"... it didn’t embarrass me
as a Jew, which I’d thought it might; it embarrassed me as a Canadian.
It was so unrestrained and disproportionate. It’s unseemly to go so gaga
for another country.
"I don’t think at the
height of the Cold War, Canada ever put on such a show of adoration for
the U.S.; I doubt it did for Britain in Empire days....
"Canadians would never do stuff this garish at home (think of Chris
Hadfield’s dignified “O Canada” at the last Leafs-Canadiens game) but
they go to a foreign place and let it hang out like cheerleaders at a
Texas high school football game."
Harper's fawning over Israel was unseemly: Salutin | Toronto Star
