Canadian culture, eh?
Matt wrote a post the other day about the Across the Causeway benefit concert and how it showcased Canadian culture that didn't involve Hockey, Health Care and Anti-Americanism (this last one's not so much relevant to my point).
I completely agree with him. Canadian culture is composed of many more facets than those three things.
But what did we do tonight (or last night, depending on how you look at it)? We sat on the couch, watched Team Canada defeat Finland in the World Cup of Hockey, watched CBC National news recap the Health Care summit, and to top it off, find out that the Prime Minister and Premiers had all gathered together tonight to watch the hockey game and discuss how they can finangle some sort of face-saving deal on Health Care that they can sell to their constituents.
Yeah, we may be more multi-faceted, but not tonight.
"We live to survive our paradoxes"
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Re: CanCon tonight, I was totally thinking the same thing.
Also, I hadn't even thought of that particular Hip lyric. I was stuck on, "Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish, when you don't let the nation get in the way."
But really yours is a lot better. Surviving pardoxes is exactly what Canada is about. On paper, there is no way that this country should exist, it just doesn't make sense, yet somehow we go on.
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