I'll make a prediction. Relations between Canada and the States are going to get far far worse. I can't see any reason why they wouldn't based on the total disregard Canadians have for the U.S. to protect its interests. As a Canadian, this very issue has been very consuming for me as I work in both countries - and am currently looking at whether or not I simply want to pull the plug on home, family and business interests here in Canada and move south. I'm that fed up and concerned about the direction that this country is headed.
The true problem with Canada and the west in general is that, even if a guy like me is starving and looking really hard for a job...any job...he still won't consider a journalist position or a writing position for less than $2000 per month. So the ranks of journalists get filled with the congenital underachievers, which will include the cowards and the nihilists.
What I don't understand is how the OWNERS of the media allow the treason, either in the USA or Canada. I live in Russia where the owners of the media are shot dead if they get too far out of line (treason regarding Chechnya for instance). I sleep at night thinking that the powers that be are actually promoting leftist journalism because they don't want the population urging them to overthrow the corrupt Saudi Family and their billions going partly into the pockets of all the politicians in the west. The idea is that, if you have lefties like Petronius thinking that democracy in Iran is a *bad* thing...if you have fools who think it was a *mistake* to liberate Iraq...there will not be any real pressure to deal with the real problem in Saudi Arabia. When I say that I "sleep at night" thinking this...it means that the powers that be *could* stop the leftists if they only wanted to...if it were only in their interest.
Basically, I think that the Bush Administration is just letting FReepers blow off steam while the forces of the left are deliberately strengthened to counterbalance us and let business go on as it did before 9-11.
I used to love going up to Victoria for a weekend, but I don't know how you live in the socialist paradise. I had an uncle that migrated to Canada in the late 60's to keep from getting his sizable backside shot off. Ironically, until the day he died, he was a conservative political activist in Canada.
Anyway, if you come south, don't stop until you hit the Mason Dixon line, or you may think you're still in Canada.
Unless Quebec separates (or is purged from Canada), it will get a WHOLE lot worse. They will continue to single-handedly push us far to the left...