I'm sorry but what. Of all the dumb decidedly not "elbows up" shit in that budget, this? This is the line??

Canadian english should use more homegrown & british terms.

As a Canadian, I'd rather Canadians lean into the British side of things considering we're a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations. And you know, we do have the Queen (and now King) on our money. Canada and the UK have a long, healthy relationship.

I've always felt more English than American and visiting the UK most people treat us Canadians like long lost family.

America on the other hand has decided to appease Russia and start attacking Canada with nasty rhetoric and trade wars. They can fuck themselves right in the asshole.

I'm for rejecting all Americanisms in Canada.

Very based of the Carney government IMO. The most 'elbows up' stance would be to intentionally reject former American influences and purposefully adopt more British spellings in standard Canadian English.

Our sovereignty and cultural identity isn't under threat from the UK, it is under threat from the USA.

Bonus: we could use the phrase "speak the King's English" more often - its one step away from monocles being back in fashion.

Anyone accusing someone of utility is someone I’ll ignore.

I spell everything the English way.... the language is called English so by definition, they are correct in everything.

I've adopted tyres and kerb into my daily spelling

Their words are better too... lorry > truck, hoover > vacuum, chips > fries....

I urge all canadians to start using more british english in daily speak.

And if it pisses off the yanks and albertans, even better

*Americans pretending to be Canadian call for Carney to use American spellings.

It's a bullshit argument from a linguistic standpoint, not just political.

Like imperial/metric and fahrenheit/celsius, we just use the z vs s variably. Some people even switch between spellings for some words. I'm not sure there are even idiomatic or de facto rules about usage, since it seems to be an area of uncertainty for many.

Is there a list comparing some key words in British / American / Canadian spelling? I assumed the Canadians basically used American English, maybe with some accent, but this suggests there is a real Canadian English, implying differences to other variants.