letter to Greg easterbrook at the new republic.
unfortunately, this never reached him; thr's server bounced it back at me.
Greg, I read your bit on Canadians fearing global
warming would result in environmental refugees and
they want to prevent that from happening.
You seem a little scornful of that sentiment (clever
Tim Horton's reference though), which you should
reconsider.
Although I live in Philadelphia, I spend a lot of my
time in Montreal, where my girlfriend and newborn
live. My impression of the Canadians is that they're
a country that has done a lot to protect and preserve
their national identity: a lot of people don't know
this, but a certain percentage of television and radio
programming in Canada must feature Canadian shows.
this is to mitigate the influence of the USA's
overwhelming entertainment juggernaut. They also have
a very strong sense of national community, which I
suspect is part and parcel of the rejection of the
separatists in the 1990s.
Now imagine your average Canadian looking south across
the border at the United States, waging a needless
intolerant war against its own people in the form of
the Drug War, the FMA, the dismantling of the social
safety net, and the refusal to provide health
insurance to its citizens (say what you will about
socialized medicine Mr. easterbrook, it cost my
girlfriend and I absolutely NOTHING to have a child in
Montreal and our day care costs $35 a week; the costs
of childbirth in the us seem to run from $2,000 to
$20,000, with day care costing $100s a week)-- and you
see a population in complete opposition to your very
real values of allowing gay marriage; of
decriminalizing marijuana; and of taking care of your
citizens.
Would you be pleased about environmental changes that
would drive the most conservative population (the deep
south, most likely to be affected by heat waves,
hurricanes and tropical diseases) of your conservative
neighbor to try to set up shop within your borders?
Please sir, no more cracks on our neighbors to the
north.
Brendan Skwire
PS: Tim's kicks ass.
unfortunately, this never reached him; thr's server bounced it back at me.
Greg, I read your bit on Canadians fearing global
warming would result in environmental refugees and
they want to prevent that from happening.
You seem a little scornful of that sentiment (clever
Tim Horton's reference though), which you should
reconsider.
Although I live in Philadelphia, I spend a lot of my
time in Montreal, where my girlfriend and newborn
live. My impression of the Canadians is that they're
a country that has done a lot to protect and preserve
their national identity: a lot of people don't know
this, but a certain percentage of television and radio
programming in Canada must feature Canadian shows.
this is to mitigate the influence of the USA's
overwhelming entertainment juggernaut. They also have
a very strong sense of national community, which I
suspect is part and parcel of the rejection of the
separatists in the 1990s.
Now imagine your average Canadian looking south across
the border at the United States, waging a needless
intolerant war against its own people in the form of
the Drug War, the FMA, the dismantling of the social
safety net, and the refusal to provide health
insurance to its citizens (say what you will about
socialized medicine Mr. easterbrook, it cost my
girlfriend and I absolutely NOTHING to have a child in
Montreal and our day care costs $35 a week; the costs
of childbirth in the us seem to run from $2,000 to
$20,000, with day care costing $100s a week)-- and you
see a population in complete opposition to your very
real values of allowing gay marriage; of
decriminalizing marijuana; and of taking care of your
citizens.
Would you be pleased about environmental changes that
would drive the most conservative population (the deep
south, most likely to be affected by heat waves,
hurricanes and tropical diseases) of your conservative
neighbor to try to set up shop within your borders?
Please sir, no more cracks on our neighbors to the
north.
Brendan Skwire
PS: Tim's kicks ass.
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