You probably missed it in the local news, but there was a report that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian - any Canadian.
An Australian dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what a Canadian is, so they would know one when they found one:
A Canadian can be English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh, French or Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani, or Afghan.
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan . The key difference is that in Canada they are free to worship as each of them chooses. Whether they have a religion or no religion, each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
A Canadian lives in one of the most prosperous lands in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which recognize the right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
A Canadian is generous and Canadians have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return. Canadians welcome the best of everything, the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services, and the best minds.
But they also welcome the least - the oppressed, the outcast, and the rejected.
These are the people who built Canada . You can try to kill a Canadian if you must as other bloodthirsty tyrants in the world have tried but in doing so you could just be killing a relative or a neighbour. This is because Canadians are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, can be a Canadian.
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"An Australian dentist wrote the following editorial to help define what a Canadian is, so they would know one when they found one:
A Canadian can be English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh, French or Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. A Canadian can be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani, or Afghan.
A Canadian may also be a Cree, Métis, Mohawk, Blackfoot, Sioux, or one of the many other tribes known as native Canadians. A Canadian's religious beliefs range from Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, or none. In fact, there are more Muslims in Canada than in Afghanistan ."
Hey Morton, can a "Canadian" be an American, or only the countries above qualify?
@TrollBitch: Wow...thoroughly missed the effin' point you anonymous troll PoS.
You need to STFU when grown folks are talking.
@James: Excellent post as usual James.
"Hey Morton, can a "Canadian" be an American, or only the countries above qualify?"
My point is that Morton is an anti-American along with 75 percent of my rulers here in Canada.
That's why he won't respond to my post.
Some people and I will paste your "handle", Anonymous, maybe should keep their opinions secret! I expect that these types of individuals are the same ones who had extremely negative comments about the passing of Jack! Growing up I was told that if you didn't have any thing "nice" to say then you were to keep quiet. In my opinion whether or not JM is anti-American is irrelevant as it had NOTHING to do with the Copied article, which actually was extremely cleverly crafted and, I am confident, endeavor to provide some humor into what, for many has become a frightening life! It is so sad to read, and I use the term lightly, literary diarrhea! Keep up the good work JM, @ least, for all it matters, I am with you. Suffer on you enlightened one! ; ]]
"Growing up I was told that if you didn't have any thing "nice" to say then you were to keep quiet."
Liberals are the most intolerant bunch around.
That's funny Anonymous. You're comments seem to be nothing but a stream of negative judgments against anyone that doesn't agree with your worldview. You seem to be the one that is the intolerant one.
Actually a Canadian can be an American (like me, born in Cleveland), or from any other country at all. Canada and Canadians are defined legally by citizenship (not race, creed, colour or place of origin) and morally by our shared values. So yes, a Canadian can be an American!
"Actually a Canadian can be an American (like me, born in Cleveland)"
Why would you want to belong to an anti-American party Morton?
If you are American, you surely aren't proud about it.
"each Canadian ultimately answers only to God, not to the government"
How funny.
You belong to a party that has destroyed the traditional family.
The liberal party and progressives in general shit on the church every day.
Funny you would write what you did, seeing how your party believes it is God.
Whether its kindergarten, day care, controlled health care, liquor sales, electric price controls, food controls, and hundreds of other regulations means that Canadians do indeed answer to governmnet for every aspect of their lives.
Heck, even brinks guards are allowed to save their life with a firearm while the average piece of cattle isn't.
What a great, free country.
Not to mention speech correction paid for by taxpayers.
Canada is a communist country run by an autocratic dictator named Harper.
Wow! Beautiful and inspiring. Make me feel a responsibility to live up to my Canadian identity!! Thank you, James.
I hate all of you!
Canadians also have no qualms about military occupation of Afganistan nor the paid mercenary forces we send there with guns. The average Afgani has no expectation of the rule of law to begin with and it has not gotten any better through the barrel of Canadian guns!
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