It's not as knee-jerk. We don't have a guy like Rush Limbaugh or Pat Buchanan. Not that Canadians didn't do their fair share of screwing over native people who preceded them, but it wasn't quite the genocide and bloodshed as when the West was settled. Of course, people in Washington, DC, always think of Canada as a branch plant of the United States, which is one of the things I really hate. The last thing we should be trying to do in Canada is trying to become more like Americans.
Music is an artistic endeavor.
Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, was a playwright. That's interesting that people there, coming from a history of 47 years of being totally oppressed under the Soviet system, it's a real expression of freedom that they would pick somebody from an artistic endeavor to have enough vision to lead them. I guess if an actor can be president of the United States, then a musician can be a cultural politician. Letis switch gears and talk a little more about music. The end result of that musical revolution was a lot of people selling a lot of bell bottoms and belt buckles with peace signs on them.