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To: Pokey78
"In 1898, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, prime minister of Queen Victoria’s great white north, declared that just ‘as the 19th century was the century of the United States, so shall the 20th century belong to Canada.’"

Part of their diabolical plan will include forcing Americans to eat Vinegar on their Freedom Fries, and drink Molson Gold!

28 posted on 03/13/2003 10:28:43 AM PST by Destructor
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To: Destructor
Part of their diabolical plan will include forcing Americans to eat Vinegar on their Freedom Fries, and drink Molson Gold!

Then they've already won.

31 posted on 03/13/2003 11:46:41 AM PST by vollmond
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To: Destructor
I think you guy's should have called them 'Froggy Fries' instead of 'Freedom Fries'......more insulting to the Franc's.
32 posted on 03/13/2003 11:49:01 AM PST by FreeCanuckistan
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To: Destructor; Pokey78
In 1898, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, prime minister of Queen Victoria’s great white north, declared that just "as the 19th century was the century of the United States, so shall the 20th century belong to Canada."
Laurier didn't take enough iron supplements: his government collapsed when he backed a free trade agreement with the United States in 1911. While the U.S. Congress passed the law for trade reciprocity, Laurier went before the Canadian public and got clobbered in a referendum.

Here's the irony: the high priest of Britishness himself, Kipling, intervened to declare the agreement an abrogation of all things British. By stoking fear that the deal would lead to annexation of Canada by the U.S., Laurier's opponents kicked him out of office.

48 posted on 07/03/2003 9:47:35 PM PDT by nicollo
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