FUCK.

Okay. Let's say I take a liking to your small town. I move there, and after a few months I run in the mayoral election and win. For my first act as mayor, I decide to knock down the historic statue in the town square that has been there since the town was founded. This would make me a gigantic, arrogant, presumptuous prick, wouldn't it?

Well, that's exactly what the CBC executives have done. They decided that $3 million was too much to permanently buy the Hockey Night in Canada theme song. CTV, on the other hand, decided that it was a bargain investment. So now CTV owns the song and it will be played on TSN. Thus ends 40 years of play as the shows theme song.

40 years. "What made you think you had the right?" I would ask those executives. "Some things are bigger than you."

Undoubtedly, there are some among you who will think that this is a silly issue to be upset over. I disagree. Every piece of identity that makes Canada distinct is important. All the quirks of our shared French & English colonial heritage. Our ties to the monarchy. Our Native American culture. Our broad spectra of biodiversity: beavers, moose, loons, polar bears. O Canada. Hell, calling soft drinks "pop" instead of "soda". Anything we can cling to that will differentiate ourselves from the pervasive culture of those guys down South. Yes, in the grand scheme of things Canadian society will go on functioning just fine without them; but they are all part of our soul.

But the Conservatives are in power, and have stocked the CBC with penny-pinching businessmen who think that American television networks have all the right ideas.

I would have gladly shelled out some of my taxpayer money to save our soul.