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Originally Posted by Guy-jin  Who's criticizing Canada?
I've always called it America's hat. |
Not me, and I deliberately didn't cite the hat part, mostly because it was irrelevant to my point.
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Originally Posted by Guy-jin And it is harboring an American murderer. And the Canadians in this thread, at least, seem to be fine with that.
So I'd say I made a pretty fair statement here, bub!  |
Well firstly, '
harbouring' suggests a motivation I don't believe reflects Canadian intent - i.e. to seek to provide shelter of safety, of refuge or in this context;
to actively and illegally frustrate justice. Canada is
not actively and illegally aiding a fugitive to evade US justice in the sense one could reasonably infer from
'harbouring a murderer'.
What Canada is doing is honouring Canadian extradition law, would you have it do otherwise? Would you advocate that the US consent to an adhoc subversion of its own extradition laws, perhaps (to use a previous example) to send a homosexual to his death in Iran? All the US need do to have him extradited, is agree
not to execute him, if he's found guilty.
In fact, I'd say when viewed objectively, and legally (in the context of extant legislation) the party actively frustrating justice in this case is the US and it's doing so for what reason?
Secondly, there a far more Canadians in Canada than posted in this thread, so concluding that
all Canadians who 'fill' the country would concur with the opinion of those who did is a stretch.
So no, I don't believe your assessment in this instance was either fair, or accurate,
bub!