Do they not realize or not care that it's "USA Day" just like most USers are oblivious to Canada Day?

Are they angry or resentful because the US was a problem child that violently broke up the happy family of British North America?

Do they feel superior because they were loyal and steadfast while the US rebelled?

Are they happy because their southern brother whom they like is happy?

Or maybe number 5?

They just made up Canada Day to try and preempt Independence Day. It's like trying to move your primary ahead of South Carolina. It's totally made up, to commemorate the passage of the National Bacon Reconciliation Act or something.

Now the Iraqis have done it, making up their own holiday, and celebrating the Fourth with the all-American pastime of ignoring Joe Biden.

Imitation is the sincerest form of envy.

I think pretty much like I feel on Canada day. When the hell is Canada Day, anyway?

Jack

As a Canadian living in the US I can say that it's pretty crappy to be here and not there during this time of year.

I think most Canadians back home view July 4th the same way we view a lot of things in the US: Do you have to be so gaudy about it? We get that you want to celebrate your day just like we do and we can totally understand that but, like with so many things, we Canadians don't see why you couldn't just be a little more reserved and classy about it. Like we are.

Yes, we feel superior. Not because we remained loyal and steadfast but because we feel like the US still acts like a pugnacious 8 year old in a room full of adults. Couldn't you just get over yourselves already and stop being so oppositional?

Good job electing Obama though. We love that guy.

Spoken like a true slave of the crown. Had it not been for George Washington and the blood of American patriots, you assholes would still be sending your tax money to London.

Canadians are pitiful creatures. You live under the umbrella of freedom provided by the American military, you play a stupid version of footbal, and you sit around pondering the issues of the day as if you actually have relevance.

One of God's greatest gifts to me is that I was not born a Canadian. What a useless existence that must be.

Jack

Cookouts, parades, fireworks?

we ponder the issues of the day. Unlike you americans who sit around pondering the minutia of every minute of Brittany Spears's existence while eating a bucket of fried chicken and some Oreo filling. Thank god for irrelevance if that's what made us less dumb and fat than you people are.

"One of God's greatest gifts to me is that I was not born a Canadian."

The Canadians probably think it was more a gift to them.

when I consider the defining characteristics of Canadians (and I do, frequently) is "say what you want about Canadians, but they certainly ponder the issues of the day."

In fact, that is the primary activity in celebration of Canada Day. They head down to the park, set up some beach chairs, and ponder the issues of the day. In a reserved and dare I say classy fashion.

Cookouts and parades not so much. Fireworks yes, but you can't buy the kind of fireworks in Canada that you can in the US, so most people I know just don't and go see their city's fireworks instead. I suppose one could take that as a reflection of the general difference between the two countries... Canada is more like a group hug and the US is more about individual liberty and blowing stuff up.

Yeah, that's about right.

They must feel like chronotelemetricians saturated with a cloying excess of Phlogiston.

If it's so fucking great, why are you not living there?

Jack

I married an american with 2 american children who grew up near their 2 adoring american grandparents. The utility calculus says it's easier for me to stay here than move them all up there. Besides, they grew up in Florida, little chance of them making it through a Canadian winter.

In twenty years Fine Gael is absorbed into the (U.S.) Republican party and you are elected Governor of South Carolina. You are later discovered in Buenos Aires in the embrace of JackDallas and several Patagonian sheep.

Wrong time zone.

Wrong country.

Wrong embracee.

Wrong ruminant.

Right idea.