David McWilliams

There'll be all these immigrants here in Ontario and Montreal, these kind of slightly fae, slightly affected European types, you know?

They're the ones who'll be watching soccer, not the real...

raw meat-eating truckers down in the Texas of Canada, which is Alberta.

But you're absolutely right.

This will give Canada the opportunity to, again, reveal itself on the world stage.

So you can bet your bottom dollar that the Canadians will want their transport system to work better than the Americans.

They will want their hot dogs to be cheaper.

They will want their bus system to work.

They will want all the restaurants to be less involved in gouging

the local punters, they will want immigrants to be able to come in, go to the games, no violence, nobody lifted off the terraces by ice, all that sort of stuff.

Because that's what they want to play.

We are in a global propaganda war between different cultures,

And we see that playing out in Ireland or Britain and America and Canada and Australia, all over the place, let alone the European Union.

And ironically, the World Cup is another chapter in that particular culture war book.

And that's, I think, where we should end it.

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