{"id":11402,"date":"2011-09-30T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11402"},"modified":"2011-09-30T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:01:56","slug":"some-things-are-eternal-like-the-stars-above-and-the-conflicted-feelings-towards-the-united-states-canadians-have-in-their-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/some-things-are-eternal-like-the-stars-above-and-the-conflicted-feelings-towards-the-united-states-canadians-have-in-their-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"“Some things are eternal, like the stars above and the conflicted feelings towards the United States Canadians have in their hearts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Gurney<\/a> recommends that the US worry about Boston before the start putting up fences on the US-Canadian border:<\/p>\n

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Oh, Lord, here we go again: The U.S. is (kind of) considering erecting a fence along parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, as well as various high-tech monitoring systems. This latest variation was floated by the American Customs and Border Protection Agency, but quickly dismissed by that same agency as merely a hypothetical after the report caught the media\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

Whenever the U.S. considers — or hypothetically muses about potentially considering — additional security along the northern border, you can count on Canadians whipping their heads \u2019round in shock. \u201cKeep out us?\u201d they ask. \u201cBut \u2026 we\u2019re Canadians. That\u2019s like being American. Why would they want to keep us out?\u201d Many of those same Canadians are the ones who become outraged if the United States does not genuflect in the requisite manner at the holy pillar of Canadian sovereignty and international importance. That\u2019s non-negotiable for Canadians, because we\u2019re not Americans, and Uncle Sam, with his war machines and ghetto scenes, had best not forget it. But as soon as Americans agree that we\u2019re separate countries and try to act like it, much outrage ensues.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a particularly irritating manifestation of the Canadian inferiority complex, but probably can\u2019t be helped. Some things are eternal, like the stars above and the conflicted feelings towards the United States Canadians have in their hearts. At least this time, though, we\u2019re not alone in looking kind of silly: If there\u2019s anything as dumb as the Canadian double-think on whether we\u2019re American enough for America, it\u2019s the bizarre notion among our southern siblings that if they pay enough attention to Canada, they\u2019ll be safe from terrorism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Gurney recommends that the US worry about Boston before the start putting up fences on the US-Canadian border: Oh, Lord, here we go again: The U.S. is (kind of) considering erecting a fence along parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, as well as various high-tech monitoring systems. This latest variation was floated by the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[316,201,257],"class_list":["post-11402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-usa","tag-borders","tag-securitytheatre","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2XU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11402\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}