The Yin and Yang of Canada

On Saturday, the WSJ reported that Canada, after a lengthy internal battle, automatically restored Canadian nationality to many people forced to renounce it.

It seems especially Canadian that while we have spent the last decade making the U.S. less and less open, Canada is giving citizenship to thousands of semi-unsuspecting people. They even have a hilariously Canadian video.

What could be better than being Canadian?

Well, less than 48 hours later, a disgruntled Jamaican national hijacked CanJet flight 918, with 182 passengers and crew aboad (all Canadian). He wanted to be dropped in Cuba before the plane went to its final destination - Canada.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who happened to be in Jamaica at the time, was awakened in the middle of the night to hear the news. Rude, eh?

Fortunately, everyone was rescued and the hijacker is now in (exceedingly polite) custody.