I grew Up in Canada

Thanks for the recommendation.  I grew up in Canada and was about five years old when I heard  Gords Guitar pluck for the first time ribbons not steel but more forged with humankind to document a  black day in July. My parents opinion was like a sailboat ill equipped headed with no recourse into a hurricane.  The storms that bloodied America and never would subside would blanket Canada and we would have no choice but to abide.

Pierre Trudeau changed all that, he did not piss his pants when LBJ

raised him off the floor to make the point that Canada was pissing on his grass. Not Americas grass, no way, LBJ grass.

We did not know this at the time but Canada caught the vibe

we are fundamentally not Americans. Americans are a mutation 

of Anglo Saxons IMHO if you where to compare the strains

the English are ISIS and America is merely Al Queda or in most states

good ole Taliban

Maybe I am ill informed and prejudice

living in a conspiracy state

but nothing George Orwell

wrote about exceed

what now in real time

is the law in England

and the police are ever

massing willing and nocturnally tattooed

to drop the dime 

or a half penny

or even just a hunch

and if they make a mistake

justice goes out for lunch

Americans are cursed

to be at this moment 

so Anglo Saxon

What saved Canada 

from all this abuse

was the anchor

of modernity

that was Quebec

as the world accelerates

into camps

so steely eyed

the brain function

is robbed of the ability 

to decide

we will always have Quebec

a sensible place

where living is about

life

not some personality test

and accent evaluation

that determines

you will get as all the gamers know

extra life vests

Now we look at Norway

with envy

but did you nid

not know

they started

ther NEP

in 1996

and know they have

a trillion dollars 

in the old war chest

to be used for Norway

and every citizen

to make a better society

not some place with

exclusive freedom

If Brian Mulroney

had not defeated Trudeau

one does not have to speculate

Canada would have

about 4 Trillion Dollars

under account

and we would 

be the utopia

that Germamy and Austria

would be

if they had a single resource

upon which to plant a tree

that gave free fruit.