Poutination Launches Unprecedented Campaign to Increase Harmony and Happiness in Canada by Elevating Poutine to Canada's Official National Dish
KINGSTON, Ontario (PRWEB) July 02, 2023 -- Here in the original capital of Canada on Canada Day, Poutination is announcing the launch of an unprecedented campaign to designate poutine as the official national dish of Canada.
Over the past 3 years there has been no shortage of seeds of division between Canadians, ranging from agreements or disagreements with the response to the pandemic at all levels of government and leadership, to the individual choices people made to get vaccinated or not to get vaccinated, and the propaganda, hyperbole and vitriol on both sides of the table. Millions of Canadians were treated like second-class citizens and denied basic rights, including the right of movement within Canada as well as being rendered unable to leave the country for the majority of the pandemic. Families and friends have become estranged as a result of the different individual personal medical choices people made, and government and media coverage, discussions and framing of those choices. Yet for the most part, no one is talking about this at all and the majority of people in Canada are acting as if none of this ever took place, or worse yet, denying that it ever did. It is the national "elephant in the room", and perhaps the biggest in our nation's history, proverbially speaking.
There is no quick or simple solution to the great damage that has been done to the social fabric of our country, our cities and our families but Josh Leslie and Ravi Supaul of Poutination wholeheartedly believe that bringing people together across their differences, over a shared love of poutine — the quintessential dish for all tourists who come to Canada that was originally conceived in the province of Québec but has since been deeply embraced across the entire country — can go a long way "towards 'poutine' the pandemic behind us." To that end, they have embarked on an unprecedented campaign to elevate poutine to the status of Canada's official national dish, and are enlisting the help of poutine enthusiasts worldwide to deliver an overwhelming message of support for this initiative to the Canadian House of Commons assembled in Parliament this Fall.
While the precise details of its invention in the province of Québec are debated, at least the year, 1957 is generally agreed upon. The first evidence we have found of poutine's propagation beyond the borders of Québec throughout the rest of the country, is George 'Bubba' Doulas, Founder of The Original Bubba's Poutine & Pizzeria having introduced it in Kingston, Ontario in 1987. "I had some customers from RMC who were from Québec and they said they weren't going to come in any more unless I started serving it. [...] I sell 400 orders of it on the weekends." - George "Bubba" Doulas, in a 1992 interview with The Whig-Standard Magazine.
Today, it is found from coast-to-coast-to-coast across Canada with countless variations, made by everyone from Indigenous peoples of Canada to the most recent newcomers to our country, who have found ways to infuse their own culinary traditions into this dish that so many of us have grown to love. So while this was a relatively guarded secret in Québec for the first 30 years of its existence, for the past 35 years of its existence it has been the most warmly and widely embraced dish across all 13 provinces and territories of our country, and is truly and irrevocably enmeshed in the cultural fabric of Canada.
"It is beyond apparent that great damage has been done to the social fabric of our country over the course of the pandemic during the past 3 years." said Josh Leslie, President and Chief Business Strategist for Poutination. "It's high time that we refocus on what unites us, rather than divides us. We believe that this project that the vast majority of Canadians can rally around in spite of our differences — contrary, perhaps, to poutine itself — is just what the doctor ordered."
"Since [...] the rest of Canada find so little else to agree on these days, this gooey food might just become a new symbol of national unity." - Greg Burliuk, The Whig-Standard Magazine, March 7th 1992 in his article "Culinary glue for the Canadian fabric". Arguably even truer now than when he first wrote it over 30 years ago.
Poutination has initiated two e-petitions so that poutine enthusiasts from all over the world can lend their voices to this campaign. Canadian citizens across the world and residents of Canada can sign the official e-petition, while everyone else can sign the Change.org petition. Both will be presented to the Government of Canada in Parliament this Fall. Take 2 minutes to add your signature today, and learn more at https://poutinepetition.ca/
About Poutination
Poutination is the OG of IG poutine enthusiasts, and have been bringing people together across their differences over a shared love of poutine for the past 9 years both online and in-person. Our core values are simple and self-explanatory: Fun, Realness, Imagination and Community. Today our mission is simple: World peace through poutine. We're looking to connect, collaborate, and build meaningful and authentic relationships with those who also love poutine. If that's you, get in touch! You can find us on Instagram @poutination or wherever you consume your social media. Together, poutine enthusiasts worldwide are One Nation, Under Gravy.™
Josh Leslie, Poutination Inc., https://poutinepetition.ca/, 1 (855) 922-4493, [email protected]
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