OK, I am sorry to have impugned our neighbors to the North, the refuge
of Loyalists, (Why did they hate General Washington and his rag tag army
of patriots?) And for my penance my spiritual director, in his words
wants me to "write oat" a list of all the great Canadians who have
enriched our culture while not having the good fortune to have been born
under our flag.
OK, so here it goes in no special order:
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell
Leonard Cohen
Martin Short
Robbie Robertson
Richard Manuel
Garth Hudson
Rick Moranis
Dave Thomas (not the Wendy's; he's ours)
Gordon Lightfoot
Bruce Cockburn
Paul Schaeffer
Rick Danko
Bryan Adams
Long John Baldry
David Clayton Thomas
Burton Cummings
Celine Dion
Michael Buble
Denny Doherty
Gil Evans
Maynard Ferguson
Glenn Gould
Dallas Green (not the X Phillies Manager)
Daniel Lanois
Avril LaVigne
Guy Lombardo (my mom's rolling in her grave)
Alannis Morisette
Jim Carey
Dan Akroyd
Mike Myers
Michael J. Fox
Phil Hartman
Eugene Levy
Bernard Lonergan
Andrea Martin
Atom Egoyan
Norm MacDonald
Lorne Michaels
Leslie Neilson
Catherine O'Hara
Steve Smith
Patti LaBelle (not our singer; the insult comic)
George Foreman (not our, the puppeteer)
Elvis Presley (the balloon artist, not the King)
Barbara Streisand (the nobel physicist, not the singer)
Frank Rizzo (the choreographer, not the enforcer)
Arnold Schwartznegger (the olymic ice skater, not the Guvernator)
Lassie (the scottish dance troupe, not "our girl")
Lenny Bruce (the ventriloquists, not - you know)
Ronald Reagan (the rap artist, not #40)
Ronald McDonald (the bag piper, not...)
Spike Lee (the violinist, not the...)
Vince Fumo(the magician, not...)
Evil Kneival (the Dadaist, not....)
Topo Gigo
Ed Sullivan (the bob sled king, not....)
Bobby Rydell (glass harmonica, not...)
Hy Lit (impressionist, not...)
Jimmy Hoffa(the lounge singer not...)
Beanie Seigal (the poet, not)
Renee Chenault-Fattah(Olympic curler, not...)
The Philly Phanatic (hall of fame goalie 1966, not....)
Meryl Lynch (the balloon artist, not...)
Frank Sinatra(drummer for the Mutilattos, famous Toronto punk band, not
...the patron Saint of South Philadelphia)
my spriitual director said I can stop now.....
Joe (mea maxima culpa) Clarke
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