While the rest of the world’s economy spits and sputters, Canada’s makin’ bacon like nobody’s business, recovering from the world’s recession more convincingly than any other developed nation. Now, having gained a chip in the world economic game, they want to cash it in.
“When countries feel confident they tend to assert their national interests,” says Perry Spitznagel, vice-chair of law firm Bennett Jones LLP and organizer of a business forum last week titled “Canada Rising: Our Future as a Global Economic Leader.”
Down the road, experts say, Canada might use its newfound muscle in any number of ways, from demanding better treatment in trade deals with the U.S. to taking a leading role in the development of oil and other resources in the Arctic.
Ahhh. Hmmmm. I see.
My seasoned, thoughtful analysis: I can’t believe anyone lives North of International Falls.
Angle Inlet.
If the Canucks want the Angle, well, that is what the U.S. Marines are for.
Fifty-four forty or fight!
I think they may move to block the outflow of Canadian born comics into the U.S.
The thread has me thinking of the old show “The Great White North” with the McKenzie brothers singing “Take Off”. I can just about hear them asking “How’s dat Anwar drillin goin?…hosers!”
Take off! To the Great White North!
Take off! It’s a beauty way to go.
Take off! To the Great White North!
Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooooo!
Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooooo!
Beauty Eh!
Now wait a minute. If we sawed off the angle, the Canucks would just be getting a buncha dem commie Finns dere. And that would be a problem because….
mmmmm, bacon.
If all the hosers would move out and leave the bacon, I might be interested in stepping North of the border again.
Meh, prob’ly not.