Craig, your stir so prodigiously in the entrails you often miss plain language staring you in the face. There is no more problem or an issue of a journalist or politician being nationally acclaimed for their work in Canada, not in any way politically connected at all. Canadians voted a socialist politician, Presbyterian minister and medicare founder as the Canadian of the 20th century.
Canadians don't rate citizenship by class, celebrity, political orientation. They're measured simply by how they contribute to those around them. Americans can't bring themselves to honour fellow citizens in the same way they honour their soldiers for valour: for what they do, not how they vote, their sexual orientation, their clubs or religious interests.
If you take from my posting of a shootinguk article of Norwegians coming to their senses on no-lead as an obligation for Americans to follow suit, that's fine with me. Neither I nor the publication said they should. What a British member says lays no responsibility on either you or me or him, either. And as many Americans in Misfires, you're again framing everything in right versus left, in this case Norwegians going one way one time, the other way the next.
Focus.
