For everyone in Canada they were watching Saturday Night LiveThat March night was an unforgettable moment.
Mike Myers, the Snler of only time he had performed in the opening parody like an Elon Musk that wields the chainsaw, was on stage with the rest of the cast at the end of the show while everyone greeted the good night.
Then he did.
While millions watched, the Myers, born in Toronto, opened their jacket to reveal a black shirt under the bearing of that red and white maple leaf flag and the phrase “Canada is not on sale.”
Then he flexed his arm in the air, he pointed it out and pronounced the words “cubits”, a hockey term of yesteryear destined to mean punishing the opponent. It happened when the antagonistic threats of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to the Annex of Canada, reached his apex.
“It was fair, ‘Leave us alone,” Myers told CBC News, explaining the shirt. “We love Americans. But we can love Americans and we don’t want to be Americans, do you know what I mean?”
In response to the tariffs of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, Canadian actor Mike Myers may have begun a movement when pointing his elbow and giving birth to the words “elbows” during the appearances in Saturday Night Live. The phrase has noticed and has become a shout of meeting in the commercial war.
Myers, who has multiple cities in Ciudad, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, has never been shy about his love for his biological country. Trump’s rhetoric in Canada enraged him enough to find a shirt, found one in Amazon and took him to the show that night.
The message was Myers’ greeting to all those who looked at home. Revealing him on live television was a decision of the moment of the moment, he tells CBC News in his first interview in the camera about that night. He says he had no idea that he would catch fire, much less cause a wave of Canadian patriotism that is not seen in decades.
‘It’s not about me’
The actor has popularized many phrases before, although of more comic in nature, through several characters in SNLthen later in Hollywood box office successes as Wayne’s World and Austin powers. But now there was suddenly, and inadvertently, but with a kind of patriotic fervor, he created a blunt political slogan.
“Cubits above” became an instant slogan throughout Canada, extended on t -shirts, ball caps, coffee cups, bumper stickers, even chocolate bars, underlining as much as anything else, an attitude.
The actor and comedian Mike Myers says he was thinking about the Canadian hockey icon Gordie Howe when he decided to spontaneously reveal the Pro-Canada slogan on his shirt and make the elbow movement in Saturday Night Live.
To this day, Myers emphasizes his attitude, what matters. “It’s not about me,” he insists. For him, it is more Canada and Canadians, and the imperative of speaking, standing and backward.
And when Myers woke up the morning after that appearance in SNLHe was alien to any of the consequences of what he had done. He received a phone call from one of his brothers who said, in effect, “you will never believe what has happened.”
A Pro-Canada message
After that first moment in SNLMore would continue. A subsequent appearance brought another shirt, is with the Canadian Tire logo, which, according to Myers, was destined to point out “Buy Canadian”, at the time Trump threatened tariffs on Canadian goods that went to the United States.
Then came that announcement for Mark Carney during the Federal Electoral campaign, with Prime Minister and Myers acting as Hockey parents watching a game track and Myers with a shirt with “Never 51” stamped on his back.
Mike Myers, who has American and Canadian citizenship, said he was surprised to discover for his brother that the clip of his public sample of solidarity with Canada was being widely shared online.
Political messaging can be a new path to Myers, but despite having now lived in the United States for many years, with an American wife and American children, he has never shunned his roots or his belief in all Canadian things.
United States, he says, is simply where his livelihood, the entertainment industry, has taken it.
For a long time he has shown that his heart has always remained north of 49. His 2016 book, CanadaIt is widely described as a love letter to your country of origin.
“[It’s] A friendly and speech nation, “said Myers.” There is a sanity, reasonableness; There is an adult who is exclusive to this country. “
In a conversation with the National, the actor and the comedian told Paul Hunter of CBC about the deep gratitude he has for what the country has given him.
In fact, he is firm that his message in him is now neither anti-American nor anti-Trump, but rather pro-channel.
“I like our atmosphere, I like who we are.”
It is also clear that it is somewhat humble due to the explosion of the movement of the elbows, minimizing the attempts to give it too much credit to ignite such patriotism among their Canadian companions.
For those who have said “Canada needs more Mike Myers,” he simply replies: “I am nothing without Canada.”
Even so, his passion made in Canada has rarely been as forceful as now, driven by Trump’s continuous talk that he became state 51.
A more positive approach
On his way home from the Summit of G7 in Kananaskis, Alta., On June 17, Trump met with journalists and again asked about Canada and his thoughts about which he became state 51.
“It’s a much better treatment for them,” he said aboard Air Force 1 while flying back to Washington.
Mike Myers says he believes that most Canadians will reject the idea of becoming the 51st state of the United States and choosing the Canadian approach of the Government, which, even by default, generally ’empowers at least empowered’.
Myers asks to differ.
And in the middle of the entire political division, he points to a positive that, for him, has become the focus.
“I have to say that this generation of Canadians is very inspiring to me. They know what they have. They don’t want to lose it.”
