canadas favorite son celebrates a birthday today with his beautiful wife

and adorable kids

in his hobbit house on the horse farm

and reminds us that the (north) american dream is alive and well

above the 49th parallel.

anyone who has been lucky enough to spend much time with matt knows

that besides being a musical genius as jr put it a few years ago

todays birthday boy is a no nonsense straight shooter which is refreshing in todays world

of lets just blow smoke at each other forever and ever.

if i ever get married this is a song i hope the band knows.