Discovering Columbus
Inside. [Photo Mary Altaffer.]
Inside. [Photo Tom Powel.]
Outside. [Photo Justin Lane.]
“À la découverte de Colomb”, installation de Tatzu Nishi, Columbus Circle, NYC.
No secret plan to invade Canada
The U.S. and Mexico are not secretly planning to invade Canada, a State Department spokeswoman confirmed to laughter during a daily press briefing.
Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was taking questions from journalists about its activities Tuesday, which included a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexico Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa.
She was asked about “a signing ceremony” with Espinosa – what was being signed and why was the ceremony not open to the press.
“I think it’s an update on Merida, but I will get that for you,” Nuland reported, referring to the Merida Initiative to fight organized crime.
The journalist asked, “This isn’t some secret thing … to invade Canada or something like that?”
Amid laughter, Nuland replied: “No, no, no. It’s not anything classified.”
The U.S. did draw up a secret plan to invade Canada in 1935, codenamed “War Plan Red,” some of which was accidentally published by mistake and reported by The New York Times.
A U.S. invasion of Canada also featured in the film, “Canadian Bacon,” starring John Candy, Alan Alda and Rhea Perlman, and the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which included the song “Blame Canada.”
There is also a website called www.invadecanada.us, which lists reasons such as connecting the mainland U.S. with Alaska, “they’re just a little too proud,” and “they stole our basketball teams.”
NBC News, Ian Johnston: “State Department: No secret plan to invade Canada”.
Nous voilà soulagés. Pour le moment.
Il FAUT voir American Bacon. Ce film est désopilant. Notamment une scène où des rednecks US envahissent eux même le Canada dans un camion bariolé d’insultes anticanadiennes. Ils sont arrêtés par un motard (Dan Aykroyd, lui même canadien), qui les oblige, sous peine d’amende, à recopier toutes les injures en français pour respecter la loi sur le bilinguisme, avant de les laisser repartir en leur souhaitant un bon séjour au Canada.
Emmanuel
J’allais dire “déjà vu à Nantes” avant de constater qu’il s’agit du même auteur qui a réalisé une œuvre semblable sur la fontaine de la place Royale à Nantes :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_Nantes :-)
Blah ? Touitter !