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Canada to U.S.: All Our Ex-Pats Are Belong to Us, and Will Tell You What to Do
Canada Free Press ^ | July 4, 2005 | Judi McLeod and David Hawkins

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


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From a real Canadian to the Americans: I am very, very sorry. He doesn't speak for all of us.

Happy 4th of July! Celebrate freedom twice as hard for us conservatives and libertarians trapped in Canada.

1 posted on 07/04/2005 7:18:55 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
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apparently the good ambassador doesnt realize that they are in the US for a reason....


2 posted on 07/04/2005 7:21:36 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (Sleep in peace, comrades dear...)
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To: Alexander Rubin
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.

Will the EPA let us heat that much tar all at once?
And do we need a feather permit?

SO9

3 posted on 07/04/2005 7:22:18 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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apparently the good ambassador doesnt realize that they are in the US for a reason....

He obviously isn't.
Past time for him to go home.

SO9

4 posted on 07/04/2005 7:23:46 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Alexander Rubin

What you should do is remind your countrymen of the liberal British newspaper that set out to lecture Americans and convince us to vote for John Kerry. Even liberals turned on them.


This will blow up in their face.


5 posted on 07/04/2005 7:24:45 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
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To: Servant of the 9

yeah if he doesnt like, he CAN go home. We won't stop him. Hell we might even pay for his plane ticket :)


6 posted on 07/04/2005 7:24:52 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (Sleep in peace, comrades dear...)
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To: MikeinIraq

Nah, why bother?

We should just tie him up, throw him in the back of a pickup truck, drive him to the nearest border and *THROW* him back across.


7 posted on 07/04/2005 7:26:38 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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From a real Canadian to the Americans: I am very, very sorry. He doesn't speak for all of us.

That's quite alright. We're not exactly shaking in our boots at the prospect of being lectured at by a bunch of non-voting leftists. In fact, usually when leftists start a public debate they get more of a debate than they bargained for. That's why they tend not to do too well on talk radio.

8 posted on 07/04/2005 7:26:58 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: Spktyr

we could do that too, but I am a non-violent person ;-)


9 posted on 07/04/2005 7:27:13 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (Sleep in peace, comrades dear...)
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>> "Long harboured Canadian resentment of Canada being annexed by the United States" <<

When was Canada annexed? I must have missed that one.


10 posted on 07/04/2005 7:32:09 AM PDT by sd-joe
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To: cripplecreek

I know it will. That's what makes this both hilarious and tragic at the same time.


11 posted on 07/04/2005 7:33:25 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (You make my heart glad by building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: sd-joe

They've been culturally annexed. Except for Quebec, Canada pretty has no national culture of its own. And the rest of Canada isn't too keen about Quebec right now....


12 posted on 07/04/2005 7:37:46 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Culturally and economically. 76% of Canada's trade is with the US and 25% of the US's trade is with Canada. Other parts of Canada have their own culture, but they're either subdued at the moment, or purely regional/local.


13 posted on 07/04/2005 7:42:05 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (You make my heart glad by building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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I, too, am tired of Canadians "lecturing" us.

Better they should "lecture" each other ~ after, of course, cutting stout switches from the nearest tree!

Well, maybe not. They'd like that.

14 posted on 07/04/2005 7:43:05 AM PDT by muawiyah
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This is a joke, right?

Right????


15 posted on 07/04/2005 7:44:39 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Please check out my new & improved profile page!)
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To: muawiyah

*protects his tender backside* Not all of us would. *grabs his shotgun* Now you stay in front of me where i can see you, partner. *narrows eyes* And drop the birch switch.


16 posted on 07/04/2005 7:45:35 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (You make my heart glad by building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: Alexander Rubin

The ambassador is misinformed: the problem isn't organizing Canadians to lecture Americans, it's getting them to STOP.


17 posted on 07/04/2005 7:45:45 AM PDT by Trimegistus
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To: proud American in Canada

No. In other news, I am looking to acquire an American citizenship in about 5-10 years time. Let me the hell out!


18 posted on 07/04/2005 7:46:34 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin (You make my heart glad by building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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*******to get out and lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians,




Washigton doesnt have to make decisions that hurt Canadians, They are doing a great job of that on their own.


19 posted on 07/04/2005 7:46:36 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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took a 90-degree angle

well, at least it didn't take a 180-degree angle... (sounds like the education system in Canada is no better than the US system!)

20 posted on 07/04/2005 7:46:59 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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