[Silver]

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/westview/story/2610442p-3026695c.html

When do we invade? I might sign up as long as I can be stationed in the Kootenays.

 

[Changleen]

Very good.

If we're going to spend money, Mr. Goodale added, it will be on day-care and health programs, and even on more foreign aid and improved defence.

Sure, that doesn't match the gargantuan, multi-billion-dollar deficits that your government blithely runs up fighting a "liberation war" in Iraq, laying out more than half of all weapons expenditures in the world, and giving massive tax breaks to the top one per cent of your population while cutting food programs for poor children.

Coming to Ottawa might also expose you to a parliamentary system that has a thing called question period every day, where those in the executive are held accountable by an opposition for their actions, and where demands for public debate on important topics such as missile defence can be made openly.

These Canadians believe that security can be achieved through well-modulated efforts to protect the rights of people, not just nation-states.

This is why Canada was second on my list when I was emigrating.