Contradiction in Canadian National Character

While we Canadians get huffy when called hewers of wood and drawers of water, we are proud of our ice.
The papers are full of stories about the Great Lakes freezing right over (almost) and Niagara falls being frozen solid (well a few bits).   We're not just a cute face selling wood, ore and water, we have manly virtues that withstand blizzards of the True North.

Example from The Star

CTV News: Niagara Falls freezes again