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[The Man known as The Man]

[The Man known as The Man]

[Octavius Hite]

You wish, nothing seems to drive you crazier tha the fact that we have a cleaner, safer, more tolerant country than you. We can travel around the world without worrying about being shot, kidnapped, raped, etc just by wearing our flag and that drives you guys crazy. Just last year Yankees were putting our flag on their backpacks so that you guys wouldn't get harrassed. Enjoy Iraq.

[HapKi]

[Octavius Hite]

U just have to ask, we love to share

[Pligganease]

[Octavius Hite]

We come because we get 6 month tourist visa (unlike others) so we can come and make lots of money working part time. We come becasue we have tax treaties so that kids out of university can come here and pay 3% tax rather than 40% (because it is tough to pay that much staright out of university). We come because Canadians want to see the rest of the world and experience new cultures unlike others who don't even know what countries border them. We come because our country encourages us to go and experience life rather than getting married and squeezing out a few to protect our "race". We have an open, progressive society that wants us to explore and challenge ourselves rather than being boring and stale.

[Gopher]

Octavius: do you have anything substantial to say about the Canadian Supreme Court?

[Octavius Hite]

Gopher: I wanted to but all these inferiority complex landen americans started bashing me rather thn discussing anything worthwhile so now it seems it has just became a game.

[Pligganease]

[Octavius Hite]

Actaully i did and tried to have a discussion about whether or not the court should be progressive but all the crazy right-wing canadians (who supprt that perpetual loser Harper) and the in hiding Americans who are upset they are all always picked on started all this crazy talk, i'll have any discussion you want on the state of the court....

here goes...

The last 5 years of Canadian Supreme Court desicions have been fair, progressive and reinventive when it comes national policy. They have done liberal things (gay marriage) and conservative things (private health insurance, not supproting marijuana legalization) and then they have done things that I'm not sure of like ruling against Aboriginal logging rights. I am happy with the courts rullings and I think Canada is better for it.

How's that?

[On the other hand]

[Gopher]

I'm confused.

First we were told (a while back) that the Japanese prefer Canadian workers to American workers.

Next I heard that the Canadians "beat" the U.S. rescue teams to the disaster area in New Orleans, and, we were told, this is not surprising, as the Canadians were the only ones to accomplish their goals in the Normandy invasion, and that, therefore, Americans should take better care of their poor (as, presumably, the Canadians do), according to Mindmetoo.

Then I was lectured by Manner of Speaking that Canadians (and everyone else in the world) only take issue with American foreign policy, and, in his sermons on democracy and good government, I was told that governments exist to serve the people (as in, presumably, Canada) and not the other way around (as in America). Manner of Speaking was pretty clear in his assertions that Canadians like and indeed respect America -- it's just American foreign policy that they don't like.

Now were are hearing, in at least two more threads on this theme, that Canadian cities are more preferable to live in than U.S. cities, that Vancouver is rising to greatness (although Manner of Speaking assures us that Canadians don't care about "greatness"), and, on top of this, we also see a thread that alleges it intends to address the Canadian Supreme Court, but is really an attack on U.S. domestic politics (e.g., Affirmative Action, race relations, gender disparities, etc.), and, not much of a surprise here, we are told by Octavius that Canada is superior to the U.S. in these things.

Canadians say they don't dislike America, that some Americans here are just too hypersensitive and defensive...Mith tells me, much earlier, that the "Canada is morally superior to the U.S." theme is not really present on this board. But what are we to make of all of these threads? What, then, are Canadians trying to prove?

[Kuros]

[Gopher]