O Canada!

I would be a highly negligent Canadian if I didn't take at least a minute or two today to say "Happy Canada Day" to all my fellow Canadians, both those still at home and those abroad in various locations. So, Happy Canada Day, eh!

We were chatting in the office the other day about how loyal Canadians are and how proud we are to be Canadian. Cristina made a great observation about how we manage to find all sorts of ways to weave the red maple leaf into so many of our brands, marketing messages and even day-to-day communications. That ubiquitous maple leaf doubles quite well as a number of different letters in the alphabet (particularly as an "o" or an "a") and it's also very cleverly used as an apostrophe and a period, punctuating signs everywhere with Canadian patriotism.

And for my American buddies who think we don't like Americans.... that's such a fallacy. We love Americans (well, most of you anyway... we admit we don't like 300-lb Bubba from Podunk, Any State who is louder than a freight train and has the social graces of a pack of hyenas... but admit it... you don't like him either). We think you're great, but we just don't want to be you. We just like being Canadian. And we're so darn polite about it.