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VIDEO: Welcome to Canada, Yanks, But Don't Hurry

By Crawford Kilian October 10, 2008 05:15 pm

You know you're in trouble when satire bothers people because they don't get it. Last summer, The New Yorker caused an uproar with a cover that portrayed right-wing myths about Barack Obama.

By the same token, "C'Mon, Move to Canada!" isn't poking fun at the US liberal elite -- it's poking fun at the Joe Sixpacks and Palinists who think such an elite exists.

Of course, if McCain does win, some Americans really will want to move here. They'll have to go to the end of the line of our million-strong immigration backlog.

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The British Columbia legislature resumes sitting this week, but not before Premier Christy Clark outlined her spring agenda in an appearance on the Vancouver radio station where she used to work in what was pitched as a replacement for the throne speech. That agenda amounted to staying the course: focus on the economy, no money for teachers or anything else, and no higher taxes.

This from a premier who won the leadership of her party on a "change" platform. Perhaps appropriate then that the government didn't bother with a more formal speech from the throne at a time when polls suggest an increasing number of people are wondering if the premier's going to, as they say, piss or get off the pot.

-- Andrew MacLeod