Land Of Liberal Largesse – small dead animals

The National Post is having a contest – Canada in six words or less.

There’s a lot to like about our country, but thus far, the vast majority of entries have surprisingly been negative and, often, rather political. Judging by their suggestions, Jeff Spooner and Al Blow think that we’re a mediocre country, and proud of it: The former offered us “Canada: Birthplace of mediocrity” and the latter’s “Canada: Mediocre and reasonably proud of it” was a slightly more ironic variation on the same theme. Ori Rubin, who worked on the motto problem while raking leaves in the backyard with his dad, offered a similarly wry message: “Because the world needs more vanilla.”

h/t Darcey.

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Canada:
This ad for sale.

Brown bags cash only, in Canada!

I submitted “Eloi in a world of Morlocks” to the National Post and they had the nerve to say that I was probably talking about the Americans as the Morlocks. They have proved my point that Canadians don’t know who their enemies are.
By Morlocks I meant Islamic fascists, jihadists and their ilk, not to mention some choice leaders such as Vladimir Putin.
And where did they get the idea that the Eloi flower children were cliff-dwellers – the latest movie version of The Time Machine?

Perhaps one of these will do:
* Ex Vi Termini
* Plusque Minusque
* Virtus In Medio Stat
* Habetis Bona Deum
* Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Ubique
* Et Tuque, Brute?
* Huc Accedit Zambonis
* Abutebaris Modo Subjunctivo Denuo
Or, in English:
– By Definition
– More or Less
– Virtue is in the Moderate
– Have a Nice Day
– Always Wear Underwear Everywhere
– And Touque, Brutus?
– Here Comes the Zamboni
– You’ve Been Misusing the Subjunctive Again

I think we should keep our motto since we have already changed too many of our traditions such as Dominion of Canada. As David Frum (in his review of Peter C. Newman’s autobiography) said of Newman’s constant claims to love Canada: He loved everything about it except its flag, its national anthem, its excessively White Anglo-Saxon Protestant governing elite, its post office boxes, its Westminster system of government, its north-south patterns of trade, and so on and on and on. All would have to be transformed and brought up to date in one expense-be-damned spasm of reform.”

Just to be clear, Goose, I do agree. I’m quite happy with Canada’s current A Mari Usque Ad Mare, I fly the Red Ensign, and, indeed, I think that the state spending millions of taxpayers’ dollars to invent ever more insipid slogans should be a crime. Nevertheless, this is just a gag thing from the NP for its readers, and a little fun is I think ok (though the negativity of some suggestions is, I think, a bit unreasonable for such a great country).
And you must admit, Et tuque, Brute? should win some sort of award for cleverness, even though I personally prefer Ex Vi Termini for its metaphysical profundity 😉

Canada; half the population is a liberal apointee.

Cold not cool, socialist not free.

How about “Canada: land of really hot ladies”
I’m sure there are ugly girls up there but I’ve never seen one.

Canada: Looked good on paper, didn’t work out.

land of the WHITE slaves

Neither Strong Nor Free

Hotel Canada: Convenient passport for all

“Freedom and opportunity right next door”
Has anyone here read Peter Brimelow, The Patriot Game (MegaSty: Key Porter Books, 1986)? He would argue that, a century or so ago, the most likely choice would have been “One Flag, One Fleet, One Nation”, obviously referring to the British Empire. It was even inscribed in Canadian schoolbooks.

Canada. The country that brought you multiculturalism.
Canada. Proof once again the French and English don’t mix.

Canada- Behind the Ice Curtain

Or better yet,
Canada-Don’t tase me bro

Charles:
I too have read Brimelow’s book and would highly recommend it. Peter Gzowski said it was the book he most marked up with highlighter he had ever read. Scanning through it recently it seems that very little has changed in the 20 years since it was written.