maplemama

Craig, your arrogance just astounds me. Being someone who according to you does not actually live in Canada (the north) I have to reply. To begin, you state that Canada is already "crowded" and yet call most of the country a wasteland. Make up your mind. More importantly, just because the largest proportion of Canadians live along the U.S. border doesn't mean the rest of the country is uninhabitable. There are, in fact, many Canadians who live and work in the Arctic "wasteland" and in most areas beyond the border, although you seem quite willing to dismiss these areas out of hand. There is nothing preventing the building of larger urban areas in the vast majority of these places except time--in time there will no doubt be larger cities in more northerly climes--but believe it or not, urban areas are not the only habitable areas for human life--there are still many, many people who are SOMEHOW able to survive in the country and smaller urban centres. In fact, I would really like to see Canada continue to run without the resources such areas contain. Northern Alberta, which is somehow not included in your mind-blowingly small "habitable" zone, contains a giant proportion of the oil and lumber used to keep the country going--and will continue to do so (not that there aren't drawbacks to this). It is home to a thriving (well, before the mad cow scare anyway) farming community and that's just in one province. Canada's more northern areas may not be densely inahabited, but they are not uninhabited by any stretch of the imagination either, whether you are in Inuvik or elsewhere. Wilderness still exists but human encroachment is inexorable. The arctic itself contains Canadian diamonds among other national treasures, mining and oil and gas reserves and exploration, all of which create jobs and communities, and that's not to mention the First Nations who have called that area home for long before Europeans colonized the country and created the Canada of today. To discount all these areas and their people and their contribution to Canada out of hand is stunning in its short-sightedness and small-mindedness. And all that is not to mention the simple fact that the size of a country is measured by its borders, not some subjective sense of where the people live in it. My god, Craig, have you ever been anywhere beyond a 50-Km radius of your own home (ie the centre of the universe according to Craig)??? As for the rest of your post, and indeed the rest of your posts, you seem to despise the country, its policies, its traditions, and its people. If ever there were an anti-Canadian, you are he. Here's my question--what do you LIKE about Canada? Anything at all?