"Canadian culture is an invention," former Quebec Premier Jacques

Parizeau declared recently, "but not a very creditable invention."

Au contrare, I say (and I say it in French, so as not to raise the

dander of the Bloc Quebecois). No, Mr. Parizeau, Canadian culture

is as bright and vital as Ace, the new Toronto Blue Jays mascot.

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