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Archive for February 18th, 2007

Soon we’ll all be drinking Molson, eh?

So you thought all those Canadian license plates simply belonged to Great White North snowbirds, right? Well, think again — those Canadians may have been the vanguard of an expeditionary force here to claim Florida for its very own.

At least that’s the aim of www.Florida11.com, a website that’s gathering petition signatures aimed at making Florida the 11th Canadian province.

Actually, the website isn’t run by expansionist Canadians at all — it’s run by Visit Florida, a state-of-Florida tourist organization that aims to attract tourists to the Sunshine State.

If you go to the website, you actually can sign a petition that calls for Florida to become a new Canadian province, but it’s all in fun. If you sign the petition (and you are Canadian, presumably), you can win a Florida vacation. There are ads running on Canadian radio stations and in Canadian newspapers that are promoting the mock petition drive.

Note the picture at the top of this article; I swiped it from the website. I like the Florida sailboat with the Canadian maple leaf on the sail.

Canada is fertile ground for attracting tourists to Florida — more that 2 million Canadians visited Florida in 2005.

If you’re from Canada and you’re reading this blog, why don’t you weigh in here for a couple of minutes and let us know what you like about this part of Florida?

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