well, we won't see Rick Salutin as a hewer or carrier. Megan S. Mills PHD198 St Helen'sToronto CDA M6H 4A1 > From: akolhatkar@rogers.com> To: india-british-raj@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:17:43 -0400> Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Is Canada more imperial than the Empire - Harper Sahib at the G8> > Dear Listers,> > On the above subject, you may like to read 'Harper Sahib at G8' in today's Globe and Mail by Rick Salutin: > > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080710.wcosalutin11/BNStory/specialComment/> Snip <The over-obvious irony is that China and India are developed. They've built postmodern, industrial, innovative economies. Their big flaws are social and moral, not economic. Canada, meanwhile, is deindustrializing, with full acquiescence by the Harper government, and declining into reliance on raw materials. We're back to hewers and carriers. It's rapid underdevelopment. Those nations must snicker faster than they can bristle as they watch our PM strut among the G8 as he condescends to them. He's George Bush's poodle now that Tony Blair's moved on, and there's nothing to be gained by it.> > Maybe it's Canada's role, or that of today's white dominions, to be more imperial than the Empire long after the Empire has relinquished its crasser forms and learned a few lessons. I mean, who still celebrates Victoria's birthday? Trust me, it's not the Brits.> > > Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, July 11, 2008.> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message> >