Niagara Falls And A Nose Job

A cosmetic surgery tourism company is selling nip and tuck holidays to people in…Canada.

Well, fair enough. Gorgeous Getaways Inc. (yes that’s what they’re really called) have been selling the packages to customers in several other countries for years. Why not sell the same package on home turf?

The thing is, I can’t imagine it would take off. Unless they target that small contingent of Canadian women who wish for dead foreheads and comedy bosoms.

Culturally, I suspect the market won’t reach the size of, for example, our neighbours to the south. Canadians just aren’t that ostentatious. I once had lunch in a New York cafe where people at three different tables were recovering from what appeared to be plastic surgery (or possibly a war). I also saw a woman in a Moscow nightclub toilet inject her own forehead with Botox, then resume dancing.

I can’t imagine either of those things happening in Fredericton.

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