Re: Americans Dissing Canadians
Originally posted by RedAlertv2
Whats the deal with this? So many poeple here in the US have absolutely no respect for Canadians. Why?
thats because so many people are incapable of rational thought and should probably be put to sleep 😄
BLAME CANADA!!!!!! BLAME CANADA!!!!!
with their little beady eyes,
and flapping heads so full of lies!!!
Re: Americans Dissing Canadians
Originally posted by RedAlertv2
Whats the deal with this? So many poeple here in the US have absolutely no respect for Canadians. Why?
I love them.....I go there all the time.....eh...
But this could be a reason...😄 😄
Michigan fights imported Canadian trash
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Citizens and politicians protest eastern Michigan landfills taking in a weekly 15,000 tons of exported Canadian trash.
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Insert pretty dump photo here...🙄
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By Jim Irwin
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
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Trash in a can on the curb along a Toronto street is emptied into a garbage truck and driven away.
All the way to Michigan.
Canada’s largest city is exporting more garbage across the border than ever, a practice protected by the Constitution and affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Michigan politicians are mounting a new round of challenges, but the truckloads of trash streaming across the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron won’t stop anytime soon.
“If the Canadians would have us believe they are the environmental protectors of North America, this isn’t a very good example,” said state House Majority Floor Leader Bruce Patterson, R-Canton Township.
Patterson’s district includes the Carleton Farms landfill near the hamlet of Waltz, 25 miles southwest of Detroit. Since Jan. 1, at least 30 trucks have dumped some 1,000 tons of garbage there every weekday after completing the 250-mile trip from Toronto.
Toronto will pay about $9.7 million to landfill owner Republic Services Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to bury more than 300,000 tons of garbage this year, said Matt Neely, a company administrator.
“We’re a business, and we want to operate at full capacity,” said Neely, whose company won the five-year contract after Toronto scrapped plans to ship city trash by rail to an abandoned mine in northern Ontario.
“We look at waste disposal as a regional issue,” Neely said. “The environmental issues don’t recognize political borders.”
Not if Patterson and Michigan politicians ranging from Republican Gov. John Engler to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Dingell can do anything about it.
Environmentalists have long accused Engler of ignoring, if not encouraging, the importation of trash to Michigan. But he wrote to Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman on Feb. 6, asking him and the City Council to reconsider using Carleton Farms.
U.S. Rep. David Bonior, D-Mt. Clemens, whose district includes a 50-mile stretch of the Toronto-to-Waltz route, wrote to Lastman the same day, concluding, “Michigan is not a ‘dumping ground’ for other countries—our land is not for Sale 😄 😄 🙄
http://www-stu.calvin.edu/chimes/2001.03.02/community/story03.shtml
What like what happened with the flu shots cine? 😛
I'm indifferent to America for the most part as a whole, I love people from there, and some cities, and it provides us with a lot, as grudgingly as I say this disgust
I just have a prejudiced vision of it, because of a few people on this board and in real life who I have met, who have this "I'm so much better than you.." mentality, that really pisses me off, because there is no way in hell, America would survive without others.
Then of couse most of the policies during Bush's despotism.....err I mean term 😗
Oh and about the trash, where do you people get your drinking water from huh?!?! sneaky2 So there!
I have nothing against Canadians..........they seem to be a good group of people, more civilized than most Americans.
I however do not have much respect for Canada as a nation. If it were left to the Canadians, they would not even have a country. It exists as a nation because of France, the U.K. and America. The French and English colonies as the catalyst and America as it's great protector. I've said it many a time........if America didn't exist, Canada would be part of Mexico by now. Every other group of people on this earth have had to fight and scrape to carve out their own homelands. You have to respect that..........a group of people willing to fight and die for a place for their family to call home. Canada was just given away as a nation.....table scraps, left overs.
Originally posted by Evil Dead
I have nothing against Canadians..........they seem to be a good group of people, more civilized than most Americans.I however do not have much respect for Canada as a nation. If it were left to the Canadians, they would not even have a country. It exists as a nation because of France, the U.K. and America. The French and English colonies as the catalyst and America as it's great protector. I've said it many a time........if America didn't exist, Canada would be part of Mexico by now. Every other group of people on this earth have had to fight and scrape to carve out their own homelands. You have to respect that..........a group of people willing to fight and die for a place for their family to call home. Canada was just given away as a nation.....table scraps, left overs.