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It is a running joke to make fun of Canada. There was a full length
1999 "South Park" movie called "South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut" in
which included a song production called "Blame Canada" was sung that
would put any Golden Age Hollywood 1950s musical production to shame
LOL! It was about how upset Americans were over two vulgar and
extremely popular with American and Canadian kids TV comedy team
called Terrence & Phillip with their toilet humor corrupting American
Youth. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA
Don't worry, if you listen closely it's really a jab at us Americans
by Americans. Turn up your speakers so your neighbors can hear it. :-)
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>My only mild criticism is that Canada does not HAVE a President. We are
>modeled on the British parliamentary system (to an extent) and have a
>Prime Minister and a Governor-General. The Prime Minister is by far the
>most powerful of the two roles; the Governor-General is pretty much a
>ceremonial role where the G-G basically stands in for the Queen - the
>British Queen is also our queen - and gives out awards or whatever.
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The writers know that, I suspect they wanted to make sure the audience
knew they were attacking Trump, not the actual Prime Minister of
Canada Stephen Harper. :-)
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>I don't suppose that they could figure out how to work all of that into
>the plot; I'm sure it was much easier just to pretend we have a
>President. Or maybe the writers really don't know that.
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See above.
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>For what it's worth, I don't think we have any requirement that a
>Canadian Prime Minister (or Governor-General) needs to be born here. In
>fact, at least one Prime Minister was NOT born in Canada, specifically
>our first Prime Minister John A. McDonald. Also, our current G-G was
>born in Canada as far as I know but both of the preceding ones were born
>overseas, one in Haiti and one in Hong Kong.
>
>I don't think there would be any legal obstacle to Trump running for
>Prime Minister, though the voters might not like it. Just in case anyone
>was wondering....
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>Rhino
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No you don't have an explicit requirement to be a natural born citizen
of Canada to be the PM. Austrian born Arnold Schwarzenegger probably
wishes America was like Canada in that way since he would had been
able to run for President LOL! But you do have automatic citizen if
you're born on Canadian soil and not subject to the control of another
government like we do. Trump doesn't like that. :-)