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What are you thoughts on Canada.

Queso said:
I've known a few people that went to Canada, either to live or just visit. The one thing I noticed about them when they returned was just what terrible haircuts they'd obtained.

So Canada, in my view, is full of bad hairdressers and people with bad hair. Apart from that I have nothing further to offer.
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It's not a bad hair cut, it's just really bad hat head from wearing a toque.

APlotdevice said:
I frequently hear that Quebecers don't really consider themselves Canadian.
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Yeah if you want to see a Canadian cringe ask them about the Québécois being a "Distinct Society". We're trying to sort that out still, though it has been calm for the last decade or so.
 
snberk103 said:
I used to think that too, until we visited my NYC cousins. They teased us (lovingly!) about how many times we added the "eh" to a sentence. We weren't even aware how many times we tagged an "eh" on, until they started laughing at us (lovingly!)
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I guess I could say I am guilty of using the french equivalent of "eh"

lwood1 said:
I mean what do you guys do up there anyway?
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I am open to hear you guess and thoughts

elistan said:
Poutine.
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Traditional poutine is good. I am not a fan of all the new variants.
 
Other than the canadian accent and more liberal people than the ultra conservatives in the US .

But ya it is cold in Canada and shock for the people in the sun belt cities in the US.
 
snberk103 said:
Does the OP want us Canadians to respond, or in the spirit of the original question does the OP want the rest of the world to tell us what they think we do in the GWN?
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I was asking what the rest of the world thought of the GWN.
 
APlotdevice said:
I frequently hear that Quebecers don't really consider themselves Canadian.
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That's OK, we don't either.

elistan said:
Poutine.
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A culinary delight, or an insidious plot. Discuss.

Raid said:
Yeah if you want to see a Canadian cringe ask them about the Québécois being a "Distinct Society".
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Or as they say it. "dis-tink".

Raid said:
We're trying to sort that out still, though it has been calm for the last decade or so.
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They are busy right now, trying to stop their university students from shutting down Montreal.

Wondercow said:
I'd like to point out that this is true for only some Québécois, and, ever since Jean Charest became Premiere, it seems to be in decline.
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Isn't the NDP a wonderful calming influence?

AppleDApp said:
I was asking what the rest of the world thought of the GWN.
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Like we care? We don't go in for peer pressure, for we have none.

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I've never been to Canada but all the Canadians I've met were extremely nice. :)

Also, I saw this quote somewhere: "Canadians work hard, they drink hard, and they all have their own personal grizzly bear stories."

And a Canadian friend of mine added: "Sometimes all at the same time."
 
Went to Canada for a few international hockey tournaments growing up. I'm from the Detroit area, so been to Windsor plenty of times. My first impressions came from when I was 9 and we went there to buy hockey equipment:

1) Holy smokes, the exchange rate is awesome! I got an entire new set of goalie ice hockey equipment. Saved hundreds of dollars compared to US prices. Exchange rate was about double/50% at the time.

2) McDonald's is weird! They had salads and I believe french bread pizza (??) or something before the US stores had salads. It was wild.

Canada was also a big place to go between 19-21 to grab a cheap hotel (exchange rate was no longer OMG AWESOME but still in our favor), but never was into that. I haven't been in years - no hockey tournaments, exchange rate is even or in their favor, no reason to go.

I want to check out Montreal and Toronto sometime, though. Will have to take a little road trip some day.
 
As a Brit I'd say that Canadians have a much better rep than the Yanks. Possibly because of their commonwealth status.

Personally I see them as a good mix of the best bits of America and the best bits of the UK.
 
Ive always had a special place in my heart for Canada since my great grandparents originated from there (French Canadian). Canada is the best mixture of conservative values and socially aware policies in the world. I moved to Canada in 2010 and never looked back.
 
I want to move there. :)

Zombie Acorn said:
Ive always had a special place in my heart for Canada since my great grandparents originated from there (French Canadian). Canada is the best mixture of conservative values and socially aware policies in the world. I moved to Canada in 2010 and never looked back.
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Could you indulge us on how you managed that?
 
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