Quote from Jean Cretien - former Canadian PM Options

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"I don't know what is marijuana. Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand,"

• A quote made jokingly in an interview with the Winnipeg Free Press.

[Crazy Canuck]

i would say the main reason canadians no more about whats going on in american politics than americans do about canadian is the fact that probably more than half of our channel lineup for tv is american. I doubt american satelite tv offers many canadian channels, if any!

so doon't feel bad, we really have no choice but to hear all about your affairs!

[HammaTime]

That's odd you mention the channel line-up. I was in Quebec City a few weeks ago and was surprised to see such an intense line-up of American channels including all major broadcast channels, Fox and CNN (but no MSNBC). Of course, the Quebec line-up is quite crowded with all the French channels in addition to all the English channels.

Last week I was in Bangor, Maine which is only 2 hours north of where I live in southern Maine, but they had CBC in their channel line-up. I thought it was really odd that the northern half of the state gets CBC, but not the southern half! Especially seeing as how the traditional migration route in Canada was from New Brunswick west to Quebec and then down into Maine. Lots of Mainers have family ties in both Quebec and New Brunswick. Of course, the majority of those folks stayed in northern Maine. The more recent migration in the last half century has brought a lot of the northern Mainers to southern Maine and farther south. With that comes an increased interest in Canadian affairs - but obviously not enough to see CBC spread farther south than Bangor! Too bad.