The Canadian plot to wipe out the Kardashians was foiled by faulty intelligence.
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Yeah, but our religious right started complaining, fueling the Canadian prison industrial complex.
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Meanwhile in Canada…
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Wow. That audio needs to be dubbed on some US presidential candidate stump speeches.
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I have a daughter who is already utterly in love with that man. Now that you’ve proven him to be a nerd as well, I think she’s going to ditch her current college acceptances and re-apply to McGill instead! 
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Beep…
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Reminder: this thread is not a celebration of the land that brought us poutine, but a threnody for the country that brought us Justin Bieber.
We come here not to praise Ceaser, but to bury him.
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I’m sure we can find worse than Justin Bieber. At least he is actually incredibly talented.
Celiene Dion on the other hand…
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You know, I had forgotten that guy until RIGHT NOW!!!
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I was hoping to find a gif of him cattle prodding someone (after all, Mounties are well known for their cattle prod tactics) but alas this was the best I could find.
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Oh, god, what was the other dude he’s fighting there… he was, like a prison guard or something?
I’m not sure, but I think by the 80s, they were getting a little low on a character ideas, weren’t they?
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Yup, that was the Big Boss Man, who actually was a prison guard before becoming a pro wrestler. He would handcuff his opponent to the ropes and beat them with a night stick and ball and chain.
To keep the thread Canada centric, many big names in pro wrestling came from or were trained there.
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So, in other words, if it weren’t for Canada, we wouldn’t have pro wrestling as we know it.
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Aw, c’mon. It was an American talent scout for an American recording studio that “discovered” Bieber and marketed him.
Likewise it’s Americans - and only Americans - who have said of Ted Cruz, “Y’know, this Canadian guy impressed us when he shut down the American government while misinterpreting Dr. Seuss. Let’s make him the rational and likable alternative in our Presidential campaign.”
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Yup. Paul Sauvé Arena, Édouard Carpentier, the Vachon brothers, Killer Kowalski, le Géant Jean Ferré (André the Giant) - Canada kept pro wrestling alive in the '60s and '70s.
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Someone should write a PhD on that! Maybe a global history of pro wrestling, which seemed pretty regional, but interconnected in that period.
Of course, in the SW, Mexico probably had a bigger impact on the pro wrestling circuits.
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There are thesis’ on wrestling… but more about the physique. 
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=cgu_etd
Stylizing, Commodifying, and Disciplining Real Bodies: An Examination of WWE Wrestling
And remember, Rowdy Roddy Piper was from Saskatoon! And the Harts wrestling training camp was instrumental in bring a new generation to the mat! Fun fact: Canadians may say they don’t like or follow wrestling but we’re all oddly proud of it!
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Don’t forget their influence on American politics. The 1970s wrestling show tirades are the Trump/Cruz speeches of today!
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If it wasn’t for Canada, then Pasadena would be the poutine capital of the world…
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