A perspective worth reading from south of the border:
Why Is Canada So Tiresome?
I must say I was a little befuddled watching George W. Bush in Canada.
There he was, saying nice things, making nice all over Canadians… and what were we hearing from the Canadian media and politicians?
They were wondering if they really ought to accept Bush’s obvious apology, when they still wanted to dislike him enormously and still wanted to oppose and condemn U.S. policies like pre-emptive war… insisting that the guy who was trying to make nice was wrong, wrong, wrong.
It was so so tiresome.
Here is a country which cannot provide for its own defense, which insists nobody wants to invade it because they are so nice and don’t tick people off (like those brutish bullies, the Americans.)
Here is a country which depends on America for 85% of its products for $1 billion a day in cross-border business, which depends on America to provide an audience for all those Canadian entertainers who would starve to death if they had to depend on a Canadian audience for their paychecks.
We’re talking about a country which spends all its time comparing itself to its huge neighbor and saying to itself, “We’re better. We’re smarter. We’re with the world, and America is out of step.”
This is the country whose politicians called President Bush a moron, and referred to Americans as bastards, and refused to help in a war the U.S. wanted to fight — in fact, refuses to believe that the 9/11 attacks on America were unprovoked. The U.S. had it coming, they say.
OK, OK… it’s a minority which says all those things, but the minority is the elected politicians and the snooty condescending media.
So here they were standing around saying, “OK, Bush is here to apologize… should we shake his hand or spit at his feet?”
Frankly, Canada, it’s all a bit tiresome to us. Would you like us to just ignore you?
That’s My Word.
And there’s this prior piece written by the same John Gibson:
Canada: Victim of Silent Majority Disease
Canada has apparently fallen victim to the silent majority disease.
We used to have a bad case of that ourselves. This quasi-medical condition afflicts a nation in the following way. Most people just shut up. They don’t say anything, even when the loudmouth minority around them are saying the most outrageous things.
Some 90 percent of Canadians are reported to have said they think the United States is their most important world partner… or something like that. Another 70-something percent said they think the U.S. is Canada’s most important friend.
And yet what do we hear about down here? We hear about the 60 percent of Canadian teenagers who think the U.S. is evil. We hear about the Canadian MP who put out an automated voicemail message to Canadians to come protest George W. Bush’s visit.
We hear about the Canadians who didn’t learn the lesson of Hollywood. After all, our friends on the left coast made a lot of noise about what a moron Bush is until he won the
election, then they crawled back under their rock.But not the Canadians. An American election only confirms for them that Americans are morons, and that they are so much smarter. “You’re bigger, we’re better,” they say.
Well, I guess it turns out that’s a minority view in Canada, that the overwhelming number secretly treasure their relationship with the U.S., rather their old relationship with the U.S. Right now, we’re ticked at them for being so mouthy and so superior-acting.
But evidently, the majority of Canadians — if I can believe these polls — think a lot differently than the loudmouth ones we see on newspapers and Canadian TV. It’s called the silent majority disease, and they should get the cure soon as possible.
That’s My Word.
EDIT: I’ll tack this Ross Mackenzie editorial on since it is germane:
…President Bush has ventured to Canada to ease strained relations – but his task is tough. In 1981, just 8 percent of Canadians had an unfavorable view of the U.S.; now 45 percent do. The place is an expanding bastion of political correctness. Ministers of certain churches (e.g., the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant body) are seeking to unionize to win higher wages and secure protection from parishioner abuse.
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And there are reports – blasphemous? – that during the past month Canadian border guards have been swamped by a flood of fleeing American animal-rights activists and sociology profs fearing Bush’s re-election will lead in the States to compelled hunting, praying and agreement with Bill O’Reilly – not to mention federal decrees against Volvos, latte and free-range chicken.
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