Oh for %&$# sakes!

[Nonskimmer]

I agree with most of what you say, except that the list of major groups is growing at an alarming rate. It's becoming less about language and more about race. Racial diversity is just fine, but in Canada it gets back to the "cultural mosaic" I mentioned. For example, we have such an Asian presence here, especially in BC but it's quite large elsewhere too. Ontario in particular. They practice everything as they would in the old country, and we let them. It's all very politically correct but it's actually fractionalizing this country, not unifying it. We need to follow the melting pot concept much more closely than we do.

That's not limited to Asians by any stretch. That was just the example I chose. If people wish to settle in our country, regardless of race or cultural origin, they should be made to follow the grain of Canadian culture. We don't really have one, because we've allowed ourselves to become too diverse in terms of cultural practices.

[Blackwatch]

gentlemen, a very wise college professor told me once "NEVER give up power that you are unwilling to give up"....there are millions of Canadians that think, feel and want what you want...remember that....you are never without options, or a way out....sometimes you have to search for it, but there is always a way....We Americans have problems, hell, too many problems, at times....but millions of Americans deal with what they can deal with and not sweat the rest....BUT we also watch, listen and learn....We hold our public officals highly accountable for their actions...like you, we are a Republic, not a Democracy...there is a difference....find a legel way to hold the political leaders accountable and MAKE IT STICK....like you, MOST of our problems are in cities, not in rural areas....IS Canada worth fighting for? I think so....but I also think if you are not very cafeful, you will have a civil war....don't think it can't happen there, because it easily can....Don't let the extremists and communists (liberals) split you up...., they are using your own laws against you....so use the law against them...STARTING at the local level....

Canada and the US are tied togather (damn, you Canadians have some of the prettist women in the world!!!)....as is Mexico....we need you....find the courage and think, and never quit....and remember, like here, not all citizens want you to have a country...they want want power....

[plan_D]

I disagree, Canada does not have some of the hottest women in the world.

[Blackwatch]

ohh???

[Nonskimmer]

He's clearly high or something.

I entirely agree that Canada and the US have extremely strong links and more Canadians, and perhaps a few Americans, need to realize that. Without the United States of America, Canada would cease to be. Or rather, what remained wouldn't be anything like the Canada we know. Hell, we're practically the same people for the most part, and it irks me when I hear countrymen of mine bitch and whine about the United States. In many areas, we need to be following your example more closely. All too often however, political decisions are made on the basis of "being different from the Americans.", whether it works or not. Crazy.

[plan_D]

You all look the same, NS. Don't try and hide it. And when you're producing the likes of Alanis Morisette...I cannot think that Canada produces good looking women. Oh ...wait a second...I'd do ...wait, I can't remember her name that's how hot she is.

[Maestro]

Well, I can name you hot girls... some hotter than others, but I can. In no partucular order :

Elisha Cuthbert (known as Kim Bauer in the TV serie "24") - Born in Alberta
Pamela "Air Bags" Anderson - Born in British Colombia (Well, she was hot when she was around 25-30. Now she looks like if she had some bad surgery in her face...)
Shania Twain (country signer) - Born in Ontario

Then I could name several Playmates... But I did it before in an other thread.

[Maestro]

Originally Posted by Blackwatch

but I also think if you are not very cafeful, you will have a civil war....

I thought about that frequently. That will happen if Québec become Independent. Because Québec won't become a Democracy or a Republic under a PQist gouvernment... It will become a Dictatorship !

[plan_D]

Pamela Anderson wasn't hot, she was fake. I'll give you the other two though.

[Maestro]

Well, it all depends on the point of view... Personnally, I think she was not that bad when she started her career (around 25 years old). If you see a picture of her when she posed for Playboy in 1990, you'll see what I mean.

But now (she is around 40), she looks like she had some bad surgery in her face... Her nose looks... weird.

But I won't argue that she is fake... At least a part of her. That's why I called her : "Pamela "Air Bags" Anderson".

[Blackwatch]

Yep 'ole Pammy will never drowned....and some archeologist 4,000 years from now will wonder what the hell they were????

[Blackwatch]

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is NEVER free....all it takes for freedom to fail is good, brave and violent warriors to do nothing....

[evangilder]

Good statement, and very true.

[Nonskimmer]

In that case, Canada's days are truly numbered. We excel at doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. Yet we still see ourselves in some past, glorious, "what should have been" kind of light. A state of denial.

[Blackwatch]

bull****, I know Canadians....I have NEVER met a Canadian male that didn't have hair on his a** or the heart of a lion....

you have to stand for something or you will stand for nothing.

'course, I am just a ole' country boy from the hills of Appalachia too....my opinion is probably good fertilzer for a garden....I am not smarter, I just don't know when to quit or give up....