Contribution
clowny said:Canada? we contributed to the world :
Rita McNeil
Keep her - PLEASE!!!
What has Canada done for the world...?
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The Robertson screw does not slip. I can attest for that. But the Americans prefer the Philips. Go figure!
clowny said:Canada? we contributed to the world :
Alan Thicke
Wayne and Schuster
Stompin Tom Connors
Rita McNeil
Ed the Sock
Barenaked Ladies
i mean come on, where would the world be without those guys????? That's classic cultural superstars
Don't forget,
Joni Mitchell
Diana Krall
I'm sure there are more.
WoodPeckr said:Jean Chrétien, tops Arthur Currie!.....
Okay now you are just being silly, and I did note the wink.
Arthur Currie was a much underrated innovater whose boldness saved thousands of lives.
I know I've read of him.LancsLad said:
Arthur Currie was one of Canada's finest commanders.
However don't discount Jean Chrétien who stood up for Dubya when others around him called Dubya a moron.....
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Oil Please
We take immigrants from everywhere. Feed them give them OHIP cards and then force them to vote Liberal.Cobster said:
Oh, Come Onnn
Alot of Canadians i've met down south don't particularly care much for their canadian pasts, to my surprise, and are forever grateful to the USA for having given them the opportunities to build a great life. In fact, I even heard expressions like...'you couldn't pay me enough to go back there', 'I spent the most miserable years of my life there...I'll never go back' but more often the comments were along the lines that they liked it here but were tired of being taxed into the ground and there not being too much opportunities here compared to the US to make enough money and enjoy life.
By the way...what do you think we're known for overseas? Nothing. There was a recent report from the OECD which showed a rapidly declining share of Foreign direct investment coming here (which has not taken place in the US- it's share has remained stable), and how our exports are skewing again to our old standby's of Oil, timbre, and agricultural products. Most of Capitalization on the TSX is made up of resource producers and the banks and other financial firms that finance them; all the rest doesn't make up for more than 15-20%......Can't we just get real??!!
So some guy spends just a little time here 'cause it reminds him of his home country of Scotland, and all of a sudden we claim him as our own? Frankly I find that kind a pathetic canadian trait; like reminding people that captain Kirk was a canuck when he's spent most of his life in California, has had American wives and considers himself american. Ditto for Jim Carrey.woolf said:
Alot of Canadians i've met down south don't particularly care much for their canadian pasts, to my surprise, and are forever grateful to the USA for having given them the opportunities to build a great life. In fact, I even heard expressions like...'you couldn't pay me enough to go back there', 'I spent the most miserable years of my life there...I'll never go back' but more often the comments were along the lines that they liked it here but were tired of being taxed into the ground and there not being too much opportunities here compared to the US to make enough money and enjoy life.
By the way...what do you think we're known for overseas? Nothing. There was a recent report from the OECD which showed a rapidly declining share of Foreign direct investment coming here (which has not taken place in the US- it's share has remained stable), and how our exports are skewing again to our old standby's of Oil, timbre, and agricultural products. Most of Capitalization on the TSX is made up of resource producers and the banks and other financial firms that finance them; all the rest doesn't make up for more than 15-20%......Can't we just get real??!!
Jim Carey spent most of his life in Canada. He grew up and went to high school in Burlington.FOOTSNIFFER said:
This thread was started by someone asking what Canada has done for the world. Personally, I don't think actors make much of a contribution anyway, so who cares if they denounce their home country.
