Canadian-Jewish author Mordecai Richler probably said it best:"The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule." (Barney's Version p. 386)
Most Canadians are ostensibly polite and self-deprecating, but inwardly smug and sure that everyone else in the world loves us because we're not Americans. We also have free basic health care, which means that if we need hip surgery, we're free to get on a list and wait as long as we want.
It's not so bad living in Canada, if you don't mind the cold. There are almost no poisonous animals or natural disasters, besides snow storms, and we get most of the same T.V. shows that Americans do.
RATING: 69% (78% if you're Quebecois and you don't have lung cancer)
(Image of flag from Tizona's Weblog. Sorry for breaking the usual 1 paragraph format, but I suffer from chronic logorrhoea.)
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You make me really like Canadians, and that's not an easy task.
You can like them, just don't trust them, whatever you do.
That's substantially lower than the 83% the USA got on here back in February.
Well Glenn I guess you made the right choice then.
Chalk it up to socialist ennui. When you have everything, you don't have to like it.
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