Alert Reader Martin Foster

Alert reader Martin Foster: No, I mean Canada is literally foreign. Alert reader Martin Foster had emailed me about the details of our new passport, and I hadnt believed him. But he is right, according to The Star. The passport contains 22 visual watermarks portraying the essence, the uniqueness of Harperlandia. There are, by my count, 98 images of males, six of females. There are various landscapes, from the north, the Prairies and Newfoundland, plus Niagara Falls. There are football players and hockey players, a warship, three war memorials, the RCMP and a soldier. But there is no image of Toronto or Vancouver and no aboriginal Canadian. Apparently only one Canadian verging on our lifetime Terry Fox has ever distinguished himself and Canada is increasingly becoming unrecognizable to me. I dont mean this just in an abstract sense, when I read about shameful things like Ottawa trying to avoid taking in refugees who have been tortured, because they require extra medical care. Foreigners who wake up weeping, with bone chips floating around their spinal cords, I hear you, Stephen Harper, these people are costly . The passport, good for 10 years and packed with security features so novel they ll be useless by 2015, is now being mailed out. But which nation issued it? It is a distant country of which I know little. It is Harperlandia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.