Flags, torching the White House and other Canada Day stuff
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE to talk about Canada Day this year without discussing our current relationship with the elephant to the south. Borrowing from the words of Pierre Trudeau, the beast is twitching and grunting.
Our two countries have much in common but our differences define us. There are things about American culture we’ll never understand. College marching bands, for example. I’ve always found the fascination of small-town America with college kids dressed in dorky outfits and playing tubas to be truly mystifying.
And as we struggle with the concept of selling wine in grocery stores, I’ll wager it will be a long time before we start seeing beer in our drug stores.
Some differences are obvious. Their money is all the same colour but somehowthey manage to tell the difference between fives and 20s.