A Canadian perspective

Please FW to Kevin Myers ---> Re: British newspaper salutes Canada

To Kevin Myers

RE: Canadian perspective on "The country the world forgot - again -- By Kevin Myers"
http://www.uni.ca/country_forget.html

Sometimes I'm not so proud to be a Canadian. While Canada has a great history of accomplishments, most of them come as the result of following. Canada seems to love the US so much that they followed them into Iraq and Afghanistan. Harper's not-so-secret agenda of deep integration with the US today, just another example of Canada's political will not to be a leader and not to be it's own country in this world. So why did Canada scrap their world-leading Avro Aero anyway? US pressure? So sad. Canada still has to answer to someone else's queen. How primitive is that? Canada is a nation in it's infancy. Until Canada grows up and takes control of their own ecomony without depending on the US economy and until it follows it's own path, the world will not change it's view on Canada.

If Canada wanted to be a leader in the world, then they would need to start doing the right thing and fighting the good fight. Not this crap that's going on in Afgahistan and Iraq. That's not their war. They need to stop following the US in unjust conflicts. The US is the last country in the world Canada should be following.

Look at the Canadian dollar? It's nice and high, yet people here panic. Why? Because everyone is too tied down to the US economy instead of creating their own global economy. Why is that???? We too primitive and to wimpy to do things ourselves? We still need the big bad USA to hold our hand? Our gov't is pathetic. We need someone in charge that would stick it to the US (and get rid of the queen). We need our independance.

Look at the environment. Such a sad story, and who does Caanda follow? The damned US. The worse polluter in the world.
I'm so sick of the US. That's the last country anyone should follow.

Harper totally sucks.

We need to burn their White House down again like in the war of 1812. Talk about a proud moment. The US lost that war. :)

We need to get economically independant from them.

We need to fight our own wars, just wars, not wars over oil and terrorist ghosts.

Why wasn't Canada fighting apartheid in South Africa?

Why wasn't Canada in Rwanda? In Darfur? Why isn't Canada fighting the US invasion?

Why is Canada destroying all our natural resources for the benefit of the US way of life?

Why are the Canadian forces doing more than peacekeeping in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Why isn't Canada the environmental leader of the world?

Because of our damn corrupted government and the greedy people that live here. It pisses me off. What ever made this country great is being lost because of greed and US values. This is a good site: http://www.canadians.org/ I wish these people ran the country.

Thanks,
Brian

PS: To the London Telegraph, start providing e-mail addresses so the people can be more interactive.