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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Why I love Quebec
As St. Jean Baptiste approaches, Patrick Lagacé asks us to say why we love Quebec.
Here’s a few of my reasons:
- Julie Couillard.
- Because politics here is never boring.
- Because we have a government that’s progressive yet democratic.
- Because we have a population that is actually bilingual, and doesn’t just pretend to be for show.
- 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.
- Because the single biggest and most violent political crisis in our history produced a single fatality.
- Because of Les Francs-Tireurs and Patrick Lagacé’s hair.
- Because Québécois French is so funny-sounding.
- Because the Canadiens are not so much a hockey team as a shared religion.
- 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.
P-A-R-I-T-Y!
Oh how I’ve waited for this day:
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?