The most scathing article I've ever read on the goings on of Canada- totally well deserved. A must read by author, journalist (The Guardian), George Monbiot.
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
By George Monbiot
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peace-keeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petrostate. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.
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Thank you for posting this and thank you George. What can we Americans do? They don't listen to us, nobody listens. We're preaching to the choir!
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