OT Food for thought

Tim Lysyk wrote:
Willi wrote:

But I still disagree with your statement of a long standing bias against
Canada. There's no doubt that the US government has self serving
policies, but I don't think that our self serving policies are
specifically directed at Canada. I think we apply our self serving
policies on more of an equal opportunity basis.


Well, I suppose we are going to disagree on that. I was just using trade
as one example. There are other examples of US bias against Canada; I
mentioned a few, as has Peter. And not just from the the government. I
agree that the US is biased against pretty much everyone, but since
Canada has a long border with the US, the bias does get directed
northward a lot.


I guess I'm partly basing that on a more personal basis. I've never
heard anyone say something like, he's just a ****in' Canuck (In fact I
can't even think of a derogatory term for a Canadian unless Canuck is
one) - but I have heard LOTS of similar statements made about people
from many other countries and even our own citizens who have a different
background.

Willi