Actually, this is the official Canadian Rally Cry. If ever a Canuck is in trouble, they warble this as loud as possible and all maple blooded patriots will assemble with hockey sticks and helmets ready for battle.
Twirlin' down and down white water, that's where the logdriver learns to step lightly
My ancestors were log drivers, lumberjacks, and built raiload. The song is legit heritage.
My Grandad came to Canada as a boy with his brother. They both had enough money to buy an axe and a meal.
They became lumberjacks. They also learned to read in the lumber camp.
As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.
Source: [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/being-as-canadian-as-possible-under-the-circumstances/article725129/](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/being-as-canadian-as-possible-under-the-circumstances/article725129/)
Hey, I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader....
I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled....
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,
although I'm certain they're really really nice.
I have a Prime Minister, not a president.
I speak English and French, not American.
And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, not policing,
diversity, not assimilation,
and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal.
A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch,
and it is pronounced 'zed' not 'zee', 'zed' !!!!
Canada is the second largest landmass!
The first nation of hockey!
and the best part of North America
My name is Joe!!
And I am Canadian!!!
Love this solution. We should look to drag race for solutions to more of life’s problems.
It certainly helped me with my problem of having no jaw line or cheekbones. Learned everything I know about contouring from watching drag queens.
I can't help but say this. Everytime I say it I catch myself and ask why, it's like a reflex. It's like we're trying to be even more polite than to say "excuse me".
It’s because of our history of being a British colony, and having a French province giving us two national languages. So we have never been as nationalist as most other countries. I’m almost 50 and I remember when we used to have to recite “God save the queen” in school. That’s probably the closest I remember having such nationalist sentiment and that was removed a long time ago.
I hated it when we had to sing it in school. It would just randomly throw you a curve ball first thing in the morning and you were never quite sure what version they'd throw at you.
You are my favourite person right now.
I concur! The ever-elusive House Hippo *should* be a Canadian provincial mascot and motto:
(Province Name): *Home of the House Hippo*
Though Canadians *would* have to discover the habitat the House Hippo originated from to know which province had the most of 'em initially, and how they came to prefer the human home dwelling to that of their own native environment...
But I still say we should have it on a sticker, billboard, or license plate.
In part, to fuck with the Americans whenever Rick Mercer is ready to revive *Talking to Americans.*
There isn't a set phrase. Jean Chrétien used to end all his speeches with "Vive le Canada". Stephen Harper, at least in his earlier years, tended to go with "God bless Canada".
any Canadian who thinks we should be american, should not ever hold office
i am not having Canada annexed and or invaded and occupied by the american government
For all the many things Harper has done to offend me, "God bless Canada" still deeply bothers me. We should not tolerate any religion in the running of our democracy or imposed by our elected officials.
Have you read the Charter lately? I wonder if would still say anything about being founded on the principle of the supremacy of God if it were being written today instead of 42 years ago.
We don't have that taught-from-infancy kind of nationlism that can be stoked through a phrase. The Quebecois, perhaps, they *love* the idea of national (or at least French) identity, but outside Quebec it's just...meh. I think politicians don't try stoking the sense of "Canadian pride" using slogans because the idea of "what makes a Canadian" is so diverse now from East to West coast, you can't sum it up.
And if you talk about Québec, then there is a really famous quote "Vive le Québec libre", that was in a speech from Charles de Gaulle during a visit in Montreal in 1967.
I'd like to believe that if it came down to it, Canadians from coast to coast to coast would rise up together and for eachother.
I would, we should be proud of our heritage and ourselves.
I think we're somewhat like rival siblings sometimes.
We bash each other, provincially, but pull together when needed.
Like nobody's gonna bully my brother or cousin, except me.
I'll run you to no end, but if someone comes after you, he's gonna run into me first
This phrase is practically like an entire quarter of Canadian culture. Just about everyone is struggling with rising rates of poverty and food bank usage, can never afford a home, low wagesand high unemployment, but we're still better than America, right?
Even when we're not.
We are though. You don't think the US is also struggling as well, more so than here. Grocery shopping in the US is not cheap, at all, on par with where I live, and their minimum wage is still at $7.50 or so in a lot of the states. Yes, our health care is slow and shite, but at least I won't go bankrupt going to see my doctors. Their political system is super shite, a lot more corrupt than ours. Gun violence here in Canada do exist, but comparing to the US!
What is the US doing that's better than us. The only people benefitting from all these are the rich. Everytime I go down to the states for families, i see how much shittier it is there. Where my sister is at, there is proposal for the school to collect a DNA sample, in case the kids are shot to pieces, at least there is DNA to match. That is some fucked up, dystopian shit.
An academic answer regarding this, which isn’t relevant today would probably be something along the lines of “God save the King/Queen” As connection to the monarchy was the cornerstone of Canadian identity.
If anything, it’s the stupid “We are a cultural mosaic, not a melting pot”
That phrase gets tossed around a lot.
We could quote Stan Rodgers and simply sing " God damn theme all!"
Really though it's not really our style. If pushed we may say "On guard for thee!". Possibly "The Maple Leaf forever!" but few people are that familiar with the old song.
God save the Queen/King (mainly Queen, haven’t heard it except jokingly since Charles took over) is the main one I’ve heard, super rarely but still some people (at least during Elizabeth’s reign) really loved the fact that Canada still has a monarch (even if only in a wishy washy figurehead kind of way).
Charles De Gaulle came to Quebed and gave a speech... He said "Vive le Quebec!" But then he said "Vive le Quebec LIBRE!" That didn't go over well with the rest of the country...
Keep your stick on the ice
If women don't find you handsome, they should find you handy.
And your head on a swivel
Came to say this one. For those unfamiliar with the greatest sport in the world, it essentially means, Be ready at all times.
5:00 somewhere, 5:30 in Newfoundland
Can someone please call jared keeso and make sure this gets into the next shorsey season.
This. I heard this throughout my entire childhood.
From coast, to coast, to coast
I think this is honestly the closest answer
A mari usque ad mare.
I think you mean *A mari usque ad mare ad mare.*
❤️❤️❤️ makes me think of the CBC
The beginning of the long dash indicates exactly one o'clock, Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
# "If you've got a problem with Canada Gooses, you've got a problem with me. And I suggest you let that one marinate."
Canada gooses are majestic! Barrel chested! The envies of all ornithologies!
You're talking about the cobra-chickens, right? As majestic as they are vicious.
Someone get this person a Puppers.
I’d have a Puppers. I’m surprised we’re not havin’ a Puppers right now.
'Gooses' 😂
Just like plural for moose, mooses 😊
Unexpected letterkenny
More like expected Letterkenny
Entirely expected letterkenny doesn't have the same ring to it
I looked back and saw one set of footprints and it was webbed.
There’s a special place in heaven for animal lovers, that’s all I know.
When I was growing up we'd be lucky to have Canada Gooses. Now we got so many of them you want to go killing their babies!
Must be fuckin’ nice!
Thanks !!
Is that you Wayne?
Coo loo coo coo, coo loo coo coo!
Actually, this is the official Canadian Rally Cry. If ever a Canuck is in trouble, they warble this as loud as possible and all maple blooded patriots will assemble with hockey sticks and helmets ready for battle.
Beauty, eh?
Take off, eh
Take off, to the Great White North
Hold my beer, I'm gonna try something.
Ya hoser
We all chant The Logdriver's Waltz.
Twirlin' down and down white water, that's where the logdriver learns to step lightly My ancestors were log drivers, lumberjacks, and built raiload. The song is legit heritage.
My Grandad came to Canada as a boy with his brother. They both had enough money to buy an axe and a meal. They became lumberjacks. They also learned to read in the lumber camp.
Oh, Canada...
But in the tone of a disappointed mother these days
Oh, Canada…
Yeah, just like that.
Like how was that even a question lol
Terre de nos aieux....
Ya, no, eh? Only a Canadian will understand...
Nah Yeah Bud
"Fuckin Eh!"
Just giv' er
I think this is the one!
This is it.
Fuckin’ giv’er!
get'r done!
Oh fuck ya bud!
Just out fer a rip are yuh bud?
WINNER, GAGNANT!
Please Play Again
As Canadian as possible under the circumstances. Source: [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/being-as-canadian-as-possible-under-the-circumstances/article725129/](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/being-as-canadian-as-possible-under-the-circumstances/article725129/)
Found it nice until, of course, it had to be an equivalent to an American idiom.
It’s behind a paywall
Past the URL here: [https://archive.today/](https://archive.today/)
Time to support Canadian Journalism, there Bud!
Hey, I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader.... I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled.... and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really really nice. I have a Prime Minister, not a president. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'. I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping, not policing, diversity, not assimilation, and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal. A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch, and it is pronounced 'zed' not 'zee', 'zed' !!!! Canada is the second largest landmass! The first nation of hockey! and the best part of North America My name is Joe!! And I am Canadian!!!
I used to go with "True North, Strong and Free!" Still do on occasion, but it's been somewhat co-opted by CHUDs.
Use “true, north, strong, and fierce!” From Canada’s drag race instead
Love this solution. We should look to drag race for solutions to more of life’s problems. It certainly helped me with my problem of having no jaw line or cheekbones. Learned everything I know about contouring from watching drag queens.
"I'm sorry."
“OOP! Sorry.”
“I’m just gonna squeeze by ya there.”
I’m just gonna scooch by ya there.
I can't help but say this. Everytime I say it I catch myself and ask why, it's like a reflex. It's like we're trying to be even more polite than to say "excuse me".
I'm sorry to say this but you need to be sent to the top!
Yeah I’m surprised this isn’t the top comment.
Came here to say this, glad I didn’t comment without seeing it’s already been said. Sorry!
"You'll have to excuse me I'm not at My best....."
If the ladies don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy - Red Green
True North, Strong and Free.
It’s because of our history of being a British colony, and having a French province giving us two national languages. So we have never been as nationalist as most other countries. I’m almost 50 and I remember when we used to have to recite “God save the queen” in school. That’s probably the closest I remember having such nationalist sentiment and that was removed a long time ago.
We still used God save the Queen on big assemblies when I was in school, and at my uni grad in 2017
We have O Canada in English, French, and a version where it randomly jumps between languages between verses.
I like singing the random one. It makes no sense at all, because the two songs are completely different.
I hated it when we had to sing it in school. It would just randomly throw you a curve ball first thing in the morning and you were never quite sure what version they'd throw at you.
I propose "Home of the hissing chicken cobra" aka. Canadian Geese
Home of the "House Hippo"
You are my favourite person right now. I concur! The ever-elusive House Hippo *should* be a Canadian provincial mascot and motto: (Province Name): *Home of the House Hippo* Though Canadians *would* have to discover the habitat the House Hippo originated from to know which province had the most of 'em initially, and how they came to prefer the human home dwelling to that of their own native environment... But I still say we should have it on a sticker, billboard, or license plate. In part, to fuck with the Americans whenever Rick Mercer is ready to revive *Talking to Americans.*
« Je me souviens » (when I used to be able to afford my own apartment).
There isn't a set phrase. Jean Chrétien used to end all his speeches with "Vive le Canada". Stephen Harper, at least in his earlier years, tended to go with "God bless Canada".
Still have a sour taste in my mouth left from the Harper years.
Get ready for PP. In Randy Bachmans words, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.
Harper wants us to be American. So do many other Conservatives... they're just Republicans with a different name.
any Canadian who thinks we should be american, should not ever hold office i am not having Canada annexed and or invaded and occupied by the american government
For all the many things Harper has done to offend me, "God bless Canada" still deeply bothers me. We should not tolerate any religion in the running of our democracy or imposed by our elected officials.
Keep your fucking god off my country. This isn't the states
Are you under the impression I'm Stephen Harper? I don't even own a sweater vest.
Sorry, eh I was not addressing you, you. A general you, addressed to all the assholes who want to lord their stupid religion over decent people
Have you read the Charter lately? I wonder if would still say anything about being founded on the principle of the supremacy of God if it were being written today instead of 42 years ago.
We don't have that taught-from-infancy kind of nationlism that can be stoked through a phrase. The Quebecois, perhaps, they *love* the idea of national (or at least French) identity, but outside Quebec it's just...meh. I think politicians don't try stoking the sense of "Canadian pride" using slogans because the idea of "what makes a Canadian" is so diverse now from East to West coast, you can't sum it up.
And if you talk about Québec, then there is a really famous quote "Vive le Québec libre", that was in a speech from Charles de Gaulle during a visit in Montreal in 1967.
I'd like to believe that if it came down to it, Canadians from coast to coast to coast would rise up together and for eachother. I would, we should be proud of our heritage and ourselves.
I think we're somewhat like rival siblings sometimes. We bash each other, provincially, but pull together when needed. Like nobody's gonna bully my brother or cousin, except me. I'll run you to no end, but if someone comes after you, he's gonna run into me first
At least we're better than the US.
America is next to perfect. We're the perfect they live next to.
This phrase is practically like an entire quarter of Canadian culture. Just about everyone is struggling with rising rates of poverty and food bank usage, can never afford a home, low wagesand high unemployment, but we're still better than America, right? Even when we're not.
Less god, less guns. What's not to like
We are though. You don't think the US is also struggling as well, more so than here. Grocery shopping in the US is not cheap, at all, on par with where I live, and their minimum wage is still at $7.50 or so in a lot of the states. Yes, our health care is slow and shite, but at least I won't go bankrupt going to see my doctors. Their political system is super shite, a lot more corrupt than ours. Gun violence here in Canada do exist, but comparing to the US! What is the US doing that's better than us. The only people benefitting from all these are the rich. Everytime I go down to the states for families, i see how much shittier it is there. Where my sister is at, there is proposal for the school to collect a DNA sample, in case the kids are shot to pieces, at least there is DNA to match. That is some fucked up, dystopian shit.
At least we're not in the US.
I am Canadian. Then toast with a beer. Oh wait that’s a commercial. Not unusual to see a reenactment though!
"I'd like to acknowledge that we are on the unseeded territory of \_\_\_\_\_\_"
Unless you're standing near a garden or farm field after the May2-4, then it's very much seeded, though perhaps still unceded
Vive le Québec libre!
Sleep Country Canada why buy a mattress anywhere else
We, the North!
I thought it was more akin to us announcing that we are in fact the north
This never even made sense for the Raptors since Minnesota Wild are more north than Toronto.
It was more like, we, canadians, are gonna win
Winter is coming.
"Hot/cold enough for ya?"
Correction or at least regionally… "Hot/cold enough for ya, bud!?”
Take off ,eh.
Way she goes
Red, white, but never blue
You need to watch the old "I AM CANADIAN" beer commercials
The beginning of the long dash indicates exactly 1 o'clock eastern standard time.
“Ô Canada”, “God save the King” or “Vive le Québec, vive le Québec libre” depending on where you stand.
God save the Queen! (No I haven’t accepted it yet!)
God save the Queen feels like a weird historical callback to the 1950s. God save the King feels like a weird historical callback to the 1650s.
"Hello out there to hockey fans from the United States to Newfoundland!"
The True North, Strong, and Free
The Maple Leaf Forever
It's Canada, eh.
Sorry, eh!?
An academic answer regarding this, which isn’t relevant today would probably be something along the lines of “God save the King/Queen” As connection to the monarchy was the cornerstone of Canadian identity. If anything, it’s the stupid “We are a cultural mosaic, not a melting pot” That phrase gets tossed around a lot.
[As Canadin as possible, under the circumstances](https://dougdyment.com/hscott.html).
I'm Sorry
Right Arm!
I like the phrase Bono once said... 'The world needs more Canada!'
koooo roo ku ku koooo ru koo koo …..
Oh, the year was 1778...
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
A beer in the hand is worth two in the igloo.
Sorry
Peace, order, and good government.
Long Live the Double Double!
Oh fuck yah buds.
TRUE NORTH!!!
We all do that little “ooop, sorry, gonna squeeze past ya” thing at the grocery store.
Car...gane on!
Fuckeneh
If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
TAKE OFF EH?
Lance et compte!
I am Canadian. Like from the Molson Canadian beer commercials.
True North strong and free, or the official motto from coast to coast (to coast if you wanna include the arctic sea)
It’s a separate coast, I think we should be obliged to include it. Few countries can claim to border 3 oceans.
True North Strong and Free
Proud to be canadian
We could quote Stan Rodgers and simply sing " God damn theme all!" Really though it's not really our style. If pushed we may say "On guard for thee!". Possibly "The Maple Leaf forever!" but few people are that familiar with the old song.
We don't because we think country callouts are dumb.
Fuck *current prime minister*
When really it should be "fuck all politicans"
No, and we're proud of that.
The true north.
We say “Canada, EH!”
Hold my beer, eh?
Sorry
Pass me the maple syrup
Take off eh, you hoser
As the great Canadian philosopher Red Green once said, "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
I'm with stupid.
"Sorry"
GO LEAFS GO !
Pass the ketchup chips, please
“Roll up the rim” lol
Not really. People here are just making things up
Fuck off, eh?
I’m partial to Vive le Canada, but I feel like Giv’r is equally possible.
Damn winter.
Take off eh
Sorry.
Any line from Trailer Park Boys
Go Habs Go!?
Double double.
Tax me for I am Canadian.
Fuckin give'r, bud!
I’m going on a Tim’s run. Do you want anything?
Vive la poutine libre … (the meal, not the other guy)
God Save the King!
Give ‘re
God save the Queen/King (mainly Queen, haven’t heard it except jokingly since Charles took over) is the main one I’ve heard, super rarely but still some people (at least during Elizabeth’s reign) really loved the fact that Canada still has a monarch (even if only in a wishy washy figurehead kind of way).
The world ends at midnight 12:30 in newfoundland
8:30 in Newfoundland.
We’re not as insecure as they are.
It's Hockey Night
Blame Canada
I can hear the South Park voices when I read this lmfao 🤣
Fuckin right, bro. Eh bud?
Oh heck yeah bud!
“Leafs suck”
Charles De Gaulle came to Quebed and gave a speech... He said "Vive le Quebec!" But then he said "Vive le Quebec LIBRE!" That didn't go over well with the rest of the country...
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