Don’t Know Much About Canada

Sam Cooke famously told us that he didn’t know much about history, biology, a science book or the French he took, but here’s a subject about which Idahoans know even less: British Columbia. They’re our neighbors, you know, and starting Feb. 12 they’re hosting the Winter Olympics. Or hadn’t you heard? According to the Idaho Travel Council, British Columbia is Idaho’s largest single foreign source of tourists — you’ve seen all those motor homes with blue-on-white license plates headed south. They’re Canadians, but they talk like us. By contrast, relatively few Idahoans venture north. For us, British Columbia somehow smacks of slackness, liberalism and rampant hockey/ Steve Crump , Twin Falls Times-News. More here .

Question: What do you know about Canada, other than that fact that Monica Paquin moved there 2 years ago and voted for Mike Kennedy in the Coeur d’Alene election last November?