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Subject: Re: [OT] Canada is not a serious country
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:16:41 -0500
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:11:35 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
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>The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:47:14 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 11, 2025 at 8:29:56 AM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Nyssa <Nyssa@logicalinsight.net> wrote:
>>>>> The Horny Goat wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:38:39 -0500, Rhino
>>>>>> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It still makes me angry that Canadian voters tossed out
>>>>>>> the best PM in my lifetime, Harper, and replaced him with
>>>>>>> Trudeau FOR NO GOOD REASON. All Trudeau offered was nice
>>>>>>> hair, lies about the Syrians, and a lot of SJW nonsense
>>>>>>> that is driving this country ever closer to Third World
>>>>>>> status. (The Heir-Apparent, Mark Carney, will be even
>>>>>>> WORSE because he's dedicated to Net Zero.)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We need an election SO BADLY it's impossible to overstate
>>>>>>> it. According to Brian Lilley, who has sources within the
>>>>>>> Liberal Party, the Liberals are scheming with the NDP to
>>>>>>> prop up the Liberals until the absolute last possible
>>>>>>> minute under the constitution, which would delay the
>>>>>>> election until September 2026 (repeat 2026, NOT 2025)!
>>>>>>> That would give them ample time to do MUCH MORE damage to
>>>>>>> this country.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I don't know about Harper being the best PM in my lifetime
>>>>>> (bear in mind that I met Diefenbaker in person as a child
>>>>>> - which wasn't all that much of an accomplishment as I was
>>>>>> a 9 year old and my grandfather was running federally at
>>>>>> the time - for non-Canadians Dief was roughly in the last
>>>>>> days of Ike and JFK but left office for good in 1967) but
>>>>>> no question his replacement was a shadow on him.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bottom line is by modern standards fiscally responsible
>>>>>> and despite the rhetoric he didn't do anything incredibly
>>>>>> shocking unlike Mr 45/47. Of course you could say much the
>>>>>> same of Paul Martin Jr too. (Martin Sr ran for his party
>>>>>> leadership and lost on the last ballot to Pierre Trudeau)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Diefenbaker was still in the House of Commons as a front
>>>>> bencher in the early to mid 1970s. He was a shadow of
>>>>> himself then, but still there physically, if not mentally.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'll never forgive Diefenbaker for the Avro Arrow fiasco.
>>>>> Canadian engineers and scientists did a tremendous job
>>>>> on the creation of that jet which never got a fair chance
>>>>> to impress the rest of the world.
>>>>> 
>>>>> OB TV: There is a Canadian made-for-TV movie "The Arrow"
>>>>> which will explain the work behind the ground-breaking
>>>>> engineering that helped to create the most advanced jet
>>>>> airplane of its time and how the whole project not only
>>>>> got scuttled, but literally destroyed on the decision
>>>>> made by John Diefenbaker.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nyssa, who holds a grudge a LONG time
>>>> 
>>>> I thought Diefenbaker was a wolf.
>>> 
>>> No, that's Wolfenstein.
>>> 
>> Probably one of the most notable items about Dief was that his first
>> run for public office was a one on one (e.g. no other candidates) vs
>> William Lyon Mackenzie King (later Canada's longest-serving prime
>> minister ever) and was winning - until he got a MOST unwanted
>> 'endorsement' by the Saskatchewan Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
>> which pretty much tanked his campaign. He finally won his seat in
>> 1940.
>> 
>
>Oh my God people did none of you watch DUE SOUTH?

That was a Canadian show. Why would you expect Canadians to have
watched such a show? ;)