"Canadian Pride" News Over Christmas

I hear that Australia is sending $8 million in aid to Indonesian earthquake victims, being loaded as we speak. Paul has "pledged" a million............

Is this what he's talking about?

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RickW

Ooops! Now I heard it was 4 million, but that an "assessment" was required.......

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RickW

How about PM pulling our armed forces
out of Afganistan and sending them to
the region affected by the tsunami.
It would be much more honourable than
having our forces protect the poppy
crop for the US empire.

Heh.

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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter --

Winston Churchill

Canadian pride in what? The 'greatest Canadian' was voted for this past year, Tommy Douglas, a swell guy to be sure, but the result today is that we have ten or thirteen different 'universal' health care systems across the country that are middling okay in the work that they do. Big deal. All the Europeans are ahead of us on that anyway.

Is there anything at all that a people in Victoria, Quebec City, Halifax and St. John's can collectively feel proud of? Is there anything worthwhile tying these people together?

Where would the drugs come from that keep the masses happy and the revolution from happening?

JJ, go away. Everyone is ignoring you.

Don't worry, harper would divide us even further. We've already given the provinces far too much power. It's not over yet.

Harping about Harper is just politics, it's not much. This is an important issue because there are no easy answers as to what all Canadians should take pride in. The peacekeeping thing actually died out a couple of decades ago, many western countries do the multicult thing so it's not anything special either, and universal health care is done by lots of countries who do it better than us anyhow. Canadians have nothing to rally around, a challenge to Canada would be met by a whimper.

Two sides to every story:

1. Yes, they do need relief money. 23 000 dead. Horrible, let's help the unfortunate people. There is no doubt these nations can't rebuild on their own.

2. Yes, their own gov't does not take preventative action in an area prone to storms such as the one on the 26th. Yes, they do live in stick houses on the coast where every year a storm knocks them down and they rebuild in the same location, year after year.

Maybe in nontypical Canadian fashion we can start giving preventative money, instead of fixer-up money. IMO.

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When an invasion can bring a country its freedom then unconsciousness is true happiness.

Keep telling this Nova Scotian his government has too much power vs Ottawa. I need the laughs. When NAFTA's in the latrine and my electricity comes from Nova Scotian gas instead of US coal I'll take ye serious.

re 2: What's our own government done about tsunamis? The most lethal Canadian earthquake killed via an Atlantic tsunami, within living memory, and there's no tsunami planning. About 1/4 of all tsunami happen in the Atlantic. We're at even more risk from a meteor strike than is the Indian Ocean, since it's a larger ocean system and covers both hemispheres. The continental shelves are cracked; there's a volcanic Canary in imminent danger of breaking in two and drowning us all. <p>But we're expendable as far as Ottawa's concerned. They'd probably send more aid to rebuild New York and Washington than us.

^as for my stick house comment above:

I think I underestimated the situation, and was rude to cast judgements from my living room. Apologies. Especially now that the number of dead is estimated over 100 000 people and I was recently reminded that friends of mine were living in both Indonesia and Thailand.

RF

who's poppy crop would that be your 6 soldiers would be protecting? not the canadian drug smuggling operations where they use 5 year olds with backpacks full of bc bud? Come off it supremacist racist xenophobe Canadians!

I'm starting a movement to boycott all things Canada and Canadian. That includes your diseased bse cattle. Your racist hate against the US is a typical CANADIAN SMOKE SCREEN to hide your OWN CORRUPT INDUSTRY. 1 BILLION IN HANDOUTS IN 2004 WITH NO CATTLE TESTING. WHINE WHINE WHINE. HATE HATE HATE.

How absolutely joyous that Canadian teens (who consider the US evil) have taken to stabbing each other to death. Who are the evil ones? Proof says it's Canadians. You people can go back to hell now, we don't want any of racist, corrupt, hate mongering KIND on the planet. Go back to hell now.