper became leader of the Conservative party. In the midst of convention cheers, Nerenberg asked the new Tory leader if thought Canada was cool.

Harper apparently didn't quite get it: "It has been one of the coldest winters on record," came the straight-faced reply.

Or maybe Harper just has a very dry sense of humor when replying to a very stupid question. Wait, there are no stupid questions - just stupid people asking them.

[Ashamed Canadian]

I'll take 'Dullsville' anyday, Nuremberg, you Piece of Sh*t.