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Originally Posted by ziadel
when I think about Canada, the first thing that pops into my mind is usually that Canadian talking about how the U.S. would never get along without Canada. Usually citing our dependance on Canadian Oil, Softwood Lumber and Steel. Well I'll tell you this, everyone in the metalworking industry loathes Cnadian steel. I know that for sure and I suspect things would be a lot harder for the Canadians than it would be for us, if we did'nt get that lumber, steel and oil from Canada.
Also at the front of my mind is the ridiculously high taxes in Canada, and the health care system that they proudly proclaim is wonderful, and how us Americans are idiots not to have something similar. Well, IMO the Universal Health Care system is a great example of how NOT to do universal healthcare.
Theres a lot more, but I'll leave it at that.
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I don't know who 'That' Canadian is that you are referring to but based on BigBen's following post, it certainly puts it into perspective that all Canadians should observe and educate themselves to. It is true that the dependency runs deep in one direction more than another.
What Americans should keep in their minds, though, is that we are proud of our nation (justifiably so), we are proud of our relationship with the US, we are proud of how far we have come in the world community, as we grow our small nation.
It's just when we hear sentiments like yours that we get our backs up. With a country on the vast physical scale such as ours, with a population roughly equivalent to New York or California, how are we to sustain a reasonable infrastructure without contribution (tax-wise) from our citizens? Infrastructure which includes hard and soft concepts such as roads/military and healthcare/education?