Michel Boucher wrote:
> Dave Smith > wrote in
> :
>
> > " wrote:
> >>
> >> I hope that you are dilgently boycotting USA businesses until
> >> they pay up on the softwood lumber case too. Just so you're
> >> consistant
> >
> > Buy Canadian wherever possible :-)
> >
> > I am also very reluctant to buy French because they went halfway
> > around the world to test nuclear arms that they would not dare to
> > do closer to home where it might affect them. Then there was their
> > actions in New Zealand where French agents killed two people while
> > blowing up the Rainbow Warrior. The agents were convicted and
> > France responded by using its veto power in the EU to pbar NZ meat
> > from the continent. Dirty business.
>
> That was a long time ago and a completely different government. France
> was on our side in the Iraq debacle, and you should reward them for
> being on the side of goodness and niceness. Tough decisions need to be
> made in the area of boycotts. Too many boycotts are launched as an
> unintelligent emotional reaction to something one takes as a personal
> slight, like the guy who wanted everyone to boycott Chinese buffet
> restaurants in the US until China released the spy plane they had
> captured when it landed in Hainan. Fat lot of good that was going to
> do :-)
>

Well it might have helped improve food quality. I don't know about US
"Chinese buffets" but I have never seen a good one in Canada. I don't
think most Chinese food is designed to be left in warming pans .
Getting people to eat in 'real' Chinese restaurants would have been a
good thing.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada


> --
>
> "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
> the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
>
> Dom Helder Camara