In Defense of Canada

As promised here's the debut of one of my new features entitled 'In Defense Of' in which from time to time I will defend a person, place, or thing that society has been ganging up on. Up first is everyone's favorite punching bag, our neighbors to the north, Canada.

Now I'm not sure why but everywhere you look someone is ripping on the Canucks. Right now there are probably thousands of people scattered throughout the continental United States that are shitting on Canada. Some of them are probably even literally shitting on it. They are crossing over the border, pulling their pants down, and dropping the Cosby's off at the pool.

The fact that Canada is the brunt of jokes from stand up comedians or locals in bars is not what concerns me. What draws my ire is that Conan O'Brien has sent Triumphant the Insult Comic Dog to Quebec, Maxim has sent a team of reporters on undercover missions, and there's even been a movie, Canadian Bacon, that just rips on Canada for 90 plus minutes.

Now it's one thing to occassionally rip on a country like the way we rip on the French for being a bunch of pussies when it comes to fighting wars. It's quite another to rip on a country so much that it gets to the point where children are growing up in a culture in which they think they are supposed to be making fun of it. Shitting on Canada has become so widespread that an entire generation of Americans are growing up on the belief that making fun of Canada is as American as baseball and homemade apple pie.

But it doesn't have to be this way. And it shouldn't. Not when this country is producing a lot of talent in the entertainment industry. If for no other reason here are a few reasons why you shouldn't shit on Canada:

Pamela Anderson
Dan Aykroyd
Eugene Levy
Alex Trebec
Evangeline Lilly
Nelly Furtado
Steve Nash
Nickleback
Jason Bay
Celine Dion (okay, maybe that was a bad example)
The entire NHL pretty much

And of course WWE wrestlers such as:

Trish Stratus
Edge
Chris Benoit
Chris Jericho
Christian
Bret Hart

If those aren't reasons enough to stop making fun of Canada then I don't know what is. Then again, this is Canada we're talking aboot.