Since the Post published the article I have received hundreds of emails and over 150 phone calls.
I was shocked when the ratio of sincere Canadians who were conservative and agreed with what I was doing outnumbered the liberals and fruitcakes about 9 to 1.
In both emails and phone calls, two words kept coming up over and over again. The words ASHAMED and EMBARRASSED!
We thought we had it bad with the Clintons, these conservatives are living in hell!
Wow, your action is getting some coverage now, huh? Good on ya. I believe in the original thread I referred to it as a lose-lose situation. It looks like it is tending more towards a win-win situation ... drawing attention from both sides of the border.
Wow! That is an amazing response. I'm happy to hear it.
I've also forwarded this thread to Lowell Green, the man who discussed your essay on the air.
You deserve at a cyber-round of applause for this!
Although the American in me hopes that George Bush doesn't give Martin the time of day from here on in, I do feel very bad for the Canadian people.
Please add my name to the list of embarassed and ashamed.As a canadian I have witnessed the gradual slide of our country into the grips of the leftist elites that purport to tell all of us what to do and think on every subject.Yet despite the overwhelming weight of biased liberal media,(there is no such thing as conservative talk radio here and Fox News is only a few weeks old) there remains a majority of canadians who regard the americans truly more as family than foreigners and are truly concerned by the current state of relations between our 2 countries.
Please be aware also that there exists within our country strong ideological differences and the West,(Manitoba to BC) has only elected a handful of liberal candidates in the last few elections.
The liberal base is in population dense Ontario and Quebec.
Ontario's reasons to vote liberal are still a bit of a mystery to me,but Quebec votes liberal for 2 reasons:1)older more conservative voters choose the liberals because historically they were the party that faught off all the separatists attempts to make Quebec a sovereign state.(maybe a little like the jewish voters that remain democrat to this day because of FDR)
2) a large segment of the Quebec economy and business depends on the incredible amount of patronage dolled out by the federal liberals in the province.
Finally all liberal policies are aimed at placating anybody in Quebec that wouls possibly vote separatist (Bloq Quebecois).That party is socialist to the extreme in all aspects, so basically canadian policies have been made in Canada for the last 30 years with only one objective in mind hoe to placate Quebec and get enough seats from that province to control parliament,and so far they have been able to do it to the detriment of the country itself.
Soory for the long post and our boring politics.
Many Canadians are deeply ashamed and embarrassed at the appalling behavior of successive Liberal governments since the foul Trudeau assumed power.
Unfortunately, our slide into euro-socialism may only be reversible if Quebec separates.
Oh, and DH, for the record, you are 100% in the right with your decision to not sell your products to us anymore, I admire your principled stance on this, and no hard feelings either, I totally understand your position. Hopefully one day the damage that has been done between our two countries will be fixed. I hate having to live day in day out knowing the wedge that has been driven between us because of our communist government, we are no better than Cuba.