tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post5696506646823113812..comments2024-03-28T18:56:40.762-04:00Comments on Waddy Is Right: Reflections on the Frozen NorthNicholas Waddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-31816663803515297022022-08-07T22:50:07.415-04:002022-08-07T22:50:07.415-04:00Ray, yes -- we Western New Yorkers have easier acc...Ray, yes -- we Western New Yorkers have easier access to the Candian heartland than we do to NYC...thank God!<br /><br />True, Jack: it's hard to imagine a Canadian "dictatorship", isn't it? Liberties can be retracted slowly -- imperceptibly slowly -- however, and Canada is certainly not moving in the right direction in that regard. But what Western country is?Nicholas Waddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650770835328089297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-73649390907788446542022-08-07T15:39:34.137-04:002022-08-07T15:39:34.137-04:00Dr. Waddy from Jack: I grew up just across the riv...Dr. Waddy from Jack: I grew up just across the river from Canada and went to college an hour from Montreal.I have always liked Canada and Ithink it a highly civilized land very much treasured by its populace(though some Quebecois and perhaps many in their far west might chafe at some of their strictures). They have, I think, a well respected and effective police force and a highly lawful population!. But some of their restrictions would not play well here: I did some 18th century reenactment at Ft. Niagara in the US with some great guys from Ontario. I brought my flintlock pistol; they told me Canada would not "allow" them to possess them. I don 't like the sound of "allow". Here we hold a right for the lawful to possess handguns derived from the same English political tradition as Canada's, which confirmed, in our Constitution, a natural right to possess arms. Also, I do not think much o f Canada's liberal measures to be the product of the bitter political conflict so evident in the US. My gut feeling ( replete with the faults due such "feeling") is that highly liberal Canadian measures are not enacted with the intent of eventual incremental advance to totalitarian dictatorship so very obviously characterized by our vindictive American left. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511148187940933062.post-79728003433223699062022-08-06T21:26:38.827-04:002022-08-06T21:26:38.827-04:00RAY TO NICK
And best of all, Canada is not all th...RAY TO NICK<br /><br />And best of all, Canada is not all that far from New York. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com