The Ugly American
An Enduring Reality
Alan: Although I am a native-born American citizen, I took my first degree at the University of Toronto where I enjoyed the same low tuition-and-fees as Canadian citizens and where I was covered by Canada's "single payer healthcare system" at no additional cost.
To this day I am flabbergasted that it was always harder to get back into my own country -- in fact much harder!!! -- than to enter Canada as an American citizen.
The United States of Paranoia
"The Paranoid Style in American Politics"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics
One Of The Saner GOP Presidential Candidates Proposes A Wall At The U.S.<>Canada Border
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/one-of-saner-gop-presidential.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics
One Of The Saner GOP Presidential Candidates Proposes A Wall At The U.S.<>Canada Border
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/08/one-of-saner-gop-presidential.html
Canada's Defense Minister Had Words for Scott Walker's Wall Plan
So, we've all heard, by now, Scott Walker (R-Fantasyland) thinks that a wall along the Canadian border is "a legitimate concern". Canada's Defense Minister had words about that.
I would remind that governor or anyone else in the United States of the enormous progress that we have made beyond the [border] agreement that Prime Minister Harper signed with President Obama, which massively improves continental perimeter security. As you know, we often find there are some American political actors who are not aware of the progress that has been made on continental security.(bold = my favorite line of the whole thing)
So we'll continue to remind our American friends that Canada has taken extraordinary efforts to ensure the joint security and you know I don’t think—quite frankly I can tell you as the former minister of immigration, that Canada has a much greater legitimate concern about the northward flow of illegal migration than the United States does of a southward flow of illegal migration
And of course, his campaign is saying he didn't really suggest a wall. Funny, he tweeted later in the day that he "wouldn't ignore concern expressed from law enforcement". I'd love to know who these law enforcement people are.
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