# The boss of Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374 "2001-10-04T13:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/1 "2001-10-04T13:45:48Z")
My seven year old daughter came home from school yesterday and announced at dinner that they have a new picture of Queen Elizabeth II on display in their classroom. I got caught off guard by The Question, but I did the best I could. Jenny: Dad, is the Queen the boss of Canada? Me: No, not really. Jenny: So what is she then? Me: Well, she’s the head of state, but it doesn’t mean anything because she has no powers. Jenny: So who’s the boss, then? Me: Parliament. Jenny: Who’s that? Me: Not who, what. Parliament is a group chosen by the people to run the government. Jenny: I don’t understand that stuff. Wife: Neither does your father, honey. Eat your dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/2 "2001-10-04T14:16:31Z")
Silly **Slip.** Conrad Black is the boss of Canada. Oh wait, he left… ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/3 "2001-10-04T14:30:10Z")
It’s Jean Chretien’s daughter’s husband’s cousin’s father. Who I’m pretty sure is Power Chin. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/4 "2001-10-04T14:36:21Z")
I thought I was being paged. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Wife: Neither does your father, honey. Eat your dinner. I think I would like your wife. It sounds like she keeps you on your toes. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/5 "2001-10-04T15:29:32Z")
**Feynn**! We both know that **lola** is the boss. Knock it off. ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/6 "2001-10-04T15:54:44Z")
[petulant little kid] “You’re not the boss of me!” [/petulant little kid] This also made me thing of Mad Max 3: Beyond Stupid “Master Blaster runs Bartertown.” ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/7 "2001-10-04T22:28:10Z")
Believe me, Jean Chretien is **the boss** of Canada. When you’ve got the balls to strangle a heckler on national television and respond to weeping, burning-eyed protestors by saying they were lucky to be in a country that uses pepper spray instead of baseball bats to discourage them, you are simply **the boss.** And his wife is pretty awesome, too. Not too many other heads of state can chase a burglar out of their home with an inuit carving. Fuck, this is all coming back to me now. I’m have tempted to start a Jean Chretien appreciation thread. Too bad his politics stink. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/8 "2001-10-04T22:35:46Z")
This is off-topic, but this thread is reminding me of [Brunching’s review](http://www.brunching.com/selfmade/princessdiaries.html) of _The Princess Diaries_. > [@](#): > > …Nearly every “Surprise! You’re a Duchess!” flick centers around some tiny, insignificant, out of the way hole-in-the-continent nationette that makes Andorra seem like a mighty world power. … > > Boring! Wouldn’t it be neater if they turned out to be King of Canada? > > “Take off, Maurice! You’re the King of Canada!” > > You could spend the whole movie with people on the streets of Winnipeg and Toronto arguing. > > “I didn’t know we had a King.” > > “Oh sure, eh! It’s Maurice! Maurice the King!” > > “Could have sworn we had a Prime Minister.” > > “We do! And a King! King Maurice!” ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/9 "2001-10-04T23:37:27Z")
You heretic bastards will burn in hell for this. Everybody knows Geddy Lee is the boss of Canada. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/10 "2001-10-04T23:43:30Z")
I’m new. Who the hell is lola? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/11 "2001-10-04T23:45:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slip Mahoney \* > \*\*I’m new. > > Who the hell is lola? \*\* **lolagranola** is **Feynn** ’s lovely bride. **Coldy** , WRONG. Alex Lifeson if any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/12 "2001-10-04T23:46:17Z")
I’ll be damned. I thought I was the only Rush fan left. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/13 "2001-10-04T23:59:13Z")
Hah! Have faith in the Teeming Millions, for they have excellent taste in music. Well, some of them, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/14 "2001-10-05T00:03:45Z")
Jeez, **Slip** you _must_ be new if you didn’t know that **Clogboy** loves Geddy Lee like I love my mother. And I have made a decision. I’m the boss of Canada. Nyah. ---
**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/15 "2001-10-05T00:16:43Z")
**lolagrnola** and **Feynn** are an item? Who knew? I had fantasies about **lola.** She would stay home and make cookies while I kicked **Feynn’s** ass on the golf course. I said it was a fantasy. Geddy Lee rocks. But then, everybody knows that. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/16 "2001-10-05T00:30:07Z")
I am the boss of Canada dammit…the country revolves around me…I control the money…that funky new ten…it’s my fault…in fact my middle name is Canada…errr to hell with it I can’t pull this off…I’m sorry I don’t control Canada…:slinks away in disgrace:…and to think I thought I could get away with it… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/17 "2001-10-05T01:57:42Z")
Fools. _evil chuckling, ominous music_ ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/18 "2001-10-05T05:26:13Z")
Slip - We have something in common (besides the Canuck posting style). I too fantasize about Lola although baking cookies isn’t the first or even second thing that comes to mind. I’m not saying the girl can’t cook but in six years I have never seen her bake anything resembling a cookie… I’m the one who cooks so perhaps you got us confused and I was baking the cookies and you were kicking Lola’s ass on the golf course. That would make more sense. It’s still pretty weird but it makes more sense than Lola baking cookies. Oh yeah, you have my heartfelt sympathies for being a Leaf’s fan. Anyways, enough of this friendly banter. Let’s go pick on that socialist with the scary music instead. He’s an NDP’er, how tough can he be? Geddy Lee does indeed rock. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/19 "2001-10-05T07:26:37Z")
I, however, am the QUEEN of Canada! Oh wait, no, that would be Frankie’s friend Gordie. Too bad, Esprix! He’s not Asian and he hasn’t been a boy for quite a while! Okay, I guess I’m Princess of Canada. Hey, my family’s been here since 1810, that’s gotta make me SOME kind of royalty! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374/20 "2001-10-05T07:53:01Z")
Geddy Lee! Alex Lifeson! You people are twerps. Everyone knows that Neil Peart is the boss. Schmucks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-boss-of-canada/85374.md?page=2)