| Description: | The birds and the beaver
Still, Ignatieff might have launched something unintentional back here in wonderfully named Witless Bay when he pronounced it here we are at new symbols.
Since that time, the search has gone manic.
How ironic that Queen Elizabeth II would praise Canada this past week to have "grown and matured while remaining true to its history, its distinctive character and its values."
Perhaps it had been this comment that Ignatieff was referring to when, only hours later, he praised the Queen on her "magnificent sense of humour and a feeling of the absurd."
You need both to know the way a country that turned 143 on Thursday could still be so obsessive about its complexion.
Perhaps it had been all of the international attention, most of it good, from the successful Winter Games that got people convinced that if Canada was truly coming into its own then there were several symbolic matters that weren't quite as much as scratch.
First it had been the natio |