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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canada Separation From The Commonwealth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tyc:> who wrote (5)	2/25/2000 10:16:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12

Well technically, according to the Canadian government, to use the word loosely, or to the UK government for that matter, Canadian citizens are not British subjects and haven't been since Pierre of the Finger 'repatriated' the consitution, i.e. requested that the Queen annul the British North America Act ... now we're nothing really, nobody's subjects, well hell we were always straying off the subject anyway ... now we are defined only by that quality in us that is Not American, evidenced by small things, for instance the relative freedom within these borders from random gunfire. Pierre's motives have been dealt with extensively elsewhere but i contend that mainly he just wanted to get his picture taken with the Queen, having nursed an inferiority complex since Maggie got hers taken with Mick Jagger. What did he care about the consequences, that a canehjun would then need a passport to even enter the UK, and could only do so as an alien? Truly, now the wogs do begin at Calais. Thee and me and the rest of us, my son, never shall we stride the earth as bona fide members of a group enjoying perpetual sunshine, our sun has set. And where did it set? .. well i think in the salute of Pierre of the Finger there was a message.

To: tyc:> who wrote (5)	2/25/2000 10:41:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12

Reality however is another matter. This country has strong roots in Britain, it was built by Scots and Irish and Loimey Bastids starting well before the Loyalists fled the persecution and robbery of the 1770s War of the Treasonous Insurrection in the less civilised colonies to our south. Our political system can be traced back through the Magna Carta to Boadicea, the originator of the cry 'liberty or death', though of course in Celt. Just down the road here lives one of our local school trustees, who as a Free Pole flew a Hurricane, and later a Spitfire, in 1940 in defense of those Isles, and now he needs a passport to enter them. There are still alive many mothers whose sons didn't come home from that defense. They need a passport to visit. Just what the world needs, eh, more walls.