Canada!

[Warforger]

There are many assumptions that Americans know nothing about Canada, so I, a Canadian, challenge you Americans to show what you think you know about Canada!

What do you think of the Canadian revolution during the 1830's

 

[The Austin]

You guy's like Hockey, Warm Beer, Syrup, and scamming people out of their Ebay items.

I'm not kidding, this is the actual Canadian stereotype where I live.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

All I want to know about Canada is when President Dr. Insano is going to continue his ingenious plan to cut off Canada from the United States and attach it to Australia to serve as it's land-beard. I want my vote to matter, goddammit!

 

[RN7]

Canada is the world's main source of Maple Syrup and boring people. The people there live in igloos and huts surviving off of narwhal meat and congealed sap.
/sarcasm.

 

[Zombus]

I know you don't like to talk about the Mulroony Deficit.

This guy knows his stuff.

It's that place thats kinda the USA though shitter in every way?

Okay i'm kidding, your one of my countries colonies?

Okay again with the kidding, Canadas just a country like any other and as far as I can make out, quite a boring one.

Not boring, just less publicized that America.

Okay I'll run with this ball you've given me. Tell me a couple of awesome things about Canada?

We had the coolest leader ever for a while by the name of Pierre Trudeau. He dated film stars, showed up to parliament in a sports car, and actually did some good for Canada (disregarding the debt he would put us in). Also (and on this one I'm not so certain, learned this in grade 9 so I'm a little hazy) Quebec got screwed in some political thing because there was a change to some bill in the middle of the night and because the Quebec representative was staying in french hotel that was elsewhere, no one bothered to go get him so he could vote (again, I may be wrong on this one).

 

[gbemery]

Didn't you guys/gals have 10% of your military equipment held off your coast by ONE American owned freighter back in 2000?

You're also known for faulty olympic torches and weird fiddle playing, tap dancing lumberjacks...i kid i kid.

 

[CorruptCor3]

Didn't you guys/gals have 10% of your military equipment held off your coast by ONE American owned freighter back in 2000?

If this actually happened, they probably just asked nicely.

 

[gbemery]

Didn't you guys/gals have 10% of your military equipment held off your coast by ONE American owned freighter back in 2000?

If this actually happened, they probably just asked nicely.

nope they landed some Canadian special forces on the boat to take the stuff back later on.

 

[Dango]

I live in America, but I'm Canadian, so I know quite a bit actually. Every one there is either really nice or a complete idiot for one thing, although most people tend to go for the "really nice" option. Also, the taxes right now are preposterous.

 

[esliang]

Mounties! I think of Mounties!
In all seriousness, I visited Canada when I was very young and have great memories (including talking to a Mountie when I thought I'd gotten lost). I'd love to go back someday.

 

[photog212]

Canadian "Facts" from a biased Yank.
1. Canadians are all born on skates.
2. Sidney Crosby is a witch.
3. Its F'in cold most of the year.
4. Mounties dress funny on TV.
5. Moose are considered a driving hazard.
6. Everyone is polite, even when mocking you.
7. They burned down the White House. (1812)

 

[the lapalminator]

n and all the tourguides and stuff are much happier than in America (in my personal experience, anyway)

It's that place thats kinda the USA though shitter in every way?

Okay i'm kidding, your one of my countries colonies?

Okay again with the kidding, Canadas just a country like any other and as far as I can make out, quite a boring one.

Not boring, just less publicized that America.

Okay I'll run with this ball you've given me. Tell me a couple of awesome things about Canada?

The tourguides, hotel managers, cashiers are usually more pleasant (my personal experience, anyway) and we are statistically more laid-back and live longer than Americans

That sounds nice, not awesome Makes it sound like a friendly 4 star hotel where nothing interesting happens but it's still... nice.

Come on, tell me some awesome things about Canada.

we made terry fox, a person who walked with 1 leg all the way across our country to promote cancer awareness

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

HAHAHA! wow its so funny to see what people think they know of canada when theres is no difference between america and canada.
They only think things that we may be famous for
health care
maple syrup
only country left with beavers
Eh!
the assumption that we all say the 'eh' accent is a tense offensive since the accent only was what the french and metis would say when they were trying to talk english back in the days of confederation. But Canada was made from settlers all around europe (france, ireland, england) and first nations.Canada itself is many languages from all around the world.

now you know something!

 

[RatRace123]

Sarah Palin can see you.

 

[Shimmyshake]

Is it true that you've invented cars that work on maple syrup? On that note, you have electric generators that work on maple syrup too, right?

As for what I know... it's cold.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Bigfoot lives in British Columbia

 

[Conner42]

The only thing I definitely know about Canada is that I'd like to go there some day...

I know some people online that are from Canada, and there's a possible chance that my future drummer is there! It's probably colder in Canada. From talking to some random people online, you get quite a bit of snow up there. That's all I really know. The only thing I can really assume is that it's probably like the US except maybe a little nicer. At least, that's what I'm hoping. I mean, surely it's better than the US, right? They wouldn't vote for a shit for brains for leader........twice! If they were given the opportunity.

One question though. If you call ham Canadian Bacon, then what the hell do you call bacon?

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I'd post what I know, and think*, of the country but considering that I live there I don't know important it would be to the thread.

*What I think may be labelled as trolling by mods and butthurt nationalists because I am both very anti-imperialist and anti-nationalist.

 

[Lord Christmas]

I always find it funny how Canadians just want to be mentioned.

(I'm Canadian by the way)

Seriously, look at how many Canadian threads there are in this forum alone, usually started by Canadians wanting Americans to affirm their need to matter.

If you watch American TV with any Canadians, we don't get offended when someone makes an outrageously over the top joke about how backwards or lazy we are, we are usually just glad that Canada came up in conversation.

And as for Quebec I'm surprised it came up in this thread, it's like the anti-Canada, not as in it's against Canada, but as in it's Canada with a Spock beard. English Canada is decidedly non-nationalist, and in Quebec the leading parties in every federal election and nearly every provincial (that's right, provincial, not national) election are Nationalist parties. English Canada as a general rule is known for and proud of it's tolerance towards those of diverse cultures and heritages, and it's welcoming attitude (relatively speaking) towards immigrants; in Quebec it's conventional wisdom that non-Francophones don't belong and that non-Francophones are "newcomers," which is of course cleverly ignorant of the historically Anglophonic regions like Hull or Lennoxville. Quebec is literally the most oppressed place in North America, the language laws in that province serve more to punish those that don't conform to the majority's imagined past and idealized culture than to protect anyone's culture. Ask an Anglo-Montrealer if he feels like his government is protecting his culture. That being said, Quebec is also a refreshingly liberal place, after getting past the linguistic bigotry, with reasonable drinking laws, and a very open (if you can speak French) culture that is very accepting towards things like unwed couples and homosexuality, the latter being something that English Canada needs to get to work on.

Anyway, back on topic, I think that we as Canadians need to stop this "did you know" sort of attention seeking about our country. The US is a big place, and an important country on the world stage, culturally, economically and militarily. They shouldn't have to know who our Prime Minister is, it'd be nice, but it's not important to them, and we as a country need to grow up and accept that. After all, do you know who the President of Spain is? How about which actors from Indonesia are famous? How about who's the world's greatest Shot-putter or Caber-Tosser? Do you see where I'm going with this? We have unreasonable expectations that outsiders should know everything about us. A much better strategy would be to simply inform ourselves the curious and stop pestering non-Canadians about how well they know the Great White North.

I'm from Quebec and I gotta say no to what you said about Quebec, not everyone here is an idiot from the pq. Sure you'll get some people that are like what you described, but mostly in the rurals area: in Montreal, something like 40% of the people are english speaking folks and the city itself is quite diverse in therms of ethnicity. Yes the loi 101 exist and yes it doesn't protect the english culture in Quebec but to say it's oppresses anybody is quite a stretch. Actually it's easier to live in english in Quebec where there is the fabled loi 101 than to live in french in english canada where it's supposedly protected by the law( the right to speak french that is).

Btw, are you from toronto?

 

[LeonLethality]

We have a far better thanksgiving. Ours celebrates how we saved the world from its turkey overlords hundreds of years ago. Turkeys were the original master race but they were so darn tasty as we figured out, so we cooked them and ate them all in one day. This day would come to be know Canadian Thanksgiving. True story, this is common knowledge in Canada.