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January 27, 2006

O, Canada

An op-ed piece in today's Los Angeles Times op-ed piece by Canadian columnist Colby Cosh apparently intends to lampoon Canada's liberalism, suggesting that it's so intractable that many apparently absurd political facts are likely to survive Conservative Prime Minister-elect Harper's reign.

Problem is, all but one sound pretty damn good to me, and even the questionable one (cheap but poor quality health care) wouldn't seem too bad to an uninsured American.

Let's see (quoting probably far too much for our unfair fair-use laws)...

Canada currently has no laws in force concerning abortion.
[...]
The late Liberal government legalized same-sex marriage.
[...]
Gay Americans, recognized here as an oppressed class, can expect to be greeted with filial embraces. But they're still Americans, so we'll also be fumbling around in vain for the volume knob.
[...]
The courts...are dominated by buck-wild, porn-loving Liberal appointees.
[...]
Abundant pot.
[...]
In sum: Canada remains...a country where cigarettes are taxed 300% to 400% but heroin is free to addicts; where gay widowers have an easier time obtaining their pension entitlements than World War II veterans; and where a woman can go topless in public unles she has hate literature tattooed on her breast.
And quite right, too! What's not to like about Canada? Ok, except maybe for the WW2 vets. It should be easy for them to get benefits, too.

Sometimes I wish I could find our volume knobs as well.

Posted by johnn at January 27, 2006 1:24 PM

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