To Americans: How much do you know about Canada? Vice Versa?
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Well since I was born and raised in Canada and lived there for eleven years and than moved to the US and have lived her for about 6 and a half, I think it's fair to say I know enough about both countries. What's really interesting is comparing college tuitions and general price, Canada's being much lower because of the government paying for most of it. Oh Canada your so ripe with socialism. Now lets see if I can remember both the french and english lyrics to O Canada.
English:
O Canada
O Canada
Our home and native land
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land** glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Notre hymne national
O Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Damn I forgot
English:
O Canada
O Canada
Our home and native land
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land** glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Notre hymne national
O Canada!
Terre de nos aïeux,
Damn I forgot
Weener said:I didn't take anything personal, was just pointing out facts. The global warming thing was my own little rantAs far as the health care system problems are concerned, we do indeed have an elderly population that abuses the free medical care system. So does yours (medicaid). And I'd have been more worried about having a president for 8 years who couldn't read "Green eggs and ham" let alone 2 war declarations. Who are these illiterate people making health care decisions, may I ask? Not trying to get into a fight, just a friendly debate
indeed metric is our system of choice, although we use mostly imperial for height and weight. just makes sense to use base 10 measurements, as opposed to weird 12/16/28 measurements
Regarding comments about eldery abusing Social Medicine, I don't see that. The eldery that I see have underying medical issues that are dealt with appropriately. I do see the younger generations 20- 50 's useing the ER as a doctors clinic some times, and thats probably of a result of not having a family MD.
I believe there has been a movemet to bring US style health care here and has been building over the last number of years. Many clinics "for profit" are starting up outside of the old style health care institutions. Many hospitals in Toronto for example have been closed since the mid to late 1990's. Now we complain of ER waits etc. Capacity has been taken out of the system. To remedy this situation we are now looking to US style for profit health care to fill the gap. I believe this is the slipery slope we are heading down regarding our universal health care system.
Just my thoughts.
this is the complete text. like i said before, it was change for the english version because , well the orignal text is only oriented towards french canadian.RogueRunner said:
but only the first part is the offical national anthem
Ô Canada! Terre de nos aïeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter la croix!
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits.Et ta valeur, de foi trempée,
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits
Protégera nos foyers et nos droits.
Sous l'?il de Dieu, près du fleuve géant,
Le Canadien grandit en espérant,
Il est né d'une race fière,
Béni fut son berceau;
Le ciel a marqué sa carrière
Dans ce monde nouveau.
Toujours guidé par Sa lumière,
Il gardera l'honneur de son drapeau,
Il gardera l'honneur de son drapeau.
De son patron, précurseur du vrai Dieu,
Il porte au front l'auréole de feu;
Ennemi de la tyrannie,
Mais plein de loyauté,
Il veut garder dans l'harmonie
Sa fière liberté.
Et par l'effort de son génie,
Sur notre Sol asseoir la vérité,
Sur notre Sol asseoir la vérité!
Amour sacré du trône et de l'autel
Remplis nos c?urs de ton souffle immortel.
Parmi les races étrangères
Notre guide est la foi;
Sachons être un peuple de frères,
Sous le joug de la loi;
Et répétons comme nos pères
Le cri vainqueur: « Pour le Christ et le Roi »
Le cri vainqueur: « Pour le Christ et le Roi. »
Without reading the slog of posts, I have to say that I know very little about Canada except for a few basic things:
National Healthcare
Tight Gun Control
They exiled all the french to their own province
Vancouver is basically just North Seattle
Any supernatural fiction book taking place in/near Toronto is automatically cooler for it
The employees of the Vancouver zoo and aquarium are rude to Americans on fieldtrips
They like gravy on fries, as well as weird cheese-curd crap.
National Healthcare
Tight Gun Control
They exiled all the french to their own province
Vancouver is basically just North Seattle
Any supernatural fiction book taking place in/near Toronto is automatically cooler for it
The employees of the Vancouver zoo and aquarium are rude to Americans on fieldtrips
They like gravy on fries, as well as weird cheese-curd crap.
And as an unaverage American, I would agree. Then I remember that they tolerate the french, and there goes any desire to live there.nezaros said:
Oh, a few more to add to my list above:
They supply most of the new young actors to Hollywood
They have superior young adult television progaming
They are to blame for Celine Dion and Anne Murray
quick Canadians!! exicute plan 1.5/206 ! before he finds ouy what their up against! man the invisible mechs! HAHAHAAA who's laughing now america? soon you'll see exactly why we were so interested in maple syrup!Neonbob said:
I don't know much about Canada except that they play Ice hockey a lot, maple syrup is a main export, and some provinces are Quebec, Ontario, Newfondland, Nova Scotia, British Colombia, and New Brunswick. Other than that, I just don't care enough to know more.
[HEADING=1] muahahahahahahaaaaa![/HEADING] that's what YOU think isn't it?, you'll see YOU"LL ALL SEE SONE ENOUGH!!Neonbob said:
I haven't had pancakes for like a month now and we don't actually eat it all the time if that's what you think, of course I could say we do then say you yanks all have hotdogs for breakfast, lunch, and dinnerNeonbob said:
no your probably still thinking of ol'shatsters, and yes I realize I said SHATSTERS because I need a cheap laugh and that's funny to meNeonbob said:Who gave you that secret? I need to kill someone...and you admitted to a serious love of it just a while back, didn't you? That is what I was going off of, you know.Guitar Gamer said:
Oh. Okay then. It's not my fault you canucks all seem alikeGuitar Gamer said:no your probably still thinking of ol'shatsters, and yes I realize I said SHATSTERS because I need a cheap laugh and that's funny to meNeonbob said:Who gave you that secret? I need to kill someone...and you admitted to a serious love of it just a while back, didn't you? That is what I was going off of, you know.Guitar Gamer said:
I'm sure all A-mer-cuhns seem alike to you though.
you mean you YANKS you most yank-ery yank-tastic yank that ever yank-ed a yank.................................y