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Now that's holding a grudge.

Irredentism is a peculiar human drive that I've never fully understood.

> Now that's holding a grudge.

I'm going to guess you've never been to the area I'm talking about.

If you saw how beautiful it is, you'd understand.

I spent two years driving from Alsaka to Argentina, so I've seen a lot of the Americas. I choose to live here (right near the border) because I honestly think it's the most amazing please I saw in all of the Americas.

Sure, but it was legally settled a century ago. That's like people from Texas being angry that they're no longer an independent country.

And what happens when people are unhappy with the way things are?

They vote, they demonstrate, they organize. They try to make a difference.

If enough people want something changed, it will be changed.

Simply giving up because "that's the way it is" is no way to live life.

But remaining bitter about century old US-Canadian border cessions is?

I didn't say anything about being biter. I said "still disputed by many Canadians".

You don't have to be bitter to dispute something.

In that case I dispute British Columbia. 54-40 or fight!

Ireland was not an independent country for 800 years, but we never gave up. You take a short view of history.

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