Future Ted: [v.o.] Kids, for years, your Uncle Barney had reveled in mocking Aunt Robin's Canadian heritage.
[flashbacks:]
Barney: To have to grow up in Canada, with America right there.
Barney: It's like an entire country without a tailor.
Barney: Why? Why do we let you be a country?!
Future Ted: [v.o.] But all that was about to change.