When a US Forum Member refers to Founding father he/she is correct. They are not implying in any way they are Canada's Fathers of Confederation. How and why you get so upset is beyond me.
You miss my point. US influence is pervasive. Little by little it has suffocated much of what used to be Canadian in the music industry. It isn't deliberate colonizing by most people, but if the US decides to bar from the airwaves everything that isn't Southern twang the result can kill Canadian country talent - and has done so. When is the last time you heard much Maritime music? It grows some, but American refusal to permit anything that isn't making certain people wealthy has a cultural impact here. Like it or not.
If you can watch what America does to the Third World as a matter of policy and not be upset, I feel sorry for you. Truthfully. I grew up right after WW2 when the kinds of things Nazi Germany had done were discussed regularly. We were taught to fear, despise and watch out for that kind of nation. They were the kinds of things that US propaganda in the '50's and '60's told us communists did, and that they were so threatening we should be prepared to go to war to prevent them. I believed, and I joined the RCN in 1967. I see no reason even now not to fear and resist that kind of behavior from foreign countries. America is a foreign country that is doing those things now.
And as to our Charter- Look to the US Constitution for similar rights. Mind you ours was written about 200 years later.
Do you think I am discussing the merits of constitutions? My posts this thread express no issue with anybody's constitution - America's or ours. People who studied foreign legal systems during the
Cold War learned that the constitution of the USSR was more liberal than the
Constitution of the US or our
Charter. Great Britain doesn't even have a written constitution. The written constitution doesn't matter as much as the culture of the nation.
In Canada when a PM has a majority- it is and can be no different in many ways than a dictatorship.
Why do you think Putin made his remark about the power of a Canadian PM.
I don't know what Putin said. But I take no issue with Russia
per se and would likely agree if he made sense.
As to your reference on the power of the US. Pick the next country that will be number 1 and ask, which one would you prefer. I know which one I would pick.
I fail to see the relevance of this point? If you're interested in a totally amoral war, study the Opium Wars. The
Opium Wars, also known as the
Anglo-Chinese Wars, divided into the
First Opium War from 1839 to 1842 and the
Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860.
Opium Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The root cause of the Opium Wars was tea. Tea purchases from India were so depleting the British treasury that Britain forced opium sales onto coastal China to make Chinese addicts and recoup lost tea profits.
I wasn't around then so I had no opportunity to comment. However we know what the world thought of Germans who lived without comment with the death camps, and everything else is just variations on that theme. If you think you should not have an adverse opinion about war mongering and atrocities, this is a subject with a well developed history. Maybe you just don't think its happening in your lifetime? That's what Germans thought in WW2. "We" collectively went to war in 1939 when Hitler did to Poland nothing that was morally different from what America did to Iraq or Vietnam.
As to Canadian Content in the Arts - a funnel for money for losers. Excepting the CBC.
Is that your political opinion or your economic opinion? I think you grossly underestimate the effect Canadian content had from 1929 on
House of Commons Committees - HERI (37-2) - OUR CULTURAL SOVEREIGNTY The Second Century of Canadian Broadcasting - Cover page. Perhaps some people are just willfully blind if they think they're getting cheaper music? Anybody who thinks that sleeping beside the elephant is without consequence is probably just tuned out to it. IMO anyway.
