dear Frank
A dear American friend of mine hurt my feelings when he said that Canada 100 miles north of the U.S. border, is all frozen wasteland most of the year. He didn’t apologize when I took offense, I realized later he was joking. So today, tongue in cheek I am responding to him…
Dear Frank
Please don’t take this the wrong way because I love you to pieces, but without our Canadian wasteland, you’d be pretty much SOL (shit out of luck). Well maybe not, figuratively speaking though, but your comfort level would take a huge nosedive. You are from New York and let’s just use your state and my province Saskatchewan, for comparison here.
I’ll start with a fun fact you may not know just to keep it light before I go deep. I think Yankee Stadium and Coney Island are famous for their hotdogs correct? Well, chances are the mustard on that hotdog came from my backyard. Over 50% of the world’s mustard comes from seeds grown here, who knew? I love mustard and our catering company produced a mustard so good that people would kill for the SECRET recipe.
Being the caterer that you are, you probably use a lot of dried beans, chic peas, and lentils in your catering business. Well, here you are at my back door again, seems we supply 95% of the world’s lentils, did you know that? Saskatchewan has one of the richest and most fertile soils in the world and it encompasses 46% of Canada’s growing space, not bad for a frozen wasteland eh?
Ok so now the sucker punch. New York’s (your home) electricity is powered by 56% nuclear energy. Does it get cold in New York Frank? Do you cook with electricity? Well, guess what Frank good ole Saskatchewan supplied the uranium for your nuclear Power Plants. Without our uranium, you could get a little chilly, oh… and btw we probably supplied the expertise to guide you on how to build those plants.
Canada’s largest export is our people, ironic isn’t it? We don’t have a huge population base, but apparently, what we lack in numbers we make up for in our smarts. Our expertise is exported throughout the world because we share what we know. We are highly paid and respected in the world for this knowledge. Lastly Frank we are known to apologize a lot, sorry/not sorry.
OK, just one more little nugget, my wasteland (the province of Saskatchewan) doesn’t include an ocean but it does possess almost 10,000 lakes, on 251,000 square miles out of 3.8 million sq. miles that Canada encompasses, and yes you read that right. This is just an aside but our country can also lay claim to the longest coastline of any other country in the world.
AND that Frank is just a little more info about the province of Saskatchewan, that I call home. 
We are just a small part of Canada, a ‘diamond in the rough’ if you will. Oh, and we get those diamonds from our mines in northern Saskatchewan. Canadian diamonds are prized and very much in demand around the world.
We are just a small part of Canada, a ‘diamond in the rough’ if you will. Oh, and we get those diamonds from our mines in northern Saskatchewan. Canadian diamonds are prized and very much in demand around the world.So to wrap this all up from yours truly (a singular ‘diamond in the rough’) if you will… lol. Our ‘frozen wasteland’ is anything but.
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July 7th 2020