At least you know Neil is Canadian. Here’s another telling paragraph from the above link: Tommy Douglas's legacy as a social policy innovator lives on. Social welfare, universal Medicare, old age pensions and mothers' allowances -- Douglas helped keep these ideas, and many more, watching as more established political parties eventually came to accept these once-radical ideas as their own. The guy has been dead for 20 years, and he never was so much as leader of the opposition federally. Most of his influence was the result of ideas and policies enacted in one province which were so successful and so popular that they served as a model for the rest of Canada and were eventually adopted by the whole country and by parties of all stripes. He’s been dead for 20 years. He hadn’t led a government of any sort since about 1960, and yet in 2004 Canadians voted him as our Greatest Canadian, and there couldn’t have been a better choice. If there was such a vote I’d vote for him as the greatest North American. MLK would be in the same category, but my vote would go to Tommy, hands down. And I doubt that any non-Canadians here have ever even heard of him.
That's interesting. The US certainly doesn't have any socialists who are very popular. Though you can't always judge from that the political leanings of people today. Just about everyone admires FDR, JFK, and Martin Luther King, Jr., but most people aren't left leaning here.
She’s on a different list. (The people on that list would probably top a list of most ridiculed Canadians, btw, not the most popular.)
Which is good advise if your having to spell Nia Valdalos, or Elisha Cuthbert, or Keifer Sutherland (who, incidentally, is the grandson of the afore discussed Tommy Douglas), or Keanu Reeves, or Hume Cronyn, or Cree Summer, etc.
It's really nice that we can all have a lovely discussion with the canuck contingent on the board after we agree that Ann Coulter is a wack job that doesn't know a. history b. when to STFU
Don't blame me. Its those crazy canadians that like 'celine dion, bryan adams, or tom green.' Don't care for any of them and don't even know who david frum IS.
David Frum is a relatively obscure reference. He is the son of a very prominent Canadian journalist, who died a number of years ago now, named Barbara Frum. She was an extremely intelligent, very subtle, probing type interviewer who very often had the bad guys catching themselves up and exposing themselves, or just squirming like a cat on a hot tin roof. She was quite even in her political views, but she perhaps leaned a shade to the left. Her son, however, is the black sheep of the family, and the family of Canadians as well. He became a speech writer for GWB and is said to have penned the line, “axis of evil”. Yes folks, to our great shame, it seems that it was a Canadian that wrote that line.
