[DuncanWaring]

...and Canadian troops got the toughest beach on D-Day.

Ohhhhh, I dunno about that one.

[iopscusa]

Another great Steyn speech given to Hillsdale College. Chock full of Canada vs USA comps on economics, culture and politics....

[rhema]

In a news item from last year, an Ottawa panhandler said that he may have to abandon his prime panhandling real estate on a downtown street corner because he is being shaken down by officials from the panhandlers union. Think about that. There’s a panhandlers union which exists to protect workers’ rights or—in this case—non-workers’ rights. If the union-negotiated non-work contracts aren’t honored, the unionized panhandlers will presumably walk off the job and stand around on the sidewalk. No, wait...they’ll walk off the sidewalk! Anyway, that’s Canada: Without a Thatcher or a Reagan, it remains over-unionized and with a bloated public sector.

[RockinRight]

On the other hand, Andrew Roberts, the author of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, points out that the two most corrupt jurisdictions in North America are Louisiana and Quebec—both French-derived.

LOL...

[investigateworld]

There you have Canadian health care in a nutshell. After all, you can’t expect a G-7 economy of only 30 million people to be able to offer the same level of neonatal intensive care coverage as a town of 50,000 in remote, rural Montana. And let’s face it, there’s nothing an expectant mom likes more on the day of delivery than 300 miles in a bumpy twin prop over the Rockies. Everyone knows that socialized health care means you wait and wait and wait—six months for an MRI, a year for a hip replacement, and so on. But here is the absolute logical reductio of a government monopoly in health care: the ten month waiting list for the maternity ward.

LOL!!!

Brilliant

[JOAT]

ping

[Damocles]

Steyn is simply amazing. I have yet to find something subpar from him. An absolute gem, and hard hitting at that.

[Billthedrill]

Of course, John O’Sullivan isn’t saying that Canadian men are literally cross-dressers—certainly no more than 35-40 percent of us...

I wouldn't put it that high. 33%, tops.

Certainly Canada's economy is the object of admiration for certain American politicians, mostly Democrats, for whom the purpose of government is not to preserve human freedom, but to govern. Everything. Hillary in particular seems to regard economic "justice" as a mission from God, that justice consisting of robbing Peter to bribe Paul. But dirigisme is an eternal temptation to politicians. It is an expression of pure, overweening ego to insist that political office means that one knows farming better than farmers, manufacturing better than manufacturers, military matters better than the military. It is a pity that that sort of ego is currently in greater abundance than wisdom, and an election year only makes it worse.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Everyone knows that socialized health care means you wait and wait and wait—six months for an MRI, a year for a hip replacement, and so on. But here is the absolute logical reductio of a government monopoly in health care: the ten month waiting list for the maternity ward.

ROFL! Brilliant!

[gridlock]

BFL

[NonValueAdded]

gotta love it

[Vigilanteman]

So when people talk about the Canadian model as something that should be emulated, they forget that it only works because it’s next to the American model.

This entire article is fascinating, but this gem is the best!

[T-Bird45]

Thanks for a great late-afternoon Steyn read!! As for the poster noting we need to make him an American, I second that since that would stop the Canadian Human Rights Commission action right in its tracks.

[TomB]

There was even a famous case a few years ago of a pet store owner who was targeted by the Office De La Langue Française for selling English-speaking parrots. The language commissar had gone into the store and heard a bird saying, “Who’s a pretty boy, then?” and decided to take action. I keep trying to find out what happened to the parrot. Presumably it was sent to a re-education camp and emerged years later with a glassy stare saying in a monotone voice, “Qui est un joli garcon, hein?”

I want to have Mark's child.

And I'm a guy.

[knews_hound]

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[IrishCatholic]

One of the best writers today.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[redpoll]

I loved this line...

>>>Naturally, the exotic dancers are unionized, so it’s only a matter of time before the last viable industry in Quebec grinds to a halt<<<

Strippers grinding to a halt? ROTFLMAO

[Tribune7]

The four girls were born at a U.S. hospital because there was no space available at Canadian neonatal intensive care units. Autumn, Brook, Calissa, and Dahlia are in good condition at Benefice Hospital in Great Falls, Montana.

Anchor babies from the north?

[Nachoman]

and Canadian troops got the toughest beach on D-Day...

Steyn must be confusing D-Day with Dieppe, where the Canadians got slaughtered.

According to a CBC website that discusses the Canadian landing at Juno beach:

"The bombardment of the beaches began at 6 a.m. Within an hour the lead landing craft were away from the ships. Two hours later, the German defences at Juno Beach had been shattered and Canada had established the beachhead. "

Juno was a cakewalk compared to Omaha beach.