"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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What is "liberal" about a Europe or Canada that is grossly intolerant of
differing political or social views? ...snip...

Where do you get this?

The people of Canada have managed to tolerate six or seven different shades
as Federal and/or Provincial governments, from the far right to moderate
left. If and when the incumbents got too cocky or corrupt, Canadians simply
switched horses, turfed them out, and tolerated some other shade. Europe
has several governments with diverse coalitions that change more often than
some people change their underwear. Pretty hard to see how you can argue
them as "intolerant".

Canada has managed to tolerate most American Governments as friends... from
Lincoln to Clinton, even the senior Bush.

GW is a special case... even there, they tolerated his politics up to and
including the rout of the Taliban in Afghanistan... they were there, you
might recall.... they even tolerated 4 deaths and several casualties at the
hand of their "friends".

So over 150 years, Canada has disagreed with a single dubious policy of a
single American president... and they are not alone.... and this makes
Canada "grossly intolerant"?



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