Nor is it very difficult to understand why a Canadian
passport should be so popular. Part of the explanation is
that with it one can travel easily almost anywhere. Another
reason for the popularity of the little blue booklet stamped
in gold is that one can speak English or French or Ukranian or
Polish or Chinese and still be a Canadian. One can, in fact,
be almost anyone and still be a Canadian; and to be a Canadian
is to have a passport to the whole world.
-- Douglas Lepan
How many
Canadians
-- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Twelve. Four to form a Parliamentary study committee to
decide how to solve the problem, one Francophone to complain
that I didn't translate this joke into French, one Native
Canadian to protest that the interests of Native Canadians
have been overlooked, one woman from the National Action
Committee On the Status Of Women to say that women have been
underrepresented in the process, one to go over the border to
the Niagara Falls Factory Outlet Mall and buy a new bulb and
not pay duty on it on the way back, one to actually screw it
in, one to collect taxes on the whole procedure so the
government can afford it, one to buy a case of Molson for
everybody to drink, and one to drop the puck....
