The Marmot’s Hole

15 Comments

1. The Goat
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

   I don’t know the background or anything…but what a dumbass.

2. Linkd
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:37 pm | Permalink

   The lefterier a Canadian, the slipperierer their words. Kind of the opposite of the American case, no?

3. R. Elgin
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

   “Asses of Fire” . . .

4. colontos
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:54 pm | Permalink

   I guessed China.

   I wonder if any Canadian has ever completed a meaningful utterance about their own country without including a reference to the US in it somewhere.

5. mateomiguel
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

   I heard that’s the only reason they give for saying “zed” instead of “zee” for z. They are taught in school “americans say zee, we are not american. therefore we say zed.”

   Also, maple syrup, hockey, goddamn leaf backpacks, et cetera.

6. Leguwan
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 7:52 pm | Permalink

   My impression of Canadians is that they are very balanced people regarding the USA….they have a chip on BOTH shoulders. Like the New Zealanders have about their big neighbor, Australia.

7. Roboseyo
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 8:21 pm | Permalink

   For Netizen Kim:

   “Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.” Winston Churchill, September 4, 1941.

   “Blame Canada, Blame Canada
   It’s not even a real country, anyway”
   Trey Parker and Matt Stone, 1999

8. slim
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

   Canada suffers southward brain drain.

9. The Goat
   Posted April 23, 2008 at 9:09 pm | Permalink

   I just wish my province would get their act together and get out - I just may go back if that were to happen.

   But that…is another issue.

10. jtb-in-texas
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

    As far as Kiwis go, they’re rather patient with the folks from the Western Island…

    There are Canadians who look forward to sharia or a Marxist “Worker’s Paradise” like Zimbabwe, may the Lord rebuke them.

    I thank God every day that I’m a US Citizen. But I don’t think we can long remain free without being careful to protect our freedoms. And our government seems intent on importing enough document-challenged foreign guest-workers to overburden the infrastructure and force a collapse…

    While we don’t have many like the Canadian example, the Texas EEOC has decided that merely having a Bible on one’s desk is sufficient evidence of religious harassment. Note this ruling does not apply to the Koran, the Book of Mormon, or any other (non-Christian) religious literature.

11. bigrich
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 11:39 pm | Permalink

    I think this is much ado about nothing. It seems to me that he’s simply stating that the term ‘freedom of speech’ has no legal value in Canada. The legal term for the same concept in Canada is ‘freedom of expression’. The concept exists, but it has a different name. This is a matter of semantics, not politics.

    And before any Americans accuses me of being a lefty Canadian: I’m British, and therefore I have equal snooty disdain for both upstart former colonies!

12. Janus
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 12:04 am | Permalink

    Well at least it wasn’t France.

13. colontos
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 2:23 am | Permalink

    @11 - Yeah, that was probably the reason behind what he said, and it’s a reasonable distinction. But it was his tone- “It’s not my job to give value to an American concept.” that made me roll my eyes at the obvious inferiority complex at work.

14. stacked
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 3:52 am | Permalink

    Yeah thats not really an inferiority complex.

15. colontos
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 7:04 am | Permalink

    Care to elaborate?