Original artwork, not a still
Canada is a country where nothing seems ever to happen. A country always dressed in its Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. A country you wouldn’t ask to dance a second waltz. Clean. Christian. Dull. Quiescent. But growing. Yes, it must be admitted, the Dominion is growing.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Shields sketches Canada as tidy, respectable and sleepy. Nothing happens, and you wouldn't ask it for a second dance. Then comes the twist that it's growing anyway, a wry admission that dullness isn't the whole story.
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