Al Gore must have been a Canadian.
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We believe in freedom, but understand that freedom is never free.
The blood of young Canadians helped liberate Europe in the two big wars.
The battles at Dieppe and Vimy Ridge stand as testament to our bravery and sacrifice.
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Cognitive dissonance...another great Canadian virtue.
Or just general reactionary anti-Americanism.
There would be no basketball, five-pin bowling and, quite predictably, no snowmobiles, snowblowers or goalie masks.
And you say that like these were all good things or something...
The first Caesar was poured in downtown Calgary and though we didn't invent beer, we perfected it.
If by "perfected it" you mean "brewed a horribly tasting, horse urine smelling beer", then congratu-freakin'-lations on being the dumb drunks of North America.
As Canadians, we don't need a military parade or a war to affirm our patriotism -- which comes in the quiet confidence of tolerance.
Hey, I've got an idea, how about our military meets your "quiet confidence of tolerance" at the 49th parallel and we'll see who lasts the longest.
As a result, we are free to travel the world with our flag proudly displayed on our backpacks, our clothing and even our skin.
And I'm free to make fun of you and remind you of what a worthless existance Canadians leads.
We bicker about our differences with Quebec, and at times, some of our francophone brothers and sisters threaten to leave. But in the end, destiny and a referendum always keep us together.
That and you're both just different forms of the same socialist pipe dream.
So, no matter how much guys like me groan about government, whine about the weather or harp about the headlines, we're not dumb
Speak for yourself.
At the risk of sounding like a beer commercial...
And at the risk of sounding like someone urinated in my corn flakes this morning, well, someone did. The only difference between you and me is that you bottle it, sell it, and call it Molson Ice.
"Contrary to what our American cousins might say, the lightbulb was first invented by Canadian Henry Woodward who sold the rights to his patent to Thomas Edison. "
But Woodward's electric light simply didn't work and never could have worked. Edison found the key to making it work.
Also the telephone was invented in the US. Bell only lived a year in Canada before emmigrating to the US where he eventually became a citizen. Although Bell had close ties with Canada and lived off and on in Nova Scotia, he was a US citizen when he invented the telephone.
Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London. He immigrated to Canada in 1870 and to the United States in 1871. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1882.
In 1874, while working on a multiple telegraph, he developed the basic ideas for the telephone. His experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson finally proved successful on March 10, 1876, when the first complete sentence was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you." Subsequent demonstrations, particularly one at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, introduced the telephone to the world and led to the organization of the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
"""Didn't Bell steal the idea from an inventor in New York?"""
He and a guy from New York by the name of Elishe Gray were racing each other to the patent office and Bell won by about an hour.
However, they are both imposters.
Antonio Meucci of Italy is today acknowledged as the father of telephone communication, no ifs ands or buts about it!
A friend of ours who is Canadian said the BIG sport he grew up with, and played a lot, was CURLING. Looks boring to me.
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Curling/home.html
So it did. Now it is relegated to being sent aloft in creaky helicopters and to sea in leaky submarines. I submit that the difference is that the government of Canada used to care about that blood...and now it doesn't.
And they should be justly honored for their sacrifice.
But in the grand scheme of things, Canada's burden was light. It has always been light. The United States has always done the heavy lifting. It was US industrial might that defeated the Nazis in World War II and the Soviets in the Cold War. Canada's contribution, although welcome, was relatively modest.
Canada was already committed to defend Great Britain before the US ever got involved in World War II. But Churchill never said to the US, "We're okay. We don't need help. The Canadians are here and have everything under control." But when the US declared war on Germany Churchill was ecstatic beyond belief. He said he knew at that moment that the Nazis would be defeated.
Canadians can move without insult through Western and Northern Europe because there is a common socialist conceit that binds Canada to these dying cultures. US citizens are insulted because the US is the most powerful nation on earth, unafraid to use its power to oppose tyrants, and power tends to inspire resentment among the failed and formerly powerful.
Canadians are ignored because Canada is considered inconsequential and harmless by tyrants the world over.
I pray the US will not follow Canada into decline.