We (Canadians) Like U.S., Dislike Bush: Just 39 per cent feel his administration a force for good

The Halifax Daily News ^ | January 22, 2003 | David Swick

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A quick quiz: who says the greatest threat to world peace is not Iraq, North Korea, or even al-Qaida; the greatest threat to world peace is the United States?

A) Vietnam War historians. B) People with beards. C) Canadians.

The answer is C) Canadians. An Ipsos-Reid poll conducted last week for The Globe and Mail and CTV revealed that one-third of the 1,005 Canadians polled named the U.S. as the world’s greatest dangermore than any other single threat.

At the same time, the poll revealed that 83 per cent of Canadians like Americans. Our positive feelings do not extend to the Bush administration: only 39 per cent of Canadians said that the administration is a good force in the world, and only 11 per cent feel this strongly.

These are interesting numbers, for several reasons. First, it speaks well for us that Canadians can distinguish between the people of a country, and a country’s leadership. It’s impressive, too, that we can live next door to a superpower, witness all of its war-drum beating, and still see through its president’s posturing to a desire for oil and empire.

The numbers also say much about how the Bush administration is damaging the U.S. reputation throughout the world. If only one in nine Canadians strongly feels the U.S. to be a good force in the world, how must its determination to make war be regarded by the people of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan? And U.S. popularity is doubtless even lower in countries not counted as America’s friends.

The U.S. received sympathy from around the globe following Sept. 11, but in a mere 16 months, George W. Bush has blown it. Disdain for international treaties and standards, a narrow world view that he insists everyone must share, and a cowboy’s swagger have squandered that goodwill.

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Quote:

True global leadership would work to create a climate of co-operation, and establish rules for international conduct. Instead, the Bush administration is increasing tensions, and saying it will do whatever it wants.

Right!

Canada and the Euros are irrelevant so why should we pay them any heed?

Listen to them politely and then get on with what we were going to do in the first place.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Darn. And I so desperately seek the approval of the North American surrender monkeys

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[Russ]

It sounds as if the Canadian education system is producing as many idiots as our own.

[OPS4]

The Eu and its Canadian counter parts are striving to be the leaders of the U.N. and then the New World Order.

This goal can be accomplished by Germany and France if they
take the side of third world countries.

That is the agenda so the Unites States and it's allies are the targets to overtake, and emerge in the leadership position.

We can no longer rely on these EU countries, therefore
you are correct thier opinions are tainted towards
World Government, and therefore we must not agree
with them, but we cannot ignore the purpose behind it all.

We must come out and expose the World Union agenda that the EU wishes to grow into.

Ops4 God Bless America!

[Marysecretary]

And do we care what Canada thinks of us? And are we going to lose any sleep over it? Nah.

[quidnunc]

Seamole wrote: Forgot the Barf Alert.

I don't do them.

I figure we're all big boys and girls here, at least those of us who aren't Canadians.

[Alberta's Child]

True leadership at home would lessen dependence on foreign oil —and all the dangerous liaisons that implies. But the Bush administration has put less money into conservation and energy innovation, and more money into corporate subsidies for oil exploration.

This guy really is clueless. From a U.S. perspective, "foreign oil" also includes Canadian oil, including the enormous quantities of oil shipped to the U.S. from the Hibernia and Terra Nova sites off Canada's east coast.

Canadians are great people, but I've met far too many who are like this author. They advocate political positions that are detrimental to Canada's economy, then sit around playing the bagpipes on a wharf in an old fishing village in Nova Scotia, wondering why 30% of the population is unemployed, 60% work for the government, and the remaining 10% are always complaining that the taxes are too high.

[MoGalahad]

Dave Swick;
You can't have it both ways. George W. is more American than Bill Clinton ever was or ever will be. You should listen to your countryman, Mitchbert.

[ASA Vet]

Shouldn't that headline have read,

"61% of Canadians think like democRATs.

[ffusco]

Nuts! Now I have to refer to Canada as "those morons" again.

[M-cubed]

They have to like us some....after all...who else would save their sorry socialist asses if they were invaded?

[Chi-townChief]

"At the same time, the poll revealed that 83 per cent of Canadians like Americans. Our positive feelings do not extend to the Bush administration: only 39 per cent of Canadians said that the administration is a good force in the world, and only 11 per cent feel this strongly."

And I'm beginning to strongly dislike Canadians - where do I vote for that?

[jpl]

As far as I'm concerned, it's mututal. I like Canadians, but I don't like who they vote for either. Furthermore, I'll wager that within the next twenty years present-day Canada splits up into two (if not more) separate countries.

[Pippin]

Who cares what the Canadians think about OUR President?

[Dog Gone]

Fine, Canada. You go your way, and we'll go ours.

Enjoy that Kyoto treaty you brainiacs just ratified. Toodles.

[Bedford Forrest]

If these pencil necked commie elements of our Northern Economic Dependencies are so contemptuous of our concern that mid eastern oil continue to flow at free market prices, then certainly they should have no objection when Alberta decides to annex itself [as in "join"] the United States. Let the rest of them "sustain" themselves with their fricking "sustainable" energy sources. Fricking Quislings, and for a long time back, too.

[Keith]

The thing so interesting about all this hatred of Dubya around the world is that it is so reminiscent of the feelings around the world for Reagan in the same countries.

Dubya is in good company.

[HanneyBean]

America to Canada: We don't much care for your prime minister either, OK??