Posted on 11/22/2002 7:20:51 PM PST by wlyonmackenzie
G'day. I'm a 6th generation Canadian and I have never voted liberal or supported ANY of the socialist trash and lefty lawyers which Quebec has foisted on the Canadian public. Far as I know, none of my relatives or friends have either (I'm the kind that simply can't mix with liberals, weak stomach).
I want every good Republican down here to know this is one Canadian who detests the leftist scum that vegitates in our parliament more than you do. There are lots more of us too. If you care to join in on our form sometime you'll find some kindred spirits north of the 49th:
http://www.freedominion.ca http://www.onetenwest.org
Most of us outside the politically correct GTA (greater Toronto Area) and university campuses actually work for our income and have lived and worked west and south of the Toronto City limits. We have traditional Canadian values and know who our friends are. If I had to choose between Americans and the rot that has infested my federal government as to which was responsible for the bread and butter on my family's table, I side with my US friends who buy my companys products in a New York min. I, and most traditional Canadians, know Americas and Canadas cultures and economies are inseparably linked. We share more in common than any other two nations on the globe ..except for our political elites.
I have lived in areas of this nation where the disgust for the Ottawa lib-left regimes is so intense, provincial independence movements have sprung up. Essentially, central Canada (Quebec and south Ontario) see the rest of the nation as vassal colonies to be plundered for taxes and politically disempowered with a disproportionate seat distribution electoral system. Chretien won a majority government with less than 38% of the popular vote (most of it from southern Ontario and Quebec). The socialist center gets fat at the expense of the Rest of the working nation and they run the political agenda. There is deep loathing of the Chretien regime from Conservatives and free republicans alike in Canada. We hate the way socialist collectivism has been used as a plunder and patronage tool instead of the equality of traditional commonwealth federalism we had before Trudeau.
His governments petty anti- American attitude, actions and foot-dragging in supporting out greatest ally and trade partner is nothing less than despicable. He has made me ashamed to call myself Canadian and I'm certainly not alone in these feelings.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to inform you folks that Chretien and his band of Marxist misfits DO NOT speak for me or many millions like me. I also want to apologize for the tainted actions of this buffoon and assure you this Quebecois bush ape is NOT representative of the Canadian character
Yours in liberty DR Hammond Ex of the Republic of Alberta, now working in Northern Ontario
In September, he said to the effect of the words that U.S. is responsible for 9-11
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I hate to say it but the US probably should put its foot down and penalize my country for the stupidity our leaders are doing. Couple this with an invitation to us in the West to join the US - we're much better off being part of the US than remaining in a Canada where we're under-represented and disenfranchised. Besides, we in the West didn't vote for the Liberals - blame Ontario and Eastern Canada for that catastrophe.
I can only speak for myself, of course, but I assumed that Canada has the same sort of diversity of political views as does my country, and that, as it does here, the left in your country tends to dominate the organs of public discourse.
I have further assumed that the anti-American tone of much of your political culture springs from a complex dynamic, a decision resulting from many forces that find it useful to consistantly stand in opposition to the US as long as that is a cost-free position. They know we pose no physical threat to Canada, and no commercial or economic threat either, as our commercial behaviour is governed to a very great extent by private capitalists who do not care a fig about your public pro- or anti-Americanism.
I find your CBC program "As It Happens" to be amusing when I occaisionally listen in. It's amazing how many "stories from a Canadian perspective" turn out to consist of a Canadian reporter interviewing some American who is actually accomplishing something worth talking about. Quite a few of the stories in which they interview Canadians consist of criticisms of the US (on the Kyoto protocols or the EU's International Criminal Court or whatever).
I've no doubt that if Canada were ever to feel an existential level of fear from some foreigh power, your countrymen would stand shoulder to shoulder with us in short order. I well remember what Canadians did, and the risks they took, to help our hostages in Tehran in 1978 and 1979.
Stay well and stay warm,
(steely)
Cheers, eh!
I agree that western Canada (as well as central Canada) is fabulous and nothing like Quebec and TO (aka Tarrana ;o) )
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