Canadian Bacon is a 1995 comedy film which satirizes Canada–United States relations along the Canada–United States border written, directed and produced by Michael Moore. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, and has the distinction of being the final completed film to star John Candy . The President of the United States has not led his country into war, and his approval rating falls. His National Security Advisor Stuart Smiley suggests Canada as a new enemy, based on a news segment about a brawl between Canadians and Americans over... national beer preference. A local American sheriff, Bud Boomer , who was responsible for the brawl, is caught up in the idea of invading Canada and leads fellow Americans into the country to commit the "most serious of all" Canadian crimes, littering! The so-called invasion is foiled, but, because of Boomer's actions, the fabricated war turns into a real one. The film was shot in late 1993, in Toronto, Hamilton, and Niagara Falls, Ontario; and Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York.
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