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| Contributor | Guy |
| Last Edited | Guy Feb 11, 2006 10:50pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As a Canadian, I want to apologize. For many years, I looked down on you. I sniffed at your capital punishment, right-leaning government, and massive military. I would comfort myself with the sense that I was better than you. After all, I’m a Canadian.
But all that changed on January 23 when Canada elected a conservative government with ties to far-right organizations. Boy, was I wrong!
I was always puzzled about what seemed like vast differences between our countries. Was it the cooler weather up here? Was it the lack of an organized religious right? It just seemed we thought more clearly than you southern hicks and yahoos. When Americans used to ask me what the main difference was between our countries, I would respond simply: In Canada, we have bitter cold weather most of the year. In the United States, you have Republicans.
Of course, we Canadians have long held that we’re different from you Yanks. We got rid of the death penalty decades ago. We have no abortion law. We have a fair and open-minded supreme court, with more women judges serving on it than any other supreme court in the world. And we have a national marriage law that affords full equality to gay and lesbian couples. Who knew the reasons for Canada’s reasonable stance on so many issues? Perhaps it was something in the water, or maybe it was that we don’t get Fox News up here. |
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