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Canada's image lies in tatters.
The Guardian (UK) ^ | November 30, 2009 | George Monbiot

Posted on 12/01/2009 12:02:37 PM PST by caveat emptor

When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: canada; climaquiddick; climatechange; energy; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; leftists; monbiot; moonbat
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Canada and PM Harper give us hope. If they can sink so far into the liberal toilet and begin pulling themselves out, then so can we.

As Baroness Thatcher prepared the way for Ronald Reagan, so let PM Harper prepare the way for Sarah Palin.

21 posted on 12/01/2009 12:22:05 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Figures. Must be associated with the tar sands. I’ve been seeing reports that we may ban importation of oil from the tar sands. If we do that it won’t impact the Canadians. They will run a pipeline to their coast and sell it to the Chinese. We would be cutting our own throats though. Canada is our number one provider of oil imports and far and away the most stable and friendly oil exporting country we deal with.


22 posted on 12/01/2009 12:23:11 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: caveat emptor
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind?

It's America's hat

23 posted on 12/01/2009 12:23:17 PM PST by skully (Islamofascists love death more then life, PC cowards love diversity more then life. We're so F'd!!!)
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To: caveat emptor

I’m actually happy that this global warming zealot and peddler of lies is speaking about us like this. Now, Mr. Monbiot, kindly F*** OFF back to England. There’s a good chap.


24 posted on 12/01/2009 12:26:22 PM PST by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: caveat emptor
Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement a belief in Santa Claus was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.

See? If you substitute Santa Claus in place of climate change, he starts to make more sense.

25 posted on 12/01/2009 12:26:23 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: caveat emptor

That God for Canada....eh....


26 posted on 12/01/2009 12:27:09 PM PST by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: caveat emptor

Canada is a mean spirited country that only offers health care to its citizens.


27 posted on 12/01/2009 12:27:52 PM PST by NoLibZone (If Reagan rises & runs I'll vote. Pure Conservative™ know it's better to have Obama, Ayers & Soros.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I’m drinking a Molson Canadian Lager right now.


28 posted on 12/01/2009 12:41:20 PM PST by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: caveat emptor

Love Canada! Harper is a conservative who knows how to thorw a smackdown on Canadian leftists! Love it. Oh Canada!


29 posted on 12/01/2009 12:42:50 PM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: skully
It's America's hat

'Toque'

30 posted on 12/01/2009 12:49:20 PM PST by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: oyez

I`ve kinda held a grudge against Canada for granting
sanctuary long ago to VN war deserters.

Looks like sanity has returned to our neighbors to
the north.

Quebec,thats another story


31 posted on 12/01/2009 12:54:25 PM PST by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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To: jimfree

Must be close to quitting time where you are...


32 posted on 12/01/2009 12:58:56 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
"it’s that they won’t commit fiscal suicide by shutting-down their oil industry for the sake of a global climate deal"

Bastards!!!!

33 posted on 12/01/2009 12:59:25 PM PST by 101voodoo
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To: Frantzie
Harper is a conservative who knows how to thorw a smackdown on Canadian leftists!

Easily the most hated politician in Canada. The CBC has a fatwa out on him.


34 posted on 12/01/2009 1:03:17 PM PST by caveat emptor (who-whom)
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To: caveat emptor
Canada's Liberalism's image lies in tatters

There, fixed it...
35 posted on 12/01/2009 1:07:54 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Vigilanteman

Here is what I tell my Canadian friends about Canada’s role in “global warming”. Canada has roughly 30 million people. If it disappeared tomorrow, with the “carbon footprint” of its entire population, the affect on global climate would be immeasurable. So, it doesn’t matter what Canada does in terms of containing “global warming”. We are going to party on in the Great White North.


36 posted on 12/01/2009 1:17:01 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name now that we have the most conservative government in the world?)
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To: caveat emptor

LOL! CBC has Fatwa! Love it. I think the CBC must be the most insanely PC TV network in the world. They make the BBC (all white people are evil) look like Rush Limbaugh!

I love the (new) Canada and Harper. The leftist vermin in CA tried to steal his election ala ACORN but he smashed em hard like a big hockey defenseman and then shot and scored like Gretzky.

Hopefully he leads Canada for a long time. His piano playing and singing are very good too. Harper is the Reagan of the Great White North.


37 posted on 12/01/2009 1:17:06 PM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Harper is the Reagan of the Great White North. Man I wish he was our President. He is great.


38 posted on 12/01/2009 1:18:14 PM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: Catholic Canadian; skully

Crazy uncle in the attic until about 6 years ago when the various conservative (more or less) parties finally managed to “unite the right” and form the The Conservative Party of Canada.


39 posted on 12/01/2009 1:45:54 PM PST by caveat emptor (who-whom)
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To: sionnsar; Clive; exg; kanawa; backhoe; -YYZ-; Squawk 8888; headsonpikes; AntiKev; Snowyman; ...
Thanks for the ping, Sionnsar.


40 posted on 12/01/2009 1:49:59 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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