Canada Should Put Paper Straws On Our Flag.

Such foolish exhibitionism sums up our country right now.

Paper straws epitomise Canada today.  If any object combines our perpetual obsession with preening our moral superiority (and our bizarre infatuation with our medical system, it reminds me of an aged aunt who was told her 67 Bug was a great car and for 20 years still believed it was the best car on the road, even though the bumpers were falling off) and our inability to think beyond the immediate optics of the announcement, it would be the paper straw.  

Next time I go to the States, I’ll buy the plastic straw multi-pack, leave it in the glove compartment, and throw the mushy Canadian straw back at the blue-haired non-binary individual who believed they had solved the world with all their gathered wisdom gleaned during their six months working at a Starbucks. 

First of all, almost 99% of all plastic waste comes from 10 rivers, all in the Far East.  Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger. Thus…