The West Wing was phenomenally popular in Canada - more so than it was in the States (we like things more liberal than the Americans do). As the series progressed, and it's popularity continued to increase in Canada, the writers included more & more Canadian references in their stories.
In this thread I hope to document chronologically the Canadian 'content' of this series.
For now I leave with this: at least two of the pivotal guest actors were Canadians. Should you guess correctly I will confirm? Otherwise, I'll be answering this question when I get to those episodes.
Leo: They called him (judge Mendoza) in Nova Scotia?
Josh: They have telephones in Nova Scotia. It's not Amish country.
Leo: He's driving from Nova Scotia to Washington? How does a person do that?
Sam: My guess is he'll take the Trans-Canada Highway to New Brunswick then take the 1, catch the scenic route along Maine ...
Season two, episode 1: 'In the Shadow of Two Gunmen part 1'
Danny: The President's under anesthesia ...Without the 25th, who's in charge? ... You just named six people. Who's in charge?
C. J.: The Canadians. You understand I'm talking about the hockey team.
Oliver Platt makes his first (of many) appearance on the West Wing as Oliver Babish.
I was wrong when I suggested in the first post that there were two Canadian actors in pivital 'guest' roles. I had included Oliver Platt in that statement but he's not a Canadian ...
Jedd: (still talking about the upheaval in Haiti) Nancy, Peter, get a message to the Canadian prime minister. We intend to restore Dessalini. The Canadians should tell Bazan if he doesn't move out, we're willing to move forward with military options.
Donna: They're not voting for us ... because instead of protecting American jobs, we're letting Canadian imports take their market share ...
Josh: All right. If Canada's making cheaper pulp, then New Hampshire has to diversify.
Donna: They're not wild about the Canadian thing but their real problem is the tax policy ...
Donna: I was born in Warroad, Minnesota, only I wasn't cause INS just clarified the border and it's now in Manitoba...
I'm very upset! I don't know my national anthem. I've been throwing out Canadian pennies my whole life. I've been making fun of the queen. We don't do that!
Amy: Canadian, hunh? You feel funnier?
Donna: No but I am developping a massive inferiority complex.
******
And of course, the episode concludes with the raising of Canadian flags to an extended orchestrated rendition of 'Oh Canada'.
Hoynes: I can't get next to hockey... Scoring in hockey seems to come out of nowhere. The play by play guy is always shocked. "LePetier passes to Huckenchuck, who skates past the blue line. Huckenchuck, of course, was traded from Winnipeg for a case of Labatts after sitting out last season with ... Oh my God, he scores!"
from season 3, episode 19: 'Enemies foreign and Domestic'
Josh: They confronted the Russian atomic energy minister with the photographs (and) he denied everything.
Jedd: That's good enought for me.
Josh: He doesn't deny that they're building a reactor. They've had contracts with Iran since '76 and he says that deuterium based reactors have been up and running in Canada for years.
Jedd: Yea, well, Canada, Russia, roughly the same relationship with the U.S.
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Leo: They called him (judge Mendoza) in Nova Scotia?
Josh: They have telephones in Nova Scotia. It's not Amish country.
Leo: He's driving from Nova Scotia to Washington? How does a person do that?
Sam: My guess is he'll take the Trans-Canada Highway to New Brunswick then take the 1, catch the scenic route along Maine ...
Danny: The President's under anesthesia ...Without the 25th, who's in charge? ... You just named six people. Who's in charge?
C. J.: The Canadians. You understand I'm talking about the hockey team.
Jedd: Hard as you might try, The Republican Party isn't going away.
Leo: We don't know that for sure, they could all end up moving to Vancouver.
Jedd: Would you like to wipe that smile off your face before I send you on special assignment to the Yukon?
Jedd: An Algerian-born terrorist named Reda Nessam was arrested at the Canadian border yesterday ...
from season 2, episode 19: 'Bad Moon Rising'
Oliver Platt makes his first (of many) appearance on the West Wing as Oliver Babish.
I was wrong when I suggested in the first post that there were two Canadian actors in pivital 'guest' roles. I had included Oliver Platt in that statement but he's not a Canadian ...
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Plaatt
Platt was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada to American parents ...
re: the overthrow of the elected Haitian government ...
Leo: We're communicating through back channels.
Jedd: Who are we using?
Leo: The Canadian ambassador, Dominican intelligence.
Jedd: (still talking about the upheaval in Haiti) Nancy, Peter, get a message to the Canadian prime minister. We intend to restore Dessalini. The Canadians should tell Bazan if he doesn't move out, we're willing to move forward with military options.
special agent Ron Butterfield: Five hours ago, Khuram Sharif was taken into custody while crossing from Ontario into Vermont.
There's a cold front moving in down from Alberta with a 50 percent chance of showers.
Josh: Cutler had to cancel so he could see northwestern border state governors to discuss porous borders between the U.S. and Canada.
C.J.: Mark have a good Thanksgiving.
Mark (a reporter): I'm Canadian.
C.J.: Yours is in April.
Mark: October.
Donna: They're not voting for us ... because instead of protecting American jobs, we're letting Canadian imports take their market share ...
Josh: All right. If Canada's making cheaper pulp, then New Hampshire has to diversify.
Donna: They're not wild about the Canadian thing but their real problem is the tax policy ...
Donna: I was born in Warroad, Minnesota, only I wasn't cause INS just clarified the border and it's now in Manitoba...
I'm very upset! I don't know my national anthem. I've been throwing out Canadian pennies my whole life. I've been making fun of the queen. We don't do that!
Amy: Canadian, hunh? You feel funnier?
Donna: No but I am developping a massive inferiority complex.
******
And of course, the episode concludes with the raising of Canadian flags to an extended orchestrated rendition of 'Oh Canada'.
Hoynes: I can't get next to hockey... Scoring in hockey seems to come out of nowhere. The play by play guy is always shocked. "LePetier passes to Huckenchuck, who skates past the blue line. Huckenchuck, of course, was traded from Winnipeg for a case of Labatts after sitting out last season with ... Oh my God, he scores!"
Josh: They confronted the Russian atomic energy minister with the photographs (and) he denied everything.
Jedd: That's good enought for me.
Josh: He doesn't deny that they're building a reactor. They've had contracts with Iran since '76 and he says that deuterium based reactors have been up and running in Canada for years.
Jedd: Yea, well, Canada, Russia, roughly the same relationship with the U.S.
C.J.: Barenaked Ladies helping out in the delivery room of American democracy, The Commonwealth of Massachussetts.
(Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian Band - from Toronto.)