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What would you do in our place?

I know you don't think it is important but the gay mounties and the gay diplomats moving to Canada are symptomatic of the greater concern. Perhaps they are merely metaphors, perhaps it is entirely unfair, but the image exists that you cannot hold up your end on border security, terrorism, Iraq etc.
So, when you say border security and Canada's nice image are not related, you demonstrate that you just don't get it. Even Clinton understood, don't ask don't tell was about image and confidence. You guys have this image problem. Your perceived to be soft. On this thread, where you would expect a stronger message, the Canadian posse unites to say that anybody raising the matter must be gay or homophobic.
My views have changed somewhat since the beginning of the thread. Reading between the lines I realize that some of the posse are genuinely discouraged by the entire matter. Regardless, whether you like what I say, it would do you well to understand that you do have an image problem.