Despite his Quebequois bumpkin accent and his crooked face (the result of a childhood lillness), Chretien is actually a very smart guy. A jerk in a lot of ways, not the greatest leader we've ever had, but hes been in power for along time.
As far as the weather goes... we go hiking in the lush, green woods all year round, we don't swelter with high termperatures and humidity all summer, there are people water-skiing on local lakes in February, and one can go downhill skiing on Grouse mountain (10 minutes from downtown Vancouver while) watching people sailing and wind-surfing on English bay down below. My daughter spent 15 minutes splashing around in the lake on New Year's Day a couple of years ago... voluntarily, yet!
Admittedly not all of Canada is this temperate, but with properly designed houses, vehicles and clothes, it's all quite "bearable".
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- It takes a world to build a nation
- 21 and counting
- re: . . . but only a nation to build a world . . .
- americaforming
- Humble?
- re: *we*
- Imagine the world today without America
- A shining city on the hill
- Bending other states to their will
- "Spreading democracy by gunpoint."
- Spreading ideology at gunpoint
- re: Spreading ideology at gunpoint
- You're being obtuse again
- re: You're being obtuse again
- Definitions
- Literacy and Rand
- John Galt
- re: Loghorrea and Rand
- re: Loghorrea and Rand
- Yer missing my points here Tom
- re: Yer missing my points here Tom
- You had some?
- And there wasn't nothin' Nietzsche couldn't teachya 'bout the raising of the wrist
- Cute tripe, Tom
- Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table
- Literacy and Rand
- re: You're being obtuse again
- You're being obtuse again
- re: Spreading ideology at gunpoint
- Spreading ideology at gunpoint
- A shining city on the hill
- re: Humility is a might hard to come by . . .
- two outa three :-)
- americaforming