March 23, 2004
TROUBLE IN THE COLONIES:
Editorial: Appalling treatment (Toronto Star, 3/23/04)
Is it fair to boo a U.S.-born Grade 9 girl for carrying an American flag across a stage during a school multiculturalism parade?Is it fair to insult and use obscene gestures against 11-year-old peewee hockey players from the Boston area because you don't like the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq?
Is there no limit to some Canadians' anti-American anger?
Those questions are being asked again on the one-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq after a teenager was in tears after being loudly booed as she carried the American flag in a parade of 39 flags representing every nationality in the school.
Not to worry, they'll salute it when they're the 51st star. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 23, 2004 5:27 PM
I thought that it was "the personal is political," not "the political is personal."
Posted by: Brandon at March 23, 2004 5:39 PMNot the main subject here, but I kind of wonder why 9th Grade students are participating in a "multiculturism parade". It sounds like something you'd do in elementary school.
Posted by: John Barrett Jr. at March 23, 2004 9:03 PMI suppose Quebec becomes a D.O.M., a French overseas department ?
Posted by: Peter at March 24, 2004 2:51 AM> Not to worry, they'll salute it when they're the 51st star.
Some former Canadian provinces, sure, but Ontario? I don't think we want them; their close proximity to government and to Quebec makes them highly undesirable as Americans. The western provinces, no problem--I even think we can successfully absorb BC, which is no worse off in liberal/conservative division that is its southern neighbor Washington state.
Posted by: at March 24, 2004 3:40 AMThe 51st through the 54th star, at least.
Or, if they hold out until after Mexico joins the United States of North America, the 61st through the 63rd stars.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at March 24, 2004 4:22 AM