Bush cancels visit to Canada

National Post ^ | 2003-04-12 | Robert Fife

[VRWC_minion]

Once a surrender monkey always a surrender monkey.

[gcruse]

You are correct, without a doubt. But the pain inflicted on the one Dixie Chick cannot help but hurt the others.

[Dog Gone]

However, what I'm talking about is if Americans start boycotting Canada in an attempt to punish the Canadian government, all they will do is punish the little people (merchants, etc.) and NOT the Liberal government.

How many of the little people elected the Liberal government?

[Mare]

Who knows? Voting is in private here.

[Dog Gone]

Yes, but I'm assuming you count votes accurately, so the answer has to be, MOST.

[paulklenk]

Blame Canada.

[CaptainK]

The Texas RSVP.

[max epr]

Canadians have been voicing snotty, sarcastic, condescending criticisms of the US of A for decades. Blaming it all on just French-Canadians is a diversion.

[gcruse]

The old analogy of the relationship between Canada and the US is hoary, but that doesn't make it invalid. The mouse and the elephant share the same bed. But the mouse has to worry about being rolled over on by the elephant, not vice versa. Chretein seems to have decided that the mouse needs no longer consider the effects of pachydermal physics. Unfortunately, the elephant is unlikely to roll over onto the head alone.

[edwin hubble]

"I don't think that's the way Canadians feel about us. It's the damn Quebecois that are sticking up for their cousins across the way.
Most Canadians are sick and tired of them. "

I think we have more friends in Canadian 'flyover country' of the central provinces. (A little like the distribution of the Red Zone in the US).

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"If Bush is going to visit anywhere in Canada, he should visit the heartland, where he would be welcomed--not Ontario."

The problem is not with the Provence of Ontario, it is in Ottawa, Ontario which is Canada's capital. If I were in position to suggest his itinerary in a visit to Canada I would suggest he visit each provencial capital, except for Quebec. That would send a big time message to the Froggie's in Canada and to Chrétien, the F'n Frog of a Prime Minister. Chrétien and his government in Ottawa are the problem and Quebec is the center piece of the French problem in Canada.

You are right, of course about Canada's heartland - strong favorable sentiment toward the US, and the heartland begins in Ontario; includes Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Both coasts are also mostly favorable toward us here. That is not to say that there are no Froggie influences outside of Quebec, but Quebec is the source of most of the French nationalism and separatistism in Canada.