Contents

Title

Dedication

Foreword

Introduction

Really Important Maps

The Canada Party Manifesto

1. America and Canada: Continental BFFs

1.1 Timeline of U.S.-Canadian History

1.2 Grok the Vote: Campaign Reform for Idiots

1.3 Making English the Official Language for Native English Speakers

1.4 Combining Our Cities: Welcome to Van Francisco, Dirty Hippie Capital of the World!

1.5 Understanding Hockey, from the Country That Gave You Football and Basketball

1.6 The Cameron Plan: America in 3D

1.7 How to Say You’re Sorry without Looking like a Total Pussy

2. It’s a Small World (Unless You’re Liechtenstein)

2.1 American Exceptionalism, or How to Make Other Countries Feel Bad about Their Bodies

2.2 Killing with Kindness, Torturing with Tenderness

2.3 Weaponizing Politeness: Fight like a Canadian!

2.4 Showing Nature Who’s Boss

2.5 Un-American Idol: How Reality Shows Can Stop Illegal Immigration

2.6 A Simple Solution for Integrating Our Indigenous Peoples

2.7 The Metric System: Exactly Ten Times More Awesome Than Imperial Units

3. The Irony of Being Ironic in a Post-Ironic Age

3.1 The Elitist Scourge: How to Hate People Who Are Better Than You

3.2 Citizens Divided: People Are Now Corporations

3.3 Thoughts on Relieving America’s Sexual Tension

3.4 The Question of: a) Education

3.5 Health Care: More Than Just a Dental Plan for Hockey Players

3.6 Helping Children Determine Their Value as Future Americans

3.7 Obesity: Big Thoughts on Big People

3.8 All We Are Saying Is Give Guns a Chance

3.9 Crime and Punishment, and then Crime Again

4. Treating Experts like Mammals

4.1 Grandpa Lost His Shins in the Big One: Our Statute of Limitations on Living Off Other People’s Sacrifices

4.2 What to Do with “the Gays”

4.3 You Are NOT the Father! Abstinence-Only: Education and the Rise of Immaculate Conceptions

4.4 Media Libs

4.5 Weed. Sweet, Sweet Weed.

4.6 The Constitution, Annotated

4.7 Science vs. Religion (Spoiler: Science Wins in Overtime!)

4.8 Living in Fear: The War of the Words

Appendix A: Some Handy Tear-Out Application Forms

Appendix B: Canadian Glossary

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

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