I don't know what it is about us Canadians but we make it so easy for others to laugh at us. Is it our love of Tim Horton's coffee and donuts? What about that elegant gooey gourmet gloop of cheese curds, gravy and fries known as poutine? Could it be because our country is where the sport of hockey was born but we have precious few of our teams in the playoffs? Or maybe it's because our Prime Minister acts so damn presidential.
During the current election campaign - oh, yeah, we're having an election here. Have you heard? Probably not. Stop me if this sounds familiar - our President, er, ah, Prime Minister has been accused of running a tightly controlled campaign from a bubble, tossing out "undesirables" from rally stops and limiting media questions to only 4 or 5 per event. His government is plagued by scandals, has been accused of misleading Parliament and Canadians and even Canadians snicker at him calling his party the Harper Government as opposed to maybe the Conservative Government or better yet the Government of Canada. And yet, he and his party lead in the polls. Go figure.
Every campaign has a leaders' debate. Ours was last Tuesday. That is to say the English language debate was last Tuesday. It was meh. There's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. The French debate, originally scheduled for last Thursday was moved to Wednesday night. Why? Well the Montreal Canadians were facing off against the Boston Bruins in their round 1 playoff opener Thursday. (Montreal won!) God forbid Canadians should choose between the two. I'm not kidding. In Canada hockey trumps politics.
I think if our 4 political leaders were worried about people tuning into them they should have combined the two events. A few hip-checks, some high-sticking, two-on-twos and a concussion or two might really have held the viewers. It could be an interesting way of choosing a leader. Instead of us voting, it'd be last man standing. Oh, and of course Don Cherry would moderate the event. You know Don Cherry. He's the loud-mouthed and loud-suited hockey commentator who once said visors were only worn mostly by sissy Europeans and French guys. Caused a furor.
I might watch that!
Cherry tells Harper to put his visor on for French debate.
This post originally appeared at The Parody Files.
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As for Canadian politics? It's somewhat comforting (in a not so funny way) that we're (the U.S.) not the only ones on this continent with corrupt politicians.
Wait. We also share the continent with Mexico....
Never mind.
hee hee
You are correct in assuming that I wasn't aware of Candada's current election campaign. Call me ignorant (only because calling me a total moron seems a little harsh) I didn take a minute to read Wikipedia to get an inkling of knowledge and still don't understand anything about what the hell is going on. I do sense that Harper fits some of the criteria to be a US President though.(never mind that he wasn't born here because we have Donald Trump to chase that birth certificate down if necessary)Anyway, assets if he were running for office in the US - He has some scandels going, he has a stylist paid by the government, and he is making a cameo on something called Murdock Mysteries. Could you write a Candadian Government for Dummies book in your spare time and I promise to become better informed.
;-)
From Wayne's World.
Wait, this isn't caption day....
Right now Canadians are a bunch of entitled pansies who need a good butt whoooping. That means ALL of us.
And possibly the mysterious prevalence of the letter "U".
Which reminds me, back in 2008, I wrote a post in Canadian.
P.S. I guess we have Tim Hortons here in Michigan too, so you guys are secretly sneaking up on us. Someday I'll have to find one, and try it, and blog about it.