My kind of article at the National Post this morning (hat tip Ross M.), written by the good Western Standard magazine’s Terry O’Neill. It’s called Peas in a Pod and the peas are Americans and Canadians. Liberals are against that.
Peas in a pod
A new study suggests Canadians and Americans are not so different[…] those who think that means Canadians are manifestly distinct from the folks next door may be disappointed by a study by Ronald Inglehart of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
The political scientist says his empirical findings will come as a “shock to Canadians.” After all, he says, “The worst insult I can make to my Canadian friends is to say, ‘Aw, you’re just like us.’ “
But that may indeed be the case. As part of the Institute’s World Values Survey, the professor plotted more than two dozen countries on a continuum: Along one axis, he measured cultural attitudes associated with traditional or secular values; along the other, he gauged attitudes toward such things as tolerance for outsiders and self-expression. He then compared the current findings (based on data compiled no later than 2001) with those of two decades ago.
On the resulting graph, Canada ends up side by side not with Belgium, France or Sweden, but near the United States—with both registering values that fall roughly midway between secular and traditional, but with high levels of tolerance (Canada is marginally more permissive and marginally less religious). […]
Read the whole thing (30 seconds).
Actually we don’t need a study. Anyone who isn’t drunk or high on crack or a liberal-left fundamentalist can see that the proximity of Canadian and American values range from “similar” to “identical”.
This would be a good place to give you my regular update on some of Canadian TV culture. And once again, as we can see, that whole liberal government plan to mandate and indoctrinate “Canadian culture” into Canada by laws and restrictions and government decrees and policies… is working about fabulously well, as usual.
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And as usual we can see that the state-run media, the CBC, fails as they always do to attract an audience even after spending in excess of one BILLION dollars of taxpayer money each and every year, to say nothing of the millions and millions in subsidies and grants and tax breaks and so on that Canadian-produced show get on top of that.
The privately-owned CTV always has the more popular news shows, and even Global News beats the state-run media news. The CTV has also created another hit comedy called Corner Gas, which always figures into the top twenty. The state-run media has nothing in the top 30 that is locally created. They rarely if ever do.
If it weren’t for hockey and curling, hardly anybody would ever watch the CBC. And of course the CBC buys the rights to broadcast the hockey games and the Olympics and such by competing against private Canadian citizen-owned networks, using your tax dollars (and theirs!) against them, to win the rights.
Liberals are in favor of that.
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