We (Canadians) Love and Hate 'Em (Americans)

The Calgary Sun ^ | March 7, 2003 | Stephen Lautens

[quidnunc]

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We love to point out that Americans get to keep far more of their hard-earned cash than we do as Canadians. Those who complain the loudest here hate to be reminded that a lot of this extra cash gets spent right back out in things like home security, private school, gated communities and health care.

Yeah, it's called getting to keep your hard-earned money and spending it as you see fit.

We love their devotion to free enterprise and rewarding individuals. We hate that there are still American states that have no minimum wage and poverty is still largely looked on as a divine judgment of a person's worth.

Bullbleep! There is a federal minimum wage plus other benefits for low-income wage earners.

We love American generosity. They would literally give you the shirt off their backs. We hate that they sometimes don't understand that not everyone wants the same things they want.

Nobody's forcing you to take anything.

Are they really so naive to believe that they can forcibly plant the seeds of democracy and have them flourish in the harsh soil of Iraq?

And are Canadians so feckless that they are not willing to even try or so doltish that they would begrudge others the attempt?

What will come out of the war may not immediately become Iceland or Denmark but it is certain to be much better for everyone than Saddam Hussein &c.

One last thing we hate — that sometimes they don't understand that you can love and respect a neighbour and friend without necessarily always seeing eye to eye.

You mean like basing your whole national identity upon being not-American?

Pathetic!

[John Jorsett]

Are they really so naive to believe that they can forcibly plant the seeds of democracy and have them flourish in the harsh soil of Iraq?

The converse is to be so cynical that you write off 'the wogs' as being undesirous/incapable of living with personal liberties. The U.S. and other Western countries are filling up with people fleeing from those areas who give the lie to that contention.

[Hugin]

We hate that there are still American states that have no minimum wage

Perhaps because there is a Federal minimum wage?

[dead]

That's because Canada thinks it's important to be fair in negotiations, and the U.S. thinks it's important to win.

Business canuckleheads, playing for a tie.

[WaveThatFlag]

But come to think of it, the last country that invaded Canada was the U.S.

I assume the author is referring to actions during the War of 1823, but since Cananda became a nation in 1867, this is a lie. The last country to invade Canada was most likely German spies on the way to America during WWII, althoug hundreds of terrorists have followed a similiar rout recently.

[Protagoras]

The author gives Canadians a bad name.

[usurper]

Are they really so naive to believe that they can forcibly plant the seeds of democracy and have them flourish in the harsh soil of Iraq?

Ask Germany, Italy & Japan

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Actually, I think they were last invaded by a splinter group of Irish rebels called something like the Fenian Brigades, sometime around 1900.

I remember it only vaguely, but I think they were saved by some New York cops and a Coast Guard ship.

[CyberCowboy777]

Are they really so naive to believe that they can forcibly plant the seeds of democracy and have them flourish in the harsh soil of Iraq?

Force is only applied to the dictators and madman that in-slave - all men long to be free.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

We (Canadians) Love and Hate 'Em (Americans)

We (Americans) don't care one way or the other how you (Canadians) feel.

[Gopher Broke]

As a person who has friends and co-workers in Canada, my advice to Canada:

- Take back your health care system and govt. from Socialists

- Cut your taxes...at least in half

[America's Resolve]

Damn Canadians. I HATE those bastards!

[IvanT]

Sorry man, but the last thing I base my identity as a Canadian on is "not being American".

[IvanT]

PBRSTREETGANG - if you don't care one way or another about how we feel, then why are you all on here talking aboot us??

[Snowyman]

Sorry man, but the last thing I base my identity as a Canadian on is "not being American".

I've been saying the something but apparently some writer, generalizing , being paid presumably to be controversial , is more credible. I, personally don't know anyone who bases his being Canadian on being "not American" . I'm Canadian because of my country Canada , not in spite of the USA.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

...if you don't care one way or another about how we feel, then why are you all on here talking aboot us??

Whatever, eh.

[johnandrhonda]

"That's because Canada thinks it's important to be fair in negotiations, and the U.S. thinks it's important to win."

Hey, morons, just hire an American to negotiate for you!

[gcruse]

That's because Canada thinks it's important to be fair in negotiations, and the U.S. thinks it's important to win.

The difference between chess players, who play by set rules where everything is known, and poker players, who bluff and use doubt to win.  Poker players will always win while chess players must console themselves with thought of good deeds as they walk home, pockets picked.

[BJClinton]

Yeah, well, your beer sucks.