Evening gogeo!
Which part of the article would you like me to comment on? The entire article is full of opinion and conjecture. Perhaps you could hone in on what you would like me to address specifically, and I'll try to do so.
For me, this is a case of one man's perception of Canadians in general. A perception acquired on a rather short visit to a very small area of a *very* large country.
Personally, I think he spoke out of turn. Certainly he spoke in ignorance, since what he puts forth as fact is no such thing. Take his comments re: the publishing industry for example, - pitifully biased, and blatently incorrect.
This part I thought particularly ignorant: "CANADA EXISTS IN A SLIVER LAID ACROSS THE TOP OF THE STATES."
Hardly! Canada is a HUGE country with a very well defined sense of itself. It is a great deal more than "America's toupee."
I myself live in the North, in Western Canada's Coastal Mountains. It's a shame that someone with so much to say couldn't find anything factual or hospitable to say about the second largest land mass on earth. Yes, that's right folks, CANADA (the "sliver" on top of the USA), not the STATES is the second largest landmass on earth, second only to Russia. The U.S. is only the FOURTH largest.
So, the man is rude. Perhaps the people he met didn't like either him or his book very much, I don't know, - so anything I say would be speculation. I am not fond of speculation. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the author of the article.
Best regards, - Anij.
Ignorant if taken in one way, spot on in another way. Last time I check something like 90% of all Canadians live within a 100 miles of the U.S. border...that's pretty much a sliver given the actual size of Canada.
I'll also point out that he was writing from Toronto, which is acroos trhe country from where you say you are, Western Canada. We in the US consider the western provinces much like our own "flyover country," mostly in tune with us.
I hope you're not saying that there is no contempt for the US or for the President in Canada. I can come up with a lot of quotes. As for the article, these are his opinions:
In Toronto, the contempt for everything America is and does is palpable.
Canadian liberal disgust at American neo-colonialism, heightened by the ever-unrolling Abu Ghraib scandal, seems widespread here.
Perhaps you would care to address them.