Responding to posts # 65 and #66.
I have been thru this before: I AM Canadian, do not wish to be a citizen of any other country. At the same time, I am NOT a pseudo-patriot who can only take satisfaction of being a good Canadian by denigrating, bad-mouthing and ridiculing any and all other countries/nations, with special hatred for America.
These people seem to forget, that if it wasn't for America, the world would be a totally different place, with democracy, equal justice, free elections, freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc. under the control of an all-powerful goverment.
These people think that anyone who became a naturalized Canadian (in other words, EARNED citizenship, rather than by sheer dumb luck, born into it) who does not automatically despise the Yanks should be deported or stripped of citizenship.
Well, I am sorry, I am not going anywhere.
I DID work and lived in the States for six years, my employer asked me to apply for green card, but I told him that one citizenship change in one life time is about all I want to handle.
If I have sympathy for Americans maybe it is because I was always treated with respect by Americans, in the office, at border crossings or anytime I vacationed in the States.
These peole that always bring up my country of origin, my skin colour and they are have the nerve to call me a racist.