Solution of One National Identity Crisis

One of the most bizarre things about being a Canadian happens when we buy cars. We look at ads and reviews, and see them divided into domestic and foreign. This is easily understandable in any other country but Canada. We have no Canadian carmakers. We have car factories but they are all foreign own. What it really means is that we have U.S. company made cars and non-U.S. company made cars. We can buy a Ford Mustang made in Flat Rock, Michigan, and considered it a domestic; and we can buy a Honda Civic made in Alliston, Ontario, and considered it a foreign. Talking about an identity crisis. If we expand this way of thinking, there are two ways to go about it. First is to think all things remotely Canadian that are not U.S. own to be foreign. Maple syrup, for example, would be foreign food. The Conservative Party is the political voice of this way of thinking; that is way they are so offended that we did not send troupes to Iraq: the government briefly suggested that our military do not belong to the U.S. The other way is to think of all things U.S. as Canadian. This would give the so-called tax-disparity between the two countries a solution. Since all things U.S. would be considered Canadian in this way of thinking, we can tax them everything that they under-taxed or do not tax. I like this way of think. We are an all-embracing society after all. Oh, we can send our U.S. navy to fight Denmark too! The more I think about it, the more I like it. OH, CANADA…