Happy Canaday Day.

July 1st, us Canadians celebrated our country's 136th birthday.

Hurray for us! Great fireworks in my neck of the woods.
How about y'all, Canadians or not, celebrate Canada day today.

I suggest:

Drinking a Molson Canadian
Drinking Canadian Club
Drinking Smirnoff
Eating some back bacon
Eating maple syrup
Wearing a toque
wearing a flannel shirt
saying eh? a lot
Leaving your guns at home for the day
Sitting in your deep freeze
Having someone else pay for your medical expenses
Listen to the Guess Who?
Listen to Alanis Morrisette
Laugh at Jim Carrey
Get Quizzed by Alex Trebek
Go Curling
Play Hockey

If you would like to celebrate some of our more recent attributes:

Get married to someone who is the same sex as you
Smoke a joint, and not worry about it going on your criminal record, even if a cop is at the party.
Get SARS
Proactively isolate a single case of Mad Cow disease, slaughter thousands of uninfected cattle, and still be unable to sell the beef across the border
Refuse participation in a war, and be declared "Against America", by the President.

Happy Canada Day!!


[This message was edited Wed Jul 2 12:35:35 PDT 2003 by savoirfaire]

But it's not even a real country!

Happy Canada Day!!!

(Oh, and P.S.: Stop sending your garbage here to be dumped in our landfills...thanks )

applekisses said:

Sorry, I didn't know we did. . I'm in charge of that though, so I'll take care of that right away.

Cloudbuster said:

That is fuckin' sweet dude

mdiver said:

Howdy all you South-Park-A-Teers out there!

Cloudbuster said:

Too funny.

Oh, Can-a-dahhh!

savoirfaire said:

blame !

Damn, what a fucking weak celebration. I was hoping for some jokes, maybe an occasional tip of the hat, and instead we're all just quoting South Park .

savoirfaire said:

no, really, i looove Canada & Canadians... HAPPY CANADA DAY, dahling!

savoirfaire said:

Thanks honey! (and, I really do love Canada, btw...I have been thinking about moving over there for quite some time)

And about the dumping...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 2003
CONTACT: Rep. Steve Tobocman
Phone: 517-373-0823


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House Dems: Stop the Trashing of Michigan
Hardman and Tobocman Join Paul Gieleghem in Effort to Stop Canadian and Out-Of-State Garbage

At a news conference this morning held at the Ambassador Bridge, State Representatives Artina Tinsley Hardman (D-Detroit) and Steve Tobocman (D-Detroit) announced their support for two bills to be reintroduced by Paul Gieleghem (D-Clinton Township) that would greatly reduce – if not eliminate – the flow of out-of-state and Canadian trash into Michigan landfills.
“Michigan depends on money from tourism to keep our economy strong, but how long will hunters, fishermen and boaters come here if Michigan becomes a big dumping ground,” said Tinsley-Hardman (D-Detroit).

“Public health and safety is jeopardized when unregulated trash is driven across our bridges and through our neighborhoods,” said Tobocman.

“Public outrage is critical to stem the tide of garbage from Canada and other states,” Gieleghem said. “We also need tough new laws to keep the garbage at the borders. It’s high time to stop the trashing of Michigan.”

Gieleghem has led the charge to stop out-of-state and Canadian garbage. His bills allow Michigan landfills to reject trash from states that have a regulatory system less stringent than the rules we impose on ourselves and adds pop bottles and cans to the list of items prohibited from disposal in Michigan landfills.

“Our caucus is committed to making the elimination of Canadian and out-of-state garbage a priority,” said Democratic Leader Dianne Byrum. “Michigan residents stand in line to return their cans and bottles. Residents in Illinois and Ontario throw theirs in the trash, then truck it to our state. This must stop.”

Gieleghem’s legislation is crafted to meet the standards set by federal court precedents and is within the framework of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Democrats from across the state today joined Gieleghem’s initiative to stop the importation of Canadian and out-of-state garbage.


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http://www.housedems.com/...cleID=2020


‘Great Trash State’ Wants Canada Out

BY LYNN SCHENKMAN

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The gloves are coming off for Michigan environmentalists furious about the amount of Canadian trash crossing its borders to rest in the state's many landfills. The face-off between environment and industry has been a popular topic in the Great Lakes State, which some groups have re-named the “Great Trash State.” But the conflict recently has gained momentum on both sides because all 23,750 tons per week of Toronto's trash are being shipped to Michigan's Sumpter Township.

Toronto's Keele Valley Landfill closed in December, and haulers eye Michigan as an affordable disposal destination. Canada is taking the opportunity to cash in on low tipping fees and the absence of a state surcharge by disposing of waste in Michigan sites such as Carleton Farms Landfill, owned by Republic Services, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

Michigan already receives trash from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin, and Toronto's load is expected to add another 1.2 million tons to Michigan's waste total, moving the state to the No. 2 slot for refuse importers. Michigan will rank just behind Pennsylvania, and environmentalists are searching for a reprieve before the state overtakes Virginia, which currently is in second place.

Consolidated environmental groups, the introduction of a handful of new bills in the state legislature, and a glimmer of hope from federal legal action are leading the quest for the state-level regulation of foreign trash. Additionally, the “Don't Trash Michigan” campaign comprised of 21 environmental, civic and religious groups, including the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters and the Detroit chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, is trying to mobilize support for proposals to impose a state surcharge, end a state subsidy and tighten landfill restrictions.

Don't Trash Michigan claims that during the past 12 years, the Michigan Strategic Fund has used state taxes to underwrite at least $122 million in tax-free bonds to fund landfill expansion in Michigan.

“Waste policies of the '90s have led to low tipping fees in Michigan,” says Mike Garfield, Don't Trash Michigan spokesman and director of the Ecology Center, Ann Arbor. “Distant waste generators are thinking, it's worth the haul, plus they don't have to pay surcharges, so it's doubly affordable.”

The group is hoping to regain some state sovereignty based on two main points. The first is a clause inserted in the Supreme Court ruling that includes solid waste as a commodity for interstate commerce and says states could regulate trash from other states, and presumably Canada, if they based their decisions on health and safety standards. Michigan bans certain items from landfills, such as tires, motor oil and yard waste. Rep. Paul Gieleghem, D-Mich., has proposed that the state could ban waste from generators that don't omit those items themselves.

The second argument involves a bilateral agreement between the United States and Canada. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., has introduced a bill based on the terms of this 1986 agreement, which requires each party to notify the other when hazardous or solid waste is being exported. The terms give the receiver the right to refuse the waste, but according to Garfield, neither the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, D.C., nor Environment Canada, Hull, Quebec, have ever exercised the refusal right. “This bill effectively says, wake up and do something about this agreement,” he says.

Two Democrat senators from Michigan, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, also announced in January that they would introduce legislation in the House and Senate requiring the EPA to implement and enforce the agreement.

http://www.wasteage.com/a...ash_state/

Wow! I didn't know that was going on!. Course, I live in the West of Canada, so that's not even my garbage. In truth though, Michigan's bureaucrat's brought this on themselves. I'm glad it's being fixed though. We should take care of our own damn garbage!

thanks!