“Why can’t we be more like Canada?” writes the Con Man. “They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile. They play hockey and penalty-kill. They honor the indigenous people in their midst without trying to wipe them out. And they have the Canadian Mounties. But most of all what they have is a kick-ass national anthem, a tune that says everything about they are—and about what we, as Americans, are not. The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, was bristling with unexpected pleasures for the fan, but nothing compared to the way the Canadian people and their athletes sang “Oh Canada,” the national anthem, on the trips to the podium for the gold medal. They sang it—they really sang it—the way we Americans almost never do with our ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’”