Canada is ...

[ThomWV]

Poll question: Canada is ...

In your mind Canada is ...

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Cold? n/t

[justinsb]

2. What inspired this?

Did we make the news again?

[ThomWV]

9. I was just thinking about what could be. Let me say something about Canada

This won't mean much to anyone I guess but it caught my eye about 2 years ago. By our standards the prisons in Canada are resorts but the recidivism rate for people who have been jailed in Canada is next to nothing. That says something about a people, something very good.

[justinsb]

21. Having moved from the US

To Canada I could write a book on some of the many things they do better here - but I don't think anyone outside Canada would read it - or care and most of those who did would take it as gloating (especially on the right).

It is not perfect, but I think the one thing I can say while keeping this brief is that it tries to be. It's a cliche to say that 'Canadians don't know what they are, only what they are not' but there is a constant striving to be better - as a nation, to fix things that are wrong and do it in a measured, sustainable and humanitarian fashion. The vast majority of Canadians are anti-war (but pro international aid), anti-poverty, pro-environment, anti-crime (but very much in favour of 2nd chances), pro-immigration (56% of my city was born outside Canada), pro-choice, pro-Health Care, EXTREMELY pro human/civil rights, and pro-education beyond that there are differences of opinion but any successful politician in Canada has to at least appear to be all those things.

[matcom]

3. a hell of a lot more developed than West Virginia

less racist as well

:eyes:

[justinsb]

4. Thanks!

It's actually the national motto "Less Racist Than West Virginia"

(just kidding)

[ZombieHorde]

6. Super funny!!! nt

[justinsb]

5. The #1 Oil Supplier to the US? n/t

[otherlander]

7. Good point.

I think most people think we get more oil from the Middle East.

[tachyon]

8. Well, as the 3rd (or 2nd, depending on how you measure) largest nation on the planet,

I'd say it's at least significant. The peeps there are mostly cool too.
:-)

[XemaSab]

10. The 51st state?

:hide:

[Breeze54]

11. North.

[Echo In Light]

13. Keep goin' in that direction and you're bound to run into it

[Breeze54]

14. Been there, done that.

:P

[marmar]

26. Actually, when you cross the river from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario......

.... you're going south.

[Cleita]

12. Most of my true long time friends have been Canadians

and I have fond memories of visits there.

[Toasterlad]

15. America Jr.

:hide:

[marmar]

27. America improved.

:think:

[Toasterlad]

28. I Actually Agree With You...

...but I'm too much of a smart ass to admit it.

[Darth_Kitten]

32. You better be hiding.

:)

[MercutioATC]

16. ...the large moose farm to the north...

Oh yeah, they have great hockey and beer, too.

[margotb822]

17. Cheney's next target?

They've got a lot of oil...

[Breeze54]

18. At the end of 2003, Canada was the world's third-largest producer of diamonds, providing 15 per cent

:woohoo:

I'd rather have Canadian diamonds than any other!!

Canada's frigid north a diamond miner's paradise
www.newsdaily.com/stories/n11595199-diamonds-embargoed/

[justinsb]

22. We also have our very own "Blue Diamonds"

So far the Canadian arctic is the only place on the planet where they've been found.

[Arctic Dave]

19. My next door neighbors. n/t

[lutefisk]

20. Home to many loonies.

Why does the immigration application require one to account for every month of one's life?

It's not easy to remember certain years...

[justinsb]

23. One more thing about Canada

That shocked me when I found out (having moved here from the States):

The military is entirely voluntary. Not only do you volunteer for the Military, but you can literally opt-out of any mission you don't feel comfortable about - in other words if you don't believe in the mission, or don't think it will work etc., you can just say no and they'll find you something else to do.

Also, at least at one point they reported, on our mission to Afghanistan the average age was 26, they averaged 7 years of training prior to the mission, and for about 2/3rds this wasn't their first mission (Rwanda, Somalia, Yugoslavia, Haiti, etc.,).

[marmar]

24. As a border state resident, Canada is a friend, a neighbor, a country of great people....

..... and a country that I wish would annex Michigan. Please, eh!

[roamer65]

25. ...to blame. Blame Canada!

Sorry, your post just made me think of the South Park "Blame Canada" song...LOL.

Canada is a much more civilized country than ours in reality. They don't dump their people off without health insurance!

[Toasterlad]

29. And That Bitch Anne Murray, Too.

[GOPBasher]

30. I think I want to live in Canada. n/t

[B Calm]

31. I love Canada. It's their fish and game officers I have a problem with!

First fishing trip into Canada, and my wife and I got a $340.00 fine because we were fishing in a protected area. The protected area was open fishing the next day. No fish in the boat, and the bastards still fined us. The protected area was just a small bay on huge body of water. No signs what-so-ever to warn the fishermen that it was a protected area.

[Homer Wells]

33. Canada is.....

America minus the insanity!

[justinsb]

34. kicking n/t