Welcome to Canada, eh?

Sometimes, I am just a little embarrassed to be Canadian.

Besides sharing your country with 2 official languages, and one of those provinces continues to lobby for separation, it's like airing out your dirty marital problems on an international scale.  Then there's the problem with your national hockey teams losing the Stanley Cup since 1993.  You've got hockey teams based out of Florida that play better than you - which is sad to say the least.  That's equivalent to Hawaii beating you at speed skating.  Don't get me wrong, I love Canada and I'm proud to call it my home and country.  But this week, an embarrassing story was published about a town in the Northern part of Labrador, on the east coast of Canada, where it was reported they are running out of food.

In the year 2008, in a country that considers itself first world, and in a town that wasn't hit with a natural or man-made disaster, citizens run out of food and supplies.  That unfortunately isn't the new tag line in the next Dennis Quade movie but it happens to be the truth for the town of Makkovik.  Like most coastal towns and cities, their primary shipping route is by sea, and apparently the winter slow down has already happened.

Seriously, this isn't Siberia or the foothills of Everest.  Your can get your necessities with other means (such as ground transportation - Labrador isn't an island, no matter what they want to believe) not to mention that the "town" has a damn airport!  It's times like this that makes the rest of the world still believe that Canada is run by Eskimos and everyone rides dogsleds to work and live in igloos and where Bob and Doug Mackenzie are national heroes.  They might as well be right if a town in your country fails to keep their citizens fed because they couldn't bring in enough food. Time to whip out some spears and go hunt us some moose because we ain't going hungry this winter!