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Bashing America: Anti-U.S. Sentiment In Canada May Escalate

Posted on Tuesday, January 17 at 10:44 by Anonymous
In a blatant appeal for votes, candidates of every stripe, led by Prime Minister Paul Martin and his ruling Liberal Party, are taking aim at Washington, blasting it for taxing Canadian lumber imports, for failing to fight global warming, for lax gun-control laws, for dealing inappropriately with the war on terrorism. And all the while, they're studiously ignoring Canada's own homegrown issues. America-bashing became such a central part of the election landscape last month that U.S. ambassador David Wilkins warned that Canadian-American relations could take a turn for the worse if party leaders didn't back off. But his words only prompted Canadian politicians to lash back with admonitions of their own. Even Stephen Harper, leader of the Conservatives, the party generally most sympathetic to the United States, declared: ''I don't think foreign ambassadors should be expressing their views or intervening in an election.'' http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/01/15/ed.col.canada.0115.p1.php?section=opinion

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  1. by cascadia
    Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:16 am
    as a californian american i hope canadians realize there is a very large minority in the country that feels our policy is total b.s.

    i would go as far as to say that if offered the choice california, oregon and washington would be honored to become part of canada. it would be wonderful to actually have some social welfare and interest in education, as well as a much superior foreign policy. many americans, at least in california very much look up to canada what is has been able to achieve which we have not.

    it is unfortunate that america has become so complacent and downright backward. hopefully (and quite possibly) we will eventually elect some capable leadership. remember the good old clinton years?

    there are pockets of reason still alive in the united states, and they respect canada, and cherish the relationship we have both enjoyed so long.

    don't hate the u.s., just our government...

  2. by FurGaia
    Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:26 am
    Who said that we hate you? I certainly don't! How can I hate <a href="http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/">firedoglake</a>, <a href="http://www.therawstory.com/">The Raw Story</a>, <a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html">Gore Vidal</a>, <a href="http://www.davidsirota.com/">David Sirota</a>, and so many others. <p> But for now, the most important must be <a href="http://www.worldcantwait.net/">this movement</a>! <p> Indeed I have spent many nights reading what many of your fellow Americans are telling the World on the net. In trying to learn from them, I also get to know about what they are going through under the Bush regime, like <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/25/19044/2119">this</a> for example, and <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_01_22_digbysblog_archive.html#113804286022555906">Digby</a>, and I am heart-broken both at your pain and at your feeling of helplessness. <p> That's being much more personal that I care to be but we are living in weird times brought to us by men and women with very weird ideology. Good luck to you ... and us!

  3. by Mr.Can-Euro
    Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:52 am
    Cascadia, I don't hate Americans either. They are wonderful people under a bad government. But isn't most countries in this world in the same situation? Citizens elect governments and if citizens are being mistreated by their government, they can take them down. Best of luck to you and to the rest of the Americans who want to end corruption in the United States.

    ---
    "A person who walks in someone elses footprints leaves no footprints." Chinese Proverb



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