Posted on 07/04/2005 7:18:55 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
Toronto-- Long harboured Canadian resentment of Canada being annexed by the United States took a 90-degree angle on July 1 with Frank McKenna, Canada’s Ambassador to the United States, turning the tables. McKenna says he will organize the more than 1 million Canadians in the United States to lecture Americans.
McKenna, who’s already sent messages to 6,000 expatriates, intends to get in touch with 100,000 of them by week’s end. The rookie ambassador is pressing the "Canadian diaspora" to arm themselves with facts, to debate Americans and to get out and lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians, says the Toronto Star.
Fighting the U.S. on its own soil, albeit by stealth, McKenna is calling to action Florida snowbirds, northern exiles in Arizona, Hollywood comedians and actors, investment bankers in New York and professors and students at universities across the U.S.
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Where in Canada do you live?
One of the reasons I left Canada was to get away from the socialists in the Liberal and NDP parties.
If this was an ambassador appointed by the Conservative Party who was trying to rebuild the bridges torched by the Liberals, I would probably be on board.
I am not going to carry water for a Liberal party hack, however.
Most of us living here are still loyal to Canada. That doesn't mean we're going to do the Liberal Party's bidding, however.
Shall issue Concealed Carry Weapons permit. Here in Tennessee all you have to do to legally pack a handgun is provide your address and fingerprints, prove you're not a convicted felon or domestic abuser and have not been adjudged mentally ill, and take and pass a course in gun safety and the law of self defense. If you pass the course the state's required to issue you a carry permit that's good for four years and can be renewed every four years thereafter for $50.00. About 35 other states in the U.S. have similar laws. They've had a wonderful impact on reducing violent crime.
Exactly - those two parties make the Liberals (when not in a coalition) look conservative.
Loony BC? It's only the coastal areas that are such; the Interior, the northern areas and the Fraser Valley are quite conservative.
Apologies to extended BC. My conferences take me to Vancouver so my experience is skewed to that left leaning locale.
I never thought I'd see the day that I'd walk by a Canadian product to buy something from Poland....
It's just like Toronto badly skewing Ontario...
I am tired of any Canadian lecturing anyone, particularly some jackass liberal from the east.
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