For my vast audience of American and otherwise countried readers, a quick and hilarious rundown on how the democracy of Canada works (although apparently Canadians can benefit from a quick refresher too).
From our national treasure, Rick Mercer:
more about “RMR: Canada explained“, posted with vodpod
Here it is at the CBC site where you can see a lot of other Rick Mercer hilarity.
Everything you wanted to know about Canada, but were afraid to ask
Tentative Equinox North
Love RMR. There’s nowhere to escape from a national election in Ottawa and Rick Mercer is the one thing that makes it bearable.
By: Persephone on February 15, 2009
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We also love Rick Mercer. I believe this is one of my successes as a parent that all the kids (including the 4-year-old) get very excited when the Rick Mercer Report comes on.
When a relative of ours did better than just win two gold medals and set two world records in the Paralympics and got to BE on the Rick Mercer Report, well, we all just nearly burst.
By: Tentative Equinox North on February 15, 2009
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That is way cool!
By: Persephone on February 17, 2009
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[...] 20, 2009 by Tentative Equinox North In keeping with my Rick Mercer Report theme, I wanted to report that we watched what turned out to be a re-run of The Rick Mercer Report on [...]
By: Either he’s psychic or we’ve been here before. « tentative EQUINOX on February 20, 2009
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Rick Mercer Speaks the Truth…
Many of you — possibly 75% of you actually, are not sitting in the Dominion of Canada when reading this. Many of you still wonder ‘when I’ll be writing that book explaining Canada to foreigners?’ Well, after seeing things like this …
By: I.A.M. Musing About… on March 26, 2009
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