Before Canada Day slips away it seems like a good time to tell my favorite Canada story. Some time ago I read a story written by a Canadian journalist (I don’t remember the name) in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The journalist wrote: “We could have had the best of everything. We could have had English traditions, French cuisine, and American technology. We ended up with American traditions, English cuisine, and French technology.”
My favorite story, which I believe is true: A newspaper ran a contest asking readers to fill in the line “As Canadian as . . . ”
The winning entry was, “As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.”