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We Are the Beaver!

... or are we the Polar Bear?

 

Conservative Senator Nicole Eaton thinks we should get rid of the "dentally defective" beaver -- a "19th century has-been" and chose the "strength, courage, resourcefulnes and dignity" in favour of our current lowly national symbol, the beaver.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/10/27/north-polar-bear-emblem....

This is the ctv version in case anyone thinks it's a leftie plot to ridicule someone who draws a salary of about $250000 a year to come up with this stuff.

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20111028/eaton-beaver-pol...

IMO Polar Bear = carnivore

Beaver = builder

 

The political metaphors are endless....

I'm with the Arrogant Worms on this one

 

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If anyone knows how to imbed the vid so it opens in another window, it would be greatly appreciated!

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P.S. I thought the bear was an endangered species that sleeps a lot and occasionaly tears a tourist to pieces. 

I like racoons: opportunistic, strong, inquisitive; they urbanise quite well considering, and they're seriously into garbage.

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Thanks Mike.

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How "conservative" can he be if he wants to change this old tradition?

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"She", EO... women senators can be stupid too,

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EasternOrthodox wrote:

How "conservative" can he be if he wants to change this old tradition?

You have a point there. Maybe she's a "Reform" conservative? (Today, the National Anthem - tomorrow? The Beaver!) 

Say it ain't so.

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MikePaterson wrote:

"She", EO... women senators can be stupid too,

 

oops!  Yes, they certainly can be.

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Ah, choosing an animal on the verge of extinction from our own neglect - how apropos

 

My favourite quote on our current Canadian iconic image comes from June Callwood...

 

The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.


It is a tie!

 

Personally I would choose the Moose: an animal that looks like it was created by a committee unable to form a consensus.   Equally apropos in my humble Canadian opinion.


Oh look I even found an appropriate iconic image...
 

 

 

LB - Bad Canadian cool

 

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man, the crap that the senators are pulling up trying to make themselves look relevant...

 

wasn't harper supposed to be the guy to abolish the senate once and for all??  whatever happened to that promise?!?!?

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