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June 21, 2005

Canadian Speech Codes

Seven other things you can't say in Canada.

Here's another:

"The deportation of Ernst Zundel did more damage to human rights in Canada than all his writings combined."

Posted by Kate at June 21, 2005 11:48 AM
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Here's a few more:

The FTA/NAFTA benefited the Canadian economy.

Louis Riel was not a hero in the 1885 Rebellion.

The NDP/socialists have been a force of evil in Canada.

Peacekeeping has made Canada weak -- both domestically and internationally.

Quebec is a parochial society operating under a system of corruption.

Posted by: CanRev at June 21, 2005 12:26 PM

Other things you can't say about Canada:

-English-Canadian movies suck
-Canadian government foreign policy is irrelevant internationally
-Third-word immigration is radically altering Canadian society (note I am not saying for good or ill)
-There are three Canadas (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver), Roc, and RoQ (rest of Quebec)
-The senior federal public service has no political independence or backbone
-Canadian industry makes no consumer products that are widely recognized internationally
-Canadian businesses that operate internationally have names that conciously conceal any obvious association with Canada (Nortel, Bombardier, all the big banks whose name are now just alphabet soup, BCE)
-Canada has no reputation internationally as a country that is technologically or industrially advanced (compare with say, Sweden or Switzerland)--in fact most people abroad could not name one such large Canadian company
-If Canada had a separate foreign intelligence service (as opposed to CSIS operating abroad to collect security intelligence, or military intelligence operating in foreign theatres)it would be a complete waste of money since the government would have neither the power nor the inclination to do anything substantive with the information gathered
-Canada has no heroes who were entrepreneurs or industrialists (CPR excepted)
-Conrad Black is the perfect exemplar of Canada: a brilliant start but ulitimate failure

Mark
Ottawa

Posted by: Mark Collins at June 21, 2005 2:14 PM

Grants to artists floods the market with second-rate rubbish.

Posted by: Shaken at June 21, 2005 3:30 PM

I don't think you can say "Gays are a pain in the ass". Oops.

Posted by: Brian M. at June 21, 2005 7:16 PM

I dont think your allowed to say "God Bless America" either.

So, GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Free Medicare (A Lie) or FREEDOM (pick 1)

Posted by: FREE at June 22, 2005 12:14 PM

"Don Cherry is bad for hockey and good for Canada."

Posted by: Wooderson at June 22, 2005 1:26 PM

Or
That the french language is as dead as a doorknob in 95% of Canada and that "Official Bilingualism" has been a total catatrophic failure and has wasted billions and billions of the tax dollars of Canadians, that have been confiscated against the will of the majority, to pay for it.
No wonder Canada has no more money for healthcare, a functional properly equipped military, infrastructure replenishing etc .. in short all the things that real countries need.

Posted by: monty at June 22, 2005 7:41 PM
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