You May Be a Canadian If…

  • You stand in “line-ups” at the movie, not lines.
  • You’re not offended by the term “Homo Milk”
  • You understand the phrase, “Could you please pass me a serviette, I just spilled my poutine”.
  • You eat chocolate bars instead of candy bars.
  • You drink pop, not soda.
  • You know what it means to be on pogey.
  • You know that a mickey and a 2-4 means “Party at the camp, eh!!”
  • You don’t hold your hand on your breast when you sing the national anthem.
  • You can drink legally while still a teen.
  • You know that francophones, anglophones and allophones are not electronic devices.
  • You talk about the weather with strangers and friends alike.
  • You don’t know or care about the fuss with Cuba, it’s just a cheap place to travel to and has good cigars.
  • When there is a social problem, you turn to your government to fix it instead of telling them to stay out of it.
  • You’re not sure if the leader of our nation has EVER had sex and don’t want to know if he has!
  • You get milk in bags as well as cartons and plastic jugs.
  • Pike is a type of fish, not some part of a highway.
  • You drive on a highway, not a freeway.
  • You sit on a couch not a chesterfield – that is some small town in Quebec!
  • You know what a Robertson screwdriver is.
  • You have Canadian Tire money in your kitchen drawers.
  • You know that Thrills are something to chew and “taste like soap”.
  • You know that Mounties “don’t always look like that”.
  • You read rather than scanned this list.