I guess it could be seen as condemned by faint praise, Fox. I meant it as a compliment, drawing on Isaiah Berlin's famous essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox." He got the idea from a Greek poet: "a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing."
An expanded and my edited version from Wikipedia: Berlin divides "writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea, and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea."
I'm a fox who's like a hedgehog knowing one thing for sure: Your posts are the most entertaining for me on the board. Probably because of your wide interests, and we share memories of the minutia of the same times. I think, as a feminist often advocating for women, you're hard on women (possibly for good reasons) and I'll take an early CZ over a Model 70 any time.
Canadians are provincial in the sense of a relatively small population trying to make a federation of strong, accommodating, inclusive community values. It's an experiment. As for border hassles, attribute them mostly to your homeland security. Gun laws are expressions of national will through our Parliament. With a tenth of your population, Canada projects only soft power.
