From Cork to Toronto

I wonder what Pat Martin's game is . After all, NDP policy, enunciated only a month and a half ago, is that dual citizens are a bonus to Canada . Bill Siksay who announced it still thinks so but Jack Layton now thinks maybe the PM should be Canadian only . I'd love to hear what Olivia Chow's opinion is - or Libby Davies' or even Svend Robinson's . Certainly some other bloggers seem surprised with Layton's stance, like Politique Vert , blevkog , idealisticpragmatist , where'd that bug go? It seems that some feel denied the opportunity to question the patriotism of the Leader of the Opposition by world-traveller (or more importantly in terms of venom, former resident of the US) Michael Ignatieff's failure to close the deal, and therefore have turned their guns on Dion. It has been noted elsewhere that while Ezra Levant might have been the first to demand Dion renounce his citizenship of France, he was not the first to report it by any means - the S...

You're 139 years old but every prime minister says you're a young country. I didn't decide to do anything special this year, and certainly nothing as special as last year . If an alien landed in Toronto especially near College Street or St. Clair Avenue it might be hard pressed to figure out what country it was in given the number of cars with Italian or Portuguese flags, never mind the English and Brazilian ones, given that it's World Cup time (haven't seen a French car flag yet). So since those people are busy, I'll put up this one right here. [ from the website of the National Flag of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage ]