Giving Thanks

   It’s American Thanksgiving and, while I already celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving six weeks ago, I’d like to take this opportunity to give thanks for my many blessings. In short, I am thankful that:

Canada’s Thanksgiving sensibly falls on a Monday, not on a Thursday.

I don’t have to spend eight hours and three connecting flights to get home for Thanksgiving.

I can’t vote in the U. S. so no one can blame me for the current mess.

My prime minister is able to speak in complete sentences.

Canada’s Thanksgiving is two-and-a-half months before Christmas, not just four weeks before.

Our head of state is a monarch, not a president.

There is no Black Friday.

We have single-payer government healthcare.

Canada’s incarceration rate is about one-seventh of yours.

Gun ownership is strictly regulated.

We share the world’s longest undefended border…..at least for now.

I don’t have to figure out the intricacies of Obamacare to get healthcare coverage.

Twitter has increased its character limit to 280 which also increases Donald Trump’s chances of being understood.

I live in a country with a vast supply of fresh water…..at least for now.

The U. S. Constitution limits a president to two terms.

We don’t have the office of vice president with a scary incumbent.

Our leaders have no problem condemning neo-Nazis.

We don’t have any Confederate statues.

Canada is a wintry wasteland that no one wants to invade…..at least for now.

I don’t live on a flight path of North Korean nuclear missiles.

I don’t know any Russians.

I’m not Donald Trump.