Spewing Anti-American Gutter Hate: Canada’s Heritage Minister Sheila Copps

FrontPage Magazine ^ | February 28, 2002 | Jamie Glazov

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Sheila Copps, the Canadian heritage minister, has an outstanding sense of timing. While Americans are still in the healing process after the Sept. 11 tragedy, Copps has seen fit to announce that the American nation has no heroes.

In a mind-boggling statement uttered last week, Copps asserted that Americans are "hungry for role models" and that they have no choice but to resort to Hollywood to find their heroes. With great self-satisfaction, Copps boasted, "When we created Canada, we didn't need a revolution — we had an evolution."

In spewing this historical ignorance and ugly bigotry, Copps clearly prides herself on the fact that, in 1776, Canadians didn’t have the backbone to stand up for themselves against British economic exploitation.

How anyone that knows anything about the American Revolution could possibly think that not participating in it, when the chance was available, was a good thing is simply laughable.

America has no heroes?

Did Copps somehow miss the myriad stories of sacrifice and bravery in the Sept. 11 tragedy? What is Copps actually saying about the New York firefighters and police officers who gave their lives as they battled to save thousands of innocent people from the burning WTC towers?

What is Copps saying about individuals such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln — as well as everything they stood for?

What is she saying about former President Ronald Reagan? He fuelled the disintegration of the most evil regime in world history by shrewdly forcing the Soviets to overextend themselves and spend themselves into bankruptcy. Anyone who is familiar with Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago could easily attest to the fact that, in helping to put communism on the ash heap of history, Reagan became one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century.

Has Copps never heard of Martin Luther King Jr.? Has she never heard of any of the individuals that could be placed on that long list of American heroes that anyone who knows anything about American history could compile?

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In the end, it is obvious that Copps’ bizarre statements are a reflection of Canada’s continuing and pathetic infantilism. The Canadian nation persists in trying to define itself by insulting Americans. Canadian nationalists continue to announce how they are not like “those Americans" because they have absolutely no idea who they are themselves.

This is the first I heard of this incident.

Sheila Kopps is presently positioning herself for a leadership battle in the Labour Party when Chretien steps down.

[veronica]

What a moron...eh? I guess some Canadians are so jealous and insecure vis a vis the US, that it makes them stupid beyond words.

[Walkingfeather]

You know I think we could use Tonya Harding's Boyfriend with his metal pipe about now....

[Trajan88]

Hey Sheila Copps... my dad's uncle was a hero (Pearl Harbor survivor) and my grandfather was a hero (I have his framed WWII purple heart in my room).

Why don't we meet in neutral territory... you can attempt to tell me that the U.S.A. has no heroes. I think I can provide a little education.

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88

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What makes this more serious in my eyes than the normal run-of-the mill anti-American crankery we have come to expect from Canada's liberal establishment is the fact that Sheila Copps is a prominent government minister.

Moreover it occurred prior to any tension with the U.S. over Iraq.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Mindless, groundless hatred is a ugly thing to behold. The Lady needs professional help desperately, before she pops an artery in her brain. (I use the word brain loosely here.)

[veronica]

Moreover it occurred prior to any tension with the U.S. over Iraq.

Yes, it started with the election of President Bush, whom leftists all over the planet despise, as they did Reagan. Bush stands in the way of their leftist agenda for the whole planet, and what with the Bush Doctrine, which, post 9-11, takes the position that the US has a moral imperative to take preemptive action against the enemies of the US, with or without the blessing of other countries, well, the leftists are in a serious snit. Especially in light of the 3 week war in Iraq, which has been a complete success. Yes, the leftists are having a fit. ;)

[medscribe]

Anyone else enjoying the poetic justice that is being dealt to Canada by Fate with this whole SARS panic?!? Canada is fast becoming the pariah of western nations because of its so-called superior multilateralism. Toronto is quarantined by the WHO and a host of other nations. Cretin and his minions look like the Keystone cops trying to cope with this thing. And Dubya's staying at home on the ranch with John Howard as a bitchslap to Ottawa. Life is good!

[remitrom]

Name one Canadian Hero, bitch.

[Dan from Michigan]

Name one Canadian Hero, bitch.

Wayne Gretzky? Don Cherry?

[ladyinred]

Right, we don't have heroes like you do, Canada. You see, to most of us here in the USA, Marx and Lenin were the bad guys, not the role models for our government. ( I say most of us, exempting the lefties like Hillary, et al, who do worship Marxism)
Depends on what you mean by Heroes I guess.

[Cicero]

I'll go for Wayne Gretzky. Good man.

It's beginning to seem as if the entire Canadian cabinet is about as qualified as clinton's cabinet. Which is to say, they are losers one and all. I guess Chretien didn't want to appoint anyone brighter or more sensible than he is, in case it might make him look bad.

[Dan from Michigan]

Damn! I forgot! Bob and Doug McKenzie!!!!

Howzit goin' eh?

Anyone find Elsinore Beer yet?

[baseballmom]

Name one Canadian Hero, bitch.

Wayne Gretzky? Don Cherry?

Wayne Gretzky is one of the greatest hockey players to ever play the game.

But he is not a hero. He is an athlete. Big difference.

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Address and phone number!

Sheila Copps
Minister of Canadian Heritage
Room 511-S
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

Fax: (819) 994-1267

I am always pleased to receive comments from Canadians on the important issues facing our nation.

Sheila Copps
Minister of Canadian Heritage

[general_re]

Don Cherry?

Well, he is a pretty sharp dresser, I'll give you that ;)

[veronica]

To be fair, they don't hate all Americans. After all, Cretin did sup with Bill and Hillary last week....;)

[Peter Libra]

Equating Sheila Copps with Canadians is like us equating Americans with Michael Moore. Being as Galloway, a Scot is in the news, I will borrow a bit of the dialect.

Dinna fash yerselves . When Copps was in the opposition to Mulrooneys Conservatives in Parliament, CBC T/V politely refused to identify a insane, high pitched banshee like screaming during speeches. Yep, Copps.

American haters and Canadian haters have not spoiled my area of the twin cities- nor is anyone going to. Yeah Copps and Moore, and their message may be winning, if we don't watch out.

[Ryle]

Thanks for posting this - I'd no idea that Copps was even worse than I'd assumed by the drivel I'd heard previously from her over the past few years.

She's a sorry excuse even for a Liberal - and that's going some!

[Timesink]

A REAL CANADIAN

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