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For the Canucks of the Board.
Seems Brazil and The Great White North are at loggerheads over beef and aircraft..... and now its gettin' ugly.
The background is this. Aircraft manufacturers Bombardier(Canada) and Embraer(Brazil) have been going at it tooth and nail for years over sales of regional jets. Bombardier and the Canadian government have long argued (succesfully in the international courts) that Embraer recieves illegal (according to trade law) subsidies from the Brazillian government. Those bastard Brazillians have long thumbed their noses at those rulings.
In steps "Captain Canada" (Brian Tobin-Minister of Trade and Industry)!
We say "OK! You Carmen Miranda lovin,',Pele worshipping,lotharios, ya wanna play rough, we'll play rough!" and match there subsidies $ for $. Bombardier instantly wins several billion dollar orders cause they build a better plane (I'm not sure i'd want to ride on a bicycle built in Brazil let alone an aircraft.... although do manufactue some great porn).
Brazil whines some more and ups subsidies. We say "Oh yeah! Why is your beef not proven to be BSE free (mad cow disease)!?".... and ban its import. This gets the Brazillians respective thongs in a serious bunch and they start defiling our national symbols.
Get this my Canadian brethren.... in the past week their radio stations have refused to play Celine Dion, Brian Adams and *cringe* SHANIA TWAIN!!! Further they have sullied that most Canadian of symbols the vaunted and revered Mountie!
They had these three cabana boys don the Red Serge put on clown noses and ride steers to our embassy!!!!! OUTRAGE!
I am in the process of inquiring about being recommisioned so I can hit the beach at Ipanema alongside my comrades.
I say we teach these swarthy devils the same lesson we taught the Spaniards in the Great Pollock war of '94.
BobToad you're my "batman"..... Isabella you are now a "camp follower"..... we take SugarLoaf at dawn.
To quote Randolph Hearst "It ain't much of a war but its the only one we've got"
*Goes away singing "marching to Brazillia" (to the tune of "Marching to Pretoria")*
Seems Brazil and The Great White North are at loggerheads over beef and aircraft..... and now its gettin' ugly.
The background is this. Aircraft manufacturers Bombardier(Canada) and Embraer(Brazil) have been going at it tooth and nail for years over sales of regional jets. Bombardier and the Canadian government have long argued (succesfully in the international courts) that Embraer recieves illegal (according to trade law) subsidies from the Brazillian government. Those bastard Brazillians have long thumbed their noses at those rulings.
In steps "Captain Canada" (Brian Tobin-Minister of Trade and Industry)!
We say "OK! You Carmen Miranda lovin,',Pele worshipping,lotharios, ya wanna play rough, we'll play rough!" and match there subsidies $ for $. Bombardier instantly wins several billion dollar orders cause they build a better plane (I'm not sure i'd want to ride on a bicycle built in Brazil let alone an aircraft.... although do manufactue some great porn).
Brazil whines some more and ups subsidies. We say "Oh yeah! Why is your beef not proven to be BSE free (mad cow disease)!?".... and ban its import. This gets the Brazillians respective thongs in a serious bunch and they start defiling our national symbols.
Get this my Canadian brethren.... in the past week their radio stations have refused to play Celine Dion, Brian Adams and *cringe* SHANIA TWAIN!!! Further they have sullied that most Canadian of symbols the vaunted and revered Mountie!
They had these three cabana boys don the Red Serge put on clown noses and ride steers to our embassy!!!!! OUTRAGE!I am in the process of inquiring about being recommisioned so I can hit the beach at Ipanema alongside my comrades.
I say we teach these swarthy devils the same lesson we taught the Spaniards in the Great Pollock war of '94.
BobToad you're my "batman"..... Isabella you are now a "camp follower"..... we take SugarLoaf at dawn.
To quote Randolph Hearst "It ain't much of a war but its the only one we've got"
*Goes away singing "marching to Brazillia" (to the tune of "Marching to Pretoria")*
