Dude, I know what the Fourth of July is! (The day you celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it.) I'm just teasing you for forgetting that I'm Canadian. And you're my mentor; Fielding's my cautionary example.

June 24 is St. Jean Baptiste, Quebec's national holiday, and is a much bigger deal to them than Canada Day is to the Rest of Canada. I lived five years in Montreal and remember the parades fondly.

Marion