So-called “Canadians” who live out west and on the west coast weren’t real Canadians, and didn’t even know what it was “truly like to be Canadian”, until the declaration today from the Toronto HQ of the liberalvision CTV network, where they are of course real, true Canadians and uniquely know what it’s like to be Canadian. 
It snowed in some places on the west coast in a freak spring cold snap this weekend, and the CTV Newsnet anchor informed Canadians (those are folks from Toronto, or anywhere in Ontario, and east of that) thus:
“Well just when many Canadians thought it was safe to put away the winter clothing, residents in western Canada got a chilly reminder of what it’s truly like to be Canadian.”
Well then.
I had no idea.
This, by the way, from the same news anchor, Jacqueline Milczarek, who back in February mangled the name of the famous (and treacherously snow-ridden all winter in several feet of snow) Coquihalla Highway, which runs through BC’s southwest snow and glacier-covered mountainous corner. She went with “Co-coo-HALLA”—sounding it out slowly like a grade-schooler, as she read the apparently totally new and strange word off the teleprompter.
One PTBC reader, Jean B., wrote me and said in an email with the subject header “Gosh, now I am finding out what it is like to be a Canadian!”, that it’s as if we’re less Canadian because we aren’t blanketed in that strange, mysterious magical uniquely Canadian white stuff that so baffles us doofus non-Canadians here in the west.
I hope the Canadians are going to send their national team over here to Vancouver and Whistler for the 2010 Winter Olympics!
Go team!
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