I've been to Quebec and I don't find it as alien as parts of Toronto. (Now, now, I'm not knocking TO, half my family lives there.) In fact, some of it seemed alot like the Bruce Peninsula, land of my birth, where a separatist movement could also be based on language and culture, except that the Indians and the monolingual whites would be like the Anglo and French of Quebec.

My point is that you don't have to go very far in this country to notice vast differences in peoples and their origins, that's why we're known as the cultural mosaic as opposed to the melting pot (right?) to the south.

As for Clinton's stupid friend's list, I had a wry little chuckle, having read these sorts of things lots of times, and got on with life. I though that Canadians generally poked fun at themselves with less malice than the responses here indicate.

Sigh indeed. Mooh.