Is Relocating To Canada Right For Mitchell Rosen?

What possible reason might a young person like Mitchell Rosen (Hudson Thames (seriously)) consider emigrating from New York, one of the most exciting, vibrant cities in the world, to Canada? Is he interested in maple syrup manufacturing? Or uranium mining? Or paper company-funded reforestation? ...Oh, he just got his draft classification and he's 1A? Got it.

Canadians aren't really united in their feelings about the draft-dodging era of our history. There are some who regard the pre-deserters who ended up on our soil as dirty cheating hippie cowards who abandoned their obligations to public service. But for others, the country's having served as a haven for draft refusers is a source of pride: Canada didn't fight in the Vietnam War, and looking the other way as self-identified refugees fleeing conscription in an unjust skirmish settled in B.C. and set up grow-ops is extremely Canadian, in the sense that it is explicitly Not American -- the best kind of Canadian you can be!

In the end, it looks as though Mitchell is, thanks to Don (Jon Hamm) and Ted (Kevin Rahm), going to slide into the Air National Guard. The fairly safe assignment means Mitchell won't have to get to move north and enjoy all that late '60s Canada has to offer, from the start of Pierre Trudeau's very long term as Prime Minister to the founding of the separatist Parti Québecois to the birth of future Law & Order ADA Jill Hennessy.  More importantly, it also means Mitchell's probably not going to be around to molest Sally (Kiernan Shipka), which means both she and Canada are better off.

(Right) Honourable Mention: the GM guy who fishes in Muskoka!