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US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "Following up on an earlier story, the IIAA wants to add Canada to a blacklist of the worst intellectual property offenders. A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize. 'Canada's chronic failure to modernize its copyright regime has made it a global hub for bootleg movies, pirated software and tiny microchips that allow video-game users to bypass copyright protections', the International Intellectual Property Alliance complains in a submission to the U.S. government."
They had a feature on CBC earlier about how Canada is now a terrorist target because we supply oil to the US war machine. They have apparently beefed up security on our oil sand facilities.
I'll be getting in touch with my MP to let them know that I feel that we are indeed supplying oil to an aggressive rogue nation, just like the terrorists say, and that I would rather we keep our oil for ourselves.
Being that it's a finite resource we will need for ourselves, being that we're putting our nation at risk by selling it, being that we sully our national pride and international reputation by selling it to the US, it really would be wise for our government to keep it in the country.
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Yes, GWB is a big part of it, another big part of it is how you run roughshod over us at every opportunity.
"So what sets America and Americans a part from the previous group?"
That's an easy one. We are the most overprotected group of citizens ever. Our system has taught us we were superior from day 1 and we believe we can take on EVERYBODY. Most Americans have extremely screwed up views of the world, and seriously need to travel outside the country. And I don't mean some beach vacation spot.