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Originally Posted by Darth_SS

Secondly, he's never said "Canadians should obey the US." In fact, he's gone off and said "Know what? Give us our softwood money back." He's condemned the war in Iraq, and done his best to foster trade relations with other countries so we're not so reliant on the US. He's definitely not a saint (*coughKyotocough*) but he's a damned sight better than a government that was in power for so long that it became complacent about everything. I mean, he's the first Prime Minister to raise the salaries of the soldiers you respect oh-so-much in a damn long time.

It's amazing. I actually agreed with absolutely everything you said in this post. To be fair, it's nice to see that most Canadians take the same stance I do (I'm a Newfie, so a far cry different than someone from Alberta, but what the hey!).

I'm not so sure about what that 22% figure means though. I would think it more or less means that most Canadians think the government is hiding something rather than the whole thing was a setup. After all, lots of people died, and I really don't think the American government would be willing to kill billions of dollars as well as thousands of their own people just to oust a relatively non-threatening country. And governments covering something up isn't entirely conspiracy theory. It's a pretty regular thing.

But yeah, if Toronto was the attacked, we'd expect the States to help, so we've got an obligation to help the States as well. As for Iraq... I just think thats been taken too far.

As for Harper, I think he's done a fairly good job so far considering he's a minority government and all the crappy horror stories the Liberals tried to spread about him pre-election. I actually met him and he seemed really nice. If he runs again next time, up to this point I'd say he deserves to get the majority. Minus Kyoto. He should probably work on that.