OT: Canada

[Laura Creighton]

Been to Halifax recently?

Laura Creighton

> 	
> > '''
> > France has culture but no civilization. England has civilization but no
> > culture. The United States has neither. Canada has both.
> >     -- Robin Mathews
> > '''
> 
> 
> I disagree. Canada (the english part) has no discernible culture, at 
> least not in the years 1970-2002 (when I have been alive).  Where 
> exactly did you find the culture? Can I go see it?
> 
> I think of Canada as being a composite of multiple cultures, with no 
> distinctive face of its own, other than an affinity for beer, hockey, 
> and universal medicare. (None of which may be lightly put aside. You 
> want to see a pissed off Canadian? Take away my hockey, my beer, and my 
> medicare.)
> 
> That being said, I love being Canadian quite a lot, and I think it's our 
> multi-culture-vulture ways, combined with our natural wealth, and great 
> beer, and great hockey, that makes us the amiable lot that we are, well 
> most of us anyways. (Dissenters will be shot, am I being perfectly clear?)
> 
> Warren Postma
> Toronto Canada
> 
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