I hear about the differences all the time from my wife and her family, and
I've seen of it for myself, while visiting.
So I was watching 'Bowling for Columbine' a while back... I found it to be a
bit of a mixed bag, and I definitely find its author to be a very mixed bag,
but it had a what I thought to be a very interesting moment where it has a
shot it holds for a while and he says something along the lines of  "This is
a ghetto in Canada..."
It's a stark and quite remarkable contrast.

Cya,
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rountree" <syncro87@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: serious vanagon security issues

> I'm an American/Canadian.. born in the US, did the Navy, College in
> Canada.
> I shop on E-bay and I'm finding the same problems, about people afraid of
> shipping to Canada. Yet I drive and ship to The US all the time.. no
> problem... here's the strange part for me (you knew the strange part was
> coming right?).... of all this talk about break-in's and stealing stuff
> and
> dishonest folks on e-bay... did ya happen to notice none of us Canadians
> are
> talking about this happening to us? and there are a lot of us on this
> list.... the fear all seems to be south of the border.. and this new
> drummed
> up fear really breaks my heart to see.
>
> RR