Copenhagen blues

[ciroccoj]

You know what? I hate watching the news, and seeing my beloved country roundly shunned by pretty much the world... and agreeing with the shunning wholeheartedly. Not that it'll change what we do in any way, because who the hell are a bunch of foreigners to tell us what to do with our land, but hopefully it'll at least nudge a few other countries to be more environmentally careful, because "You don't want us to be hated like the Canadians, do you?"

I love Canada. I hate being ashamed of my home.

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[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Aww!! Canada is growing up!

Now all you have to do is bomb the FUCK out of a few countries (preferably if you do so on very, very little evidence that they attacked you), launch a couple of silly wars in places most of your population can't even pronounce, let alone find on a map (Vietnam and Iraq are good places to start), and strut around INSISTING that everyone in foreign countries speak your language, and you guys just might live up to the US's excellent example.

:/ In all seriousness, I'm sorry. That feeling *sucks*--I wish I could say you get used to it, and I guess you kind of do, but...meh.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Thanks. ::sigh::

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Aww!! Canada is growing up!
::snicker:: ...thanks?

Also, did you mean for me to read that and totally hear Jon Stewart's voice in my head as I did so?

Now all you have to do is bomb the FUCK out of a few countries (preferably if you do so on very, very little evidence that they attacked you), launch a couple of silly wars in places most of your population can't even pronounce, let alone find on a map (Vietnam and Iraq are good places to start), and strut around INSISTING that everyone in foreign countries speak your language, and you guys just might live up to the US's excellent example.
Yeah, you gotta laugh, 'cause you'd cry out loud otherwise ;)

:/ In all seriousness, I'm sorry. That feeling *sucks*--I wish I could say you get used to it, and I guess you kind of do, but...meh.
Yeah, no, I can't imagine getting used to it either.

I also keep hearing my International Poverty's prof's voice every time I read more news like this. He was trying a case in Federal Court at the end of my class with him, and I took the boys to see it. I explained what he was doing (he was helping represent Amnesty International and some other agency concerned about the fact that we were handing over prisoners to torturers, and Justin said something like, "But if he's fighting against the Canadian government... it's like he's fighting against himself!"

I told my prof, later when we saw him during a recess. He nodded and said to Justin, "That's exactly right. That's exactly what I'm doing. The government of the country you live in represents yourself. Everything they do, they do it in your name. So it's your responsibility to be aware of what the government is doing. And if you don't agree with it, you have to do whatever you can to stop it, because if the government is doing it, it's like you're doing it."

Justin got all big-eyed and serious. It made a huge impact on him.

And on me, too. I read about the tar sands and our refusal to commit to anything environmental, and hear my prof's voice saying, "Everything they do, they do in your name."

Rather a crappy feeling, that :(