Back in the 1950s, Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen starred in a Disney TV series called the Swamp Fox. Intended to capitalize on the success of the Davy Crockett series, the show was based on the life of South Carolina's favourite guerilla soldier, Revolutionary War hero Colonel Francis Marion. According to Nielsen, Swamp Fox was the only Disney show ever publicly condemned by the House of Commons. You see, these "villains" Marion was sniping at from down in the cypress swamps were British soldiers, or as we now know them, future Canadians.
In a bit of sibling rivalry I can appreciate, Nielsen also blamed his brother Erik, an MP at the time the series was publicly condemned, for spearheading the motion.
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