Brinkley wins!

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I have to quote this! From Lord Moran, British high commisioner to Canada in the 1980's. Upon leaving his post in 1984, he wrote this to the then British foreign minister, about his experiences of working in Canada:

'The calibre of Canadian politicians is low. The level of debate in their House of Commons is correspondingly low; the majority of Canadian ministers are unimpressive, and a few we have found frankly bizarre... Canadians are...very sensitive, especially to express or implied British sneers about Canada as 'boring'. One does not encounter here the ferocious competition of talent that takes place in the United Kingdom... Anyone who is even moderately good at what they do...tends to become a national figure....and anyone who stands out at all from the crowd tends to be praised to the skies and given the Order of Canada at once.'


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1) I am not a patriot at all, In my argumentation, I do not defend the Canadian Flag but a silly comment without substance, you would have said the same thing about the US, Germany or Russia, I would have said the very same thing, just choosing some other examples for the athletes.

2) The guy who states only has an opinion about billions on earth, there is no special substance stating why his opinion would be more worthy than some others. Plus, the guy writing that is obviously a fierce and blind patriot himself, which removes him tons of credit.

3) One can say bad or good words about Canada, this is no paradise, there is a bit of both in there and I am neither proud or shameful to be Canadian, it's just how things went

Again, it was way too easy Mr Baggins, may I suggest you some books about language structure and argumentation to get on your new Amazon Kindle? You're smart enough to understand, you just need to learn to structure your thoughts

[Kev]

I have to quote this! From Lord Moran, British high commisioner to Canada in the 1980's. Upon leaving his post in 1984, he wrote this to the then British foreign minister, about his experiences of working in Canada:

'The calibre of Canadian politicians is low. The level of debate in their House of Commons is correspondingly low; the majority of Canadian ministers are unimpressive, and a few we have found frankly bizarre... Canadians are...very sensitive, especially to express or implied British sneers about Canada as 'boring'. One does not encounter here the ferocious competition of talent that takes place in the United Kingdom... Anyone who is even moderately good at what they do...tends to become a national figure....and anyone who stands out at all from the crowd tends to be praised to the skies and given the Order of Canada at once.'


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1) I am not a patriot at all, In my argumentation, I do not defend the Canadian Flag but a silly comment without substance, you would have said the same thing about the US, Germany or Russia, I would have said the very same thing, just choosing some other examples for the athletes.

2) The guy who states only has an opinion about billions on earth, there is no special substance stating why his opinion would be more worthy than some others. Plus, the guy writing that is obviously a fierce and blind patriot himself, which removes him tons of credit.

3) One can say bad or good words about Canada, this is no paradise, there is a bit of both in there and I am neither proud or shameful to be Canadian, it's just how things went

Again, it was way too easy Mr Baggins, may I suggest you some books about language structure and argumentation to get on your new Amazon Kindle? You're smart enough to understand, you just need to learn to structure your thoughts

Yes you are right. Maybe I should read some of the great Canadian authors, statesmen and philosophers to enlighten myself. Remind me who they are again?

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I have to quote this! From Lord Moran, British high commisioner to Canada in the 1980's. Upon leaving his post in 1984, he wrote this to the then British foreign minister, about his experiences of working in Canada:

'The calibre of Canadian politicians is low. The level of debate in their House of Commons is correspondingly low; the majority of Canadian ministers are unimpressive, and a few we have found frankly bizarre... Canadians are...very sensitive, especially to express or implied British sneers about Canada as 'boring'. One does not encounter here the ferocious competition of talent that takes place in the United Kingdom... Anyone who is even moderately good at what they do...tends to become a national figure....and anyone who stands out at all from the crowd tends to be praised to the skies and given the Order of Canada at once.'


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1) I am not a patriot at all, In my argumentation, I do not defend the Canadian Flag but a silly comment without substance, you would have said the same thing about the US, Germany or Russia, I would have said the very same thing, just choosing some other examples for the athletes.

2) The guy who states only has an opinion about billions on earth, there is no special substance stating why his opinion would be more worthy than some others. Plus, the guy writing that is obviously a fierce and blind patriot himself, which removes him tons of credit.

3) One can say bad or good words about Canada, this is no paradise, there is a bit of both in there and I am neither proud or shameful to be Canadian, it's just how things went

Again, it was way too easy Mr Baggins, may I suggest you some books about language structure and argumentation to get on your new Amazon Kindle? You're smart enough to understand, you just need to learn to structure your thoughts

Yes you are right. Maybe I should read some of the great Canadian authors, statesmen and philosophers to enlighten myself. Remind me who they are again?

I can name you three who are world wide known just to start with:

1) Charles Taylor, the most important philosopher on the multiculturalism question and one of the reference when it comes to Hegel, he even won one of the most prestigious award in Germany for his works in Hegel.

2) Will Kimlyka, one of the top philosopher in political philosophy, especially when it touches liberalism and anglo-american philosophy.

3) Jean Grondin: one of the most important philosopher in hermeneutic philosophy, was even the personal biographer of Gadamer, THE hermeneutic thinker

Too easy again and I am probably certain that you've never read seriously lot of philosophy books to start with