Canada's Apology to the USA

[Argranade]

LMAO!!!!

That's so funny EHH!

[sparks19]

Hmmm wrong time to be bragging about olympic hockey since both the Canadian and U.S. team got smoked in hockey last olympics.

I am just sorry in Ontario we have to pay 14% sales tax LOL

[BC_MoM]

I love Rick Mercer!

In history, we watched his special: "Talking to Americans"

I'm not calling Americans stupid - but WOW - you sure are gullible!!!!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Is it okay to laugh quietly???

[king2005]

HEY!!! there is some wrong info there.. We didn't burn down the White House, we burned down the Pink House

I'm not joking, for people who don't know the history.. It was origionally PINK

[Blue_Frog]

*lol* cute! I know Rick Mercer had been doing a lot of commercials around here for the One-Ton-Challenge (to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions).

I always liked the name of the comedy group/show though - "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", poking fun at the fact that an hour long program has been getting shorter and shorter over the years, so isn't really an hour long anymore

[Lady's Human]

Canadians didn't burn the White House (Presidential house, as it was called at the time), it was British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn, who was sent from the peninsular wars in Spain to invade the US.

[GreyhoundGirl]

ROFL !!! With such a serious title, I didn't want to get involved, but after reading the "he is a moron, but it wasn't nice of us to point it out" I was hooked. Really, really funny.

[BC_MoM]

Canadians didn't burn the White House (Presidential house, as it was called at the time), it was British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn, who was sent from the peninsular wars in Spain to invade the US.

Yes, but at the time Canada was still a child and still under control of the British, so when they went to war - we did too.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Canadians didn't burn the White House (Presidential house, as it was called at the time), it was British forces under Rear Admiral Cockburn, who was sent from the peninsular wars in Spain to invade the US.

Maybe they write the history books differently in Canada....

At the time, Washington was a minor port with only about 8,000 inhabitants — about 1,300 of whom were slaves. What it lacked in strategic value, however, it made up in symbolic value. The British and Canadians sought revenge on the United States for the destruction they had caused on the capital of Upper Canada (now Ontario) at York (now Toronto) after the Battle of York in 1813. Naval commander George Cockburn wrote that he hoped the destruction of the new republic's capital might demoralize the enemy as well.

[lizbud]

HEY!!! there is some wrong info there.. We didn't burn down the White House, we burned down the Pink House

I'm not joking, for people who don't know the history.. It was origionally PINK

Can you show me where you read that fact? Thanks.

[king2005]

Can you show me where you read that fact? Thanks.

Which fact? The fact that the White House's origional colour was Pink? or that The Canadian & British army was pretty much the same thing back then?