Some nutty stuff has come out of Ottawa in the last 150 years but cancelling New Year’s Eve celebrations because it’s too cold is certainly a new one for the history books.

Since Ottawa apparently is not hardy enough to host it maybe Canada should just hold it in Buffalo?

Certainly none of the 44,592 in the Buffalo Bills stadium watching the World Junior classic showdown between USA and Canada were complaining about the frigid temperatures. In fact, many shirtless, were celebrating it.

Both American and Canadian hockey players didn’t seem to mind — putting on a memorable show in snow.

That is what was supposed to happen in the nation’s capital on New Year’s Eve. But someone thinks it’s so freezing cold right now that we can’t have our kids play on our $5 million outdoor rink on Parliament Hill or let our musicians entertain us.

“Of course it’s a bit of a disappointment with this extreme cold weather but we have to deal with it and making sure that Canadians are safe and everything is well taken care of in terms of public health we decided to modify the celebrations,” Heritage Minister Melanie Joly told The Canadian Press.

To quote Bob and Doug McKenzie and Geddy Lee: Oh, take off, eh!

At least the snowflakes are still going ahead with the fireworks.

You know Canada’s heritage has changed when we are is cancelling an outdoor winter celebration because its winter. They wouldn’t do that at Times Square in New York.

Imagine if our troops who stormed the beaches of Normandy or took the battle of Vimy Ridge or Passchendaele or liberated Holland had been so soft and delicate.

Needless to say Thornhill MP Peter Kent was hot on this chilling of our national hoser identity.

“Talk about nanny state timidity,” he said Friday, while out with his family in -24C temperatures in Quebec City and loving every minute of it. “Folks in Ottawa know how to dress in extreme cold.”

Bryan Adams did just that at the NHL outdoor classic in Ottawa and so did Shania Twain at the Grey Cup.

“I feel for Kardinal Offishall and the other musicians because they would play at such a big gig no matter how cold it gets,” said Curtis Black, who plays in both Ottawa’s The Yodas and The Groove Junkies. “We are Canadian musicians. We are tougher than that. We don’t care if it’s 50 below, we’ll play.”

Teased Kent: “As Gilles Vigneault sang so eloquently, Mons pays ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver. It’s Canada!”

Canada 2017 it seems.

If they are going to cancel a Great White North New Years Eve winter celebration because of cold, what’s next? No more ice cubes? No ice fishing? No ice cream, snow cones, milk shakes or Maple taffy on snow? Snow sculpting, tobogganing or skating on the Rideau Canal or on the block too?

It’s probably true Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pals who celebrate New Years in the sunny Bahamas might find it too cold in Ottawa.

But Canadians bask in the frozen temperatures as they showed by the tens of thousands at that hockey game in Buffalo that was not cancelled.

jwarmington@postmedia.com