Canada has only been an actual country for something like a hundred and fifty years, and had been dependant on England well after that for sustenance.
A vast majority of our qualities are derived directly from there, and we are quite alright with that.
Hockey may not have originated here, but there is no doubt in the world's mind that we are among the top hockey countries in the world.
We didn't invent snow either, but when the winter Olympics roll around I am sure there are people who would swear we had.
On the other hand, Our mounties can adapt to any mount. Sand, Snow, pavement. You name it, we'll find something to ride on it.
Couldn't find the photo of the mountie riding a moose I was thinking of, but I'm sure Affray and Sushi have seen it.
Oh, and this totally happens.
It also happens in our small town when we do our Canada Day parades. Sometimes we would have real RCMP in our parades, other years we had OPP with horse training in the parade instead.
Continuing the theme of this thread, their favourite hockey losing a lot. An example is how fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs fans were so angry and pissed off this season after their team basically lost like 10 straight games, they insulted and made death threats to one of the goalie's wife on Twitter.
Yeah... about that, we're just really passionate about hockey. We have rioted over it. We've rioted when our teams lost, we rioted when our teams won.
Unfortunately, we're pretty passive so a government can pretty much destroy the country and we won't do anything as long as they don't try to fuck with our hockey.