On 6 Nov 98, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
> The one funny point that was made, though, was
> by a guy who said he was "at least making fall-back preparations to move
> to Canada . . . the Canadians, if all hell breaks loose, *at least* have a
> legislative plan to declare martial law." Even chaos is neatly and
> politely coordinated in Canada <G>
Heh... yeah, that's us all right.
One of the first things a Canadian student of politics learns is that in the
constitutional realm, you 'Murricans expect your government to stay out
of your way as you seek "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" --
whereas we Canadians ask (politely, of course) that our leaders bring us
only "peace, order and good government".
That's quite a contrast in political mores for two nations otherwise so
similar in many ways; a fairly conservative Canadian is still more tolerant
of government intervention in his life than the most liberal of Americans,
by and large. We just accept the need -- in our huge but very thinly
populated nation -- for a large degree of government regulation to (quite
literally) keep the trains running. Among other things.
Anyway... when the Y2K bug leads to anarchy in the streets down south,
WC members are welcome to come and stay in my peaceful and orderly
basement til the fires burn down <g>
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