Oh dear. Tom Ridge doesn't seem to agree with woiyo.
Quote:Former U.S. homeland security secretary Tom Ridge has rejected American complaints that Canadian security and immigration systems are lax.
In fact, Mr. Ridge praised Canada as an able partner in guarding the world's longest border.
"I don't accept the thesis that Canada is lenient or hasn't done what it needs to do to advance the interest and doing its share to combat terrorism," Mr. Ridge said after a luncheon speech to business leaders on Bay Street yesterday.
He also praised former deputy prime minister John Manley, who was in the audience, for his immediate offer of help after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.
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Quote:Ridge's comments come as Canada's new ambassador to the United States, Frank McKenna, tries to change the perception many Americans have that Canadians are soft on border security.
On Tuesday in New York, McKenna criticized what he called "the big myths" about this country.
Ridge said he didn't favour the proposal that would force Canadians to show passports to enter the United States, saying it would hinder the interdependent economies of the two countries.
Under measures recently announced in Washington, both Canadians and Americans will be required to show passports on entering the United States in the next few years.
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Did Ridge lose favour somewhere along the line?
Are they to protect the Canadians from rampaging Americans?
It is thus. In the same manner as the puritanical, seeing the blight of their own souls and naturally assuming others to be suffering equally, will formulate social controls to manage themselves, the American vigilantes now seek prophelactic borders. Not that I mean to imply that
America is anything like a diseased dick.
ebrown_p wrote:Yeah, but the beer stinks...
Russell Crowe said that and got his lights punched out in Sask - serves him right too
They have great beer - even the beer from the big breweries is good
It's definitely real beer.
The lady Diane and meself went into a pub in Amsterdam and on the "featured beer" list was "Bud-Long-Neck"
Real beer. Real bud. Real breasts. Come to Canada.
courtesy of 3DFlags.com
goodfielder wrote:ebrown_p wrote:Yeah, but the beer stinks...
Russell Crowe said that and got his lights punched out in Sask - serves him right too
They have great beer - even the beer from the big breweries is good
Any country that'll punch Russell's lights out is MY kinda country!
Mebbe they are a real country after all?
Yeah, but they ain't got no good fried chicken places . . . mmmmm . . . fried chicken . . . think i'll go see what the Colonel is cookin' up . . .
Ewwwwww - you - you - MURRICAN, you!!!
Hey, what's going on in here?
Don't get me wrong, i like the chicken from Swiss Chalet . . . it just ain't good ol', down home fried chicken . . .
<how come the fella never makes fried chicken for me?>
Hey, when a friendly border becomes the subject of political
nightmare because of all the things that the Americans have done to piss people off, the end of an era must be happening before us...and why?
ehBeth wrote:<how come the fella never makes fried chicken for me?>
You ain't never asked . . .
Hey whos a glutton for punishment here?
Hey whos a glutton for punishment here?
Gluttony is a mortal sin . . .
Why would they be worried about Canadians going over there? There may have been a time when many went there to work because there wasn't nearly enough work here for everyone, but those days are gone. There is plenty of work here to go around now, in fact most places are short staffed because they can't find help.
Hell, when I got the job I have now, all I did was make a phone call and I was hired right on the phone.