Why Canadians Are Four-Year-Old Americans

by Tony Chavira

(Too bad Tawny Kitaen is old and gross now)

Big props to my pal and FourStory contributor Steven Dale at Gondola Project at Creative Urban Projects for blogging about this article in the Toronto Star:

Canadians would give up sex over cars, poll says

Canadians would rather give up junk food, coffee, television and, some of them, sex rather than park their cars, a World Wildlife Fund poll suggests.

“It confirms that Canadians have a deep-seated attachment to our cars,” Josh Laughren, WWF director of communications, said Wednesday. “Cars aren’t just a method of transportation. They’re a place of comfort. For men, in particular, it’s an expression of our personality.”

Overall, 2 per cent of Canadians decided they’d rather give up sex and only 1 per cent chose driving, with Ontarians, people over 50 and women most willing to go celibate rather than carless.

Okay, it's only 1% of Canadians, but still, car dedication like this is scary without the fact that anyone would seem crazy to me for preferring them to sex.  I understand the whole car-love issue better than some, and dedication to your preferred mode of transportation is admirable (I guess), but this is definitely bad news for smart density people out there who are trying to persuade the average Joe Car-Owner to jump on a train or bus. When even sex can't pull you away from your car, all is lost.

And c'mon Canada, this is why Americans see you as U.S.A. Jr.!  "Sex is lame, cars are cool!" is something we all probably thought when we were four years old and playing with trucks in the preschool sand box.  That said, I highly doubt that women are the ones who preferred cars to sex (see my previous blog on that).  It's got to be dudes with low testosterone or something.  They clearly don't know what they're missing out on, or maybe they're just not that creative.

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