Canada
Posted at 10:03am on Jun. 25, 2008 I don't suppose that I could prevail upon the Obama campaign to stop pissing off Canada?
This kind of arrogant, unilateral thinking does nothing for our foreign relations.
By Moe Lane
(Via Instapundit) It is sometimes startling to see just how unthinkingly indifferent the Obama campaign is towards the sensibilities of our major trading partners:
Obama's fight against 'dirty oil' could hurt oil sands
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed he would break America's addiction to "dirty, dwindling, and dangerously expensive" oil if he is elected U.S. president -- and one of his first targets might well be Canada's oil sands.
A senior adviser to Mr. Obama's campaign told reporters it's an "open question" whether oil produced from northern Alberta's oilsands fits with the Democratic candidate's plan to shift the U.S. sharply away from consumption of carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
Said campaign is touting this as being all about "greenhouse gasses," which I admit sounds better than "the ethanol industry expects a return on its investment in Barack Obama." Hey, complain to the New York Times: some of you folks are happy enough to believe them when they're telling you juicy anti-administration stories from anonymous sources, so there's no logical reason for you to change your mind about their accuracy now*...
But I digress.
Read on.
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Posted at 11:06am on May 15, 2008 Islam and Free Speech: Canadian version.
By Paul J Cella
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air.
— G. K. Chesterton.
Any reader involved in our long-running debate (recapitulated just last week) on Islam and Free Speech, should sit down a read this remarkable statement carefully. It concerns a complaint brought before the Ontario Human Rights Commission against Mcleans magazine, which reprinted a portion of Mark Steyn’s book America Alone. The complaint alleged that Mcleans and Steyn violated the Ontario Human Rights Code by unfairly “targeting Muslims.”
Read the statement, and then read on.
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Posted at 10:51pm on Apr. 15, 2008 If the Canadians Can Do It, Why Can't We?
By Vladimir
Baby seal clubbing aside, Canadians in general put American liberals to shame. They embrace socialized medicine and dollar coins, for example.
By and large, Canada is like a big, giant Vermont. (Well, Alberta may be like Wyoming, but still.)
But Canadians seem to get that their lifestyles and their general prosperity have something to do with the judicious development of their mineral resources.
Case in point: This downloadable .pdf file, Canada's Evolving Oil and Gas Industry
What do they know that we don't? In the U.S., 85% of our Outer Continental Shelf is off limits for oil and gas exploration, much less for development and production, and we have a significantly less hostile environment (that is, except for the political environment).
...more...
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Posted at 10:19am on Mar. 12, 2008 About Those "Bigger Than Saudi Arabia" Canadian Oil Sands...
By Vladimir
The stuff is gooey, requiring dilution with lighter oils so it can be pumped in pipelines to a refinery. And to the refiners, the stuff is of such low quality that its market value is much less than the per-barrel prices you see in the newspapers.
It operates at the economic margin. It is only economic when the price of lighter, conventional oil is high.
Along comes the Canadian Government to insure that that is a permanent condition:
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Posted at 11:29am on Nov. 17, 2007 Yankee Deserter Go Home
By Neil Stevens
Via AcademicElephant, here's a heartwarming story from what appears to be an unpleasant source ("information from occupied Iraq?"): Canada shuts doors to US war resisters:
Two U.S. Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on grounds of their opposition to the war in Iraq have lost their bids to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their cases.
The court refused to hear the appeals of Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey Thursday, who were rejected two years ago by Canada's immigration authorities.
They're not going to be deported immediately, but Canada clearly does not want to let itself be the dumping ground for our deserters. Good for them.
