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I am getting somewhere with this Mr Canada guy So going back to an earlier response in here by you to me--Why are you turning this into a race issue? And as for the ca$h, why is it a hand-out to the natives who don't really see that cash as they live in poverty? Meanwhile there is all those non-natives who "suck up" the billion dollar DIA budget and through the media make it look as though the natives have it good? Furthermore, if you use a kayak, is it recreation, or are you assimlated as an Inuit?

Why SHould it be of British Descent? What about the French? The Aboriginal People? The NEwfies and all the others that make up the fabric of Canadian Society? If Mr Canda uses a kayak and hunts seals, does this mean that he is assimilated as an Inuit? :

You still haven't defined what Canadian Culture is? How can you make the argument that one has to assimilate if the whole notion of what they are assimilating into is an abstract thought from some self-centered enthnocentric. I was serious when I asked that you to "try" and define what Canada is in a paragraph (The elevator ride example) I'II Bet Mr Canada can't do it

So, how does one assimlate into this then? I knew nobody would answer this because when it comes to the argument about assimilaton you can't really define what Canadian Culture is!

You know what I mean! And the reason nobody has responded is because they can't "sum up" just what Canadian Culture is. I can help some of you get started if you wish: 1)Beer Bellies, pizza, and Hockey Night In Canada 2)Crankly People mad at Indians and Immigrants 3)Indians, Immigrants, Newfies and Rednecks ....more?????

I'd love to hear your sweeping generalization of what Canadian Culture is? Imagine that you are riding up an elevator--say 5 floors--and in that time you were to explain your definition of what Canadian Culture is...what would that definition be to you...this should be interesting

Isn't this what happened to the aboriginal people one hundered or so years ago? I heard the analogy, that the indian great grandparents allowed the European visitors to stay a night. Then that turned into several nights until it became years. Before they knew it--they were in the basement and the European immigrants took over the house. The indians have been complaining for yeasr and just shut out--now that it's happening to non-native, caucasian it becomes and issue--cough cough--what goes around comes around

Define Our Culture please?

Well said Oleg! I'm a true believer in "What goes around comes around." I don't see how some can complain about immigration while ignoring the fact that they too came here via a boat. With this recession coming upon us, I really hope all the greedy slobs in this society suffer from their own doing

Here's the solution! Maybe you can force the government through democracy to establish White Reservations and since the indians have it so good you can pass a law and call it the White Act. Add to this the Federal Department of Caucasian Affairs and since you don't know squat about your life--have the indians run the department and the huge beaurocracy and soak up the billions of dollars. Then use the mass media to make the grassroots cauasians look bad on their newly formed reservations.

Smart isn't intelligent. I've heard that some high school teacher's are forced to pass some students despite their performance so that those students can get scholorships and go on to post-secondary....the parent goes to the Principal and the principal goes to the teacher and says pass so and so cause mommy and daddy said so and they're taxpayers so we have to do what they want cough cough--so people like Mr Canada advances despite his level of smarts --opps I mean intelligence--and what happens then....he says such things like the english gave indians democracy SHow me where in history did indians particpate in House of Commons debates etc. Then people like Mr Canada give the indians shit over english laws made by english people

No one can make you feel guilty but yourself? SO why are you feeling guilty then? .

SO what do you think the indians said 150 years ago? 300 years ago when the first boats of Europe were arriving? I think I heard this saying before and sometimes it so makes sense and that statement is "What goes around come around." SO going back to an earlier post of mine--I honestly don't think millions of Europeans would jump on thier boat and go back to Europe

Did you know that one of the first boat load of Europeans were stuck in an ice jam on the St Lawerence and would've died if the indians didn't save them? They were suffering from scurvy so the next boat load came with lemons and limes and that is how the nickname limeys came to be

The biggest issue is that there is no respect anymore. It's sad but it is true. We live in a society of contradictions. On one hand, in school they preach anti-bullying, yet all the kid has to do is turn on the TV and listen to people like that Hockey Night In Canada guy with the big mouth. Or, they go home and listen to dad whine about immigrants and the indians. Listen to the mass media and they whirl insults and slander. Watch a hollywood movie and the same crap who desensitize issues by making a joke of it. Add to this, our so-called manly leaders who fight around like little kids and then when they don't get their way--they jump up and down like some kid who didn't get his way in a candy store--that's the problem--the answer grow-up

So does this mean that the immigrants of seniority --European descent--somehow have the right to whine about more recent immigrants?

Obviously, you somehow feel that you're some sort of an immigrant with seniority or distinction...after all, those Europeans did come here in a boat and as I said, I really don't think they'd all go back to Europe :-)

I really don't think the immigrants will go back to Europe :-)

The whole election was outright dumb and a waste of time and money

Logistically, it'll be tough to ship millions of caucasian immigrants back to Europe They probably won't go anyways since they call this place home now

Yes! There were enough Canadians who voted with "sense." Most know who the advisor is for Harper and therefore prevented them from a majority--I still think it was a total waste of time and money. Sure they maybe smiling on the outside--but probably just a seething on the inside--Grin and Bare it conservatives

I honestly don't see how the conservatives view this as a victory. It may show that the Liberals didn't do as well, but also that many Candians do not "trust" Harper. Yeah to all the people who voted against them. I didn't watch much of the coverage as to me it was all crap anyways but I did here Harper say that he was expecting a minority anyways. To me that is BS because I feel that he called an election because he believed he had a chance of forming a majority. I also believe he was trying to play on the supposed momentum of the Republicans in the south, but the winds of that sail flopped too. To me it was all just a waste of time and money.