Dear Editor
The flutter about the visit of the Canadian Prime Minister to the President of the United States has died down and the flutter now is the visit for the President of the U.S. to the President of Cuba.
A certain newspaper which is owned by a far away conglomerate always has an editorial sent from on high. During the first mentioned visit the editorial was a tempest in a teacup thing about the Canadian Prime Minister when asked how the attitude of Americans could improve, rather gently suggested they could realize there is a world beyond their borders. For this the editorial snapped at him.
That same week two CBC radio reporters chuckled as they played a tape taken from an American reports news reporter who said of a certain basketball player that he was from Canada, from Saskatchewan!
The two reporters enjoyed that but a few days later (and again CBC reporters) two reporters were reading the menu from the state dinner given to the Canadian Prime Minister.
“Oh,” said one, “here’s something Canadian on the menu! A maple syrup dessert.”
Oh dear. Did no one ever tell them that when Europeans came to this country and began to draw lines on maps they did not tell the sugar maple to stay north of the line between what became Canada and what became U.S.A?
I expect that maple syrup on the menu came from Vermont, U.S.A
There are sugar maples in both countries, and possibly here and there a Sasquatch.
Who is the pot and who is the kettle?
Christine Pike
Waseca
