Canada changes its national symbol from maple leaf to Inuit rock pile

A reader writes:

As a former Canadian now in the US, that picture of Paul Martin’s *ss up high, lips to the ground was hilarious.

But Canadians are denying their identity and prostrating themselves in other ways as well.

The National Post newspaper (April 25th 2005) announced Canada’s logo for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games (to be held in British Columbia).

Historically, Canada’s international logo for events such as these has focused around a stylized maple leaf, Canada’s official symbol and only image in the Canadian flag. NOT anymore!

Instead of forming the Canadian presence around the Canadian flag, Canada is going to be visually represented to the entire world by an Inukshuk. An Inukshuk is an Eskimo marker of piled rocks, used foremost as a geographical indicator that someone was around.

One wonders how this symbol came to point to Canada?

The Inuit population of Canada is amongst that nation’s poorest of the poor. They would fit in quite well within any Third World country.

Many live in far northern settlements where a substantial number of their kids fry their brains out inhaling gasoline fumes. And unemployment is a fixed way of life. The only way the Inuit make money is by peddling untaxed cigarettes and alcohol.

So the representative Canadian emblem to the world through the Olympic show will be something totally unrepresentative of Canadian history or tradition. But it is politically correct—a pile of rocks from its native ghettos. My guess is that we will see little piles of rocks sold at Olympic venues manufactured in Japan or Korea (since Canadian environmentalists will no doubt protest any importation of rocks from the Northern Territories as an ecological disturbance).

Posted by Lawrence Auster at April 26, 2005 09:54 PM | Send