*gasp*. You must be too young to remember SCTV (Second City Television). Where a number of Canadian Actors/Comedians got their start:
SCTV Alumni
Edit - and:
Canadian Walk of Fame
"The Great White North" was a regular skit that Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis played the McKenzie brothers. They'd drink stubbies of Molson Canadian, eat back bacon (cooked on a Coleman camp stove) and ramble on with flawed but hilarious opinions.
Hoser was their favourite insult. It could have been (and likely was) a drinking game for how many times they used it each episode.