[Magdalen] Inappropriate?

[Molly Wolf]

There is an underside to the Canadian psyche, as there is to every psyche.  One aspect of that shadow is a racist, xenophobic, "traditionalist", suspicious-of-change streak, to which Harper appeals more and more blatantly, especially as a diversion from his own less-than-stellar track record.  This is despicable, and he's being called on it.  I think he admires the right-wing Republicans and wants to emulate their peculiar populism.

But multiculturalism is embedded in the Canadian ethos, as well as common sense.  It has been rightly pointed out that far more Canadians have been killed by moose than by terrorism in the last 15 years.

Harper also has a really nasty streak, and it doesn't gain him any points.

Molly


The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Allan Carr
> 
>> Why should Canadians be less insulting to the President of the USA than
>> Americans are to the Prime Minister of Canada?
> 
> I suppose that many people -- including most of us here -- have looked to Canada
> for inspiration as to the right way to do so many things we'd like to see in the
> U.S. And, of course, there's the Canadian "self image" of being all we south of
> the border find ideal.
> 
> Put Harper disappoints us on the former -- coming across as just another hoople
> like  our GOP candidates, and we're equally disappointed to learn that the self
> image is full of baloney, as people who were **really** like that wouldn’t elect
> Harper's majority in the first place.
> 
> If Canadians are going to act like Americans then they get to take the same kind of heat, I think.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie