[kool maudit]

It might be annoying (I know it's annoying) how I have been favourably comparing my adopted country to my home one on here of late, and believe me, it's not as if everything is better here. At its best, Canada has a vastness and a continental scale that you can just feel, whether you are in the Banff mountains or jostling through King and Bay. Denmark doesn't have that. Neither does Sweden. There is a narrowness to things here.

But Scandinavia does a lot of what Canada does better. It has a lot of what I like about Canada – the livability, the civility, the thoughtful, high-trust public realm – to a greater degree than Canada does.

So I guess what I am saying is that I'll keep doing it.