My letter to Heather Mallick

Dear Heather,

I don't know of anyone who is forcing you to remain in Canada. If you are truly embarrassed to be Canadian, you can always stop having a Canadian website, the CBC can stop posting your blogs and stop paying you with Canadian tax dollars. You can always burn your OHIP card so that you no longer have your health care subsidized by Canadian tax dollars. Heather, you need to know that these dollars that you have been paid, the lifestyle which you have become accustomed to has been subsidized by what you and your blogger friend in Britain call Dirty Oil. While you may be free to say that in Quebec, the Queen of cool on Kyoto and every other cause you have hopped on, Quebec is a Have Not province. For decades it has been propped up by Have provinces. The province that has coughed up a much greater share per capita of money for the Have Not than any other province is Alberta. If we called this a contest, it's not even close.

Now since this dirty business of Oil sands oil is being sent around to Have Not provinces like Quebec and creating so much revenue for Canadian social programs, including equalization, would you as someone who supports these programs, would you like to call people in provinces like Quebec and the Maritimes and Manitoba and as of now because of Liberal mismanagement, you can add Ontario to the list as well…Heather, would you like to call all recipients of Alberta Oil Sands wealth dirty? Heather, if you have been living off the proceeds of dirt, does that make you a dirty little…and now I am slipping and sliding into something that has been texted by Tiger Woods.

So at this point I will stop asking questions, Heather. Some day I may write a more thoughtful response to your confession that you are embarrassed to be a Canadian. In the meantime, I will be delighted to throw in 133 dollars for your application for immigration to any country that is willing to have you. If I were you Heather, I would start with Cuba and North Korea and work your way down from there. But I will be happy to throw in 133 dollars, one loony for every Canadian who has fallen in Afghanistan since our mission began there nearly eight years ago. Every one of those Canadians was proud of this country. All of them and all who came before them, fought for your right to say what you please. In honour of them, I would propose to our government that we launch a Heather Mallick in which Canadians coast to coast to coast contribute money to those Canadians too embarrassed to be called Canadian. Getting them out of the country would be the greatest social program in the history of Confederation. This chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Heather, as of today, you are the quintessential definition of weak. One very weak Canadian.

Comments

[Phil Courterelle]

Charles...I read the original column by George Monbiot and responded to it vis a vis the comments section that ran with the piece. My response is below with a few additions.

Cheers, phil courterelle (aka AntiSpinCanada)

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Ok, let's see if I have this right.

Curious George from the Guardian gets a free ticket to Toronto - the free airfare being the thing that finally tempts him to fly, despite the harm done to the planet - in order to better understand how Canada has come to be the "major obstacle" to any deal in Copenhagen. While in Toronto, sipping lattes with the green set, Curious George reads about the big bad tar sands and what a blight they are to the planet and how tar sand dollars will ultimately derail Copenhagen. His understanding is limited only to whatever press releases his hosts provide him, which are factually and contextually wrong.

But here's the thing, Ontario Hydro, the company responsible for keeping the electricity going and the lattes flowing in Toronto, among other places, is Canada's single largest corporate emitter of green house gases, outstripping the largest "tar sands" operators Syncrude and Suncor by about a factor of ten. It takes the entire tar sands industry to emit more GHG than Ontario Hydro. Why then isn't Curious George demanding that Ontario Hydro immediately shut down it's thermal generators? Or why not pin the failure of Copenhagen on the people of Ontario who, let's face it, hardly need to keep that warm in the Canadian winter, do they? The thermal generation industry in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario account for far more GHG emissions than the oil sands, but for some reason the politically correct climatists only focus on the oil sands.

Curious George may not belive this, but Canada's current position on Climate Change and its international obligations is not significantly different than under previous governments, including the Liberal government that signed the Kyoto Protocol. In Canada, politicians can get elected promising to reduce GHG emissions, they just can't get re-elected doing so since turning off the lights is a sure way to electoral disaster.

There are lots of reasons why Copenhagen will fail, Canada and its approach to climate change isn't one of them. Ideologically based opinion on Canada's climate change that attempts to embarrass Canada is simply that, ideological opinion.

[SCunningham]

Heather

I have grown up all over the world, U.K. , Europe, South America, U.S., Middle East. I can tell you that Canada has the cleanest air in the world. We are fortunate to be in a country where we have freedom and Oil Companies that DO care about Our Environment. Compared to countless countries on this planet, Canada is the most conscientious. You need to furnish yourself with All the facts and get some experience that spans past your front door, and back yard and your All inclusive holiday resort and then you may appreciate the ground you stand on. The only thing embarassing about Canada, is the Trailer Park Boys.

[been around the block]

Well-said, Charles.

I'm a Canadian who is deeply embarrassed by the slimy pond scum that Heather Mallick dishes up. She's a who ... whoops, woman who is living off the avails of the Canadian taxpayer, as you've pointed out.

She's one entitled and spoiled brat. I would like to have used another b-word, but I do want my comment to be posted!

[Kevin Brandl]

That is a marvelous response to the twit called Mallick.

[Kevin Brandl]

In fact I would be most happy to donate a one-way ticket (First Class, natch)if she were to leave Canada and never return. Would you be up for that, Heather?

[Art]

sux to be heather in britain

[Keith A]

I couldn't have said it better Charles.

[Michael]

charles as someone who looked at moving to the States it costs 500k to become an economic migrant there - the Gov forbids us from getting green cards or emigrating to the states.

133 won;t even get you bus fare my friend.

This is not a critique of your remarks, however moving to America is next to impossible without a sponsor. Or if you 500k.

[Kelly Johnson]

Charles
As usual you are on the mark with your comments to this discusting ungratfull creature, Barnyard animals have more class than she does ( a pig comes to mind ) I am not suggesting that she is a pig only that a pig has more class.
A pig appreciates getting fed whereas she does not.I will do you one better than the $133.00
I would be honoured to pay for a one way ticket to Afganistan providing she never returns .

[John]

Thanks for this Charles. I am a proud glo-bull warming 'denier' and this woman is an 'embarrassment'.

[TicToc]

Heather just ignore him. I'm embarrassed as hell too! Weakest Link? That is just so lame and last C.
If we turned off the Oil sands right now, Canada wouldn't feel much difference economically and health care and equity would still suck.
Can we have the Turks/Caicos?

[Gabe]

Or, we could contribute money to encourage the relatively small number of those like yourself who are embarrassing the rest of us to leave.

[Jim Graham]

Right on Charles. If people are ashamed of Alberta being in Canada, don't take our money. We could then spend our money on what we want not on what 30 million people who are not Albertans want.

Thank-you

Jim

[Toxic Issue]

I read Heather's article and must say I am disgusted by her Canada Bash; but really it was a CPC bashing and specifically, a PM Harper bash. I guess she thinks that she can totally disregard the 38% of Canadians that elected our present Govt. Would she have us in camps? Another LOONEY Leftist without a clue as to how Countries\Govts\Economies actually work! PMSH is a great PM!

[rightful]

please, oh please, set up a fund for us to contribute to, to rid us of this sanctimonious disgusting troll, - and at the same time, petition Parliament for a complete defunding of the CBC

[Steve]

You said it Charles , way to go!

Heather Mallick is a Pig!

I am embarrassed that she is a Canadian.

Canada is way to good for Liberal trash like her

[A Proud Albertan]

Alberta's oil patch only exists because the federal government adopted the National Oil Policy, in which Ontario fuel consumers paid above-market rates for Alberta oil for 15 years. So don't tell us that Alberta's had a raw deal.

Yours truly,
A Proud Albertan

[Brian Madill]

If brains were dynamite she wouldn't have enough to blow her nose.

[Mark]

Right on, Charles. I read her article and couldn't believe we have such left-wing lunatics in Canada. And her salary is paid (perhaps partly) by CBC?? absurd.

[Bruce "the Saskatchewan hick"]

Hey Charles. Thank you for the story/broadcast regarding Heather Mallick. So, Heather is embarrassed to be Canadian... I am embarrassed that she IS Canadian. Being from Saskatchewan (right next to the "hick" province of Alberta; I guess we all can't live in the utopia known as Quebec) I was raised with values and appreciate the opportunites this country has to offer. It is unfortunate that my tax dollars go to an idiot like Heather via the liberal communications department (aka the CBC). Heather apparently does not appreciate Canada (or should I say Western Canada); and even though times may be tough and I may not be able to afford it, I will gladly contribute $133 to help her move to a different country when she can live and not be embarrased. I may not be able to afford it right now, but I also cannot afford to have a person like Heather living in Canada when she apparently does not want to live here...

[Bob Marley]

In fact I shall double the $133 - make it $266 and we'll get Charlie on a bus down to the deep south. They'll really like you down there.

[Jake Chalmers]

Pride in ones country is entirely dependant on which priorities are being advanced by the government.

Just as one citizen may feel embarassed that the Liberals did not place an emphasis on our military, Ms. Mallik feels shame that this government is not advancing her priorities.

It's an understandable expression fo frustration and is similar to thoughts expressed by many people of all political stripes at one time or another.

Our democratic society does not demand unwavering pride in our country. We are free to express displeasure with the direction the country is taking and voice that concern in the hopes that our government will listen.

[wes werkman]

I will be willing to help out with airfare as well. Please leave, Heather.

[A. D. Loach]

Thank you Mr. Adler for so eloquently putting to words the very thoughts that have been running through my mind since I first saw the headline associated with Ms. Mallick this morning. I doubt that I would have been able to use language as diplomatic as you did and lacking the most powerful, evocative expletives ...... before maybe the second Tuesday of next week!

I will gladly add my 133 Loonies to support the very worthwhile cause of finding Ms. Mallick a new home nation she can be proud of!

[Sean]

That's a thing of beauty. Outstanding piece of work.