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Posts: 18875 (07/01/08 7:26 AM) |
Of all the places in America I would like to see, I think I most want to see stereo-typical New York,
You know the one with all the open air markets , the checkered cabs and the Italians that yell at each other all the time. |
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Posts: 12515 (07/01/08 7:28 AM) Registered user |
ILL, Canada doesn't need America's protection as they are a member of the Commonwealth. 53 countries and 1.8 Billion people are in the Commonwealth. They entered WWII when England did, well before America. So you're quoting the sermon from Pulp Fiction is irrelevant. Still not there. ETA: UU.....Stereotypical NY moved.....it's in Kearny, New Jersey now.
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Je Fa |
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Posts: 10 (07/01/08 7:29 AM) |
I know you're just winding people up, but ask an Australian how well the Commonwealth defended them in WWII.
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Posts: 2111 (07/01/08 7:34 AM) |
Christ, the Canadian economy hums along for six months and all of a sudden they think they're a real country.
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Jakob Speed |
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Posts: 1540 (07/01/08 7:37 AM) Registered User |
Most commonwealth countries are backwaters looking for trade access.
I do believe if Canada had suffered 9/11-like attack, and we needed to smash someone... Britain would join us in going to hell and back, out of loyalty for WWI and WWII. The rest of the Commonwealth, not really. The U.S. would certainly be the biggest booster in this scenario, due to the economy of scale in making war, and such. |
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Posts: 18876 (07/01/08 7:44 AM) |
Our smashing days are behind us... As much as I don't buy into being "armed for empire" Canada does lack a mission statement, and a military to
back it up.
Thank Trudeau for that. |
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Posts: 2616 (07/01/08 7:48 AM) Registered user |
ilikelissie wrote: Ok, so whatever obscure point you were making is lost on me and most people. Care to try again? unkle greggo wrote: Their economy is flourishing due to all the gay weddings. And the fact that we spend huge amounts of money for their oil. Their swimming in OUR money.
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Posts: 18877 (07/01/08 7:52 AM) |
Once you buy the oil , it's our money. I can't help it if you need a ton of it and We have some. That's like me bitchin' I have to pay when I
buy a car.
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Jakob Speed |
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Posts: 1541 (07/01/08 7:54 AM) Registered User |
unpretentious username wrote: if we had a need to do smashing, like 3,000 murdered Canookians, NATO countries would be rushing to rent or existing equipment.
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Posts: 12517 (07/01/08 7:54 AM) Registered user |
Canadian oil is ok, I guess, but I only use spicy Mexican oil in my car.
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Posts: 2112 (07/01/08 7:57 AM) |
Strange Flute wrote: |
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Posts: 18878 (07/01/08 7:58 AM) |
We might be able to cobble something together...but it's no replacement for a concerted effort to maintain an ongoing domestic and foriegn capabilty.
I'm not saying huge just enough for an effective reaction to a threat, or a meaningful response to a foriegn crisis.
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Posts: 58 (07/01/08 7:59 AM) |
Happy Canada Day, cuz half this board is Canadian.
*Sigh* no more "Monopoly Money" jokes for us. |
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Je Fa |
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Posts: 18 (07/01/08 8:02 AM) |
Who's gonna attack Canada? It has good relations with its two neighbors, the US and Santa.
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Posts: 4858 (07/01/08 8:05 AM) Registered User |
OT is proof that Americans have no friends, we don't really need a study for that, they move all the fucking time
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Posts: 4859 (07/01/08 8:08 AM) Registered User |
Peaches once said that China wants to attack Canada, it's strange that people laughed at her for her asian/pleeze comment instead of that
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Pahrump Mania |
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Posts: 1319 (07/01/08 8:16 AM) Registered user |
Why have Canada and the US drifted apart since the days of Mulrooney and Reagan? Is it the nearly monolithic liberal Canadian Press that it causing the rift? I
know we have always been different, but now it seems like politically Canada should be moved to Europe.
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Jakob Speed |
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Posts: 1543 (07/01/08 8:33 AM) Registered User |
It is strange, I think it is less average Canadians that have a problem with the U.S., and more the old Loyalist Protestants of Toronto. Many of which became
the media establishment and entrenched liberals. Add on a ton of mostly Pakistani and Arab populations who immigrated with old grudges intact.
CBC has always used it as way of justifying their billion dollar subsidy for their gawd awful networks. Canadian artists use it for protectionist reasons. All in all, it is not ideology by average Canooks, but blind ignorance of classic media manipulation. As in most things negative in Canada, Toronto is ground zero for the anti-American rhetoric. Most of the media is controlled by elites from there. |
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Posts: 1322 (07/01/08 8:35 AM) Registered user |
What about the francophones? What is their news media like?
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Jakob Speed |
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Posts: 1544 (07/01/08 8:42 AM) Registered User |
I plead ignorance on French media. Not my thing. I'm only just starting to learn French this last month.
Few Canadians outside of Quebec and New Brunswick watch any French TV or read their news at all. Italian, Hindi, Greek and Portuguese news shows prolly rate 100 times more popular outside of French Canada than french media does. The French CBC station in Toronto has something like 500 viewers per hour in an area of 6 million. |
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