''You know how you hear all that stuff about Canadians being so nice and polite and humble, gopher???? It is all true''
HAHA!! New York and the Twin Cities have one thing in common: they are overrun with what Minnesotans often call Canuckleheads (the term is not used in NY as it is considered offensive in those parts). So I know what you folks are all about socially speaking.
Here I must disagree with you, Gopher. Don’t go by some of the yahoos in the forum here. Internet anonymity brings out the worst in some people. Things they wouldn’t dare say to somebody’s face, they can say without any problem in the anonymity of internet.
However, you will see the difference between Americans and Canadian when you move away from the anonymity, when politicians, columnists etc. have to say something publicly, openly. Then Canadians are indeed are more polite.
Thus, we don’t have any equivalent of your hate radio., we don’t have an indigenous Rush ‘drug addict’ Limbaugh, we don’t have Ann Coulter, Dr. Laura etc., who spout poison, vitriol, filth, 24/7 and who continually keep poisoning the political discourse of USA.
Harper has plenty of political enemies here, in fact many more than Obama does. Obama has approval rating of about 50%; Conservatives here have approval rating of less than 40%. However you won’t see anybody in Canadian politics refer to Harper as a Nazi, a Communist, a Muslim terrorist, an illegal alien etc. The discourse in Canada is more polite, more civil than that in USA (though obviously we have our share of hate mongers, of yahoos).
So again, don’t go by what a few nuts say here in the anonymity of internet. Indeed, that is the test I myself adopt. Would I say something to somebody’s face? If I would, then I say it here, otherwise I don’t.
