2. The New Republic once joked that "Worthwhile Canadian Initiative" is the most boring possible headline. They don't know Canada.
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3. An actual Globe and Mail headline: Where is Canada’s national debate over trade dispute panels?
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4. Title of an actual Canadian book: "Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee and Fisheries Certification"
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5. What I want to suggest is that Canadian boringness isn't a default mode or accident. It's something we actively work at.
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6. I mention a book on fisheries certification and here's what I get: https://twitter.com/nepacific/status/609206356558614528 …
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@ivortossell In "The Longer I'm PM,"@inklessPW has Harper sitting at his desk, actively scrubbing memorable lines from speeches.3 replies 4 retweets 10 likes -
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8. You wouldn't thing that sexual perversity could be made boring, but then you've probably never sat through an Anglo-Canadian movie.
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9. Where does this boringness come from? What are the roots of this profound Canadian love of stultification?
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10. Imagine a British colony where the piquant colorful features of Britishness (eccentricity, visible class friction) were discouraged.
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11. And of course, as Canada formed as a state, it looked to the USA as an anti-model. We don't want to be like them, with their Civil Wars
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12. A thought from Robert Frost: https://twitter.com/noahmccormack/status/609208684586135552 …
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13. Boredom is never all encompassing, it is always punctuated by outbursts of violence just to remind us we're alive (i.e hockey).
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@EricKleefeld says many Canadian politicians have been interestingly insane, like William Lyon Mackenzie King. Yes & no.6 replies 2 retweets 4 likes - Show replies
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