Canada
The No. 2 (Mess) Dress is a formal evening attire for mess dinners. Uniforms range from full mess dress (with dinner jackets, cummerbunds or waistcoats, etc.) to service dress with bow ties. Mess dress is not provided at public expense; however, all commissioned officers of the regular forces are required to own mess dress within six months of being commissioned. In the Royal Canadian Navy, gold-laced trousers are generally worn by all commissioned officers (that is, they are not restricted to captains and flag officers). Blue waistcoats are not commonly worn.
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“I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What makes the United States government, on the whole, more tolerable—I mean for us lucky white men—is the fact that there is so much less of government with us.... But in Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades itself before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master; and every day it goes out to the Plains of Abraham or to the Champs de Mars and exhibits itself and toots.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)