Oh Canada Day

We would be remiss if we didn't note that yesterday was Canada Day, or Dominion Day up north. 

Mark Steyn has some interesting thoughts.

Here in the Stroock Northern Strategic Direction we are a mere 200 miles from the border. Our liquor stores are inundated with Canadians who have surged across the border in search of emergency six packs as revelers from Halifax to Vancouver have exhausted the nation's supplies of Labatts and Molson.

It is said that Canadians are nice...and dull. Indeed they are. Years ago we read a 600 page history of Canada and we don't remember a damn thing about it. Which is fine. Dullness is a virtue. You know  a country that isn't dull? France. They're on their 5th Republic no, sixth? This blog can't keep track. 

Canada is a monument to 150 years of good governance. MacCleans*, to which we subscribed for a couple of years, put together a compendium and review of Canada's PMs They all seemed quietly competent through at least Diefenbaker. Pierre Trudeau was a great man in his own way. 'Just watch me.'  Brian Mulroney was always PM when I was a kid. Canada is a placid, well run place that can raise an army of a quarter of a million men for not one but two world wars.

I wouldn't mess with them. Just as the Golden State Warriors.

*See Steyn.