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| Subject: Crossing the Canada-USA Border | |
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] Date Posted: 22:52:27 12/28/04 Tue I drove into the USA today to do some shopping in New York state. It took one hour to get across the border because the American customs officials are asking lots of questions of Canadians crossing over. They even asked me how often I travel to the USA and why I was coming now after six years since my last trip there. I explained that I was just on a shopping trip. Coming back into Canada at the end of the day, it took five minutes to cross the border, even for the Americans ahead of me. I had bought more than what I am allowed to bring back over the border, so I had to go in to the Canada Customs building and pay tax on things that I had bought in the USA. Upon entering the building, there are several customs officers sitting at desks and behind them is a large Canadian flag on a standing pole and a big portrait of HM the Queen on the wall. It is a new portrait because it was taken recently showing the older Queen as she is now. I complimented them on the portrait after I paid the tax. You definitely know who is head of state properly when you enter that building. I was delighted that a Canadian federal government building is doing what it is supposed to by having a proper royal portrait on the wall. Coming in to that customs building on the border and seeing a big recent portrait of Her Majesty directly in front of me made me very happy to see it. It brightened up the moment of having to pay tax to Canada for purchases in the USA. The American customs have a portrait of George Bush, so I am glad that Her Majesty is there in our customs as she should be. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
| [> Subject: Hear, hear | |
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Author: Brent (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 04:13:40 12/29/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: What if? | |
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Author: Ron [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:40:19 01/03/05 Mon Canada seems to be collecting gay spouses, cannabis smokers and anti-war protestors... The USA seems to be heading down the theocratic fascist road... Perhaps one will become liberal north America and the other Conservative north America! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: but there's nothing especially 'conservative' about fascism | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:59:53 01/03/05 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Hah! | |
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Author: Ed Harris (IOM) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:05:33 01/03/05 Mon Rather like the cartoon in the British papers after the recent US election, in which the coastal states of the USA had joined Canada and the rest renamed "Jesusland"... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: What's all this got to do with portraits of the head of state in government offices? | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:24:08 01/04/05 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Sound question | |
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Author: Ed Harris (IOM) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:09:07 01/04/05 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: Indeed | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 11:53:51 12/29/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: It was the crossing at Queenston Heights near Niagara | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 12:56:01 12/29/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: Bravo | |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:47:40 12/29/04 Wed I'm glad that Canada does not feel the need to hide the symbols of Monarchy in order to assert their modern identity... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Modern Identity... | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:45:11 12/29/04 Wed "Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution -- perhaps the first modern political institution." (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, September 29th 1997) [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (IOM) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:07:16 01/03/05 Mon ...unlike Britain, of course, where a systematic attempt is underway to pretend that the monarhy doesn't exist: getting rid of the prefix 'HMP', for example, and the phrase "At Her Majesty's Pleasure", the removal of royal potraits in case they are considered "divisive", and other such nonsense. Let's all go down to Canada House in Trafalgar Sq (shortly, no doubt, to be renamed Austerlitz Square or Marengo Square, with Ken Livingstone on the currently empty fourth plinth) and try to convince the blighters that we'd make model citizens. Oh Canada, etc. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |