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Some disturbing Canadian "facts"
These facts have been up here as long as the website has, and in all that time only one of them has been seriously contested.
- Canada is our only neighbor whom we do not watch like a hawk. The border
between the two nations is not patrolled, and major crossover points are
minimally guarded. The length of the US-Canadian border is three times that of the
US-Mexico border.
- The majority of Canadians live within a few hours by car from the US
border: less than an evening's trip if by tank.
- For years, Canadians have been flooding our currency exchange with their
own currency which looks very similar to ours but is worth considerably less.
- Canadians battled with the US from the get-go during the French & Indian
Wars, starting in 1755.
- In summer of 1997, Canadian fishermen blockaded US vessels for three days
in protest for US fishermen catching "Canadian" salmon in US waters. The
Canadians have a maritime boundary dispute with us as well.
- Ontario, in a shocking smack in the face of morality, recently declared it
legal for women to walk around topless.
- Canada has no discernible cuisine or culinary specialty of its own.
- Canada has attempted to undermine the one US sport that they do not
currently have a team, football, with their backwards "Canadian Football League".
- Canada has long had a history as a drug importation funnel to the United
States.
- England peaceably split with Canada, and Canada still views the English monarchy
as their head of state. The US has had several noted disputes with England
and the English monarchy.
- Canada's unemployment rate was nearly twice that of the US's in 1996. The
number of illegally employed Canadians in this country is unknown.
- Nearly 1/6th of Canada's GDP is the result of exporting to the US. Only
2% of the US GDP is the result of exports to Canada.
- During the Vietnam era, thousands of draft-dodgers escaped up to Canada,
where they remain.
- The drinking age in Canada is 18, inspiring our teens to pour across the
border, get loaded up, then crash into schoolbusses soon after crossing back.
- The magnetic north lives in Canada. Imagine if they decided to move it.
- There is something of an ethnic conflict in Canada between the French and
English speakers. Similar conflicts worldwide erupt in horrible bloodshed.
- Hundreds of Canadian students pelted Ex-president Bush's vehicle with
snowballs on Nov 19. 1997 on a trip to accept an honorary degree from the
University of Toronto. Additionally, during the presentation of the degree,
30 faculty members left in protest.
- Canadians, when presented with the above evidence, usually scoff and
declare Americans to be "paranoid", or "bigoted". They also declare that
their own shit does not stink.
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This is still a work of satire, but nobody ever reads this far anyways (especially reactionary Canucks).
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