There was a famous radio contest many years ago to come up with a Canadian phrase equivalent to “as American as apple pie.”

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The winner was “as Canadian as possible under the circumstances.”

It was a reminder that we’ve always been seen as an ultra-polite, apologetic and boring country.

As Britain’s Manchester Guardian once noted: “One Canadian is as boring as two Swiss or three Belgians.”

Well, no more. Thanks to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stirring Davos speech on Jan. 20 and Canadians’ passionate new patriotism, our global rep has changed.

Welcome to the new Canada: leader of the global Trump resistance.

Our new Captain Canada gave a magisterial speech in Davos, lauded by world leaders from Australia, Estonia and California to Narnia — along with everyone else but Quebec........

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