The future producer of “Himbo Heist”: But also: on Canada Day. The day we celebrate a country that got to become one by asking politely and waiting to be told it’s okay.

But also: on Canada Day. The day we celebrate a country that got to become one by asking politely and waiting to be told it’s okay.

Pretty goddamn wild for the Supreme Court to give the president the powers of a king just three days before July Fourth.

Fun Canada fact: the Canadian Constitution is a statute of the UK Parliament.

People always try to correct me when I say Canada obtained full independence in 1982. Surely I mean 1882? It must have been 1882. It can't have been -- it must have been 1882.

I get something similar even when I point out that I’m a Canadian attorney and also 1982 happened while I was alive.

Oof. I think we've gotten very accustomed to a Canadian identity that's honestly pretty new! It's hard to imagine that it wasn't that long ago that things were different

My super-racist father was violently opposed to abandoning the Red Ensign because “maple trees don’t grow on the West Coast”. As I look out my window in Seattle at the about 30 maples out there, I am reminded that he was an idiot.

Shannon Falls, 2013. I was blown away by the size of them.

I think most people see that as a technicality, but Canada wasn't really independent until 1931. Before that, it was really a self-governing part of the British Empire.

Sure, patriation was a technicality, but it was a pretty significant technicality.

Especially since 1931 was just the British saying “sure, we’ll pretend”.

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