Agree 100% John. It's like having a walk-in wardrobe where everything might not 'match' but it all goes together 'sort of'. Love it!

I quite liked PET. I always think of him as someone who turned our definition of Canadian from "anti-Americanism" to something more proactive. (I bet he could make love in a canoe, too.)

Big Mick, there are a lot of areas in Canada - including the Niagara Penninsula where I was born and raised - which were settled by United Empire Loyalists . So, part of our mindset is rooted in the fact that our early settlers were in Canada because they specifically did NOT want to be 'Americans'. And as they settled mostly along the borders, they would have provided the militia in the battles between Americans and British (Canadians) in the War of 1812; indeed, our Laura Secord was a UEL - as well as a purveyor of reasonable chocolate. To bring it back to music, I would imagine that Macdonell On the Heights (Stan Rogers) had a fair few UELs under his command.

For that matter, a lot of Stan Rogers' songs prop up Atwood's survival/victim theory.

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