See No Evil, Eh; Hear No Evil, Eh; Speak No Evil, Eh.

Canadians ban Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing'.

Here is the original MTV classic video of the song that has our neighbors to the with their tuques all in a knot.

But don't be to smug, my fellow Americans - according to The Left / Mainstream Media, nowadays playing something like this Eric Clapton favorite should gain you a visit from the sheriff. Or the FBI.

Parity.

How bad has the Obama regime's handling of the economy been? This bad: The Canadian dollar reaches parity with the US dallar.

Well, we are becoming a soft-socialist nanny state like our neighbors to the North...

We're Not In Kansas Anymore, Eh.

The single payer, government-run Canadian health care system, the one Team Hopenchange is setting us up to copy and the one The Left/Mainstream Media assures us delivers efficient, affordable, high-quality medical treatment top all, isn't quite the Emerald City:

The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.

Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country - who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting - recognize that changes must be made.

"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

"We know that there must be change," she said. "We're all running flat out, we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."

Hope-n-Care, Eh.

Pretty soon we will be hearing a lot from Team Hopenchange about health care "reform", and they will be throwing up the single-payer, government-run health care program in Canada as a positive comparison to our current system. So that you have some perspective, dear readers, here is what some Canadians are saying:

In the case of health care, Canadians are paying for a world-class health-care system but are not receiving one in return.

I can't wait.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil. Eh.

I don't usually blog on things in The Great White North, since my Canadian readership is very small and mostly limited to Google porn searches with the term "red stick" in them. (I really don't have a dog on that sled team. Sorry)

But sometimes, you gotta say "WTF??" and wonder what they put in the beer up there. Freedom of Speech may be an American "concept", but it used to be a Canadian one, too. Not anymore, apparently:

"This is a breathtakingly broad prohibition, which extends far beyond the terms of the (already troubling) statute. Boissoin and his group aren't allowed to saying anything "disparaging" about homosexuals, which presumably would even extend to statements such as "homosexuals are acting sinfully" or "The Bible, which I believe should be our moral guide, condemns homosexuality."

Nor can they say anything disparaging (not just anything false or threatening, but anything disparaging) about Prof. Darren E. Lund of the University of Calgary Faculty of Education, a self-described "activis[t]" for "social justice issues in schools and communities," and his witnesses, who include Prof. Kevin Alderson of the University of Calgary, and Douglas Robert Jones, a recently retired Calgary City Police Service officer who has been Liaison to the GLBT Community. I would have thought that activist university professors were proper subjects for discussion, criticism, and even disparagement — but the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission forbids Mr. Boissoin and the Concerned Christian Coalition from engaging in such speech."

So let me, as an American, exercise a God-given Right: Professor Darren, E. Lund, I think your actions show you to be intellectually incapable of defeating your opponents in open debate, and therefore have dealt with the problem like a cowardly fascist - by suppression. Professor Kevin Alderson, I think you are no better. And Douglas Robert Jones, I think as an officer of the Law in a liberal democracy, you more than anyone should know better.

Ban that, you Hosers.

The End Justifies The Means, Eh?

In Canada, officially sanctioned sock-puppetry in the cause of "human rights" is perfectly legal. It seems to be OK to ignore constitutional protections in The Great White North if something will “likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt', and the likely exposers are dirtbags (that is, Nazis - well the ones that weren't cops posing as Nazis). I loved this line:

"In one famous on-the-record exchange during the Lemire case, [CHRC lead investigator Dean] Steacy was asked ‘What value do you give freedom of speech when you investigate one of these complaints? — to which he replied ‘Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don’t give it any value.’”

All I can say is, thank God I'm not Canadian. And I can say that, too, because the Comrades members of the Canadian Human Rights Commission can't touch me. Freedom of Speech is an American concept, remember?

Hattip: Instapundit.