Why I Hate Canadians

Graeme S. Mount is a professor of history at Laurentian University, the
author of Canada’s Enemies: Spies and Spying in the Peaceable Kingdom,
and the co-author of The Border at Sault Ste. Marie.

Will Ferguson, a patriotic Canadian in his 30s who spent five years in
Japan and some weeks in Ecuador, believes that the three great themes of
Canadian history are to keep the Americans out, the French in, and the
Natives invisible. In his opinion, Canadians are not as different from
Americans as many think. Canadian hockey players have been violent.
Canadians exterminated Newfoundland’s Beothuks, refused to admit
refugees from the Holocaust, interned innocent Japanese-Canadians, and
overreacted during the October Crisis of 1970. Canadians tolerate a
not-so-admirable royal family.

Ferguson’s litany of complaints extends to individual Canadians. For
example, a Canadian created the despicable Rambo. Brian Mulroney
canceled the low-cost, highly productive Katimavik program for young
people and then spent the savings on color-coded uniforms for the armed
forces. Preston Manning is a “twit,” and members of the Reform Party
are unwitting collaborators with Quebec separatists. The author serves
up humorous stories (particularly about Quebec’s Bill 101) and takes
on Sudbury since its conversion from a mining community to a tourist
centre, Saint John and the Irving family, and the creator of Superman
(by a Canadian).

This book offers light entertainment for the bus or the cottage.