How to Canadianize

Things I Learn by Watching the CBC

The Olympic coverage on NBC sucks, and I've found that the CBC does a much better job of showing the events. I didn't have to stay up late to find out who won the pairs figure skating medals because the CBC got to it without skipping around. I'm not fond of Bob Costas, either, and Dick Button's commentaries grate on my nerves.

One thing I've noticed that I find amusing is that companies/corporations originating in the USA that encroach like weeds into Canada undergo a Canadianization process. How is this accomplished? Add a maple leaf! Evidence is provided to the right.

Long ago in my salad days I would joke that my aunt had "defected" to Canada, becoming a Canadian citizen. I wonder if this meant she had a maple leaf applied discreetly to her personage?

Up until Canada elected a conservative prime minister, I tinkered and toyed with the notion of perhaps moving there, but then I stop to consider that it is farther north and colder. Even though it is homeland of Lucy Maud Montgomery and people pause in the afternoon to have tea, I am not yet entirely sold on living there. Now, if it was certain I'd receive a lifetime supply of maple leaves in which to Canadianize things, I could be swayed!