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APRIL 17, 2009 Canada Issues a Wake-Up Call: You May Be a Citizen Article
By PHRED DVORAK
Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.
The April 17 amendment to Canada's Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it when they became citizens of another country. It also grants citizenship to their children.
In the video 'Waking Up Canadian,' a man goes to sleep in a drab room and wakes up to find out that he's become a citizen of Canada. Surrounded by flags, maple-leaf-shaped cookies and a canister of maple syrup, he's welcomed by a hockey player, two plush moose and a uniformed Mountie.
Canada's New Spin on Triple LoopsWork-Visa Numbers Get Squishy -- and Get PlayedU.S. Offers Refuge to CubansThe Canadian government doesn't know the precise number or location of individuals affected by the legislation. But it believes most are U.S. citizens, a spokeswoman for Canada's immigration office said. U.S. Department of Homeland Security records show 240,000 Canadians were naturalized in the U.S. from 1948 to 1977; the new law fixes problems that occurred during those years.
To reach that amorphous group of beneficiaries, the Canadian government has turned to YouTube. It's running an ad there titled "Waking up Canadian," in which a man awakens on April 17 to a room festooned with red-and-white Canadian flags. He's met by a welcoming committee consisting of two stuffed plush moose, a hockey player, and a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Eligible individuals automatically become Canadian citizens. But they don't get proof of that citizenship unless they apply for it, meaning other countries -- including those that allow people to be citizens of only one nation -- won't be alerted, according to the immigration office spokeswoman. Those people also may renounce their citizenship rights, she said.
James Hager
Canada is using YouTube to tout a new law granting citizenship to unsuspecting foreigners, many of whom are Americans.
The citizenship bonanza is the byproduct of a decadeslong struggle by a motley group of people who claim they were unfairly denied or lost their Canadian nationality. Canadian families who crossed the border in 1947 to 1977 to have their babies in a U.S. hospital found those children weren't recognized as Canadians unless the families registered them with the government. Some foreign brides of Canadian World War II servicemen lost their citizenship if they stayed out of the country for a decade or more.
Then there are the Canadian Mennonites who moved to Mexico in the 1920s to the 1960s. When their children and grandchildren returned to Canada, many found their nationality unclear.
Some such cases languished in litigation for years. Others surfaced in 2007, when new U.S. rules requiring passports for travel between Canada and the U.S. uncovered significant numbers of people who thought they were Canadian, but weren't. The old rules were "quite intricate," said Bill Janzen, an immigration lobbyist in Ottawa for the Mennonite Central Committee of Canada.
The new law offers citizenship to many individuals now in limbo. It also stops the previous practice of granting citizenship in perpetuity to children of Canadians born abroad, limiting eligibility to children of parents born in Canada.
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being Canadian is great
clean air, lots of space, diverse people, free healthcare . . .
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being Canadian is great
clean air, lots of space, diverse people, free healthcare . . .
Yep, ...being Canadian is great, ...and being a Torontonian is even better! :D
People City:
Toronto is People City:
ahhh the memories...
...and just because I know someone else is gonna post it, ...I'll beat you to it.
The Toronto Song by The Arrogant Worms:
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Waking Up Canadian:
BTW Hereford
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Canada is decent. Montreal is the best city in North America. Toronto is just like any American city.
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Canada is decent. Montreal is the best city in North America. Toronto is just like any American city.
It could be, ...if it weren't in Quebec. :-\
Mississauga is coming on fast though. Her mayor is a former Montrealer.
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It could be, ...if it weren't in Quebec. :-\
Mississauga is coming on fast though. Her mayor is a former Montrealer.
Very cool lady.
Quebec is nice, don't know what your issue is...
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Very cool lady.
Quebec is nice, don't know what your issue is...
Quebec is a beautiful province. It's the volatility of it's political environment that detracts from it's lustre.
Over the years, Quebecois extremism has given birth to homegrown terrorism, and caused many businesses to take flight to Ontario. Things have settled down considerably though. Years of Liberal run govt's have managed to subdue the extremism, ...but time willl tell if the issue has really been put to rest.
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Quebec is a beautiful province. It's the volatility of it's political environment that detracts from it's lustre.
Over the years, Quebecois extremism has given birth to homegrown terrorism, and caused many businesses to take flight to Ontario. Things have settled down considerably though. Years of Liberal run govt's have managed to subdue the extremism, ...but time willl tell if the issue has really been put to rest.
I am sure that is the reason...
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I am sure that is the reason...
Back to back successive Liberal majority govt's kicked so much money back to advertisers, to change the tone of the message sent out to a more "inclusive" message, it calmed the extremism. You have no idea how rabid (for want of a better word) Quebecers were. That coupled with a huge influx of french speaking foreigners from abroad helped to settle the language issue (hopefully)
Look up the Sponsorship scandal.
Back in 1999 or so, I had speculated it was advertisers that had a lot to do with it.
It wasn't until Paul Martin forced out Jean Chrétien to became PM that my theory was finally validated.
I think I might have even posted about it on Get Big prior to the scandal. The Great Northern Experiment.
Look Deicide, I know you love to be critical of me, ...but unless you are familiar with Canada and Canadian issues, ...any criticism you level simply comes off as petty & picayune. :-\
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Your liberal Utopia is poor, has a problem with muslim extrimists, has a weak military, an economy that is only functional in a handfull of cities and is - 20 degrees two thirds of the year. Outside of having some good hockey, some decent looking skanks in Montreal and Toronto and good Maple Syrup- Canada has absolutely nothing to offer anybody.
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has a problem with muslim extrimists
when was the last time Canada was attacked on its home soil by Muslim terrorists?
has a weak military
the army might be small but speak to any US soldier that has worked with us and you'll hear nothing but good things. We're one of the best trained and best payed armies in the world and we put up one hell of a fight. 1812, South Africa, WWI, WWII, Korea, Afghanistan . . . our military history is fierce and undeniable
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APRIL 17, 2009 Canada Issues a Wake-Up Call: You May Be a Citizen Article
By PHRED DVORAK
Thanks to a new law, Canada will bestow citizenship Friday on what its government believes could be hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting foreigners, most of them Americans.
The April 17 amendment to Canada's Citizenship Act automatically restores Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it when they became citizens of another country. It also grants citizenship to their children.
In the video 'Waking Up Canadian,' a man goes to sleep in a drab room and wakes up to find out that he's become a citizen of Canada. Surrounded by flags, maple-leaf-shaped cookies and a canister of maple syrup, he's welcomed by a hockey player, two plush moose and a uniformed Mountie.
Canada's New Spin on Triple LoopsWork-Visa Numbers Get Squishy -- and Get PlayedU.S. Offers Refuge to CubansThe Canadian government doesn't know the precise number or location of individuals affected by the legislation. But it believes most are U.S. citizens, a spokeswoman for Canada's immigration office said. U.S. Department of Homeland Security records show 240,000 Canadians were naturalized in the U.S. from 1948 to 1977; the new law fixes problems that occurred during those years.
To reach that amorphous group of beneficiaries, the Canadian government has turned to YouTube. It's running an ad there titled "Waking up Canadian," in which a man awakens on April 17 to a room festooned with red-and-white Canadian flags. He's met by a welcoming committee consisting of two stuffed plush moose, a hockey player, and a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Eligible individuals automatically become Canadian citizens. But they don't get proof of that citizenship unless they apply for it, meaning other countries -- including those that allow people to be citizens of only one nation -- won't be alerted, according to the immigration office spokeswoman. Those people also may renounce their citizenship rights, she said.
James Hager
Canada is using YouTube to tout a new law granting citizenship to unsuspecting foreigners, many of whom are Americans.
The citizenship bonanza is the byproduct of a decadeslong struggle by a motley group of people who claim they were unfairly denied or lost their Canadian nationality. Canadian families who crossed the border in 1947 to 1977 to have their babies in a U.S. hospital found those children weren't recognized as Canadians unless the families registered them with the government. Some foreign brides of Canadian World War II servicemen lost their citizenship if they stayed out of the country for a decade or more.
Then there are the Canadian Mennonites who moved to Mexico in the 1920s to the 1960s. When their children and grandchildren returned to Canada, many found their nationality unclear.
Some such cases languished in litigation for years. Others surfaced in 2007, when new U.S. rules requiring passports for travel between Canada and the U.S. uncovered significant numbers of people who thought they were Canadian, but weren't. The old rules were "quite intricate," said Bill Janzen, an immigration lobbyist in Ottawa for the Mennonite Central Committee of Canada.
The new law offers citizenship to many individuals now in limbo. It also stops the previous practice of granting citizenship in perpetuity to children of Canadians born abroad, limiting eligibility to children of parents born in Canada.
I would kill myself eh...
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You obviously missed the plot that was foiled- A Canadian born muslim woman and some other Islamonuts engaged in a conspiracy to behead the prime minister. Of course shes a hero in her community.
I dont blame you for not knowing- Canada doesnt believe in freedom of speech or the press either.
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You obviously missed the plot that was foiled- A Canadian born muslim woman and some other Islamonuts engaged in a conspiracy to behead the prime minister. Of course shes a hero in her community.
I dont blame you for not knowing- Canada doesnt believe in freedom of speech or the press either.
Do you hate everything and everyone who is not American?
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well i hear that there are a good number of good lucking canadian women, ill have to visit one day got a buddy who lives in portland maybe ill go visit him and we could go to canada for a few days.
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well i hear that there are a good number of good lucking canadian women, ill have to visit one day got a buddy who lives in portland maybe ill go visit him and we could go to canada for a few days.
I know for sure there's some babes in Alberta... can't personally vouch for the other provinces.
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being Canadian is great
clean air, lots of space, diverse people, free healthcare . . .
giving half of what you earn to the government . . .
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You obviously missed the plot that was foiled- A Canadian born muslim woman and some other Islamonuts engaged in a conspiracy to behead the prime minister. Of course shes a hero in her community.
I dont blame you for not knowing- Canada doesnt believe in freedom of speech or the press either.
Hmmm... Let's see...
Canada = infiltrated the organization, foiled the plot, mass arrests, broke up the group. no lives lost, no damage done
USA = 9/11, 3,000 new yorkers dead, thousands more poisoned, iraq invaded, thousands of dead Americans and dead iraqi's, patriot act, loss of liberty, disliked across the planet, most of your citizens want Bush, Cheney impeached or worse..., an economy in shambles.
Call me when you get a clue.
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giving half of what you earn to the government . . .
At least we get something for our taxes. What do you get... besides the joy of knowing you made the duponts a little richer, ...and yourselves a little more hated throughout the world?
I'd rather make 200K/yr and give 1/2 to the government, than make 50K and only pay 10%,
...or worse... be unemployed like a huge amount of Americans.
Keeping 50% of something > keeping 90% of nothing.
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At least we get something for our taxes. What do you get... besides the joy of knowing you made the duponts a little richer, ...and yourselves a little more hated throughout the world?
I'd rather make 200K/yr and give 1/2 to the government, than make 50K and only pay 10%,
...or worse... be unemployed like a huge amount of Americans.
Keeping 50% of something > keeping 90% of nothing.
What do I get? Freedom to do what I want with my hard earned money, instead of getting pillaged by government, so it can "spread the wealth around."
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What do I get? Freedom to do what I want with my hard earned money, instead of getting pillaged by government, so it can "spread the wealth around."
AIG
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And how exactly does this relate to the Canadian government taking more than half of its citizens income?
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And how exactly does this relate to the Canadian government taking more than half of its citizens income?
Like I said... we get something for our taxes.
You get AIG bailouts ...complete with millions of dollars in exec bonuses.
One day ignorant Americans like you are going to get a big wakeup call, ...and it won't be pretty.
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Like I said... we get something for our taxes.
You get AIG bailouts ...complete with millions of dollars in exec bonuses.
One day ignorant Americans like you are going to get a big wakeup call, ...and it won't be pretty.
One day an ignorant America-hating Canadian like you will say something that I will actually care about. Or not.
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How many people actually migrate to Canada?
Hell, even when people get pissed here, Canada is the last place they want to go.
Generally they think warm... Like the Mediterranean or the Caribbean.
Canada is the last place anyone wants to move to.
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How many people actually migrate to Canada?
Hell, even when people get pissed here, Canada is the last place they want to go.
Generally they think warm... Like the Mediterranean or the Caribbean.
Canada is the last place anyone wants to move to.
A better question is how many Canadians migrate to the U.S.? It's hundreds of thousands.
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A better question is how many Canadians migrate to the U.S.? It's hundreds of thousands.
I don't hate on Canada at all, and I think it's a nice place to visit... but if I ditch the US for some crazy reason, I'm going to some place warm... Not there.
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I don't hate on Canada at all, and I think it's a nice place to visit... but if I ditch the US for some crazy reason, I'm going to some place warm... Not there.
Word. I'd be headed to a certain island in the Caribbean that has no income taxes.
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One day an ignorant America-hating Canadian like you will say something that I will actually care about. Or not.
Newsflash, ...I don't hate America. That's the right wing.
"You will know them not by what they say, ...but by what they do."
Just take a look though this forum, or watch FOXNews. You see who really hates America. {lol}
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Newsflash, ...I don't hate America. That's the right wing.
"You will know them not by what they say, ...but by what they do."
Just take a look though this forum, or watch FOXNews. You see who really hates America. {lol}
LOL gezz louise the same could have been said about the left when bush was in office ::) I dont know if you really believe the shit your spewing jag or if youre just trying to ruffle feathers but either way get your head out of olbermans/maddows ass and try just try to look at another point of view.
Now back to the really important issue, hot women in canada, how about it?
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Now back to the really important issue, hot women in canada, how about it?
Canadian Women Rule!
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...and we always get our man! :P
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Talk about moronic. So you think a plot perpatrated by one deranged Canadian woman and some of her relatives to behead the prime minister makes Canada look better than the US because in the US 911 happened? Do you feel the same way about Europe- Is Canada now the new international standard for dealing with islamic terrorism? lolollolol
Jag your so fucking warped I'm not even going to respond to your idiotic commentary- Seek professional help.
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Canadian Women Rule!
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...and we always get our man! :P
thank you for that :D
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Talk about moronic. So you think a plot perpatrated by one deranged Canadian woman and some of her relatives to behead the prime minister makes Canada look better than the US because in the US 911 happened? Do you feel the same way about Europe- Is Canada now the new international standard for dealing with islamic terrorism? lolollolol
Jag your so fucking warped I'm not even going to respond to your idiotic commentary- Seek professional help.
Do you hate everything and everyone who is not American?
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I don't hate on Canada at all, and I think it's a nice place to visit... but if I ditch the US for some crazy reason, I'm going to some place warm... Not there.
Yeah, Buffalo is so much warmer than Toronto.
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Yeah, Buffalo is so much warmer than Toronto.
california or arizona has got to have the best weather in the US
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Yeah, Buffalo is so much warmer than Toronto.
Montreal rocks.
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thank you for that :D
somehow I thought you might like it. ;D
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Yeah, Buffalo is so much warmer than Toronto.
{LOL} Buffalo gets hammered with waaaay more snow than Toronto. Alberta Clippers travelling over Lake Ontario just love to clobber them with that 'lake effect snow'. I feel so sorry for them sometimes, ...but only sometimes. ;D
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{LOL} Buffalo gets hammered with waaaay more snow than Toronto. Alberta Clippers travelling over Lake Ontario just love to clobber them with that 'lake effect snow'. I feel so sorry for them sometimes, ...but only sometimes. ;D
Buffalo is a sad place.
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We spend too much on the military. It is an uncontestable fact.
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We spend too much on the military. It is an uncontestable fact.
You're such a whiny girl.
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You're such a whiny ####.
Answer the question: do we spend too much on the military?
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Answer the question: do we spend too much on the military?
Do you realize the picture was nothing more than a joke and not a launching point for one of your anti-US tirades?
It's no wonder you can't get laid. You must be the most miserable person in real life.
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Do you realize the picture was nothing more than a joke and not a launching point for one of your anti-US tirades?
It's no wonder you can't get laid. You must be the most miserable person in real life.
It's not a joke when soilders from a country America asks to particpate in a war with come home in bodybags. If Canada's military is a joke than why doesn't America go it alone in places like Afghanistan? Why does it ask for help from a joke?
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{LOL} Buffalo gets hammered with waaaay more snow than Toronto. Alberta Clippers travelling over Lake Ontario just love to clobber them with that 'lake effect snow'. I feel so sorry for them sometimes, ...but only sometimes. ;D
I know. Some people really need to travel further than the end of their own block.
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Do you realize the picture was nothing more than a joke and not a launching point for one of your anti-US tirades?
It's no wonder you can't get laid. You must be the most miserable person in real life.
Yup, I am a loser and you are a superhuman god...just like every getbigger.
Good though that you agree that we overspend on the military.
And given your hatred of all things not American I doubt the picture was a joke.
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Your liberal Utopia is poor, has a problem with muslim extrimists, has a weak military, an economy that is only functional in a handfull of cities and is - 20 degrees two thirds of the year. Outside of having some good hockey, some decent looking skanks in Montreal and Toronto and good Maple Syrup- Canada has absolutely nothing to offer anybody.
Do you realize the picture was nothing more than a joke
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Canada has absolutely nothing to offer anybody.
Except maybe a lesson in humility that comes in the form of a severe ass kicking!!! Remember 1812? :D
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Yes- I remember a war that happened over 180 years ago. Has Canada ever won an armed dispute with anyone except that ticklefight with the French over who has longer armpit hair?
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Yes- I remember a war that happened over 180 years ago. Has Canada ever won an armed dispute with anyone except that ticklefight with the French over who has longer armpit hair?
We kicked YOUR asses pretty thoroughly, ...so much so, ...you never dared try it again!
Then there were the boys from Pine street in Winnipeg,
And then too we kicked German ass on Vimy Ridge, ...when all other armies failed to take it.
And while we don't like it when our boys go off to fight, ...at least we know how to respect them when they return.
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This thread is the perfect example of how ignorant many non Americans are, and how smart they pretend to be.
You do realize that Canada didn't become it's own independent country until more than half a century AFTER the war of 1812 and that the war of 1812 was fought between America and England right? Canada was a British and French territory. There was no such thing as a Canadian in 1812.
In fact it wasn't until the 1900's that the French and English terroitories merged into one entity.
Instead of getting your history from You tube- Why not try a book? They have those in Canada right?
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At least we get something for our taxes. What do you get... besides the joy of knowing you made the duponts a little richer, ...and yourselves a little more hated throughout the world?
I'd rather make 200K/yr and give 1/2 to the government, than make 50K and only pay 10%,
...or worse... be unemployed like a huge amount of Americans.
Keeping 50% of something > keeping 90% of nothing.
what's your fcuking problem?
Did some guy dressed up like Uncle Sam rape you anally?
You always complain about USA like it's hell on earth.
And Canada - I'm sure it's a great country. I know a few very nice Canadians - you not being one of them.
But what's with the need to constantly tell everyone how awesome Canada is?
The facts speak for itself - there is more natural resources in Canada than you could care to explore.
Potentially one of the richest nations in the world in the next 10-20 years.
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Canada makes Seadoo. Bombardier is a great company and makes very good products.
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I've always heard that Canada is USA's mentally retarded, little brother.
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This thread is the perfect example of how ignorant many non Americans are, and how smart they pretend to be.
You do realize that Canada didn't become it's own independent country until more than half a century AFTER the war of 1812 and that the war of 1812 was fought between America and England right? Canada was a British and French territory. There was no such thing as a Canadian in 1812.
In fact it wasn't until the 1900's that the French and English terroitories merged into one entity.
Instead of getting your history from You tube- Why not try a book? They have those in Canada right?
I understand your views on ignorance.
Canada gained independence in 1867. At that point we were called the dominion of Canada.
Canada was British only territory after 1763.
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This thread is the perfect example of how ignorant many non Americans are, and how smart they pretend to be.
You do realize that Canada didn't become it's own independent country until more than half a century AFTER the war of 1812 and that the war of 1812 was fought between America and England right? Canada was a British and French territory. There was no such thing as a Canadian in 1812.
In fact it wasn't until the 1900's that the French and English terroitories merged into one entity.
Instead of getting your history from You tube- Why not try a book? They have those in Canada right?
I'm very aware of Canadian history. I don't get my history from youtube, ...but I do use YouTube examples to make my point. It helps me keep the word count of my posts low. I know how much a guy like you needs that consideration.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised you're still posting in this thread. Was the thorough drubbing you got in my last post too subtle? Were the implications of the last vid so ironic they whizzed right past your head? Let me spell it out for you ...It's the eve of Veterans Day, ...and who does an American broadcast choose to honour? ...Canadians and their fallen vets!
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I've always heard that Canada is USA's mentally retarded, little brother.
You heard wrong.
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Yes- I took a huge drubbing. Especially in that incredibly accurate history lesson you gave me about the war of 1812. ::)
Why not answer Hedges questions posed above?
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Montreal rocks...
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canada maks good bacon...
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canada maks good bacon...
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canada maks good bacon...
Isn't it really just round shaped Ham?
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Son of a BITCH!!!!!!!! All these years those damn canadians had me thinking i was eating special bacon...and it was just ham...those fuckers will pay...
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Son of a BITCH!!!!!!!! All these years those damn canadians had me thinking i was eating special bacon...and it was just ham...those fuckers will pay...
Oh no nonono nonoooo ... it is special bacon, ...very, very, very special bacon.
It has less fat, and doesn't shrink when you fry it. :)
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Most canadian bacon is made from the back muscle of old sows. It is literally the low-cost cut of the pork world.
I still love it though... :P
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Gee, dju s'ppose that's why it's called "Canadian back bacon"?
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A co-worker of mine found out he can become a Canadian Citizen. He's really happy about it. he wants to go up to Calgary and open a business.
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A co-worker of mine found out he can become a Canadian Citizen. He's really happy about it. he wants to go up to Calgary and open a business.
There's a lot of people who right now are singin' "Halleluyah Praise The Lord!".
This legislation mostly affects Americans who for years were trying to get to Canada only to discover they'd lost their citizenship because either they or their parents or grandparents had lived outside of Canada for too long.
I Am (now) Canadian:
Despite how patriotic and yes I will admit at times jingoistic I can be, one of the best tributes to Canada I've seen was by a Philipino who found himself unexpectedly exiled up here in Toronto for over a year. Maybe I'm a little partial because his vid took me through many an old stomping ground, ...and coupled with the musical score he used as a backdrop... he just sums it up perfectly. imo
Ge head, Tawk amongst youselves... I'm verklempt.
A Year in Canada: It Feels Good, and It's Beautiful:
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There's a lot of people who right now are singin' "Halleluyah Praise The Lord!".
This legislation mostly affects Americans who for years were trying to get to Canada only to discover they'd lost their citizenship because either they or their parents or grandparents had lived outside of Canada for too long.
I Am (now) Canadian:
Despite how patriotic and yes I will admit at times jingoistic I can be, one of the best tributes to Canada I've seen was by a Philipino who found himself unexpectedly exiled up here in Toronto for over a year. Maybe I'm a little partial because his vid took me through many an old stomping ground, ...and coupled with the musical score he used as a backdrop... he just sums it up perfectly. imo
Ge head, Tawk amongst youselves... I'm verklempt.
A Year in Canada: It Feels Good, and It's Beautiful:
Canada is pretty boring and similar to the US with the exception of Montreal. Montreal is awesome.
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Canada is pretty boring and similar to the US with the exception of Montreal. Montreal is awesome.
Montreal is awesome, but there are differences between the rest of Canada and the US.
They're subtle, but they're there. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I love Canada, ...just wish it weren't sooooo cold. :-\
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Montreal is awesome, but there are differences between the rest of Canada and the US.
They're subtle, but they're there. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I love Canada, ...just wish it weren't sooooo cold. :-\
Well I am 'Eurotrash' so that is why I like Montreal; the only city in N.America I would like to live in, because it is very European in many ways.
I have been to most places in Canada and have met tons of Canadians abroad. In their every day mannerisms and attitudes they aren't very different from Americans. That is a fact. What sublte differences are you talking about Judy?
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Well I am 'Eurotrash' so that is why I like Montreal; the only city in N.America I would like to live in, because it is very European in many ways.
Montreal architecture is very old world, and has a real European flavour to it. :)
I have been to most places in Canada and have met tons of Canadians abroad. In their every day mannerisms and attitudes they aren't very different from Americans. That is a fact. What sublte differences are you talking about Judy?
It's hard to articulate. It's more of a mindset, and attitude. We're a very Liberal society and I love it that way.
I suppose you have to experience it on a daily basis rather than through casual encounter to put your finger on it. Kind of like the European or Chinese guy who visits the US and hears a guy from New York, and guy from Texas. To him, they sound exactly the same, ...but both the Ny'er & the Texan knows there's a big difference bewteen them.
...plus we have cuter kittens. :P