[Maritime Q-Scout]

I got to wondering today as I walked downtown at lunch.

There's a Carnival cruise ship in port, with lots of American tourists about. Most businesses have pride flags up, or the stickers of the flag in their windows, the Centre for Craft & Design has a flower box in front that's painted as the pride flag.

What affect does the openness, tolerance and acceptance in Canada (or any other country) have on the American tourist when they see how commonplace it is to simply not hate someone for being different from you.

... as an aside, obviously I don't live in Alberta. Would be kinda cool if there was a Carnival ship downtown Calgary.

Also just realizing that the ship in today was the Carnival Oride. That made me chuckle as I typed this.