By Bill Mann, MarketWatch
VANCOUVER, B.C. (MarketWatch) ? Is Santa Claus a Canadian? Canada?s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, said not long ago that he was. He even gave the jolly fat guy Canadian citizenship and granted Santa air rights to fly over Canada at any time.
Santa even has his own Canadian postal code for youngsters writing to Saint Nick: HOH 0H0.
Is the North Pole Canadian territory? Canada says it is, even though those international-law Grinches have ruled no country owns it.
That aside, it seems a good time for your Canadian correspondent to present this holiday season?s Great White North Christmas wish list of gifts I?d like Canada to get:
1) Another Canadian political leader with the character, charisma, and popularity of the NDP?s Jack Layton who, tragically, died earlier this year shortly after seeing his party become Canada?s official opposition for the first time in its 50-year history.
2) A charisma transplant for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
3) A growing housing market for the 15th straight year ? best in the western world.
4) A Stanley Cup final in a Canadian city ? with no riots.
5) Submarines that actually work. (The Royal Canadian navy?s entire, if modest, fleet is currently above water ? in drydock.)
6) No more ?previously owned? U-boats from the British navy.
7) More Canadian tours by Will and Kate.
8) A Canadian soccer team that finally qualifies for the World Cup.
9) The hope that the rest of the new plastic Canadian bank notes will be as cool-looking as the just-issued C-note.
10) A pipeline from Alberta to B.C. to ship Canadian oil to China while Keystone-XL drags on.
11) The phasing out of the Canadian Senate, which functions better than the U.S. Senate, but which has little power. It seems as vestigial as Britain?s House of Lords.
12) Canadian exports to have more of a value-added nature than merely shipping raw commodities like logs, potash, and crude oil.
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