After having attended a lecture this week on the significance of Canada being the #1 supplier of oil to the United States, imagine the lovely coincidence of The Daily Show taking on that same topic.
Reporter Wyatt Cenac went to Alberta, treating the oil-rich country as if it belonged in the Middle East.
Trusting his "reporter" instincts, Cenac went to the one true place to get reaction to his "theory" that Canadians hate Americans: the parking lot of a Tim Hortons.
The answers as to why Canadians "hate" Americans centered mostly around hockey, and how American cities stole NHL teams from Canada.
A Leafs fan asks Cenac if he was a hockey fan. Cenac said, "No, I'm an American."
Cenac interviewed two Canadian refugees, who turned out to be Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, The Daily Show reporters. They slipped in shy, awkward Canadians from Toronto, acting as if they had barely heard of The Daily Show. Jones muttered "Go Leafs Go" in his best Toronto accent.
As we noted earlier this year, when gas prices were climbing, "Canada exports 2.5 million barrels per day to the United States — more gas than any other country that supplies the U.S." True, Saudi Arabia is #2 but Canada is still top of the list.
As I learned this week, the United States is the logical beneficiary of the oil sands (tar sands to some) in Alberta. It's easier and cheaper for Canada to have pipelines that take the oil into its own country as well as the U.S.
Cenac finishes his "tribute" to Canadian stereotypes by sort of singing O Canada while driving a Zamboni.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart airs Monday-Thursday on the Comedy Channel and CTV in Canada and Comedy Central in the United States.
Wait til Ezra Levant gets a major U.S. interview for his Ethical Oil book.
Posted by: CQ | June 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM