We are not allowed to smile for our passport pics. Nowhere in the Google universe is there a reasonable explanation of why some no-name civil servant who, 50 yards outside of his cubicle office becomes a nobody, made this rule up.
Perhaps it is because we Canucks are such pushy, loud, rude, pushy, snarly, miserable, obnoxious, pushy, unpleasant people that we are often mistaken for people from New York CIty.
I apologize to all New Yorkers for that backhand. And I am sorry. It probably will not happen again.