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Ontario boy here, with Quebec roots. I figure the emphasis on nature, with the blizzard, the freeze and break-up of ice floes, the forests and mountains and clear dark skies, along with the canoe… could easily apply to the Great Lakes, Gulf of St Lawrence, boreal forest of Quebec and northern Ontario, the Laurentian range, and the voyageurs of the Ottawa, St-Lawrence, and French rivers as to British Columbia and the arctic. The natural beauty of this vast land might be one of the things we can nearly all appreciate. 
Are you implying that Jeff Buckley wrote his own lyrics for Halleljah?
Nope, the problem is that Cohen had many variations in the lyrics and the cover versions just pick and choose among the many verses that Cohen has given us.
This page gives a good account of the situation *"Cohen kept toying with the lyrics and would draw from as many as fifteen verses for his performances. No verses were sacred. For instance, in one live recording Cohen jettisons what is the first verse in all other versions.
John Cale relates that upon hearing Cohen perform the song live, he asked if he would send him the lyrics, and was later overwhelmed when Cohen sent him not merely the verses he sang that night, but all the verses he had written. Cale took them, and redacted the version that nearly all performers have followed since. In truth, while Leonard Cohen is the composer of the song, John Cale deserves credit for establishing the definitive version."*
I think they left out overt references to Ontario or Quebec because there would likely be controversy over one being favoured when, in fact, in the west neither are very popular. It would only have made things more divisive, why do that on such an occasion? We’re not quite as keen, (yet), on taking every opportunity to further polarize any divide.
And I think Wayne looked wooden because things were malfunctioning, inside the stadium, and they all had ear feeds and were, most likely, being given instructions, probably confusing ones.
As for the ride to the outdoor flame, I’d look a little stoic too if I was riding in the driving rain through a mob of drunken revelers.
No. I was hoping someone would step in and explain the discrepency.
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When she came out, I thought to myself “Holy crap, Wayne Gretzky’s dad is going to sing a song!”, then I rubbed my eyes and looked again… “You silly goose, that’s not Walter Gretzky, that’s Mario Lemieux”
But not the gorgeous, untouched forests of northern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, eh? 
I took the Devlish-looking fiddler in the flying canoe to be a reference to the Chasse-galerie.
Yeah. Shaun. I make mishtake. Sowwy.
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I hate mittens, so I went to find a T shirt-but the women’s are all sold out at the stores here, so I got a small mens. The neck looks funny. 
Definitely not! My home region has exclusive claim to both natural beauty and Canadian identity!
I was of course responding to a comment specifically about the purported exclusion of Quebec and Ontario. You can find trees and ice just about anywhere in Canada, which was my point. Needless clarification provided just in case! 
Hey, at least this one had the distinct virtue of being Yoko Ono-free (really, Torino…).
As for the ones wondering where was Rush, may I remind you that in the Sydney Olympics they saved Men at Work and Midnight Oil for the closing event. So keep up your hopes… but, be prepared to get Céline instead.
No Canadian anything would be complete without Shatner! And he’s a better singer than Celine, any day. (IMO she wails, not sings). I’d rather see Bill do RocketMan than Celine do anything. YMMV.
(please enlighten me: there is tension between Ontario and Quebec? Porquoi?). I’m sorry I’m not up on all the provincial stuff, but is this tension good natured like that between Illinois and Wisconsin or is it nastier, like between Illinois and Indiana?
Oh, man… I never thought of that. Right you are.
Reading my message back today, it was too critical. On the whole, the show was fantastic. I loved the projection system coupled with the various effects. The pod of whales was awesome. The guy flying over the prairies was fantastic. KD Lang knocked her performance out of the park, and Sarah McLaughlin was gorgeous and sang beautifully.
I did not like the pop arrangement of O’ Canada at all, but the woman they got to sing is was phenomenal. I’ve never heard of her before, but to sing like that under that kind of pressure… Hats off to her.
When Gretzy went out and rode through Vancouver in the back of a pick up truck, my first thought was “Oh man, this is lame.” But my second thought was, “This is about as Canadian as it gets.” They should have put a Molson Canadian in his hand, and it would have been perfect.
You know, you’re right about this as well. And they picked the right guy to be the representative.
The thought just occurred- a Mountie could have taken it down the road to the waterfront on horseback (Canajian, eh); meanwhile, shove Wayne in a van and drive him to the site first, mountie passes it off to Gretzky at the outdoor cauldron, he shoots, he scores, etc.
I was wondering why they didn’t use “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” even if they think Gordon Lightfoot’s not cool enough to allow to play. (I think he is, but then I’m not Canadian.)