Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Douglas CouplandI think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability.
Douglas CouplandDo you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.
Douglas Coupland