Here’s an innovative approach to defending a trademark. Vancouver, Canada based SmashLAB is an online design and marketing firm that launched in 2000. Everything was going fine, they say, until Discovery Channel launched a television show with the same name.
The problem isn’t the use of the SmashLAB name, but rather that the show is so bad that people are complaining, and that now their company “sucks by association” when people search on the name. So they’ve written one of the funnier open letters I’ve ever read, asking Discovery Channel to simply “suck less.”
Here’s the letter:
Dear Discovery Channel,
Since 2000 we’ve had a nice little design studio called smashLAB and we work hard on it every day. People (generally) say nice things about us, and we were starting to make a good name for ourselves.
Then along you came with your fucking awful television program with the same fucking name. Surely you researched this before airing the program. I can only suppose that you felt we were so small that you could just poach it. Fine enough–I guess that’s life.
The problem is that your program seems to suck. So now when someone does a Google search for “smashLAB”, they find endless posts about how badly “smash lab sucks”. Great. Now we suck by association, just because you lifted our name.
We know there’s no way you’ll change your name, but maybe you could make your show suck a little less? (We’d really appreciate it.)
Yours truly,
Eric and Eric
Two guys named Eric
(whose company used to have a fine name)
Well done, SmashLAB (the company, not the TV show).
This is a total PR stunt. Nobody cares about some Canadian startup in British Columbia aye?
Get real. It’s aboot time.
98% of Americans have no idea where British Columbia is or they think it’s in south America.
Get over it.
Obama is president now. We don’t talk like that any more.
No thanks to Canadia
http://www.ctv....080227/20080227
Now this post is finally complete
http://tinyurl....om/blamecanadia
Yes all the worlds problems are Canada’s fault.
Not all Americans are as retarded as you are.
You, sir, are what’s wrong with America.
The show’s ok. I don’t see how it could really make that big of an impact on this Canadian biz. I’m sure there’s a way to make in their favor somehow – even if they weren’t that big to begin with.
Welcome back Chris! I’ve recently wondered where the tech world’s most bat-sh*t crazy xenophobe went to…. (I assumed it was an institution).
Where ya been buddy? What tall tales do you have for us now? … and how’s that “Google crushing” search engine of yours coming along?
lmao.
I missed chris.
He was so COOOOOLLLLLL lol.
… the one with 1 million lines of code that he wrote all by himself ?
This is what happens when the let the inbred trailer park idiots get internet access.
Geez Chris, you possess the typical arrogant American attitude. It’s really too bad 98% of your countrymen are so ignorant that they can’t see past the end of their noses. You think the world revolves around you and your ‘glorious’ nation, but guess what? Because of Americans like you the rest of the world HATES your country! The world’s economy revolves around your shitty country, and due to your poor money managment the world is going in the toilet! You rob us and the rest of the world of our natural resources and then spit on us. Thanks for nothing. Hopefully Obama will be able to save your sorry asses. . . to all the decent Amercians out there I apologise for my typical Canadian attitude. . . By the way smashlab (the tv show) does suck, and it’s very unfortunate that a hard working Candian company is now affiliated with such garbage!
Hey listen here Angelina, you feme nazi man hating pig:
The world DOES revolve around America as does the world’s economy. Partially (or more likely FULLY) why YOUR economy sucks and why your pathetic excuse for currency is far below ours can be explained by this.
Get back into the kitchen and cook up some candian bacon for me.
P.S. don’t rag on America and then claim that your insult was directed to only one person.
Loser.
take it easy angela.
epiclulz,
I was not raging on American, but rather Chris and Americans like him (read through his comments and they are all directed at bashing Canadians). . . . However, you’re right, my comments were innapropriate and off topic. Since you stooped to the same level as I did, you are no better than I am loser.
Wow, what an absolutely pathetic and ignorant comment. You really need to get help.
Angela, actually you insulted 98% of (all) Americans as I guess you think that only 2% are not like him. Basically you insulted all United States ppl.
Hey dummy.. that 98% statistic comes out of the mouth of a fellow american, Chris
Epiclulz, our currency is doing better than the us dollar, shut the f*ck up..
That is exactly what’s wrong here,
you just assume that you fantastic country is doing better than everyting else in the world…
try to grow an interest in the rest of the world,
cuz it’s bigger than america you dumbass.
The chinese economy is going to be (real soon) one of the leading economies, so sorry to bring it to you.
That’s why you’ll never win an argument like this.
and it makes your whole fantastic country look retarded cuz there are a lot of overpatriotic Americans like you, too much actually..
You’re just not interested in what happen across US borders. Which is retarded
Canada is a great country and don’t say anything about South america in a stupid comment like this one.
A brazilian guy
aye? it’s EH? you yankee douche.
at least know how to insult us, huh?
Thanks Michael–we know that our little “protest” won’t change anything, but it sure was fun to make a little noise.
The show was actually pretty good during the first season. The science girl was HOT!
Somehow they tweaked it from the second season they made it totally suck.
Don’t feel bad, I was in the middle of a pitch to a eBay exec all to have him do a Google for “retail zip” and see a ton of “yourfavoratepiratedsoftware_retail.zip” on a ton of warez sites because ours had not indexed on Google yet.. lol.
Best I could keep saying was “uhh thats not us”
wow that sucks. crash and burn eh
Chris — you don’t know shit about anything that requires some form of intelligence on the internet. Why don’t you stay on 4chan before you start trying to promote your non-innovative obsolete “social office software” that does nothing important and which probably isn’t even completed on TechCrunch.
Thanks.
You had somebody Google keywords you hadn’t even tried during a sales pitch to a large client?
hahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
oh
hahahahhahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
To be clear:
I have a technology that had not launch yet and because of what it is, I got to show it off not just to some VCs, but to the big boys right off the bat before we even launched it publicly.
So I didn’t tell anyone to Google anything, it just so happen the guy decided to do it out of habit.
We didn’t do a “coming soon” site and perhaps this could have been a smart move that I remember with the anticipated launch of my ventures (even with my God complex I can admit to doing some things better). I didn’t do the “coming soon” site because I didn’t expect to be Googled or less pitching the technology before launch… hopefully this helps someone reading this part
Suffice to say that this Google thing is not an issue today.
Sounds like you were unprepared. The first thing execs do is Google the company.
An exec can not examine stats or technology by him or herself. They have to request an audit. The only thing an exec can do is research it on Google.
You sound like a newbie, but that’s ok.
The companies we deal with do not use Google as a replacement for proper due diligence from a research firm. Prospective customers do, but not anyone with a viable acquisitions team.
Companies using Google as a single measure of due diligence for acquisitions are likely looking for some iPhone apps to buy and not world leading digital distribution technologies.
Unprepared is having your iPhone die while showing a demo of your app, we successfully did the demo, Google didn’t affect the technology from working lol.
Chris, you’re being a jerk.
“Chris, you’re being a jerk.”
I pushed 1/4 million dollars of code merch 3 years ago on Google due diligence.
Google is often the first line of due diligence in today’s world.
Companies are paying millions to get rid of bad reviews of their products on search results. You just posted a story of how Belkin was paying people to write reviews through mechanical turk.
Maybe I am being a jerk, but it’s the truth.
William,
Ignore Chris, he his a long history of juvenile trolling here on Techcrunch. Google search TC for
“BeerCo” for some choice quotes from this peon.
Funny, thing is… He’s never accomplished anything himself, and has at least 4 or 5 failed projects to his credit over the past 3 years.
As for being a jerk about Canada, I sat in the Bell building in Ottawa and watched as members of the ministry of public works-Gatineau, formerly headed by Bonano family mobster Alphonso Gagliano, talk about no bid contracts to their friends and tell me how they would not disclose secret reports they made on behalf of lobbiests.
I had some @sshole from the BDC tell me how he gave his friends money and how my interests were in conflict with them that’s “how it works” in Canada.
Every crown corporation in the country is chartered by the god damned queen of England and there are no more than 2 classes there in their version of communism. Those that belong to the government’s family and friends, and those that do not.
Here’s a hint Mike, you are not in the right class.
http://www.cbc..../harperaid.html
You see any help for the tech sector in Canada?
In Canada, they funnel money directly to friends, and they do it shamelessly because the pvssies that live there are scared out of their minds of the government. That’s how communism works.
Oh, what great free health care. That must be why it takes 4 months to see a specialist or why so many people there take medical vacations in asia rather than be back listed for a hip replacement operation.
You’re supposed to trust your business planning and strategy to people that were raised in that type of environment.
I think the double meaning of smashlabs would be the last thing people would want to worry about.
As for being a jerk about Canada, I sat in the Bell building in Ottawa and watched as members of the ministry of public works Gatineau, formerly headed by Bonanno family mobster Alphonso Gagliano, talk about no bid contracts to their friends and tell me how they would not disclose secret reports they made on behalf of lobbyists.
I had some retard from the BDC tell me how he gave his friends money and how my interests were in conflict with them that’s “how it works” in Canada.
Every crown corporation in the country is chartered by the god damned queen of England and there are no more than 2 classes there in their version of communism. Those that belong to the government’s family and friends, and those that do not.
cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/10/harperaid.html
You see any help for the tech sector in Canada?
In Canada, they funnel money directly to friends, and they do it shamelessly because the pvzzies that live there are scared out of their minds of the government. That’s how communism works.
Oh, what great free health care. That must be why it takes 4 months to see a specialist or why so many people there take medical vacations in asia rather than be back listed for a hip replacement operation.
You’re supposed to trust your business planning and strategy to people that were raised in that type of environment.
I think the double meaning of smashlabs would be the last thing people would want to worry about.
As for being a jerk about Canada, I sat in the Bell building in Ottawa and watched as members of the ministry of public works Gatineau, formerly headed by Bonanno family mobster Alphonso Gagliano, talk about no bid contracts to their friends and tell me how they would not disclose secret reports they made on behalf of lobbyists.
I had some retard from the BDC tell me how he gave his friends money and how my interests were in conflict with them that’s how it works in Canada. Every crown corporation in the country is chartered by the god damned queen of England and there are no more than 2 classes there in their version of communism. Those that belong to the government’s family and friends, and those that do not.
cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/10/harperaid.html
You see any help for the tech sector in Canada?
In Canada, they funnel money directly to friends, and they do it shamelessly because the pvzzies that live there are scared out of their minds of the government. That’s how communism works.
Oh, what great free health care. That must be why it takes 4 months to see a specialist or why so many people there take medical vacations in asia rather than be back listed for a hip replacement operation.
You’re supposed to trust your business planning and strategy to people that were raised in that type of environment.
I think the double meaning of smashlabs would be the last thing people would want to worry about.
wtf is wrong with this thing.
sorry about the double post. this varnish reverse proxy you’re running at techcrunch.com is totally messed up.
Here’s a break down
http://ca.news....budget_stimulus
-$500 million to modernize farms and help provide better equipment.
-$50 million to expand slaughterhouses.
-$50 million to promote Canada’s forestry sector abroad.
-$100 million for better forestry technology.
The lumber industry there is already highly subsidized which is why the US re-taxes it despite NAFTA.
Canada is a parliamentary monarchy, which means that the head of state of the country, the governor general is appointed by “her majesty” the Queen and not elected.
That doesn’t stop the “elected” officials in the country from funneling the entire public coffers into their and their associates, family and friends hands unobstructed via no bid contracts, programs that only help them, and of course loans and grants with no oversight what so ever.
Here in the US people care and get angry, there no one cares.
If that money really was for forestry it would be bad enough, but it will never see any farmers. That’s also the reason there is 0 dollars in help for a shrinking tech industry in Canadia.
The average Canadian would do anything to live in America.
Hey Chris, maybe stop talking for a while.
Canada is not a communist country. In relation to the US,
- Elections are more frequent
- More parties to choose from when voting
The result is that Canadians have MORE control over their government.
With regards to Chris’ health care comments, here’s sobering statistic in that area — Canadians live longer than Americans.
http://en.wikip...life_expectancy
Canadians would not do “anything to live in America”. Most are quite happy to enjoy a higher standard of living where there are (http://en.wikip...velopment_Index)
Just for the record i have used SmashLAB and watched Smash Lab and can confirm that Google is right, they both suck.
Hear hear.
I’m sure many of the ladies have said as much about your sexual prowess. And i’m sure you’ve never used SmashLAB, but thanks for playing.
Actually, if this is the Brian I think it is, he actually does have experience with smashLab, and yes, they do suck.
how do you hate on discovery channel?
-Jim
http://www.movi...nlineforum.com/
(just getting started so check it out)
well i really like the letter..
Nice blog!
This is hilarious!
FYI SmashLAB is pretty awesome.
I had a chance to interact with them on a potential project and although our time lines did not align to work together, Eric (not sure which one!) was very helpful in our phone conversation in helping me outline the needs for my project.
g
At first glance i thought you meant the show is awesome… Not!
If this is a bit of PR stunt for Eric (Squared), then good for them. There is a Reddit thread pushing to have the show canceled. It will be interesting to see where it ends up.
Check out:
http://www.redd...te_this_if_you/
epiclulz & chris,
Hey American dick heads! The fact of the matter remains the rest of the world hates you clowns. Ask almost anyone elsewhere. Why do you think people from your country wear our flag on their backpacks when they travel idiots? Your president Bush bankrupted the whole fuckin world, and China owns your lousy asses. Why don’t you go to war with China, and watch how fast they mop the floor with you motherfuckers. Now go smoke some meth like the rest of your countrymen do and drop dead you ass licking war mongers.
hahaha
what the hell are they putting in the water up there? everyone needs to chill. this is a tech blog, no need to go for the jugular.
They’re jealous Mike.
JOE CANADA wishes more than anything else that he could live in California and have mad money, jobs, 85 degree winter weather, beaches and hot girls like we do here.
He doesn’t. He’s cold, shivering, has his 3rd rate health care, toothless Canadian hags to keep him warm, oh and he has his French, because everybody knows creating software, brochures and having your sign in English is a crime punishable by law.
And that’s not racist, or xenophobic in any way. That’s just good old cultural preservation.
2 things I’m going to say I can’t take back.
A. Dawson college was about law 101 and the fact that you have no freedoms under the Queen certified Canadian charters. And that more Dawson college incidents must take place before something happens to change that pitiful country.
B. Those guys that were going to behead Harper that were nabbed by CSIS: I was rooting for them. I would have rather they behead Chretien and parliament in general, but whatever.
We had the Boston Massacre here, and they need their own version before something changes that place profoundly and irreversibly.
Americans and Canadians may be more connected than we think really soon. This action has already been said to have been placed in order:
http://en.wikip....org/wiki/Amero
It’s best to all get along now.
Oh brother, here’s another one. Let me clue you in on something, frankly most of the population doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the rest of the world’s opinion is at the moment and why should they? Do you worry about what a guy down the street thinks about the way your living room is furnished? Didn’t think so. As for bankrupting the world, that’s another classic. It is clear you have absolutely no knowledge of financial markets at all. It also seems you don’t want to believe other people/countries should be responsible for their own investment actions. Your ignorance even extends into military power. There’s no need to even argue this one. But it’s funny you call us armongers and then make the suggestion that not only should we go to war with china which would cause death and destruction (which no one wants anyway), but that we should also suffer the same ourselves. So who’s the warmonger? You’re just a pathetic peon with an inferiority complex, and thankfully the canadians I know do not resemble you in the slightest.
canada is a touchy subject i have concluded….
Brother Joe Canada…..
Don’t you think you need to re-evaluate that statement about the US being “clowns”. These “clowns” are the ones that feed most of the rest of the world….give them jobs and take them away from our own people. You must have had a bad expierience as a child or your Mom just hit you with a shovel to make you have such an obnoxious outlook on life. Calm down….we’ll send YOU to China so you can rice up…on American Rice…and be a kinder, but gentler….Dickhead……
The blog you linked to not only contains ONE post, but that post was made OVER A YEAR ago. It’s obviously a PR stunt, and there is nothing wrong with that (though the language is a bit inappropriate). What is wrong, is that you took the bait and actually posted this. Did they pay you?
This offensive verbal diarrhea coming from the Canuck section is very Un-Canadian, leading me to suspect that you must be recent transplants from some jihad-country or something where people get that emotional or offensive. Learn to chill a bit, fighting is for the ice or outside of the bar. However, it is a bit sad to notice that under Obama, Americans are becoming more Canadian than Canadians. People are slowly coming to the realization that they are being run by a fascist dictator of a PM, never mind the whole monarchy tea money (as in chai, or grease money that you would expect to pay a cop in some other banana republic former commonwealth country) and let’s face it, that realization sucks, dude. Don’t take it out on the neighbours to the south, they are very undeserving at the moment.
“People are slowly coming to the realization that they are being run by a fascist dictator of a PM”
If you realize that then storm Ottawa and Gatineau, and put them all that wish to stay in allegiance with the crown in prison. Then send the Queen a short letter stating that you no longer need her services as Monarch.
People will stand in your way and try to stop you, and you may have to kill them.
Do you have the guts?
Our guys did. Do it. I would like nothing more than to see that happen. I only wish there was some sort of non-profit set up to make this happen.
http://www.cic....it-ceremony.asp
“I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Canada, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada and fulfil my duties as a Canadian citizen.”
Make them say this backwards, or renounce it and swear an oath to kill those that shall impose it on others.
And make all crown corporations illegal as they were chartered by the Queen illegally. Especially the BDC, burn that down in Montreal, and also burn down the office de la langue francaise and anyone who wishes to impose their language or culture on others by way of law as that is a violation of human rights.
Make Canada right, with force if necessary. They worked to pvssify all of you up there for 100+ years, and it will take some will to think otherwise.
I agree the BDC part.
I recently went to BDC in Montreal for a “web maintenance” job. In the job description, it requires 2 years experience of web development. However, during the interview, they said they only need someone to do copy & paste – not even HTML – and to correct French grammars!
Canada is full of favoritism and nepotism, especially in the public sector. When was the last time you saw the government publicly post a job in tech field?
All the EDP contracts at MERX.ca are all window dressing. The minister of public works put up that site to show Canadians how “few contracts there are for software”, and to divert attention away from their accepting gifts from lobbyists in exchange for govt. contracts.
Alphonso Gagliano, known crime family boss from Montreal headed the agency for a long time.
Though they never get caught, this explains the crown corporation racket:
http://en.wikip...i/Airbus_affair
“The Airbus affair refers to allegations of secret commissions paid to members of the Government of Canada during the term of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in exchange for then-crown corporation Air Canada’s purchase of a large number of Airbus jets.”
At a board meeting in the Bell Building in Ottawa, Sylvain Cyr told me about secret government of Canada reports that were generated to justify buying software for his lobbyist friends.
If I was lying that could be libel. So it is the truth.
When he was asked to release the reports made with public money he refused.
That’s “how it works” in Canada we were told.
A similar instance happened when a complaint was filed against BDC on my behalf.
“copy & paste – not even HTML – and to correct French grammars!”
The only reason law 101 exists is to prevent English schools from opening and primarily to continue to let the government take English books and services and make enormous amounts of money for simply translating them into French. The french version of any English or American service is about 50% more for no apparent reason.
There are no checks and balances outside of a single ombudsman at any crown corporation. These are corps which were invoked by the Queen of another country, and they control BILLIONS of dollars in funds. 1 person oversees them and they work with them, party with them and have a desk right next to the people they are supposed to be overseeing.
And people wonder how airbus and the sponsorship scandal happened.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsorship_scandal
cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/08/30/gagliano-farm.html
“Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister in charge of the mismanaged federal sponsorship program…The loan from Farm Credit Canada, a federal Crown corporation, was for $550,000.”
This guy was an FBI certified mobster, and they used the crown corporations to continue to funnel him money even after his misconduct was so severe they booted him out of office.
He was forced to move to the US to become an FBI informant where he still lives today.
This STILL HAPPENS on a day to day basis there. Canada is probably the most corrupt G8 nation in the world. It happens on the federal and provincial levels.
The Canadian government needs to be dissolved. As does the Quebec government. They need to be replaced with a people’s republic.
This all stems from the fact that the people did not defeat the british government and they are in a state of suppression. Willing to accept anything that the federal and provincial governments say.
It’s time to fight back Canada. Start arming yourselves and start fighting these people. They are deathly afraid. Look at what happened in Oka. Kick their asses and take your land back from them.
The Canadian guys could just change their name to Mythbusters Studio and be golden.
I like that–that would be pretty funny.
The guys at smashLAB had the right idea I think. It’s not right for Discovery to step in and use their name.
I’m pretty pleased TechCrunch picked it up. i actually posted about this well before TechCrunch wrote about it and I was not really sure how far the guys would get with it, but it seems that it really took off.
If you want to see the article I wrote, which I posted on the 24th of Jan 2009 – Australian Time making it the 23rd in the States. A full day before the TechCrunch Article then check here:
http://enspri.c...r-to-discovery/
Mike,
did TC suddenly become F’Company forum for trolls?
I absolutely love these comments!
Keep at it guys. The funny thing is that both sides are certainly right in some areas.
The only real pig here is “epiclulz”.
Good job moderating Mike
Can you keep your posts shorter? Brevity is something you need to get acquainted with. Just keep it shorter to read thanks. The word fuck is just 4 letter but conveys more than a para of you hating someone.
Thanks.
“The word fuck is just 4 letter but conveys more than a para of you hating someone.”
Reading all that English must be very strenuous on your eyesight(oh *fack*, why are dere all dese english wordseses??). If TC were in Quebec, they’d be forced to translate it all for you by the racist rule of law there which violates our first amendment.
Unfortunately for you, no one here is going to knock on Mike’s door and threaten him with a fine or jail time for having long posts in whatever language happens to be posted.
This is just ridiculous. I cannot believe how God-loving, freedom-adoring Americans can be THAT offensive…
“If TC were in Quebec, they’d be forced to translate it all for you by the racist rule of law there which violates our first amendment.”
First of all, understand that YOUR first amendment to YOUR constitution has NO BEARING on Canadian citizens, nor should it.
Secondly, I think you ought to understand that there is no law that forces a blogger to post in English and French; the laws that exist to encourage bilingualism (yes, that means French AND English) exist to protect diversity. It doesn’t seem to me like your defence (you can tell from my spelling that I’m Canadian) of monolingualism is very tolerant.
And just a few more logical fallacies, since you’ve been so nice to fill this comment thread with them: maybe you should go see a psychiatrist. The recession down there… unemployment… etc must be really hurting your mind. Or maybe you can come up here to Canada, the nation with the best economics in the G8 right now and get some decent health care and employment…
Just one final word: we’re not Communists.
Hey guys,
Everybody here generally ignores Chris. He wanted to start a real business the way real capitalists do it: by asking the Canadian government to give his stupid ideas money. They refused, so he went back to mope and wonder why none of the women here cared for him. So he moved out, and has been trolling TC since: the only place in the world that gives him a sense of importance and purpose.
Just ignore him.
As for the smashLabs guys: great PR. Fantastic.
http://laws.jus...c/cs/B-9.9///en
Take a look at “her majesty’s” charter, there is no oversight at all. A handful of chosen people are free with “must not at any time exceed $1.5 billion.”
1.5 billion dollars.
There are over 100 crown corporations like this that regularly steal the entire wealth of the country.
“by asking the Canadian government to give his stupid ideas money. They refused, so he went back to mope and wonder why none of the women here cared for him.”
I didn’t ask the govt of Canada anything.
I renounced my Canadian citizenship which I also never asked for. They are apparently keeping in the 6 digits of money that they stole from me, and I can’t apparently do anything about that. Again there is no checks and balances there. They can make infinite mistakes and you can’t do anything to correct them. They wouldn’t write me in English in violation of the charter of rights and freedoms and when I complained to OCOL, they gave me a french person who didn’t understand a word I wrote in my complaint.
Because “that’s how it works in Canada”
That no longer matters, because I am free to make money back here in America. You’re still trapped there. I did ok with the girls there. Most of my friends were Americans up there though. Even my girlfriend was. I didn’t have any Canadian friends to be honest. I hated Canada.
Even if the ombudsman did their job, which they don’t
Look at the criteria the Queen gave them to use her subjects’ money
“SPECIFIC POWERS OF THE BANK
Financial Services
Loans, investments and guarantees
14. (1) The Bank may make loans to, or investments in, any person, or give guarantees in relation to any person.
How loans, etc., may be made
(2) The loans, investments and guarantees may be made or given directly, through arrangements with other financial institutions or by the Bank as a member of a financing syndicate.”
Everything in Canada is dumbed down to a 5th grade level as to make it impossible to audit anything. Which is why Mulroney walked away.
That’s a fact.
One to grow on * * *
All the crown corps are exactly like this. Where do these people come from? Sylvain Savaria, the guy who lied to me, was from Orthosoft. Yes, he sold medical software for a year or 2 and this qualified him to blow 1.5 billion of the public’s money.
My advice, if you can get out of that craphole. Leave. One day we will all come back and clean house.
I should also mention that “Not Chris” is some Canadian by the name of Markus that has been stalking me on the internet.
Canadians defend themselves with misinformation. Unfortunately. That’s their primary “weapon”, since they can’t build nukes, planes and traditional weapons.
Nope, Not Chris is nor Markus. He is another Canadian who, like Markus and a few others reading this thread, have applied Occam’s razor, looked at all possibilities and concluded with the simplest one: you, sir, are a moron.
(Besides, Not Chris is, in your book, the very worst kind of Canadian: a French Canadian, the good folk who in your book should not be served at the same restaurants, attend the same schools, or be seen in the company of your hallowed self; to which we generally respond: sucks to be Chris)
As for your willingness to see your business funded by the Government, you have made ample references to this in the past, and how those nincompoops couldn’t see the value in the beauty that was your idea. That’s why you don’t like Canada all that much: we have taken a good look and, despite the fact that in general we pretty much like everyone and get along fine, we, in this special case, don’t like you personally.
For anybody reading through in the US, I would hope our President Barack Obama re-instates much tougher softwood lumber tarriffs and punishes the Canadians for doing this, and withholds WTO judgements from them as what they are doing is completely illegal.
Obama said he would be tough on Canada with NAFTA, let’s see him put his money where his mouth was.
Harper should be punished. I didn’t pay for a bunch of lumberjack hillbillies to stay out of school and keep chopping wood and smell like the stench of death and speak le francais.
That’s where your EI is going, you morons.
and Quebec, one word, Louisiana, they have NO RIGHT. It’s that simple.
Level the office de la langue frenchais, and build the Superdome 2 on their still hot graves!
This is a very funny read. Remember the world’s longest undefended border is shared by our two nations. Having fought beside Canadians in Afghanistan, I can tell you that there military is highly professional albeit small, but if you were a Canadian, why would you have a large military when the colossus to the South will defend you? We share common systems, common language for the most part, a love of good beer, hatred of the Red Wings, and a general desire to live life the way we choose. Inflammatory statements on blogs is intellectual masturbation…..both sides can flame away as I watch American football, drink LaBatts blue, plan my ski trip to Banff and then summer in Key West. Out……..
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Canada is based on this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec#The_Quebec_Act
“In 1774, fearful that the French-speaking population of Quebec (as the colony was called) would side with the rebels of the Thirteen Colonies to the south, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act giving recognition to French law, Catholic religion and French language in the colony; ”
The British, in exchange for “freedoms” such as virtual representation in the graph above, gave the French the power to have law 101 and to abuse common civil liberties.
The same liberties that allow spanish language wal-marts in paramount.
It’s a whore government. At least our government, and our people had the guts to recognize that and to create a true democracy.
Those people are decedents of the same people that sold them out, and they have the same attitude today. weak.
Look at their George Washington?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Macdonald#Second_term_and_resignation_over_Pacific_Scandal.2C_1871.E2.80.931873
He was a drunk and a pathetic person. Every one of their “leaders”, that’s in quotes because the Queen is the head of state of Canada, has been just as much of a drunk and a loser as the first one.
And most of the population is too.
Screw Canada, they should be overthrown and their oil sands plummeted.