They ask me to write about the Genies, I write about the Genies. And the first comment is all, “you suck, you self-hating Canadian” and “nobody says this about the Oscars!” Except that the Oscars don’t have the inferiority complex that the Genies do, which was kind of my point.

Hey, it could be worse. I could have mentioned “Toronto Stories“, and dredged up all kinds of collective trauma. Except that it wasn’t, um, nominated for anything …