Comments on: When you’re upstaged by a highway http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/05/when-you%e2%80%99re-upstaged-by-a-highway/ Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lord Kitchener's Own http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/05/when-you%e2%80%99re-upstaged-by-a-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-93106 Lord Kitchener's Own Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:58:12 +0000 http://tearsheet.ca/dev/?p=2245#comment-93106 Caroline, I think you've grossly misread Mr. Johnson's sentence there. When he says that Jackson "somehow misplaced proof of his national identity" he means that LITERALLY, as in the previous paragraph where he explains, regarding Jackson's missed attempt to make the Toronto Film Festival "then he lost his passport". It's not some metaphoric dig at Jackson's Canadianess, it's just a smile at the irony of a Canadian actor staring in a Canadian movie being unable to return to Canada because he lost his passport right before he was set to come home. Caroline, I think you’ve grossly misread Mr. Johnson’s sentence there. When he says that Jackson “somehow misplaced proof of his national identity” he means that LITERALLY, as in the previous paragraph where he explains, regarding Jackson’s missed attempt to make the Toronto Film Festival “then he lost his passport”.

It’s not some metaphoric dig at Jackson’s Canadianess, it’s just a smile at the irony of a Canadian actor staring in a Canadian movie being unable to return to Canada because he lost his passport right before he was set to come home.

]]> By: CarolinefromCanada http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/03/05/when-you%e2%80%99re-upstaged-by-a-highway/comment-page-1/#comment-93105 CarolinefromCanada Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:41:04 +0000 http://tearsheet.ca/dev/?p=2245#comment-93105 Haven't seen the movie yet but do take some umbrage to the comments made about Jackson "somehow misplaced proof of his national identity ". I have had the privilege of working with this young man for many years. He is a pubic and private supporter of Canada and considers himself Canadian first and foremost and always mentions it in interviews. His work has taken him other places, but Vancouver is home for him and to suggest that he's now trying to somehow capitalize on being Canadian when he turned his back on us before is just churlish and uninformed. Josh is a great example of the new Canadian star ... hard working, professional and stays out of the limelight. He's a credit to us, why tear him down when he's achieving a bit of success. Let's try not to eat our young, shall we? Haven’t seen the movie yet but do take some umbrage to the comments made about Jackson “somehow misplaced proof of his national identity “. I have had the privilege of working with this young man for many years. He is a pubic and private supporter of Canada and considers himself Canadian first and foremost and always mentions it in interviews. His work has taken him other places, but Vancouver is home for him and to suggest that he’s now trying to somehow capitalize on being Canadian when he turned his back on us before is just churlish and uninformed. Josh is a great example of the new Canadian star … hard working, professional and stays out of the limelight. He’s a credit to us, why tear him down when he’s achieving a bit of success. Let’s try not to eat our young, shall we?

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