I’m no expert in diplomacy or international affairs.
Or for that matter, even world geography, based on my history ofJeopardy!answers.
But it’s always seemed to me that the United States and Canada have a strange relationship.
Probably unique in all the world.
We’re always reminded we share the longest undefended border on the globe.
As well as a common language.
Our troops have fought in practically every war together.
But they sort of get rolled in with the rest of the British Commonwealth forces.)
And we share teams in three of the four major sports.
But still, ours always been a strained relationship.
It’s just too much of an asymmetric power dynamic to really work 100% of the time.
One is the loud, extroverted, Hail Fellow Well Met who’s always the center of attention.
He said it’s essentially a country that really doesn’t have to exist.
Like, if it hadn’t been invented, no one would’ve asked for it.
And he, along with Norm MacDonald and John Candy, is one of that nation’s greatest exports.
One involving the many manufactured goods that cross that aforementioned border.
In no way am I about to get into the politics or economics of this.
It seems like another one of those issues that no one knew a thing about 10 minutes ago.
But after spending 10 minutes on social media while sitting on the toilet, they’reJohn Kenneth Galbraith.
I mean, I’m not a fan of getting my National Anthem booed.
Other than be a preposterously difficult song to sing, it shouldn’t bother anyone.
But by this point, I get it.
The Anthem is a big, slow-moving target.
As great American icon Reggie Jackson so perfectly put it, “They don’t boo nobodies.”
In a lot of ways, America is the world’s WWE heel.
So have at it, good citizens of Canadia.
Do whatever you better do.
Sooner or later this will all be resolved.
Negotiations will begin and something will be worked out that will keep very wealthy corporate interests getting even wealthier.
Things will got back to normal.
The US will do something else that pisses off the most polite, good-natured people in the world.
So boo the Anthem all you want.
We’ll just keep doing what we’ve been doing all along.
Winning all the Stanley Cups.
Making our own whiskey and our own maple syrup.
Watching all your reruns ofLetterkenny.
And not giving anybody but ourselves a second thought.
