What is "blame canada"

vb. (context US idiomatic English) A catch phrase for shifting attention away from a serious social issue by laying responsibility with Canad

"Blame Canada" is a song from the 1999 film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, written by Trey Parker & Marc Shaiman. In the song, the parents of the fictional South Park, led by Sheila Broflovski ( Mary Kay Bergman), decided to blame Canada for the trouble their children have been getting into since watching the Canadian-made movie Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire and imitating what they saw and heard in the movie. The parents refuse to accept that, by not preventing their children from watching Terrance and Phillip in the first place, they are, themselves, to blame for their children's misbehavior. "Blame Canada" satirizes scapegoating and parents that do not control "their children's consumption of popular culture".