India, March 18 -- I was sitting in our local Port Perry pub this week when I overheard a couple of the local senior citizens discussing the upcoming arrival of the Saint Patrick's Day celebration where everybody dons a green shirt or a green tie or a green glass of beer and announces to the world that they have "Irish blood" flowing through their veins. Seizing upon yet another excuse for the initiation of "unnecessary drinking " Canadians of all shapes sizes colors creeds and denominations are suddenly transformed into quasi-Leprechauns to the extent that even my Jamaican ex-classmate from the 1970s would call himself an "overdone Irishman" in order to qualify for stupefaction.It never ceases to amaze me how my Canuck brethren will leap u...