Amazing Race Canada

Do you follow AMAZING RACE tv show? The American Amazing race is hosted by Phil Keoughan while Amazing Race Canada is hosted by Jon Montgomery.

American version of Amazing Race is finished with Brooke and her partner winning the last leg of the race. Brooke the complainer, Brooke the woman who helplessly asked for help most of the time when she can no longer get hold of herself because the task is too much for herself... was the winner? How that happened? I heard she is a lawyer. Really?! I first thought she is an actress.

Amazing Race Canada is not over yet. Last week's episode had the contestants travel from Canada to China, Thailand through the Sinorama guided tour and then returned to Canada to take Canadian Citizenship test. Each person had different booklet of test, questions such as: Who is the first French-Canadian Prime Minister of Canada which is Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Another question is when the CN Tower was built. Do you know? Maybe in 1976.

Why those kind of questionnaires? Maybe the Portmans Bridge is included in the questionnaire or who is the first PM of Canada? Or what is the true population of Canada. Who knows? Maybe the highest mountain of Canada will be included in the test. Who knows? Too many Canadians don't even know the answers to the CCT. Some of them don't even know they are in American territory or at the territory of Russia. You know when the iceberg melted the surface of the land decreased like a wrinkled prune and suddenly the 3 large countries united with its people not knowing there's really no border separating them. China has invisible curtain and Great Wall. Philippines had the iron curtain before. Others have firewall.

CN Tower is probably included in the test because it is the highest structure/tower in Canada and in the world for 32 years until Burj Khalifa tower was built. But is that Khalifa tower a tower of power or tower of Babel?

The contestants are not allowed to proceed the next phase of the leg until they passed the test. Few of them passed the test first time trying and some of them have to take the tests so many times (several times)  until they pass. It seems the test instructor had great patience to withstand such incredible pressure of long waiting and waiting for them to pass.

You failed, you must try again and again until you succeed. Hey, it's like gambling. You can try and try again to win the lottery. However CCT is somewhat a matter of formality. Could be experimental in nature.

OMG! Paschendale is finished. The Discovery Passage was built and some other man-made passages will be done just keep on praying that you wont be bungee jumping and or climbing to the highest point of the land or building.