Thanks but the Calgary Times liveblogging of the festivities is hilarious:
"As the song they were singing was called “The Maple Leaf Forever,” it seemed fitting that some maple leafs should next dance onto the stage followed by a group of dancing canoes. It was all very Canadian, especially when the enormous beavers stampeded onto the stage – with “made in Canada” stamped on their tails. And if that wasn't surreal enough, massive moose started floating through the sky.
Vanoc CEO John Furlong promised in an earlier speech that the world would learn more about Canada from these games, but this closing number might leave the world a bit confused about the size of our beavers, the buoyancy of our moose, and the seriousness of our Mounties."
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Date: Monday, 1 March 2010 08:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 1 March 2010 08:28 am (UTC)"As the song they were singing was called “The Maple Leaf Forever,” it seemed fitting that some maple leafs should next dance onto the stage followed by a group of dancing canoes. It was all very Canadian, especially when the enormous beavers stampeded onto the stage – with “made in Canada” stamped on their tails. And if that wasn't surreal enough, massive moose started floating through the sky.
Vanoc CEO John Furlong promised in an earlier speech that the world would learn more about Canada from these games, but this closing number might leave the world a bit confused about the size of our beavers, the buoyancy of our moose, and the seriousness of our Mounties."
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Closing+ceremony+live+blog/2625108/story.html#ixzz0gua0ZHVa