I’m sorry, but it’s not right at all.
Already, the type of boat used by Laurence Vincent Lapointe is more than limited to qualify as a canoe, with its hyper-narrow and streamlined lines and its edges reduced to their simplest expression. But the futuristic rockets used in slalom races have absolutely nothing to do with the powerful means of exploration that the
First Nations gave to coureurs des bois. Not even with what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, like his father, used to do at the start of every election campaign.
Okay, the paddle is pretty much the same, but everything else? Where can you put your backpacks, your tent, the kitchen equipment and the little one in these boats that have everything kayaking except the name?
And I pass you the competition course, supposed to represent rapids, where there is not a single threatening rock that outcrops in the water, not a single dead tree blocking the path and not a single black fly to get you crazy.
No, it’s not canoeing down rapids!
This report was funded with support from the Transat International Journalism FundThe duty.
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