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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Yeah, that's really what I'm getting at. I personally think there is enough of a difference between Canadian and American values, that it does raise some flags.
Just to go for the most obvious example... has he adapted to living and working in an American society to the point where he is now a believer in the right to protect himself with a concealed handgun?
(Wildly over-the-top and probably pretty absurd, but it's an example that I think everyone will be able to understand right away. I am in no way suggesting I actually think he carries a gun in his suit pocket, or that he even believes he should be allowed to.)
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Right. Although the not-really-irony-unless-you're-Alanis of it is that he lived in Britain for 22 years, and nobody is too concerned that he's picked up British values. What if he's taken to having tea at 3:00 afternoon? What if he calls a garage a carpark, or an elevator a lift? Although I don't think it's really so much that living in America would cause him to have different values; it's moreso a case that the ideas he's had since long-before he moved to the US are not necessarily in keeping with what we think of for a (particularly Liberal) PM. Do we want to redefine ourselves and our nation to match his idea of what Canada should be (not just the vision that he espouses in platform speeches, but the vision that's been underlying all of his political writing for the last couple decades).