Wikileaks Julien Assange is at it again. However, despite the most recent revelations released by Wikileaks, it remains that Canadian and U. S. relations are intact. Sure it was duly noted the U.S. was unhappy about some CBC television programming (aren’t we all?) depicting Americans in a not so favourable light. (btw Americans can do that all by themselves. They don’t need Canadians to do that for them.) The programs in question were Border and Little Mosque on the Prairie, both described as anti American melodrama. Obviously, those same CIA agents portrayed on these programs as operating rendition flights over Canada in an attempt to steal the water supply, failed to report on the infamous CBC program Rick Mercer “Talking to Americans.” Now this program was completely filled with anti-American stereotypes and in my estimation more dangerous to relations between the two countries than any Wikileak leak.
Rick Mercer is a humorous Julien Assange. His work while all smoke and mirrors and edited to perfection, has the potential to harm US-Canadian relations. In his program, “Talking to Americans”, Mercer would roam the streets of America conducting on the spot interviews in an attempt to expose an American ignorance of Canada. In one segment, Mercer got then Vice President Al Gore to promise to visit Toronto, the capital of Canada. Gore did not correct the error. OMG!
I could stand on a street corner tomorrow anywhere in Toronto and ask passersby the location of Saint John or St. John’s and if I were a betting man/woman, I would bet the correct responses would be somewhere in the vicinity of 50/50. But I guess Mercer finds talking to Americans more lucrative than talking to his homies. It all comes down to dollars and cents and sense.
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