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Clay Shirky <clays@panix.com> wrote:

>I am not anti-Canada, nor even anti-Canadian law. I am anti-ban.


Maybe you haven't clued in yet.  Maybe a *lot* of foreigners haven't
clued in yet.  Let me clear up a few things:

   o  The vast majority of us Canadians, as in *people*, agree 
      with this idea of banning evidence to protect the accused.
      You are "helping" to thwart the democratic desires of the
      Canadian people.
  
   o  We're having a big debate over whether or not this principle
      should have been applied the way it was in this case.  There
      are lots of sticky issues, and we're dealing with them.  A
      slight majority thinks it was proper, but a sizable minority
      thinks it wasn't.

   o  We have lots of ways of dealing with this.  We have our own
      courts, our own media, our own legislatures -- that are lots
      of Canadian things that a concerned Canadian can do about it.
      Thanks for the offer, foreigner, but we don't need your help.


Finally for all you foreigners who seem to know so little about Canadian
democracy, and yet are so concerned for its future, here is a history 
lesson for you -- 

Do you know what happened the last time a Canadian government pissed off 
the Canadian people?  That's right -- we smashed them out of existence,
down from a vast majority of some hundreds of seats to TWO SEATS. That's
right, TWO.  They're not even an official party anymore.  When was the 
last time something like this happened in America?  Not recently?  I'm
not surprised.

If I were you I'd be worried about the stranglehold a small group of
people in two parties have on your political system.  I can tell you
that right now Canadian governments are paying a lot of attention to
the Canadian people and what they want -- there's a big dead Tory
corpse on the ground to remind them what might happen if they don't.

Democracy is alive and very, very well in Canada, thank you very much.


Justin
   who isn't so anti-america, but really, some of you
   have been asking for it lately.

-- 
Justin Wells  (rjwells@uwaterloo.ca, stem@io.org)

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