i am a canadian. i remember when i saw that ad the first time. i laughed pretty hard, reflected on it a bit, and filed it away. i’m kind of in the mood for some reflections on it so i figured: “hey, i’m on the train, got some time, might as well.”; i am, in fact a canadian. i actually have dual citizenship in both ca and the us, but i most definitely consider myself a canuck. you can infer what you want from it, but i must say that i am pretty darn proud to be a canadian. when having this discussion with people, it often goes like this:

them: “so what’s different about here(us) and there(canada)?”

me:”well, the biggest difference is that americans are very serious about it.”

them: “serious about what?!?”

me: “about being american.”

which is definitely not to say that canadians aren’t serious about patriotism, etc etc, just that we don’t take it to the extreme that, honestly, i find americans do. i’ve been told by several people that they have, occasionally, felt like the canadians make fun of the us. i must say that i was shocked, shocked at this revelation. of course the canadians are making fun of the us. the whole world is, why not us? ;) what people don’t realize is that the people that canadians make fun of most, is the canadians. it’s just that when you have such an easy target available… i know that some people are going to be outraged and annoyed, probably my wife is too (hi honey!) but that kind of proves my point. first of all, get down off your high horse, because life is too silly to take everything personally. next, take a step back. tell me that just about everything doesn’t have an element of humour in it. if you can’t find your sense of humour, well, then rage away. flames will be redirected to /dev/null, and you’ll have a heart attack and die at age 31 anyway. so as for me, i’m going to put on my mukluks & my toque, grab a slab of back bacon and some labatts, and go watch the hockey game. take off eh!

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