Canada Does What The Bushies Would Never Do

Canada - quite progressively - is setting aside a tract of land more than four times the size of Yellowstone Park in the U.S. West to treat as a nature preserve.

Picture here is of Great Slave Lake (no, I have no idea how they came up with this name and it's too late in the day to think up witty rejoinders with S&M entendre).

If the U.S. had this land, the Bushies would roll in, clearcut the land, divert the water to companies that would then sell it to the locals at an inflated price, allow limitless hunting and the total devastation of the tract for everything from oil drilling and mining to doing nuke tests right next to a Girl Scout camp.

Sheesh! But still, Oh Canada! gets my vote.