Donald Trump's cross-border trade war and his blustery talk of turning Canada into the "51st state" got us thinking about everything we love about our neighbour to the north: Not just Molsons, moose and maple syrup, but Margaret Atwood and The Weeknd, free health care, legal weed and unambiguous support for Ukraine.
And movies. Lots of great movies.
Canadian cinema has long been overshadowed by its louder, flashier neighbour, a nation that seems to believe it holds a cultural monopoly on the big screen. It's true many of Canada's greatest talents — James Cameron and Norman Jewison, Mary Pickford and Sandra Oh, Michael J. Fox and Keanu Reeves, all the Ryans — went south to find fame and fortune.
But Canada has its own, independent cinema tradition and, in the spirit of good-natured retaliation, we present our 51 Greatest Canadian Films of All Time — one for every imaginary star on Trump's reworked American flag. Defining what is and isn't a Canadian film can be tricky. For simplic
