Good Canada: Celine Dion

Celine Dion: I ve been playing a game recently. The rules of Good Canada/Bad Canada are simple: Take anything Canadian and assign it to one of two piles. Nickelback is Bad Canada, but the beaver on the nickel is Good Canada. Celine Dion is Bad Canada, but Carl Wilsons book about Celine Dion is Good Canada. In a country of respect and consensus, GC/BC is essential. There are no limitations on its application: Stephen Harpers hair is Bad Canada; the feel of crisp arbutus bark crumbling in your hand as you stand on the beach of a Gulf Island? Good Canada. More from Craig Taylor's Summer Essay Series, according to Globe and Mail. In letters and in love, its the message that always counts This summer, expat Craig Taylor is rediscovering his homeland through the Canadiana collection of the Abbey Bookshop in Pariss Latin Quarter. This is his seventh instalment. A literary mission statement: Go where you re not supposed to go (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.