He wouldn't care if a boatload of Sri Lankan asylum-seekers landed in Sydney, but one Australian columnist says that "something must be done to curb the influx of Canadastanis flowing across our borders like thick insidious maple syrup."
In a tongue-in-cheek editorial for The Sydney Morning Herald, Canadian-born writer Danny Katz argues that his fellow immigrants Down Under make little, if any, effort to assimilate into Aussie culture.
"You see them working out in our suburban gymnasiums, flashing their repulsively overdeveloped moose-pecs and humming Nickelback songs, unironically," he says.
Katz dismisses the liberal, bleeding-heart argument that Canadians should be allowed into Australia, because they "have fled lives of great hardship, suffering under the French-Canadian fundamentalists who brutally force supermarkets to have both English and French labelling on all their merchandise, so ‘ketchup' is also called ‘ketchuppe.'"
The Hosers won't even learn to speak Australian English: "They sound like a drunken American chewing on a Mintie that's caught in the back of their retainer."
Some Canucks were apparently offended by Katz's article, embodying a warning in the 2012 London Olympics tourism guidelines that Canadians can be overly sensitive.
The hurting -- and grammatically challenged -- Canadians made their feelings known in the Morning Herald's comment section.
"Thist (sic) article is so disturbing...I have never read any thing similar to this in any Canadian newspaper in my life time," a commenter calling themselves "Beaver" from Toronto wrote.
"And how come this type of article which is full of hate, cursings, with racist views could be published in a Australian national news paper."
Ironically, a slightly more literate Australian commenter had written just minutes earlier, "The thing I like about Canadians (and New Zealanders) is that they still know how to take the piss out of themselves."
Let us know in our comments section what you think of Katz's editorial. Is it funny? Is it offensive? And how about all those bloody Aussies invading our ski resorts?
