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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (8047)	2/1/2006 5:42:17 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37531

Canada can't even buy a sub that does not leak let alone build one. Once upon a time we a great jet fighter but obviously science and technology was still taboo here in our villages of Kanata. All we can do is run and hide when the storms approach. archives.cbc.ca

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (8047)	2/2/2006 10:07:05 PM
From: Gulo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37531

I think Canada needs nukes We almost had them at the end of WWII. We were the second nation to operate a controlled nuclear reaction, just a few days after the end of the war. That was when a lot of basic nuclear science was done under the ABC (America/Britian/Canada) umbrella. Of course, the Americans didn't let us know much about their bomb project, and after the war, Canada was a lot less important to both the U.S. and Britian. Our diminished relationship, along with our relatively diminished economic capacity and our geographic position between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. made Canada decide to forego nukes. The US and Britain also didn't want too many players in their nuke club. It was bad enough that the French wanted in, LOL. Canada-U.S. relations have never recovered their wartime depth, largely because we just aren't big enough (of course, our fence-sitting role in world politics in the 70's and 80's and the U.S.-bashing of the last decade or so didn't help). The long and short of it is that we could have been the second country with the bomb if we wanted to be. Instead, we sold Candu's to the third world so that they could build their own bombs. Now, if that ain't Canadian generosity, I don't know what is. -g