Operation Canadian Bacon II?

Okay, this is just TOO funny! Had to share this article with the blogging public:

"Canada's poppy quarters caused sensational warnings of 'spy coins' in U.S."

I know we live in paranoid times, but c'mon...!

These "suspicious U.S. army contractors" really should get a grip. Canada is no more a threat to the USA than, say, Uruguay or Zambia (despite what certain hysterical right-wing pundits may assert). Why would we want to spy on our closest friend, neighbour and ally? There's no point - Ottawa is already privy to some the most sensitive military info/secrets through joint defence agreements like NORAD.

Besides, if I may pander to a national stereotype for a moment, spying on your friends just isn't nice (and, therefore, a rather un-Canadian thing to do!) :-D

In any case, if Canada were ever planning to snoop on the grand old republic to the south, don't you think we could think up a better, more clever method than bugged coins?!? We are a reasonably smart bunch up here - after all, we did invent such things as standard time, the snowmobile, the foghorn, basketball and the music synthesizer.

In fact, it was actually a Canadian who invented the lightbulb, not Thomas Edison...

Finally, an equally amusing promotional poster I found for the 1995 Michael Moore film Canadian Bacon (his only fictional, non-documentary work to date):