Canadian Adscam

When I was growing up in the '50s and '60s, I always admired Canada. I wasn't much on cold weather, but Canada had a certain attraction nonetheless. In 1963 I got to go along on a fishing trip to Kenora, beautiful country in that part of Canada. When they started their lottery, I was thrilled. I even played it by mail for a while until someone stopped the company that was selling the subscriptions. Somewhere between then and now, our northern cousins have taken the wrong turn in the road. I realize that they are not by themselves. We in the USA have made our share of bad turns. In fact we may be just following their lead in some cases. The first really big falling out I had with them was when they enacted their draconian gun laws. Now, when I read about stuff like this , I can't help but be even more troubled. What has happened to send our friends in the north off in the direction of totalitarian socialism. I know that with some of the campaign reform and anti-terrorist legislation we have now, we are not too far behind. In fact, we may already be on the same page and we just don't know about it because of secrecy or censorship or court orders or what have you. They say the pendulum swings both ways, I certainly hope this one has about reached it's limit and is ready to start back the other way.