The sickness of Canadian Anti-Americanism

Front Page Magazine ^ | 7 Mar 03 | Jamie Glazov

[Snowyman]

Consider the source.

Oh , We have. My only hope is that they contribute generously to FR for all the space they've wasted. What they don't understand is that Americans and Canadians have nothing to learn from them .

So what if Canadians like red coats, bearskin hats , the drone of the pipes and a waving Ensign. Seems to me Americans like the same things in their blue and gray , their marching bands and waving Stars and Stripes.

What they don't understand is that we've fought each other , found accommodation , stood together in the blackest of times , died together , married each other and when the economic shit hits the fan , both got shitty . Like it or not we're dependent on one another , stuck to each other and anyone who doesn't recognize that needs a lesson in economics and geography .

[Fair Go]

I think Australia should send Sir Les Patterson to Canada as cultural ambassador. If they need someone more left wing Dame Edna could go instead.
It is indeed amazing that Canadians take themselves seriously and actually assume moral superiority, even although it makes them defacto supporters of Saddam Hussein and terrorism.

[CaptainCanada]

LMAO.
I just cheked out that site " http://www.vivelecanada.ca" and on the home page it had an section for Canadians to donate to Amercan victims of the Katrina hurricane.
Man, you just can't get more anti-Amercan than that.
You shoulda stayed in Hong Kong with your boss pal Mao rather than come here to stir up trouble between 2 great neighbours.

[Fair Go]

Just about everybody offered the US assistance after Katrina. Canada was not alone.

[CaptainCanada]

The website was being cited as an anti-American website.
Go to a real anti-American website -- umm say Al Qeada, or Hamas and see if they have a Katrina donation section.
We (north Americans) have REAL enemies who will slit the throats of you and me and our kids and they could give a rats-ass if we are conservative, liberal, christian, atheist, etc,.
We need to stick together else we will all lose the war against terrorists and islamists.
When you further the anti-Canadian or Anti-American rhetoric you are aiding and abetting the enemy..

[Americanwolf]

yeah but captian canada likes to have it both ways... he goes after NZ here about stirring up trouble between two great neighbors but on another thread he talks smack about the American military.... he i would dare say ****GASP**** is confused and/or a liberal that is lost...

[drtom]

Just about everybody offered the US assistance after Katrina. Canada was not alone.

How many other countries donated blood 24 hours after 9/11?

[Fair Go]

I am sure plenty of others would have had they been as geographically close to the US as Canada.

[drtom]

Oh, geography has nothing to do with it. Blood transfusion, especially plasma and platelets can be easily packed and shipped around the globe (and they are).

How many other nations sent ships, rescue and relief teams, doctors, and even veterinaries down to NO after Katrina?

Nice try.

[Fair Go]

You are flogging a dead horse. Other countries donated heaps. Some of these other countries also donated heaps during the tsunami disaster earlier in the year. Some even lost their lives trying to help the tsunami victims. I think if you do your homework there was no need for people in far away places to give blood after 9/11 as the US Red Cross was inundated with an oversupply of blood. How about Canadians stop wallowing in self-pity and start thinking about the innocent people who have died in terrorist attacks.

[muir_redwoods]

No offense to Glazov or any Canadian at that but don't we have to care for this to matter?

They don't like us, so what?

[Fair Go]

Very true.

[drtom]

There was also no need for the Canadians to give blood, yet they did. There was no need for Hydro Quebec personnel to travel thousands of miles down to Florida after the hurricanes to help reestablish the power lines, yet they did. There was no need for BC firefighters to help with the California blazes, yet they did. There was no needfor Bell Canada to move people to Washington State to bring phone lines back up after the storm, yet they did. And there was no need for Canadians to host us Gander people like kings for up to a week after 9/11, and yet they did.

So, hey, if it gives you pleasure down there on the other side of the globe, by all means have fun collecting anecdotal pieces and construing a warped reality. In the end it is the persistent social imaginary on both sides of the border that counts and this is something you can only experience, not read about it in some BS MSM poll.

[Fair Go]

Grow up!

[drtom]

LOL. The weasel defense. Cute.

[CaptainCanada]

"There was also no need for the Canadians to give blood, yet they did. There was no need for Hydro Quebec personnel to travel thousands of miles down to Florida after the hurricanes to help reestablish the power lines, yet they did. There was no need for BC firefighters to help with the California blazes, yet they did. There was no needfor Bell Canada to move people to Washington State to bring phone lines back up after the storm, yet they did. And there was no need for Canadians to host us Gander people like kings for up to a week after 9/11, and yet they did.". It doesn't appear to matter that we constantly try to be good friends and neighbours to our south. The thousands we sheltered in our homes in the days after 9/11 (as another example). Some here (with an agenda which puzzles me), appear far more interested in exploiting the stupid things one or a few Canadians say or do, but ignore the hundreds of positive things each country does for each other every day.

[Fair Go]

Don't worry Aussies have done nice things for Canadians. Like write their history essays for them so they don't bomb out of school.

[drtom]

Some here (with an agenda which puzzles me)

It is indeed fascinating, isn't it? Even more so, if it is a third party, 10,000 miles away, that never lived on either side of the border for an extended period of time.
I maintain my earlier suspicion that it merely constitutes post-pubertary behavior by dint of which they try to solicit recognition from the tough kid in class through kicking the meek. As an added bonus, they get to detract from their own shortfalls and impotence. Really, just a primitive schoolyard pattern.

[Fair Go]

Do you need someone to help you with your replies?

[albertabound]

When we stick our beaks in Aussie business and post a bunch of horseshit about it, I wonder how your sensitivities react cobber.