By Arthur Weinreb ——Bio and Archives--June 2, 2008
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My favourite letters are the ones being sent from the U.S. Gun owners there are now urging a boycott of Toronto. Considering that most of the problems with guns on our streets emanate from south of the border, I couldn’t be happier. If all it took was closing a couple of shooting ranges to stop gun-toting Yanks from coming to our city, maybe we should have shut the doors on these clubs years ago.The councillor could not have made it any clearer. Americans are not welcome in Toronto – STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM HERE! The reality is that there is no appreciable violent crime in Canada that is committed by Americans. Nor are Americans primarily responsible for smuggling guns into Canada; that is done by Canadian criminals who politicians like David Miller and Adam Vaughan are too busy crying tears over to take any action. Vaughan’s statement is nothing more than classic America bashing that is so popular with Canada’s left. All of this comes at a time when tourism to Toronto is down. A combination of heightened security measures at the border, the rise of the Canadian dollar and higher fuel prices have acted to reduce the number of American tourists. Tourism Toronto even hired Russell Peters as a global ambassador for tourism in an attempt to increase the numbers. Mr. Peters is a comedian by profession; how utterly appropriate for the city that has now become a joke. So to all our American readers – don’t ever come to Toronto. You’re simply not wanted here.
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Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur’s latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.