Fagstein » patriotism http://blog.fagstein.com Can you think of a better name? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:54:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Regis thinks Canada is clean http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/08/regis-thinks-canada-is-clean/ http://blog.fagstein.com/2008/10/08/regis-thinks-canada-is-clean/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:53:01 +0000 Fagstein http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=2793 Thank you, Regis and Kelly, for making it clear to your viewers that Canada is, like, the first mainstream country which is clean and bright and nice-looking and articulate historic.

Now we can feel good about ourselves.

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Here's a few of my reasons:

  1. Julie Couillard.
  2. Because politics here is never boring.
  3. Because we have a government that's progressive yet democratic.
  4. Because we have a population that is actually bilingual, and doesn't just pretend to be for show.
  5. Because we had a massively controversial independence vote that was decided almost within the margin of error, but it wasn't followed by a civil war.
  6. Because the single biggest and most violent political crisis in our history produced a single fatality.
  7. Because of Les Francs-Tireurs and Patrick Lagacé's hair.
  8. Because Québécois French is so funny-sounding.
  9. Because the Canadiens are not so much a hockey team as a shared religion.
  10. Because of all the pretty girls I'm going to see today on the way to work.

UPDATE: I see this has officially reached meme status. Which would make it my first meme. And hopefully my last.

UPDATE (June 24): Lagacé's column compiles his readers' responses.

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Suck it, Greenback!

Yeah, the dollar closed at 99.87 cents, but that momentary 0.04% advantage we had is enough, and it will come again.

And yes, a high-valued dollar is bad for our export industry and it doesn't encourage people to come shop here, but who needs a manufacturing industry when you can have a little national pride?

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