On (21 Oct 03) Doug Powless wrote to George Pope...
 DP> GP> Suggestions for controversial topics to get a Canadian echo
 DP> hopping:
 DP> GP> (in no particular order)

These were sort of intended (albeit humorously) to each be worthy of its
own message/thread! *LOL*  But I'll go with short-form answers to each
all in one message, why not? :)

 DP> GP> * "Is the USA Government Really Pro-Canada?"
 DP>
 DP> They would be if they knew how to spell our name.

Ahh, but WOULD they really be PRO Canada then? or just as apathetic &
using of us as now, without knowing our name/location or much of
ANYTHING about us, other than we're a nice peaceful country all "tucked
away down there"?

 DP> GP> * " Was the Greatest PM Canada
Ever Had!"
 DP>
 DP> Lester Pearson, by virtue of the fact that he was the last PM who left
 DP>
 DP> us with a dollar that was above the U.S. in value.  And by the fact
 DP> that
 DP> he did not introduce deficit spending.

I don't understand this need to match our dollar to the US dollar -- the
same name is a COINCIDENCE -- they're atcually TWO different currencies
-- we certainly don't say much about having parity with the Mexican peso
(anotheu North American currency that's included in NAFTA)

I remember picking up a pack of cigs for my dad in maybe the mid 1970's
(I was about 9 or so) at the gas station, and coming back with an
American dollar as part of the change and my dad was FURIOUS!! *LOL*
(sent me back down there to get a REAL dollar!) it's been a long time
since anyone would complain about THAT, eh? heh

 DP> GP> * "Go Quebec!"
 DP>
 DP> That one requires a long missive, which I'm disinclined to do at this
 DP> point.  Suffice it to say:  those who were for separation had a
 DP> legitimate beef which many of us failed to recognize.  And they are in
 DP> the
 DP> minority these days anyway.  It all stems from an actual pro-English
 DP> stance
 DP> that was present in Quebec prior to Le Parti Quebecois, where you
 DP> could
 DP> only get a job in some fields if you spoke English.  YOu were
 DP> considered
 DP> something less than ideal if you didn't.

I liked "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" take on it -- they suggested the
PQ forming a coalition with the Alliance, so "the separatists from the
West and the separatists from the East combine and we finally have a
united Canada!"

It's all politics(ptui!) anyway -- as you said in the part I omitted for
brevity/neatness, most there don't go with the extremist view!  (and
most Anglo-Canadians don't go with the OTHER extremist view of, "f***
em, let 'em go!"

So long as their noisemaking gets them the lion's share of transfer
payments from Ottawa, and a more decisive voice in Parliament, they'll
not change their approach!

 DP> GP> * " is the BEST!!!"
 DP>
 DP> I live in Ontario but have never been out west or to the Martimes.
 DP> Judgement suspended for the time being. 

Well aren't you the unique one! *LOL*
I meant that more as a controversial come-on for all those OUTSIDE of
Toronto, who mostly DO have some sort of opinion on it (&, for them, not
having ever SEEN Toronto in person is not considered , BY them, to be
any sort of shortcoming or barrier to having strong anti-Toronto
opinions! *sigh*)

I've been in Ontario (and every province to the west thereof, at least
outside the Territories) but not Toronto, so I, too, reserve
judgement... but I am already aware that it's a cultural centre and
filled with just regular folks, (as is Vancouver, except we're nowhere
near as historically cultural!)

 DP> GP> * "Toronto sucks, eh?"
 DP>
 DP> Hmmm. Not really.  Parts of it does.  I hate driving in it.  But the
 DP> nightlife is unbelievable.  And I'm all about the parties, man.

Ditto as above, with other peoples' biased views! :)

I think EVERY city could have it said, especially by its own citizens,
"parts of it suck"

 DP> GP> * "Gay Marriages?"
 DP>
 DP> Nothankyouverymuch.  I was married.  To a woman.  I'll never
 DP> understand
 DP> gay attraction, so you can see that I have no desire to ever get
 DP> married again, much less to a man.  But thanks for asking.

Aww, if they want equality, why shouldn't they have the suffering and
hassles of marriage just like the rest of us? *LOL*

Marriage is a 3-ring circus, I heard:

Engagement Ring
Wedding Ring
Suffer Ring

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