" Somebody last night from Canada made you an honorary Canadian."
Michael Moore
US comedian and documentary-maker Michael
Moore explains his thinking on gun control, American
foreign policy, and making movies to eat popcorn to
film.guardian.co.uk
Andrew Collins
Monday November 11, 2002
The following is an excerpt:
AC: "Somebody last night from Canada made you an honorary
Canadian.
MM: It's happened many times now. Canadians will tell you they
have a lot of problems and there are. But from our viewpoint, it
looks like Nirvana. They somehow get to have a similar culture
but with a hell of a lot less problems of the kind that we have.
And I encourage people to think about how well it's worked in
Canada - they have national healthcare, they have these things
that we should be able to have, and they attempt to deal with
their racial problems in a different way than we do, and they're
not always in a rush to get behind us to go to war and drop
bombs on people. I grew up on the border with Canada, and I
remember watching the Canadian news as a kid during Vietnam,
and you got the truth from Canada about Vietnam; you watch
the American media, you didn't get the truth. And so I've always
appreciated that about the Canadians, and how they provided
refuge to people of my generation who did not want to kill
Vietnamese, took them in with no questions asked - it's a very
brave thing to do. So I've always been grateful for that."
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