Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its secon… - Stephen Harper

Israel is the Middle East’s only legitimate democracy, surrounded by cadres, warlords and villains that do not respect democracy or human rights. These bellicose nations jealously regard Israel, envying its success, stability, and might. Israel faces an impossible calculus between defending itself and facing angry outcries or risking its own destruction.

While [Montreal] it is a French-speaking city – largely – it has an enormous English-speaking minority and a large number of what are called ethnics: they who are largely immigrant communities, but who politically and culturally tend to identify with the English community.

We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.