"blake murphy" > wrote in message
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| On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:53:39 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
|
| > On 2-Jun-2009, wrote:
| >
| >> I don't know how you feel about it but I resent that we as your
| >> neighbour have to produce passports to cross the border we have been
| >> doing so as friends and neighbours for over a 100 years. It makes us
| >> feel as though we're the enemy you want to keep out and not your
| >> neighbours. Think about it.
| >
| > How would we recognize neighborly Canadians from unfriendly people just
| > passing through Canada to get to the US? Even if you could tell by looking,
| > our laws frown upon "profiling", thus we can't exclude all arabs & mulims.
| > Same applies to other unfriendlies, such as the French; we can't exclude
| > french speaking people 'cause some are Canadians.
| >
| > We are stuck with looking at passports to keep out as many of the
| > unfriendlies as we can identify. You nice Canadian folk don't need to do
| > that because the muslim wacko's haven't yet targeted your country - yet.
|
| the french (and french-speaking canadians) are 'unfriendlies'? ever hear
| of NATO?

Your point is well-taken and I agree completely, but you are aware
that France has not been a member of NATO since 1966? President
Sarkozy has pledged to have France re-join it this year (they were
one of the founding nations) but not now, not yet. French-speaking
Canadians of course always have been as Canadian citizens.

pavane