Top 10 Things I Will Miss About Canada

Slowly but surely that fateful date is approaching upon which Kari and I will no longer live in the Great White North. I've spent the last few weeks aimlessly strolling around parts of Toronto and asking myself what sorts of things I want to do and see before I leave Canada. Like any tourist, I still want to pay the outrageous $67 CAD and go up the CN Tower, and I want to engage in a bit of Torontonian culture by going to the Art Gallery of Ontario and perhaps the Ceramics Museum. In the midst of such thoughts, I've begun to compile a small but ample list of things that I will actually miss about this country. The following is what I've come up with so far on my 1/3 of km walk from our apartment to the nearest Starbuck's...

I will miss...

(1) The Parliamentary System
(2) The irony of a Parliamentary System that thinks it's more moral than the 3-branch US System, even though Canada's Parliament approved a bill that paved the way for government sanctioned swingers's clubs!
(3) Comercials promoting the Canadian Armed Forces, which try their darndest to look like a Tom Clancy Splinter Cell X-Box game in order to attract the attention of teenage Canadians
(4) The Toronto Transit System, which, though not always reliable, is one of the cleanest and most pee-free subway systems in the world
(5) The 18% cream that Tim Horton's puts in its coffee
(6) Crux Books (the best theological bookstore in the world... hands down!!!)
(7) All of the Canadian commentary on US politics and US history, which, ironically, used to bother me but is now just down right funny for all of its inaccuracies, such as the time a member of the church we used to go to told us that our national anthem had lyrics supporting the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
(8) Hearing Canadian Christians explain why the US of A is under some sort of spiritual attack because it is participating in an unjust war, while all along the Canadian Christians telling me this seem to conveniently forget the fact that their country is also in an unjust war
(9) Poutine (not so much because I've ever tried it, but I just like saying the name)
(10) Interact debit machines

Next up... the top 10 things I won't miss about Canada...

David