On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:29:30 -0500, boater wrote:

We have posters here who hate Canada and Canadians.

What is to hate? Nothing about the people. There is the winter, but
that arouses sympathy, not hate. We get actual winter in much of the
US, just not quite as much of it. We wouldn't wish something worse on
anyone.

Casady