Do You Or Do You Not Object To The Mother Canada Monument?

[grainfedpraiboy]

The news that broadcasters Peter Mansbridge, Lisa LaFlamme and Lloyd Robertson are no longer honorary patrons of the Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation (NFNMF) — that’s the outfit hoping to build a 24-metre colossus of “Mother Canada” in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, modelled after the forlorn figure atop Walter Seymour Allward’s Vimy Memorial — was the first I had heard of said foundation having any patrons at all. I assumed it was friendless. After all, various pundits and worthies have confidently assured us that the project is nothing but a monstrous testament to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ideology, cynicism, bad taste and war fetish.

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[mentalfloss]

Here's what I think about it.

 

[captain morgan]

Slack jawed and filled with wonderment... Yep, I'd say that describes ya

 

[DaSleeper]

Slack jawed and filled with wonderment... Yep, I'd say that describes ya

Flossy reads this part.......

After all, various pundits and worthies have confidently assured us that the project is nothing but a monstrous testament to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ideology, cynicism, bad taste and war fetish.

Believes the pundits with the same ideology as him.....Goes bananas and posts a meme...
Completely forgetting the rest of the article

But the project has many distinguished patrons, as it turns out, among them former Liberal prime minister John Turner, former Liberal Quebec premier Jean Charest, former Liberal premier of New Brunswick Frank McKenna, current Liberal MP Mark Eyking and current New Democrat MP Peter Stoffer, to say nothing of the project’s very distinguished “ambassador,” retired major-general Lewis MacKenzie. Whatever would possess these people to attach their names to such a thing?

 

[Walter]

After all, various pundits and worthies have confidently assured us that the project is nothing but a monstrous testament to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ideology, cynicism, bad taste and war fetish.

According to the Memorial website this is privately funded so the a-hole who wrote this knows not of what they say.

 

[Blackleaf]

It's just a take on Christ the Redeemer, only not as tall.

 

[Walter]

It's just a take on Christ the Redeemer, only not as tall.

It would bring more tourists to Cape Breton.

 

[Blackleaf]

It would bring more tourists to Cape Breton.

Maybe a few more. But it's not exactly Rio.

 

[mentalfloss]

It looks stupid.

 

[WLDB]

It would bring more tourists to Cape Breton.

Do the people there want them? Personally i cant stand tourists around here. Unfortunately it just goes with the territory.

 

[petros]

Maybe a few more. But it's not exactly Rio.

Right, that is why you'll still have you wallet, camera, phone and your car won't be broken into after checking it out with family who can run loose without being kidnapped.

It looks stupid.

What would you build?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

What would you build?

How bout a hundred-foot hockey stick?

 

[petros]

How bout a hundred-foot hockey stick?

I believe there already is one on Vancouver Island.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I believe there already is one on Vancouver Island.

So put one on Cape Breton. Bookends.

 

[petros]

One with a right curve to the blade.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I do not object. I have seen uglier monuments and better ones too.

 

[Locutus]

It looks stupid.

so does your website. :lol:

 

[55Mercury]

Mother Canada? seriously???

Shouldn't there at least be a fairy tale to go with it?

and is it supposed to appeal to immigrants that no one knows who the father is?

lol

 

[EagleSmack]

I think it is pretty impressive.

 

[Locutus]

Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation

https://www.facebook.com/NeverForgottenNationalMemorial