Funny, when I’m in Canada I meet plenty of Canadians with opinions—freely, if politely, shared—about our head of state down here. So Slog’s Canadian readers will have to forgive me if I persist in having and sharing—freely, if not always politely—my opinions about your prime minister up there.
Stephen Harper is a tool and a fool, and has never enjoyed majority support up there. Which is great. And, yes, while Harper wasn’t able to do as much damage to Canada—which still has gay marriage and a budget surplus and great ski resorts—as George W. Bush did to the United States, it wasn’t for lack of desire. I said Harper was a George Bush wannabe, not a George Bush actuallywas. Regardless, it’ll be good to see him fall. And here’s hoping that the New Dems and the Liberals unite, a la the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives, and beat the crap out of Conservatives when your next election gets called.
And thanks for holding down the fort(s) in Afghanistan, Canada. But maybe you wouldn’t be having to do most of the work over there if your PM was less interested in eating the PUSA’s ass and more interested in sticking up for Canada’s interests.
Oh, and let’s not forget that Harper’s government attempted to interfere with our Democratic primary down here in what looked like an effort to knock Obama out the race—reason enough to despise the douche.
@47 — Think about when someone calls you a faggot and ends with “no offense” as a punchline. It’s one thing to tell a joke, it’s another to be a bigoted asswipe and hide behind the old “I was joking” excuse later.
@48 Did you see the recent CBC article about Quebec’s french language police harassing restaurants for writing their specials in English last week? There are usually elements of truth to both sides of every story.
#51 Why would someone call me a faggot? I am not gay nor am I uncomfortable of being thought gay.
I asked my friends in Vancouver if I should apologize to you and all Canadians. They told me to tell you to “Fuck off, eh?”
#52- nope, haven’t seen it, but I’ll check it out. We had a small gourmet sandwich shop in our hick mountain town for a few years and most of the signage and menus were up to me to make and my french was bad, so I added jokes to both the english and french sections of menus and other propaganda, to ‘balance’ out the bad french. We had a couple of customers come back with suggested corrections, and so we made changes. But no one gave us any hassles, and we got a lot of people laughing. Our town is a very small provincial, Quebecois, old timers, smoked meat haven. I think part of our charm was that I was an American trying to make it in Quebec, which everyone loved, even the immigration guy who helped me start my long journey over the border.