What has Canada done for the world...?
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Another example of the big Canadian group hug?Uhh...
Canada has demonstrated that all the people of the world can live under one roof with relative peace and harmony and maintain their respective beliefs, customs and traditions.
Yeah, I know no one values this, but we do it better here than in the entire world (which is effectively the same thing).
If there was a world government, the state of affairs in Canada is what they should aim for.
Anyways...
Probably we're all better off killing each other. If only we would properly kill everyone and put an end to all problems...
Sigh...
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we have a heritage history from the way we understand about freedom and fair, and the country of Canada did sacrifice for it. the problem i can see not we are taking more influence from south side of boarder than we should, and we are loosing our tradition.
Look, the sorry fact is that while Canada has certainly done positive things for the world, it is not equal to what the USA has done.
But, you need to provide your friend with a few further facts:
1. Canada is less than 1/10 the population of USA--it is an appreciably much smaller country with much less resources (people, money, industry, military etc. etc. at it's disposal) and if you divide the American positives by a factor of 10 things start to look much more equitable
2. While Canada has essentially had a positive role on the world, the USA has ALSO had many significant NEGATIVE influences on the world (The war in Iraq is a perfect example--it would never have happened without American aggression, it was a war of choice not necessity (no 911 connection, no weapons of mass destruction--think of the hundreds of thousands that needless died here)
3. there is no question that Canada's positives outweigh any negatives, this is a bit debatable with the USA (consider the widespread Anti-American sentiment that you find in several countries--there are reasons for this; or why some Americans traveling in Europe actually like to identify themselves as Canadians)
But, you need to provide your friend with a few further facts:
1. Canada is less than 1/10 the population of USA--it is an appreciably much smaller country with much less resources (people, money, industry, military etc. etc. at it's disposal) and if you divide the American positives by a factor of 10 things start to look much more equitable
2. While Canada has essentially had a positive role on the world, the USA has ALSO had many significant NEGATIVE influences on the world (The war in Iraq is a perfect example--it would never have happened without American aggression, it was a war of choice not necessity (no 911 connection, no weapons of mass destruction--think of the hundreds of thousands that needless died here)
3. there is no question that Canada's positives outweigh any negatives, this is a bit debatable with the USA (consider the widespread Anti-American sentiment that you find in several countries--there are reasons for this; or why some Americans traveling in Europe actually like to identify themselves as Canadians)
He did live in Upper/Lower Canada colonies for sometime, probably from at least 1870 until his death in Nova Scotia in 1922, not particularly a short period of time. As for citizenship, well Canada didn't exist so there was no such thing. I'm not sure whether he ever did become Canadian as most people with British citizenship could vote etc in Canada .... in fact I'm not sure if they grandfathered everyone in as Canadian upon confederation. In fact Scotland claims he was a citizen there and therefore a British subject. At no point was he an American citizen that is clear.
Some of the confusion comes from the fact that in addition to his lab in Brantford he also had one in Boston which contributed a lot in the development of the phone. Also most of his experiments were financed by American investors but it was very clear that invention's completion was in Brantford. So I guess both Countries have a claim but I lean to where it was completed.
Another argument is that he patent the item in the US. Well that's some what true however the first patent was in Great Britain but since GB had no treaty recognizing patent rights with the US , Bell and Co. had to secure rights in the US.
