Closer Ties Between U.S., Canada Inevitable: Ridge

Gotta love that word, "inevitable". If they say it enough times, does it become a self-fulfilling prophecy?


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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf

This guy says Bin Laden is a mass murderer?
What does he feel about his own government?

I cant believe this website, its like a Canadian paranoiac ward.

If your xenophobia and irrational prejudice were directed at any other group of people than the Americans your peers would shout you down as the paranoid bigots you really are. Reading through this site reminds me of reading through old segregationist tracts from the Deep South. They too used code words like “sovereignty” to demagogue issues and exert control over the easily lead through the >creation< of a common enemy.
The U.S. trade deficit with Canada was $65.8 billion in 2004, over 80% of your total exports and almost all of your non-domestic service-oriented GDP. Quite simply put, closer economic integration with the bastards has been the overwhelming factor, if not the sole factor in current Canadian prosperity. Is this the action of country that wants to subjugate you in some way?
The relationship with the USA has enabled Canada to under fund its military to the point where it has become a farce. Do you think you would have those expensive social programs if you had to pay your fair share of defending yourself? Is this the action of country that wants to subjugate you in some way?
Your leftist politicians have played the Anti-American card for years; it is just another means by which they can preserve their lack of accountability. “Vote for us and we will protect you from the big, evil Americans! All those bastards think about is how to steal our sovereignty!” (As if we don’t have anything else to occupy our time.) They trot out the unity bogeyman, toss you a few well controlled bucks via social programs and point to the American scapegoat and you rubes buy it every time. I wonder if any of you good and proper liberals think that there is anything inherently fascistic about manipulating the population that way especially in light of your recent scandals. (Pity the bastards broke your “press ban” on information critical of the government, but I wouldn’t worry too much, they will demagogue their way back in.)
Americans don’t want to impinge on your “sovereignty”, indeed, most Americans don’t give Canada a second thought. I am a bit different, mom is Canadian and I have a house and relatives in the Maritimes. Look at American media coverage of Canada, if you can find it and then look at the media in Canada as it relates to the USA, non-stop coverage of every misstep we make.
I can only suggest to the non-tinfoil hat wearing among you that there are times for cooperation and that it is not in your best interests to define “Canadian Sovereignty” as reflexively doing the opposite of whatever the USA does or asks of you. That is just infantile.

Go away you besotted dolt of useless ineptitude.
If you are going to say something,say something with meaning.

Which brings up the question;Why does america want deep integration?

You should take a look at your own country and how the rest of the world views you, including Canada. American's STILL don't get it, including you. How dumb can you people be? Must be all that propaganda your own government spews out to you. Your government has gone in and/or set up puppet governments in foreign countries that have exploited and murdered their own civilians all in the name of "American Interests". Your people ask the question "Why do they hate us?', well maybe the American people should demand answers, the truth, about what their government is doing in the world. not lies or propaganda. The rest of the World knows what your government does, how come you don't???

Hi anon. Keep in mind Canada is America's top export market for manufactured goods.

Canada is the leading destination for 38 out of 50 American states. Canada feeds the U.S with profit and resources....Canada imports more U.S. goods than Europe and Japan combined.

>>Go away you besotted dolt of useless ineptitude.<<
Gee, how quickly you prove my point.

>>If you are going to say something,say something with meaning.<<
Just because you didn’t understand it doesn’t mean it was meaningless.

>>Which brings up the question;Why does america want deep integration?<<
In the few minutes I have I did a cursory search of “deep integration,” most trails lead back here. The term “deep integration” as it is being used here is a scarecrow, a Canadian version of the “protocols of the elders of Zion.” It is nonsense, used to make the more malleable among you believe that the USA has designs on coming up to Canada and assimilating you into our Borg collective.
The first use I found was by Canadian businessmen who wanted greater access to US markets. What Tom Ridge was talking about was closer cooperation on different issues. As I said in my original post, rejecting any cooperation out of hand is infantile.

>>You should take a look at your own country and how the rest of the world views you, including Canada.<<
I have set foot on every continent on earth, including Antarctica. Outside of Canada the only other place I have experienced any kind of anti-Americanism was in france. Ironically, while I was there to see my great uncles grave. A Canadian killed at Vimy.

>>>The rest of the World knows what your government does, how come you don't???<<
You must be fresh out of the re-education camp. Anti-Americanism has been used in Europe to sell the idea of the EU to the Europeans. It has followed the same path that it has in Canada, you must vote to do this or the Americans will get you. In their case it is to give up their sovereignty to Brussels, in yours it is to keep the same regime in power over you. Please, don’t talk to me about propaganda by the way. Just look at this site! Theey could never get away with a press ban of news critical of the government in the US. You had to read it from US sources first and still, some of the information is still off limits.

>>Hi anon. Keep in mind Canada is America's top export market for manufactured good<<

Hey anon, I get it, indeed, I love Canada or I wouldnt bother. I have a place in the Maritimes, friends and relatives and people buried up there going back to the late 1700s. I would just like to get back to the day when our rivalry was good natured and funny but we knew we would be there for each other in a pinch. It was like that once... now we have Canadians attacking pee wee hockey teams from the US.

<p>I for one can be extremely dumb — just ask my wife.</p>

Canada's independence is at risk to those see it. We can't be best friends and greatest threats--that is a contradiction.

Many Europeans are anti-American.....our business class works for mostly American corporations and that is the source of their continentalism.

I noticed you never commented on the destruction that your government has caused to other countries in the world, from Vietanm to Iraq. You supported Saddam Hussein and turned a blind eye when he gassed thousands of Kurds. Have you seen those pictures? I have watched documentaries on the destruction done to Vietnam through Agent Orange. They interviewed Vietnamese cizitizens and they still despise your country for the deformaties and destruction you caused to their country through weapons and chemical agents. Lets see your country was the only country to use two nuclear weapons to obliterate hundreds of thousands of civilians in Japan. Here is another one, your troops brutally murdered innocent civilians in somalia. One of your helicopter gunships shot into a building with over a hundred civilians. You know shoot first ask questions later, and yes this was in a documentary also. I could go on and on but there is too much to list if you get my point. Other posters feel free to add to the list.

Actually, that's true. Americans don't really notice what's going on in Canada, including the politicians. example: Bush didn't know that Canada is a biggest sources of foreign oil for the US. It's our sellout politicians & businesspeople that we need to worry about. If we're going to scapegoat somebody, make it people like John Manley or Pierre Pettigrew.

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va

I simply want to know from anon is what does American protect us from? Do we even have ennemies in Canada?

> Do we even have ennemies in Canada?<br />
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Yup. Fellow Canadians. Evil, corrupt, Canadian officals.<br />
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In fact, as heard on the Saturday broadcast by the US (those bastards!) National Public Radio, an interview with Marcus Gee, editorial page editor for Toronto's Globe and Mail:<br />
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<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4616758">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4616758</a><br />
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Admit it: Your Canuckistani Banana Republic gives a bad name to all good bananas!<br />
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