Bruce Cockburn

Was openly embraced by the Contemporary Christian Music industry in the USA for his Christian-themed music. Many of his recordings were openly sold in Christian bookstores in the USA. This relationship soured with the release of his album "World of Wonders". It featured songs highly critical of US involvement in Latin American governmental affairs (especially the song "Call It Democracy", which included the "F-word" and lyrics accusing global corporate interests and the International Monetary Fund with creating poverty with unsupportable debt). In responce to the backlash he received in the US Christian media (including Christian record distributors refusing to carry his recordings), he wrote the song "Gospel of Bondage". He now includes more politically-themed music in his albums.

[After entertaining troops in Afghanistan] I have great sympathy for, and to some extent sympathy with, those young Canadians that are over there in uniform, doing their best to get a very difficult thing done... [But]at the same time, it seems unlikely to me that they will get either the time or the support, or at least get the support, for a long enough time to finish the mission.