It seems I have been absent from the finer points of the examples of Canada bashing, which seem to be all too prevalent, considering the incredible,yet cold country that we brave few call home. Kass, I completely agree with you, we go to the United States to take advantage of the low prices and cheap tickets, going to a flames game is indeed ridiculous! I gave my dad a birthday present last year to go to a hockey game and even that was ridiculous, 35$ for nosebleeds and a meal combo. Yet it was still packed. Ghost of Cuttup, you have redeemed yourself somewhat from the utter stupidity you were spewing about how nobody goes to cities such as Calgary or Auckland, or how nobody wants to live in a minor country compared to a major one, well no right minded Canadian would dare hiding the fact that they are Canadian while overseas, we might be mistaken for an ignorant "mightier than thou" American tourist, and nobody wants that!
As to Maverick and AAA Beltway Boy over there... welcome to real life. If you actually pulled your finger off the trigger and your eyes out of the sights of your guns, then maybe you would actually see that your supposed closet racist neighbours are actually not racist at all, if you would kindly take a look back at history, we see time and time again the hostility your nation has shown to other cultures, and I am mainly speaking of the blacks and a small matter called the slave trade, now I am confused, the blacks were coming from Canada to escape slavery, or was it the other way around, being a closet racist really confuses things these days... Seriously, if you think that your "meting pot" of cultures makes you so much better than that vast amount of immigrants whom we welcome into our culture and our communities so much better, please elaborate. I myself also live in Calgary, and there is a significant percentage of my upper middle class community (houses in the 400K to 800K, range which are owned by Asians or other immigrants, such as blacks or latinos, so please look up some information before you give it as fact. 10% of a million people are Asian, and many of them are wealthier than I am. In fact, in some cases, it is actually the whites who are being oppressed, we have less rights and privileges, because we cannot claim minority status.
Beltway Boy, please donât start with the health care, its one thing Obama is actually trying to right. Our health care system may not be Ideal, but its not excluding care and sacrificing lives simply because of a lack of money. I donât really see where you are really coming from about the whole MRI being exotic thing, the only reason why they would go to the States for an MRI, would be that they are given to the ones who need it most, not simply those with money coming out the Wazoo.
