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To: quidnunc
My husband loves visiting Canada on an annual basis--but I'm sick of the taxes that we have to pay for the privilege. I am also sickened by the willingness of Canadians to live in a hemisphere which is safer for them because of their proximity to the US, but is unsafer for us because of their unwillingness to help preserve freedom in the world (not to mention their "loose" border policy which allows terrorists to slip through to the US).

At last, I thought that this election would be the one to turn things around. It's well known that they cannot continue to pay for more and more socialist programs, long-term problems with Quebec are still a dominant domestic theme, and Indian rights are going to be a greater problem as that population grows and ages. So when are thinking people in Canada going to wake-up to what their government's policies have wrought?

They didn't--and a poll today revealed that 60% of young people there think that Americans are evil. This doesn't bode well for our November election, nor for long-term relations with our better neighbor.

This is a very sad day for not only Canada but the continent.

8 posted on 06/30/2004 11:44:20 PM PDT by MHT
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To: MHT

Societies like Canada that were founded by a government tend to have low birthrates, confiscatory taxation, and a cradle to grave welfare state. America has been saved from being like Canada simply by consequence of being a nation that happened to have a government. It could very well become a Canada if its citizens lose faith in liberty and insist the government provide all their wants for them.


9 posted on 07/01/2004 12:03:26 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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