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Originally posted by phigamucsb
Maybe that's b/c Canada has no military presence. Their national defense is the U.S. and they don't even have to pay a penny (must be pretty nice). As long as Canada doesn't do something to threaten America's national security, they can rest assured that no foreign country will invade our neighbor. The U.S. seeks stability in regions throughout the world, especially its own.
I'm not trying to harp on you RA, but I have noticed some distirbing trends lately in Canada. For one, why has your government outlawed the Fox News Channel and dished out hefty fines to those Canadian citizens that wish to watch FNC transmitted via their satellites. Next, why does the Canadian government allow such loose immigration policies to exist. These policies put both our countries at risk (i.e. Madrid, Spain). Finally, I'm not sure if a ruling has been made on the American deserter situation, but Canada needs to react in a more timely fashion so that the Army deserters may be tried accordingly.
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Wow... stop listen to O'Riley it rots your brain....
This site is actaully aimed at people like you, to actual inform you about the facts not the myths...
Okay seriously did you visit the website or any of the linked sites? Because you must have missed the military info section or the international deployment section. As for not paying a penny... I have no idea how to respond to that... just wow... so how do we pay for our military, peacekeeping, NORAD, NATO, or any of the other multi-national orgs? Is if from defense contracts to the US maybe? Selling our military designs and equipment to the Marines? Oh wait... do you actually think the US gives Canada money for it's military? HAHAHAHAHA oh thats rich... classic
Second you obviously didn't read the section regarding immigration or border security did you.... oh wait your one of the guys who thinks that the terrorsists came from Canada right? As far as I'm aware our immigration polices closely match yours... and in fact we have per captia less illegal (or unregistered) immigrants... I recommend you go back and visit the site AND READ IT; look for links regarding immigration please.
Third the fining of people who use ILLEGAL dishes to recieve FOX New is because of the dish and not the channel.... their are laws regarding Canadian content on the TV, radio, or print media. The reason FOX News wasn't available (they will be next year apparently as FOX News Canada) is that they wouldn't budge on the Canadian content... although CNN, Al Jazeraa, BBC, MSNBC and the rest seemed to be agreeable to at least showing Canadian commercials..... and now so has FOX News apparently
As for the deserters... guess what we are another country with our own laws and values. People can seek assulm if they can prove that if returned to their country of origin they will be prosectuted for their beliefs, sexual oreintation, religion, culture; or will face "un-due" hardship. So if the deserters are conciensus objectors or pacifits they qualify... because we as a country require that our soldiers are volunteers (so if you say are Serbian and your unit was to be deployed to Serbia you could object and not go, and "get-out" with no strings attached.. the same applies for pacifits). I am aware of some of these so-called "deserters"... for example the Sgt. who "deserted" after she came home on compassion leave; both her and her husband are (were) serving in Iraq and their children were in the care of the grandmother in BC, but then the grandmother slipped into a diabetic comma.... the military gave this woman one week leave and she deserted to care for her children. So guess what the government has given her aid... and I say rightly so.