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Originally Posted by Tyler
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So guess what, throughout human history, when places suck, people pack up their crap and move. You've got legs, cars, planes, hell dog sleds. Get moving and better yourselves and stop this woe is me nonsense.
If you're just going to sit on your ass and bitch and complain about how bad it is and do nothing but drink, do drugs and kill your neighbors, well then, I don't see how any of us thousands of miles away should give a damn. And for gods sake, don't call it 'Canada's Shame'. Canada has done nothing but bend over backwards and accomodate you and your ridicoulous choice to live in bumsville nowhere
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About 25 years ago at some fancy dinner, I said it pretty much like this, although we were talking about several destitute native bands in Alberta. Man, did I get myself in trouble from some lady sitting at our table. She was a wife of some government official, never worked a day in her life. She gave me a lecture on how despicably un-Canadian this would be to not take care of the aboriginal communities and how they are an integral part of the Canadian fabric and how their culture of hunting and gathering must be respected and how we can all learn from them... I was young and she got me thinking about this quite a bit... Still think she was full of s..it, even after all of these years. Oh, good memories.
