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[color:"red"]O Canada!

Our home and native land!

True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,

The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

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cheers to one of the fairest, forwardest thinking and most beautiful places on the planet

I often reflect on how fortunate I am to have been born here

this may look long but is a cool read:

A DIPLOMATIC MEMO

by Silver Donald Cameron

To: Ambassador Paul Cellucci, Embassy of the United States of America

490 Sussex Drive Ottawa, Ontario

Dear Mr. Ambassador:

Your recent remarks about Canada’s policy with respect to Iraq were inaccurate, inappropriate and offensive. Prime Minister Chretien is maintaining a delicate balance between US pressure and Canadian opinion — a familiar position for Canadian Prime Ministers — and he will not tell you to go pound sand. But someone should.

Fundamentally, you argue that the United States would instantly come to the aid of Canada in an emergency, and Canada should therefore participate in your ill-advised attack on Iraq.

"There is no security threat to Canada that the United States would not be ready, willing and able to help with," you are quoted as saying. "There would be no debate. There would be no hesitation. We would be there for Canada, part of our family."

Codswallop. And that’s diplomatic.

The primary threat to Canadian security has always been the United States. A monument in Quebec honours my earliest Canadian ancestor for repelling an invasion from your home state of Massachusetts in 1690. The very first instance of military co-operation among the Thirteen Colonies occurred in 1745 under the leadership of James Shirley, your predecessor as Governor of Massachusetts, whose army invaded Nova Scotia and captured the Fortress of Louisbourg. Thirty years later, during the American Revolution, your privateers sacked our ports. We were at war once more in 1812-15. The birth of Canada in 1867 was prompted by fears of a US invasion. That’s why our railroad runs along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, far from the US border.

Do you remember "manifest destiny," the 1840s US doctrine which held that your country had a God-given mission to rule all of North America? Do you remember "Fifty-four-forty or fight," the slogan which rallied Americans to threaten an invasion in 1902 over the Alaska boundary? Yours is the only country which has ever invaded ours, and it would do so again in a wink if it thought its interests here were seriously threatened.

And how does your sentimental mantra of perpetual willingness to spring to our assistance apply to the First World War, which we entered in 1914, while you stayed out for three years? We went to war against Hitler in 1939, while you were moved to join your sister democracies only after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor two years later. A million Canadians fought in World War II, and 45,000 died. We need no lectures from Americans about the defence of liberty and democracy.

Nevertheless, despite the strains of our history, we are probably as close as any two nations in the world. Many Canadians -- I am one -- have family members who are American citizens. Our two nations fought together not only in two World Wars, but also to repel the invasions of South Korea in 1949 and Kuwait in 1991. And when great catastrophe strikes without warning, our people have indeed been there for each other. As Governor of Massachusetts, you must have been present at the lighting of the Christmas tree in Boston each year — an annual gift from Nova Scotia to commemorate the immediate and massive assistance of Massachusetts after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.

Our chance to reciprocate came on September 11, 2001, when Canadian communities took in, on an instant’s notice, 40,000 passengers from US planes forced down by the terrorist attacks. Halifax alone hosted 7,200. We housed them in our homes and schools and churches, fed them and comforted them and treated them as family. We probably gave more immediate and practical assistance to Americans than any other country. Yet when your President later thanked the nations for their help, he did not mention Canada.

The Iraq conflict, however, is not an unforeseen disaster, but a deliberate choice. Your President has squandered a worldwide outpouring of sympathy and solidarity in less than two years -- an astounding diplomatic debacle.

Your own remarks, with their dark hints of economic revenge, are entirely consistent with the Bush administration’s policy of diplomacy by bullying, bribing and threatening. A huge body of opinion -- even in the US and Britain -- judges this war to be illegal, reckless and irrelevant to the fight against terrorism. Your government appears to have forgotten Osama bin Laden, and not to have noticed that the September 11 terrorists were mostly Saudi, not Iraqi. They lived not in Baghdad but in Hamburg and San Diego. The Iraq campaign is a sideshow, a grudge match, a distraction. It will breed more martyrs, and more terrorists.

Back in Massachusetts, in 1846, a young man was arrested and jailed for refusing to pay taxes, to avoid supporting his government’s deplorable policies. He explained this in an essay, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," which has ever since inspired people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King. His name was Henry David Thoreau, and no doubt the Governor of Massachusetts thought he was a pretty poor American. He was not; like King, he was a voice for what is finest in American life and values. And the issue on which he took his stand may sound a bit familiar. He was opposed to an imperial war -- the unprovoked US invasion which stripped Mexico of 40% of its territory.

Good citizens — and good friends — oppose bad policies. By telling you the truth, they strive to save you from folly. They may be mistaken, but they are not your enemies. That is the message you should take back to the White House, whether or not there is anyone there who will understand it.

Sincerely,

Silver Donald Cameron

Box 555, D'Escousse, NS B0E 1K0

(902)226-3165 fax (902)226-1904

goin for beer in hess village around 7 or 8 then off to catch Kokolo at PJC (maybe a stop at Its Your Festival en route)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANDIANS!!! to answer your question Princess-- I am stuck at school-- two lesson plans to present today--- but i get monday off!!!! and can't wait to groove out to the tunes with you this wonderful evening!!!! :: and all others making the pilgrimage to Izzys

* note--- I have just officially resigned from Casino Niagara!!! sniff-sniff- ok i'm over it!!!hehe

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BackBacon, those really are some nice shots........

As for us, we are now at Reba's in Kingston getting drunk as fauck. Mama Mia #5 on its way. A little Pebbles and Marbles action from the Phish is pumping through Tom's speakers whilst we sit on this gorgeous back porch, admiring what's left of the massive rainfall we had an hour ago.

Portsmouth Tavern is calling us a little later into the evening where we will meet up with just about everyone that is close to us, living in fair Kingston. Heck, even Myrna is coming!

I am sure Douglas will provide a drunken speech at some point after midnight.

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