I haven't seen much attention paid to something that has been quite obvious to me, a politically motivated immigrant to Canada from the United States. The bombing of Yugoslavia has fully realized a process of consolidation that was initiated with the Canada U.S. free trade agreement and furthered by NAFTA. The quisling-Chretien regime in Ottawa has surrendered the last vestige of Canadian sovereignty to the U.S.A. In 1987-88 after having lived for twenty years in Canada, I spent eight months at Cornell. I lived in a residence with domestic and foreign graduate students. One of the amazing things was watching the T.V. news together at six. The foreigners, myself included, would gawk and howl at the laughably blatant propaganda. The domestics would stare seriously at the tube, not comprehending the reason for all the hilarity around them. In the years since then, I have watched as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the public rhetoric has marched slowly and steadily toward the level of the U.S. media and politics. Since the bombing of Yugoslavia started, I can no longer detect a principled difference. Thirty one years after leaving the U.S. to resist a war, here I am back in the U.S.A. and I didn't even have to leave Vancouver. regards, Tom Walker http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm
