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This is a complex question. The older you get the more challenging it is to answer.The basis of any Answer that I could give is, the culture around you changes. You either instinctively try to keep up or consciously refuse some changes, if you can get away with it. There is a cognitive filter to this. Are you up to understanding what is happening around you?Any Answer anyone could give you cannot help but be culture-bound. I am aware mine is. I apologize if my situation is irrelevant to some Quora readers.Manitoba Upside Down and Jewish Manitoba TooI was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in November, 1951. The general Winnipeg culture I was little in is mostly gone. So are large parts of my Jewish Winnipeg.The General and Jewish Manitoba of My ChildhoodOne sees various media presentations that rather sentimentalize the 1950's. They weren't that sentimental when you were a child in them. Being Jewish in Winnipeg wasn't very sentimental either. Some basic suppositions of that so long-ago time:-People of British origin decide what happens.-Manitoba is about farming, except industrial things in Winnipeg.-Sometimes the working class needs to do some serious forelock-towing.-Religion is way more important than democracy, especially very austere Protestantism.-Ethnics exist to do what they are told. They especially need to forelock tow.-Ethnics exist to do working class jobs, except Jews, who you have to watch every minute.-A woman's place is in the home, no matter what any particular woman thinks. In any case all women really need to think about cooking, cleaning, how to run the modern home appliances that were popping up in homes around the province, and religion. Women don't need to think about child-rearing, because women are instinctual.-For Jewish women, double, plus shopping.-Fun is bad. It's especially bad if women have it.-But don't worry about that too much, because fun is something that happens in the USA.You have to be a football hero to get along with a beautiful gal:CAUTION: This video suggests that women can have fun. However they were having fun in America so it's not so bad.-Cholesterol does not matter for Jewish people. In the presence of a wedding or bar mitzvah the appropriate thing to do is to stuff yourself with both hands.-If you don't you are not really Jewish. You are an anglo wannabe.-Manitoba is your Canada. For Jewish Manitobans its a circle of about 100 miles in diameter, based on downtown Winnipeg. You don't need to be able to find Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver on a map.-Us Winnipeg Jewish people are united and care about each other.-The USA is wonderful. It's double wonderful for Jewish people.-Social change doesn't happen. It's only technology. The future is just the Jetsons.-Rock and roll is just a fad. Any moment from now the radio stations of our Manitoba will revert to Bing Crosby.All gone now, all, all, all or maybe 95%. That was the culture that shaped me. Then the reshaping had to start. The reshaping was itself a shaping. That is, trying to figure out what was going on, trying to figure out whether you approve or could avoid it, and worrying about what might come next, got forced into your personality.One Reshape After AnotherLife turns into reshape points. A few examples, big and small-What happened to men's haberdashery? I was looking forward to wearing a classy fedora when I got big.-CBC Toronto begins to insist that I have to know where Toronto is, and worship it.-Women take this new thing called the Pill. And then, they want to have fun. You had better be ready to provide it.-Some of them don't want to cook. Do you expect me to learn?-America is not just shopping and palm trees anymore. It's Detroit and Vietnam. Real Canadians don't approve of America.-You have to be a hippie to get along with a beautiful gal.-No, it was a mistake after all. Women don't want to have fun, at least not with you. They want feminism and they are very angry about how they had to live ten years ago. It's your personal fault.-Jewish food has calories so it's bad. You have to eat salads.-You have to speak French. Manitobanism is no excuse.-What Reform Judaism is OK! No, no, no!-It's quite alright to despise other Jewish people who think differently than you do.Those were the 1960's and 1970's reshapes. There was more to come:-Remember we told you that you are a very evil person because of your unnatural urges? You richly deserved to be bullied by everybody, including your high school sports coach. Forget it. We changed our minds. Now you are happy, happy, happy.-Rap and hip hop music is better than other music. Oh, and you don't have to respect women after all. We have just discovered that they are all hoes and booty.-You can't behave ethnic anymore but you are still welcome to shut up.-No Yiddish allowed, no hand gestures, no nightclub comedians any more. However we are still watching you. You are an oppressor! (OK, the oppressor part is back to business as usual. When I was seven years old the Jews of Canada were being given a brief break. We just didn't realize.)-Political correctness is way more important than democracy.-We elites have figured it out. Keep changing the social rules and it keeps throwing the rest of you off balance. It makes you that much easier to control.Emergent PropertiesThe human brain is not putty and wax. The continuous shaping starts to make you impatient. You get old. You wear down. You are being shaped into a lot of irritability. Some personality results and stances:-Trying to convince yourself it's all good. The universe is unfolding as it should and you are getting folded with it. What happened before is unhistory. You might call this the personality pretzel stance.-Trying to convince yourself its all bad. You were much happier in no-fun Manitoba in 1958. It should have just been the Jetsons. And, stuffing my face at Bar Mitzvahs can never be replaced by anything, not even political correctness.-I am still going to open car doors for women. I don't care if they get outraged. And if I can find a fedora, I will wear it. I rebel against modern social norms and the next norms that come along, as they will in a year or two.-My life is defined by the original Twilight Zone series. I should have known that the future hates happiness. Rod Serling warned me about this, even as I was a child in the ethno-Winnipeg paradise of 1958. He was right. It's now the future. Unfortunately modern Canada is a dystopic nightmare. Paradise got lost and the grimmest possible black and white episode of the Twilight Zone has kicked in. It's time for a sombre and dignified melancholy.The Survival PersonalityYou have outlived the culture that thought it was shaping you for life. You have outlived several more cultures that tried to reshape you. You know from experience, the current culture that is trying to shape you will evaporate presently.To you, you matter more than any of the cultures that you have Twilight Zoned your way through. Somewhere deep inside me is that bar mitzvah stuffer of 1959. I had fun stuffing in Winnipeg. I still get a macho rush opening the car door for a woman I am in not politically correct awe of.Cultures come and go. You don't until the final curtain. Believe in what you want to believe. My conclusion about all this cultural shaping is, it doesn't last. I think the older you get, the more you realize that compared to your own life, culture is ephemeral.Martin Levine

Any government is going to have things wrong with it. In fact, when you get to election time, the primary question is sometimes, which party is least wrong?A government is a lot more than the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Ministers and the backbenchers. Much of the government is its bureaucracy, its administrative apparatus. The bureaucracy is meant to be politically neutral, but how it is organized and funded is very political indeed. Sometimes, just keeping the bureaucracy running in good order is more important than the ideology of the current government.Massive Sideswipes and How a Government Deals With ThemTo a great extent, the current Liberal Government has been knocked off course by Donald Trump. I believe that, short of evading groping accusations, Justin Trudeau would prefer to deal with anything else. There are various, much more vote pleasing things that the Liberal Party would like to do, instead of dealing with sometimes a little hysterical media accounts of how Donald Trump will collapse the Canadian economy, and force Canada back into being a patriarchal, log rolling, hewing wood, drawing water, you are lucky if if you have your Sunday best, society.No, it's not fair, but life isn't fair, certainly not for politicians, or, for countries. World Wars 1 and 2 weren't fair for Canada. Nor was the Great Depression. Nor was the British collapse of interest in Canada. Nor was the violent part of the Quebec separation crisis. Canadian federal governments have to deal with these situations, no matter whether a lot of their agenda gets knocked off course. The jury is still out on the Trudeau government, although at this point I can't blame them for being knocked off.What Does a Government Do When an Era Ends?Continuing from the above, this not a good luck government. I think the Liberal Party government is stumbling hard, over something that is not the fault of their current administration. That is, the end of a decades long era in Canada, not just in Canadian politics.I have said it in other answers. Until toward the end of the 1950's, most of Canada was functioning on what I like to call a Don Messeresque model. Us oldies remember what it was. Whites are good. Homos belong in jail. So does any drug addict. Britain is king (In Quebec, king in a very bad way), a woman's place is in the home, those Jews better watch their step, Indians need to stay on their reserves and be very quiet, and so on.It at all seems very quaint now. But, people have to exist in their own time. Watching Don Messer's Jubilee in black and white was just as vibrant and meaningful an experience in those days as declaring yourself a male feminist and marching in a take back the night demonstration.As an aside, this gets me thinking. Some key Canadian socio-cultural experiences seem to transcend the generations. I could cite Hockey Nights in Canada, beer, blizzards, boredom and legislating the living daylights out of everything, bylaw, by bylaw, by bylaw. This deep, deep, core part of Canada for so long, must be running on a different time cycle from that long gone era of the patriarchal, rural, Celtic Canada.I feel confident that, if it is the 24th century, and the Canadian members of the Enterprise crew are a big enough component, they will demand that a section of the Ten Forward lounge be made theirs, where they can watch Hockey Night in Canada, replicate and guzzle poor quality beer, make disrespectful comments to the female Canadians (and the Canadian women to each other), and throw chairs at each other (and the Canadian women at each other too.). Who knows, from the perspective of the far future, maybe Don Messer will be seen as more entertaining and relevant than a constitutional debate and the Islanders will be on the flat panel displays 24/7, in the Canadian section of the Ten Forward lounge.But anyhow, Hockey Night in Canada aside, the Trudeau government has had the bad luck to be stuck on the end of the Canada that has existed from about 1965 to now. Like other eras of Canadian life, it has run its course. Most of the achievable goals of the pro-minority, pro feminist, pro workplace accommodation, pro multicultural as long as it doesn't really mean anything, pro-refugee, pro religion is just a dodge for the patriarchy, pro Toronto and Montreal media and academic elite, Canada, have been reached. A big bill has been run up. Short of an NDP government, no federal government can raise taxes much higher than they are now, either to spend more or pay the national debt down.This most recent era of our Canada has not kept up with some of its more negative consequences, plus consequences that the current era didn't envision. We face an out of control. social disaster in terms of housing prices in Toronto, Vancouver and their environs. (Getting towards being the homes of 9,000,000 Canadians, out of a national total population of 37,000,000. ) Various costly, federal strategies, to bring both reserve and urban aboriginal people out of their misery, have failed. Despite years of preaching, so many Canadians exporters see only one export market, the currently Trumpian, always volatile, always nationalistic nation to the south. And despite the most fervent efforts of the current urban, preaching elite, beer parlour, tattoos for men and women both, smokes, drive your 4 X 4 when you are drunk, we hate fags, Canada, is going strong. Technological changes have thrown huge amounts of money into the hands of the smarter elite and forced a substantial part of the rest into call centre hopelessness.Is Justin Trudeau Clinging to What Is Now Canada's Past?Except for the darkest intellectuals among us (not too many of those in Canada), Canada's fascist-authoritarian-racist community, and various hockey coaches at all levels of the sport, “sunny ways” Canada sounded like a good thing. It was probably appropriate after the Harper era, when, somehow, a seriously dark, conservative intellectual slid through the Conservative Party candidate selection system, and got to be our Prime Minister. But sunny ways just isn't an appropriate response to what the Government of Canada really should do now. A bit of darkness, scorn and meanness might help.-Justin Trudeau has done his very best, but Donald Trump and his base hate sunny. Is it time for Canada to drop its traditional, since about 1965, conciliatory approach, and say to Donald Trump and his base, one more insult or lie and we will charge 50% export duties on all the electricity, aluminum, steel, softwood lumber, and a few other strategic things we export to you? And also, we have just stopped protecting all American pharmaceutical patents. I think Donald and the gang would see us as partial soul brothers and start liking us.-Sunny is taken to mean never criticize any province or municipality about what it does, except the administration of Doug Ford. However, does the federal government have a moral responsibility to say to the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario and the municipalities of the Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver areas, your housing situation is a mismanaged disaster and a serious danger to Canada's national economy and integrating our immigrant communities. Change your zoning laws, facilitate the construction of many more non-luxury housing units, even if it means building 80 story apartment blocks in those pristine 1950's suburban areas, and to the extent the CMHC has any money to help you, they will get in touch.-Can the current Government of Canada announce that equity and affirmative action programming was appropriate at the start of the current Canadian social era, but those programmes have succeeded and run their course? Could the current federal government say, it is time to sunset these programmes, but, of course, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination and workplace accommodation programmes will stay in place?-Can the current federal government admit that, a guy calling himself a feminist is silly, given a heterosexual male's natural predilection to grope? Can, it consider, in general, an interesting concept that I read about yesterday, that as social issues get resolved, social demands actually become more extreme? For example, we started by agreeing that men raping women was wrong and rightfully, deserved jail time. Then, it was threatening to do it. Then it was hitting your wife, then it was threatening to do it, then not doing your share of the housework and inviting the attention of the child welfare authorities, then suggesting to some woman at the office that she ought to date you, then smiling at a woman in the office, then trying to talk to a woman in a club, then smiling at a woman in club, and then or before, groping a woman at a public event, even if you thought they would like it, and then fall all over yourself apologizing, but then everybody considers the incident as tantamount to a violent rape, which is an unreasonable response to the real trauma of when a woman actually does get raped?I am not condoning these behaviours at all. But, at some point, for this, for racial, for workplace accommodation, for cultural and minority issues, you need to top out. You state publicly, this is serious, this not so much, this maybe you ought to apologize, learn and don't do that again, and then the ultimate, life is not perfect and neither are the people in yours. So deal with it.What Do You Do When a Prime Minster Believes In What He Believes In?I have said it before, the Canadian public strongly misunderstands Justin Trudeau. He is not mild and conciliatory. He very strongly believes in what he believes in. He is a human being with a certain background and certain feelings, much more than being the current Prime Minister of Canada.When he says “sunny ways” he really means it. When he declares himself a male feminist, he really believes it. When he doesn't respond to gratuitous insults and lies from Donald Trump, he strongly believes he is doing the right thing, even if, maybe, deep down, his blood is boiling.Justin Trudeau is very much a product of from 1965 to just before Donald Trump, Canada. He is a package. Maybe his values and beliefs anchor his personal life and personal self-esteem, just like a lot of the rest of us. I don't at all blame him.The end of an era can be a time of much pain, even for us nice, jolly, happy, mild Canadians. How many people handle the end of an era well? I believe this a very big problem for Justin Trudeau, given the relatively enormous responsibilities he has, compared to your run of the mill Canadian.I like Justin Trudeau as a person. Unlike a lot of people one encounters in one's personal life, I think he really does mean well. If for some impossible reason, I was giving him advice in a conversation, I would say, from my own, foolish, personal experiences, “Don't hoist yourself by your own petard”. If you groped a woman eighteen years ago, admit it, say it and say you are sorry you did it and frightened the woman, apologize sincerely to that woman, tell the Canadian male public how you can change your way of thinking so you don't do things like that anymore, say that's it for this subject, and tell female opposition politicians who try to exploit the issue, that it says a lot more about them that it does about you.But, there are other petards in Justin Trudeau's public life. Given his right to his own mind set, I am not sure he can change them. Can he call a press conference, and announce that there ain't no sunny for Donald Trump and that Canada is looking to hurt him?Can he call another one, about sunsetting already accomplished federal programming?Can he call one and admit that previous federal programmes have failed to help indigenous Canadians, that he has just visited Winnipeg, talked respectfully to indigenous urban natives and has no choice but to say, “nation to nation” doesn't work in a city. Instead we will ask the Province of Manitoba, the City of Winnipeg and the indigenous peoples of Manitoba, and work out much better integration, but not assimilation, programmes?Can he call another press conference, about housing, and say that, the housing market in the Greater Toronto and Vancouver areas is at a crisis of national scope, that he cannot ignore?Very unfortunately, I doubt he can. Doing these things would violate what he holds true.But Who Else Can Do It?Andrew Scheer? Here is another prisoner of his own petard and just as committed to it. He can't do it either.I would like to end on a hopeful note, but really I can't. Rather I believe that Canada will stumble through the end of the current era in pain, maybe even more pain that it did in 1965.Personally, I am not sunny. I doubt the capacity of people to question their values and change. (And, I am not excluding myself.) Canada, and Canadians, are simply in for a bad, confused time with inadequate leadership. It will take years to develop a new equilibrium and stabilize into another era.Martin Levine

Why indeed? I speak as a lifelong non-drinker. Aside from that I personally don't like drinking, I come from a Winnipeg ethno-subculture where there was next to no tolerance for it.Canadian-Style DrinkingI should provide some context around the drinking environment where I live (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.) In much of Canada, free-standing, Neighbours-type, alcohol-serving bars, are discouraged, depending on provincial and municipal laws. Drinking establishments are frequently required to serve food. This does not however, necessarily apply to establishments that have a strong entertainment aspect, in particular discos or places that are primarily live theatres.At one time, Canada has stand up and guzzle bars, but the results were frequently terrible. The Caucasian settlers of Canada arrived with strong drinking and binging cultures (Northern France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Ukraine, Poland, etc.) Canada has a long, long history of alcohol abuse, I think in part a result of the dreadful winters, darkness, geographic isolation and very repressive social and cultural attitudes, which strove to make life as pleasureless as possible. Drinking was the only pleasure permitted by the upper classes to the workers. So, in the early 1900's, saloons were common. The workers would drink poor quality-booze, fight, get sick, go home and beat the females in their family unit (Already a well-tolerated behaviour in, even my humble home is still my castle, Canada.), and, show up drunk at the factory, and get in horrible industrial accidents.Admittedly, this could get a little bit out of hand, as it did in my home town: http://siamandas.com/time_machine/PAGES/more%20stories/PROSTITUTION%20IN%20WINNIPEG-R3.htmThat was long before Canada's, aren't we nice, tradition. I should explain that, in those good old days, a hotel invariably offered a saloon, and also fraternization (Can you fraternize with a woman?) with women who were not fixed on being a wife and mother in order to make a living.Canada never had nation-wide prohibition (In fact, Canadian liquor products were smuggled across the American border in large quantities during American Prohibition.) However, in the post-war period, in particular, female suffragettes of British, upper middle class origin, decided that the working men of Canada needed some heavy discipline, and so, there were the roots of drinking Canada as we have it today.The concept of women in drinking establishments has traditionally been very fraught in Canada. After the drinking Cultural Revolution, much of Canada's social drinking was done in beer parlours. For a very long time women were not allowed there. (But there was considerable tolerance for a woman being a secret alcoholic at home. That way, social propriety was retained.) More with-it beer parlours were eventually allowed to have a special room for “Ladies and Escorts”. So, there were supervisory males to make sure that the women did not become bold and disobedient, and behave in a lewd manner. Eventually, these core institutions of our Canadian culture began to fade, in the face of various human rights and equality things. (Tell Gloria Steinem that she can't go out drinking with Betty Friedan and Jane Fonda unless there was a male to keep them under control? Even in our fondest backwaters, Canada got the message.) I must say that my home province, Manitoba, fought to the very end to maintain women-free drinking establishments, right into the 1970's.The beer parlours had other practices that are synonymous with a certain period in Canadian life. (We are not Americans! We are not Americans!) Particularly, in Manitoba, you always got double service, whether you wanted it or not. That is, two large glasses of beer would hit the table for you, without you even asking for it. Also, you were not permitted to move your beer from one table to another. You had to ask a staff member to do it. They would check you out first.To this day, the concept of a woman going on her own to hit the booze in a drinking establishment, is considered in much of English-speaking Canada to be dodgy, unless she is attending upon a lesbian bar. So, Canadian women generally go out to drink in packs, rather frequently. Singles bars have not taken off all that much. Now that the social media are with us, for those in such need, there are hook up sites and, instructions about how to find swinger clubs.Having said all of the above, Ottawa-Gatineau is a hard drinking town. It is full of drinking establishments. And a whole lot of the people who go there are not looking to eat. Much of the adult population here are federal civil servants, so, even I, with my judgmental attitude, and my anti-drinking cultural heritage, cannot blame them for having the occasional falling down episode.I Can Drown My Sorrows A Lot Better Here, Then When I Am Staring At The Four WallsUnfathomably, our very superior Canadian social programmes do not necessarily provide everybody with everything needed for a joyous life. Having known rather a lot of alcohol dependant people, getting loaded alone, in front of the TV and the computer, at night, when you are going mad anyhow from cabin fever, in a snow-filled provincial backwater, makes the whole drinking lifestyle a lot worse. A lot of Canadians live alone nowadays. Or, they live with roommates or family that won't put up with their late night staggering. So, off they go to what we more commonly call a pub. (Don't get excited British people. The people there are still dour Canadians, watch what you say to any woman, and if you wanted to fight about Brexit, a lot of them wouldn't know what you are talking about.) When the womanless beer parlours began to fade, ersatz pubs began to fill in.I Love SportsThere are lots of sports bars in Canada. Some of the people who go to them actually do like to watch sports on TV. Generally a Canadian sports bar will serve an adequate selection of very unhealthy snacks (Nachos, tacos, (Yes, in Canada.), chips (I am old, so what I mean is French Fries.), poutine, onion rings, pizza, cheeseburgers, etc. So, you can line your stomach with plentiful fat, and go to it.I Want To Feel The Heat With SomebodyMeaning, in the Canadian context, often, I want to beat on somebody, I alone, or me and my bros. Canada has a distinguished tradition of bar fighting, or at least starting the fight in the bar (Look at my girlfriend will you? I am going to put you in pain!) and taking it out on the street, even if it is -40 with a stiff wind.Unless you are getting truly homicidal (Remember, the average Canadian is not allowed to pack heat.), or, sometimes, unless you are a member of a non-approved racial minority, you would likely get away with a police wrist slap, and maybe a night in the drunk tank.Female friends have given me to understand, they do it to, but in the lady's room. However, at the lesbians bars I have enjoyed so much frequenting, the ladies were far from adverse to an out in the open, vicious brawl. (Once more, even in this alternative environment, look at my girlfriend will you? I am going to put you in pain!) and, lesbians frequently have female bro's.I Am A Cougar, I Admit It, And I Need Love, Or, Really, Something ElseYes, we have Cougar Bars in Canada nowadays. An occasional woman might show up alone, but generally, they will know the other female regulars, so they still have safety in numbers. I used to frequent one in Ottawa. It had weekend DJ's, and a dance floor full of middle-aged women trying to entice. These are places of female aggression and choice. And, what happens in a Cougar Bar, and immediately after, stays in the Cougar Bar. It is sort of a teensy bit of Las Vegas, for women who are not completely fixed on love and commitment, or actively don't want it.I Am Gay, I Admit It, And I Need Love, Or, Friendship, and Just Occasionally, Really, Something ElseSo, the gay bar. We know just what goes on there, don't we? At times I wish it still did. Internet hook-up sites have ruined the jolly, friendly, “I need it right now, and oh, you too? Let's go!”, tradition. Some of the gay bars were so kind as to offer a back room, where you could go really quick. I have a gay bar just down the block. Many of the men are old. They drink. They don't have sex. After a lifetime of rejection, it is the only social place they feel comfortable. They are a true captive audience.Disco, But You Go NowhereI have two heterosexual discos within a five minute walk. I am too old to be a contender for anything, except for getting the most fear and suspicion looks from beautiful young women on the dance floor. So, I can observe and dream about better days that, actually, I never had.The discos are differently licenced in Ontario and are exempt from providing food service. So, young, attractive people can go there, and some of them crave negative attention from the bouncers, by being just as drunk and obnoxious as they can be. Nowadays, in our new Canada, there is a new excuse. Weed is legal. You can't smoke it inside discos, but you can take a break (You get a wrist stamp when you pay to get in.), go out on the street, and smoke up so much that the weed smell returns back in the bar and gives everybody an additional reason to behave silly.From what I have seen, a young man in a disco, has an honest need for bar shots and the supplementary weed, because, again, the young women are there in packs, and they will visibly grab hold of one of their own who thinks they want to leave with some guy they just met. Poor young guys. They really do not get it.I Don't Drink In Bars. I Drink In Top End Stake Houses, Brasseries And Private Golf ClubsYes, your exclusive golf course has a bar, but drinking there lifts you up the social ladder. It is a declaration of social status. You are not somebody who goes drinking in bars, when the bar you drink in is exclusively for Ottawa's top and finest. You are networking, you are talking about community leadership, you are talking about who ought to be selected as a Conservative Party of Canada federal candidate.Teetotaller, Shame On You!So, it is a horribly cold night near the end of Ottawa-Gatineau's January. You don't drink at all, but you are just as cabin-fevered as someone who needs addictions therapy. Where are you going to go? Coffee shops close early. Ontario used to tolerate Shisha Bars, but that implied Middle Eastern people, smoking, socializing and enjoying it much too much. So, they put a stop to it.So, there you are at your beautiful young lesbian bar or that beautiful young heterosexual woman disco. They serve Diet Coke, However, it is best to order it as quietly as you can, and pretend you are drinking something with Rye. Drinking Canadians don't like Teetotallers. They take it as a judgement or are most afraid that you are sober, weird and up to something horrid. Maybe it is the final Canadian closet. So, go to that bar, pretend you are drinking something a self-respecting Canadian would, and, if a beautiful young woman of any gender wants you to buy her a drink, buy her a serious one.Martin Levine