Why one British man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada

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Canada is currently undertaking a campaign to lure British people to go and live there.

The campaign keeps telling us about how great it is to live in Canada.

However, one British man -the Daily Mail's Philip Delves Broughton - has lived in Canada before, and he says that it is definitely not as good a place as Britain to live.

For a start, there's the weather in Canada. The British might often complain about their weather, but Britain is actually WARMER than Canada. Canada can sometimes make Britain look like a Carribbean island. Winters in Canada are freezing and drag on for months.

Culturally, of course, Canada doesn't even compare to Britain.

And, despite what many Canadians think, the Canadian economy could be in deep trouble, with only resources such as oil, etc, masking Canada's economic troubles.

No wonder the local beavers bite off their wotsits: Why one man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada

By Philip Delves Broughton
30th June 2008
Daily Mail

The pitch is boringly familiar: Come to Canada! Voted best country to live in by the United Nations four years in a row! Tolerant! Cheap! Great free health care! Lots of space!

That final element should be the giveaway. Despite being larger than its southern neighbour, the United States, it has around one tenth of the population, 33million to America's 300million (its population is also around half that of Britain's, despite Britain being much much smaller).

Despite banging its own drum for decades, calling on the world to gather on its shores, Canada still looks like one of those poor young girls at a trade show, thrusting flyers at disinterested passers-by.

It is the big, earnest, empty restaurant which can't understand why the scrappier joint next door is hopping. People just do not want to go.


'The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slowwitted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.'



The late newspaper columnist, June Callwood, summed up Canada's status compared to its great English-speaking rivals: 'The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.'

And yet, for Britons considering the latest blandishments to move to the Land of the Maple Leaf, the argument tends to go like this: Why carry on hacking away in the UK, paying a monstrous mortgage on a house, battling through traffic and public transport while being taxed within an inch of my life when I could be making the same money, living in a much bigger house, getting lots of fresh air and at least getting good schools and health care for my high taxes?

On the surface, of course, this makes a lot of sense.

But as someone who, in the course of my reporting duties from North America, has visited Canada on more occasions than I care to remember, I should warn you that there are a number of other factors to consider before you wave goodbye to Blighty.

First, the climate makes Britain's look positively Mediterranean. The winters drag on for months, with temperatures well below freezing. The nights are interminable. And in summer you have a choice between extremely humid and dry and windless. You're either sitting in a steam room or a sauna.

In Toronto, an entire subterranean network of passages and shopping malls has been built for its inhabitants to scurry around all winter. London feels like Nassau by comparison. And don't think for one moment that there will be enough diversions indoors to distract from the climate.


The British Museum, which has 13 million objects in its collections. Culturally, Canada does not hold a candle to Britain.

Culturally, Canada does not hold a candle to Britain. Its museums and orchestras are resoundingly second tier, though it may have an edge in country music festivals.

This is, after all, the home of Shania Twain, whose full-throated warblings make Dolly Parton sound sophisticated.

In the dramatic arts, Canada's greatest recent contribution - unless you include Jim Carrey and Pamela Anderson - is the incomprehensible, semi-nude contortion act of Cirque du Soleil. And as for its newspapers, they are lifeless and hobbled by the provincialism which divides the country.



Canadian celebrities: Pamela Anderson and Jim Carrey are proud Canadians... despite becoming U.S. citizens in recent years


Sure, Canada has been through a food revolution similar to Britain's, but still the way to a Canadian's heart is not through fancy Newfoundland oysters, but with ' poutine' - chips smothered with cheese curds and gravy. It makes a chip butty look like the healthy option.

Then there's its politics. However tawdry and disappointing the British politicians may sometimes seem, the Canadian version is no better. Canada now has a conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, but for most of the 20th century it was run by the Left-of-centre Liberal Party which created a culture of big government and high taxes.

As the Canadian poet Irving Layton once said, the Canadian political and intellectual communities' have a tendency to regard ' cowardice as wisdom, philistinism as Olympian serenity and the spitefulness of the weak as moral indignation'.

As for the economy. Britain's prospects may stink at the moment, but the notion of Canada as some Shangri-La is false. Yesterday a report was published saying that Canada was suffering from endemic complacency.

'In almost every major category of socio-economic performance studied, Canada's performance is slipping, causing it to fall behind countries that are its peers, partners and competitors,' said the report issued by The Conference Board of Canada, an independent thinktank.

The economic problems, the report said, were only being concealed by the surging price of the commodities being dug out of Canada's rich soil. When prices fall back to earth, Canada will be in deep trouble.

Move there now to grab one of the jobs sitting vacant, and you may soon be sitting on a fast-deflating bubble.

Canada's hiring pirates are especially keen on carrying off British construction workers and mining specialists, technology experts and most depressingly of all, doctors and nurses.

They believe that the restructuring of the National Health Service will force many British doctors and nurses overseas where their services are actually valued and properly rewarded.

These doctors and nurses should be warned, however, that their work, to quote the America humourist P.J. O'Rourke will mainly involve 'treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels'.

Ah yes, hockey. If you thought British sport was becoming crude and violent, try watching two teams of toothless brutes sliding around on ice and pausing every few minutes to beat the daylights out of each other. It makes the Premiership look like synchronised swimming.

However bad Britain may seem, trust me, moving to Canada is not the answer. Why not try somewhere more appealing. Siberia, for example.


SOME FACTS ABOUT CANADA

Unfortunately for Canadians, income tax in Canada is higher than in Britain: the top rate is 46%, while low earners pay between 24% and 35%. The British get to take home a higher proportion of their wages.

Canadians are the world's biggest eaters of macaroni cheese.

Canada is the 11th most obese nations in the world. The US is the most obese and Britain is third.

Canadian $1 coins are called "loonies".

Quebec is the world's only walled city north of Mexico.

Canada has six time zones, unlike in Britain where everywhere is the same time.

Winters in Canada are much colder than their British counterparts. In Old rCrow, in the Yukon, the temperature once fell to -81.4f.

At 125,000 miles, the Canadian coastline is the world's longest.

Canada has a higher proportion of people born abroad than Britain. Around one in five Canadians were born outside Canada, but just one in 20 Britons were born outside Britain.

Hunters club to death 270,000 seals a year. This has led to condemnation from the EU and the US.

Canada is home to a quarter of the world's fresh water.

Canada's soccer team has qualified only ONCE for the World Cup - in 1986. But then it failed to score and finished last.

Canada invented Trivial Pursuit, the zipper, the BlackBerry and the electron microscope.


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I heard a radio ad the other day in Vancouver promoting scientists to relocate to England. The only thing they really said was, "move to England..you'll like it!" or something to that effect. They couldn't come up with any real reason.

It's culturally better? Who gives a rats ass if there are more museums. No one goes to museums where they live. Or is it the music? I hate to tell ya but generally once people exceed age 14 this becomes less important, and once they manage to be old enough to drink they soon won't care what band is playing where. It's called growing up and discovering what really is important. Some two-bit jackass screaming into a mic is hardly worth moving to or staying for.

You can have jolly old England.
 

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I wasn't aware there was a rush in Britain to immigrate to Canada, but if Broughton says there is, it must be true. The last time I was in London I thought I was in downtown Calcutta.

The British lion? There is no such animal. The only lions in Britain are in bloody zoos. No lion has ever gone to Britain outside of a cage.

The beaver, that actually live in Canada, are very industrious animals that build dams on streams to make their homes and create lakes enjoyed by other wildlife.

Canada as a country, stretches from the northern U.S. boundary to the Arctic Circle. That Canada would have a varied climate would be obvious to anyone with an I.Q. of over 80. Right now, on Vancouver island, we are having our eighth straight day of sunshine with temperatures in the eighties.

Hockey? Why would I want to talk about hockey with someone who obviously knows nothing about the game??

I wonder if Broughton was turned down for a job in Canada? That would account for his dopey attitude.
 

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They just don't want us taking the dentists and the "few" good cooks they have. Have you ever eaten english food? organ meats (catfood) stuffed in something or another baked or boiled = vile glop.
 

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I wasn't aware there was a rush in Britain to immigrate to Canada, but if Broughton says there is, it must be true. The last time I was in London I thought I was in downtown Calcutta.

The British lion? There is no such animal. The only lions in Britain are in bloody zoos. No lion has ever gone to Britain outside of a cage.

The beaver, that actually live in Canada, are very industrious animals that build dams on streams to make their homes and create lakes enjoyed by other wildlife.

Canada as a country, stretches from the northern U.S. boundary to the Arctic Circle. That Canada would have a varied climate would be obvious to anyone with an I.Q. of over 80. Right now, on Vancouver island, we are having our eighth straight day of sunshine with temperatures in the eighties.

Hockey? Why would I want to talk about hockey with someone who obviously knows nothing about the game??

I wonder if Broughton was turned down for a job in Canada? That would account for his dopey attitude.


London I thought I was in downtown Calcutta.

i can confirm this

The British lion? There is no such animal. The only lions in Britain are in bloody zoos. No lion has ever gone to Britain outside of a cage.

the are pubs called this but all true so far

The beaver, that actually live in Canada, are very industrious animals that build dams on streams to make their homes and create lakes enjoyed by other wildlife.

we have beavers too in Cornwall reintroduced in the 1970s i think

we are having our eighth straight day of sunshine with temperatures in the eighties.
you got me there this would never happen here always fing raining

Hockey? Why would I want to talk about hockey with someone who obviously knows nothing about the game??
this is a girls game
 

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Sure Canada I'm sure would appreciate a people who supported apartheid in Africa.... Heavens knows we sit in awe of the one time British Prime Minister Tony Tail between his legs Blair....playing lap-dog to the United States....

Englishmen should remember....better to pluck-up...stiff upper lip and all that....don't look around for your next squat...but get the buckets ready your little island is about to get very wet....
 

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Yet another thing is the British tend to repeat themselves. This article is a rerun. Blackleaf, lay off the Arctic Monkey. It's affecting your memory. ;-)
 

darkbeaver

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are you sure you have been smelling the right areas of women in britain, the women i date do not have hairy backs lol sure it wernt there bums you were looking at now i would agree they have massive bums :lol::lol::lol:

I'll rephrase it quandry121 I momentarily forgot the good wonderful sweet smelling limeys on this site who of course I apologise to profusely. Canadians smell very good and our women don't have hair on thier backs, my first post in this thread was only a persistant perenial rumour and has not as far as I can verify been bourne out by rigorous clinical sniffing.:lol:
 

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To all the Britons on this site other than Blackleaf: I was responding to that mean-spirited, anti-Canadian, article that Blackleaf posted, and meant no insult to Britishers in general.
 

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I have spoken to our ambasador in Angleterre the Right Honourable Red Commy Beaver and he will be lodgeing an official complaint on behalf of our sweet intelligent industrious national animal.
 

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Winters in Canada are much colder than their British counterparts. In Old rCrow, in the Yukon, the temperature once fell to -81.4f.
That's light jacket weather.
 

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I am completely enraged.

There is no good reason that Canada cannot do better. Only 270000 seals clubbed to death? We can do better people. We should not be content unless we are able to club at least 1 million seals to death.
 

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I am completely enraged.

There is no good reason that Canada cannot do better. Only 270000 seals clubbed to death? We can do better people. We should not be content unless we are able to club at least 1 million seals to death.
Hell, lets nuke them.
 

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SOME FACTS ABOUT CANADA

Unfortunately for Canadians, income tax in Canada is higher than in Britain: the top rate is 46%, while low earners pay between 24% and 35%. The British get to take home a higher proportion of their wages.
The british have to take home more money because their prices are so high.

Canadians are the world's biggest eaters of macaroni cheese.
Only with real Canadian cheddar cheese.

Canada is the 11th most obese nations in the world. The US is the most obese and Britain is third.
So, there are ten countries more obese than Canada....good I guess..

Canadian $1 coins are called "loonies".
A lot of Britons are called "Loonies"

Quebec is the world's only walled city north of Mexico.

We have lots of walls in Canada....They hold the roofs up...


Canada has six time zones, unlike in Britain where everywhere is the same time.
Hey, it's true..

Winters in Canada are much colder than their British counterparts. In Old rCrow, in the Yukon, the temperature once fell to -81.4f.

At 125,000 miles, the Canadian coastline is the world's longest.

Canada has a higher proportion of people born abroad than Britain. Around one in five Canadians were born outside Canada, but just one in 20 Britons were born outside Britain.

Hunters club to death 270,000 seals a year. This has led to condemnation from the EU and the US.

Canada is home to a quarter of the world's fresh water.

Canada's soccer team has qualified only ONCE for the World Cup - in 1986. But then it failed to score and finished last.

Canada invented Trivial Pursuit, the zipper, the BlackBerry and the electron microscope.
 

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They believe that the restructuring of the National Health Service will force many British doctors and nurses overseas where their services are actually valued and properly rewarded.

This is so true in my experience. I worked with so many British nurses and docs. They've actually restructured their nurses training so new nurses have a hard time moving to Canada and the US. I don't think it's an accident, it's the only way to keep them.
 

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Canada is currently undertaking a campaign to lure British people to go and live there.

The campaign keeps telling us about how great it is to live in Canada.

However, one British man -the Daily Mail's Philip Delves Broughton - has lived in Canada before, and he says that it is definitely not as good a place as Britain to live.

For a start, there's the weather in Canada. The British might often complain about their weather, but Britain is actually WARMER than Canada. Canada can sometimes make Britain look like a Carribbean island. Winters in Canada are freezing and drag on for months.

Well la'di'da..... too cold for ya? From November to April it's cold.... the rest of the time it's fricking hot.... two sides to every story me friend.

Culturally, of course, Canada doesn't even compare to Britain.

Well By all means, elaborate on this one..... nothing? Oh well just an empty shot then.... wasting my time..... thanks for nothing.

And, despite what many Canadians think, the Canadian economy could be in deep trouble, with only resources such as oil, etc, masking Canada's economic troubles.

Oh my.... that's all you think we have? Just Oil? Not my loss the guy is ignorant.

No wonder the local beavers bite off their wotsits: Why one man won't be joining the rush to move to Canada

By Philip Delves Broughton
30th June 2008
Daily Mail

The pitch is boringly familiar: Come to Canada! Voted best country to live in by the United Nations four years in a row! Tolerant! Cheap! Great free health care! Lots of space!

That final element should be the giveaway. Despite being larger than its southern neighbour, the United States, it has around one tenth of the population, 33million to America's 300million (its population is also around half that of Britain's, despite Britain being much much smaller).

So? What does a big population benifit?

Despite banging its own drum for decades, calling on the world to gather on its shores, Canada still looks like one of those poor young girls at a trade show, thrusting flyers at disinterested passers-by.

Hey you know what? I couldn't give a rats ass if you come live here or anywhere else... it makes no difference to me, and you sure don't see me out on the streets trying to sell living here..... that's not my job and I have more important things to do then to impress people in another country.

It is the big, earnest, empty restaurant which can't understand why the scrappier joint next door is hopping. People just do not want to go.


'The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slowwitted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.'

Oh wow.. such a profound observation... that explains everything right there as to why we suck so much..... idiot.

The late newspaper columnist, June Callwood, summed up Canada's status compared to its great English-speaking rivals: 'The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.'

And that is also why I still claim many experts and self proclaimed knowitalls can still be idiots.... they're human after all.

Oh but since the columnist is dead, that must make their opinion worth more I guess.

And yet, for Britons considering the latest blandishments to move to the Land of the Maple Leaf, the argument tends to go like this: Why carry on hacking away in the UK, paying a monstrous mortgage on a house, battling through traffic and public transport while being taxed within an inch of my life when I could be making the same money, living in a much bigger house, getting lots of fresh air and at least getting good schools and health care for my high taxes?

On the surface, of course, this makes a lot of sense.

But as someone who, in the course of my reporting duties from North America, has visited Canada on more occasions than I care to remember, I should warn you that there are a number of other factors to consider before you wave goodbye to Blighty.

First, the climate makes Britain's look positively Mediterranean. The winters drag on for months, with temperatures well below freezing. The nights are interminable. And in summer you have a choice between extremely humid and dry and windless. You're either sitting in a steam room or a sauna.

Pussies.... Oh and the nights are interminable if you live in the friggin north pole you reject.

In Toronto, an entire subterranean network of passages and shopping malls has been built for its inhabitants to scurry around all winter. London feels like Nassau by comparison. And don't think for one moment that there will be enough diversions indoors to distract from the climate.

Yes, as if the UK is completely pure from natural inconviences itself... what is the common thing? Oh yes.... Raining all the damn time and so foggy you can't see where you can go and could be mugged without even knowing.

See how ignorant comments can shift the perspective?


The British Museum, which has 13 million objects in its collections. Culturally, Canada does not hold a candle to Britain.

Culturally, Canada does not hold a candle to Britain. Its museums and orchestras are resoundingly second tier, though it may have an edge in country music festivals.

This is, after all, the home of Shania Twain, whose full-throated warblings make Dolly Parton sound sophisticated.

This coming from the country which gave us the Spice Girls?

In the dramatic arts, Canada's greatest recent contribution - unless you include Jim Carrey and Pamela Anderson - is the incomprehensible, semi-nude contortion act of Cirque du Soleil.

Wow a circus which doesn't use animal slave labour for entertainment..... such evil.

And as for its newspapers, they are lifeless and hobbled by the provincialism which divides the country.

And the US is any better? How about the UK as a whole with Scottland, Ireland, Wales, etc where many are still referring to themselves as their own countries?



Canadian celebrities: Pamela Anderson and Jim Carrey are proud Canadians... despite becoming U.S. citizens in recent years

Gee.... become US Citizens in order to get jobs in the movie industry which is mostly within the US.... who would've thunk it?

Oh and there have been many more well known actors and artists from Canada then just those two.... cripes, how more retarded is this going to get?

Sure, Canada has been through a food revolution similar to Britain's, but still the way to a Canadian's heart is not through fancy Newfoundland oysters, but with ' poutine' - chips smothered with cheese curds and gravy. It makes a chip butty look like the healthy option.

Why am I still even reading this?

Then there's its politics. However tawdry and disappointing the British politicians may sometimes seem, the Canadian version is no better. Canada now has a conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, but for most of the 20th century it was run by the Left-of-centre Liberal Party which created a culture of big government and high taxes.

"Oh, well they have this guy in power now, but for this long before they had these guys in power, so it still counts." :roll:

At least our leader didn't blindly follow Bush into Iraq like the Poodle he was.

As the Canadian poet Irving Layton once said, the Canadian political and intellectual communities' have a tendency to regard ' cowardice as wisdom, philistinism as Olympian serenity and the spitefulness of the weak as moral indignation'.

Yeah well everywhere you go is like that these days.

As for the economy. Britain's prospects may stink at the moment, but the notion of Canada as some Shangri-La is false. Yesterday a report was published saying that Canada was suffering from endemic complacency.

'In almost every major category of socio-economic performance studied, Canada's performance is slipping, causing it to fall behind countries that are its peers, partners and competitors,' said the report issued by The Conference Board of Canada, an independent thinktank.

The economic problems, the report said, were only being concealed by the surging price of the commodities being dug out of Canada's rich soil. When prices fall back to earth, Canada will be in deep trouble.

Ya ya.... still on that "Oil is our only product" mentality I see. We'll see what you guys have to say when you run out of water with the rest of the world..... how's your uranium that powers your homes by the way? I see you guys have no production of your own, so you get it from somewhere, and since we're the largest exporter, followed by our friends in Australia, I imagine that tone would change quickly once the supply suddenly stopped.

Move there now to grab one of the jobs sitting vacant, and you may soon be sitting on a fast-deflating bubble.

Canada's hiring pirates are especially keen on carrying off British construction workers and mining specialists, technology experts and most depressingly of all, doctors and nurses.

They believe that the restructuring of the National Health Service will force many British doctors and nurses overseas where their services are actually valued and properly rewarded.

These doctors and nurses should be warned, however, that their work, to quote the America humourist P.J. O'Rourke will mainly involve 'treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels'.

Yeah, take it from an American to generalize in such a moronic manner, and for someone in the UK to quote it as some practical example.... pssh.

With that mentality, it makes us sound like we're immortal and always in good health if that's all doctors have to look forward to here....

Ah yes, hockey. If you thought British sport was becoming crude and violent, try watching two teams of toothless brutes sliding around on ice and pausing every few minutes to beat the daylights out of each other. It makes the Premiership look like synchronised swimming.

What, are you stuck in 1964 or something?

Then again, I suppose Cricket is so much more entertaining as a sport.

However bad Britain may seem, trust me, moving to Canada is not the answer. Why not try somewhere more appealing. Siberia, for example.

Yes, Siberia, where they have even worse winter conditions then here in Canada.... that's just Brilliant..... moron.

SOME FACTS ABOUT CANADA

Unfortunately for Canadians, income tax in Canada is higher than in Britain: the top rate is 46%, while low earners pay between 24% and 35%. The British get to take home a higher proportion of their wages.

and compared to living costs and other things? Oh yes, we'll let that information slip to skew the perspective, of course.

Canadians are the world's biggest eaters of macaroni cheese.

Well holy sh*t batman, Run for the hills!

Canada is the 11th most obese nations in the world. The US is the most obese and Britain is third.

So the US and the UK are in the top three fattest nations in the world and we're 11th.... and yet that makes us worse? Bravo Sherlock.

Canadian $1 coins are called "loonies".

Oh my Jebus! that just ruined my whole day!! A Loonie? How unprofessional of them!

Quebec is the world's only walled city north of Mexico.

What the hell's your point? It remained that way for historical purposes..... got an issue? Here's a tissue.

Canada has six time zones, unlike in Britain where everywhere is the same time.

Well gee.... geographics come to play when one thinks about that.... Canada is bigger and covers more area of the Earth.... go figure they'd have more time zones *slaps cheek* ~ Like they actually have any direct affect on your everyday life..... jeez.

Winters in Canada are much colder than their British counterparts. In Old rCrow, in the Yukon, the temperature once fell to -81.4f.

Oh well holy snappin crap.... it's cold in the Yukon? Why didn't I catch that in the news?? Cuz you know.... the Yukon is about as populated as Ontario and it affects so many people.... that's why people move there in the first place, didn't you know? :roll:

So sorry we couldn't condense our entire country down to the size of the UK and move it down to the equator to meet your precious needs.... ffs, this is so retarded I think I started twiching to the left and wearing socks up my nose.

At 125,000 miles, the Canadian coastline is the world's longest.

Wow, that's so horrible.... how can anybody be expected to swim all that on a liesure Sunday afternoon?

Canada has a higher proportion of people born abroad than Britain.
No kidding, considdering this whole area was colonized much like the US in the first place and was the whole foundation of both country's existence.

But then again, if you're an intollerant, racist biggot who can't deal with people who are different from them, then I guess Britian would be a suitable place to live.

Around one in five Canadians were born outside Canada, but just one in 20 Britons were born outside Britain.

Isolationalist?

Hunters club to death 270,000 seals a year. This has led to condemnation from the EU and the US.

It's usually more then that, Get over it.

Canada is home to a quarter of the world's fresh water.

And that's a bad thing?

Canada's soccer team has qualified only ONCE for the World Cup - in 1986. But then it failed to score and finished last.

Like we care about soccer anyways.

Canada invented Trivial Pursuit, the zipper, the BlackBerry and the electron microscope.

Don't forget about:

  • Actar 911 CPR Dummy - Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault, and Jonathan Vinden
  • Anti-gravity suit - Dr. Wilbur R. Franks
  • Automatic lubricators - Elijah McCoy
  • Avro Arrow - Royal Canadian Air Force
  • Balderdash - Laura Robinson and aul Toyne
  • Basketball - Dr. James A. Naismith
  • Birchbark canoe - Canada's Natives
  • Chocolate bar - James K. Ganong
  • Cobalt bomb - University of Saskatchewan and Eldorado Mining and Refining
  • Cystic fibrosis gene - Lap-Chee Tsui
  • Electric cooking range - Thomas Ahearn
  • Electric wheelchair - George J. Klein
  • Electron microscope - The University of Toronto
  • Explosives and vapour detector - Dr. Lorne Elias
  • Five-pin bowling - Thomas E. Ryan
  • Football goalpost with single base - Jim Trimble
  • Fuller brush - Alfred C. Fuller
  • Ginger ale - John J. McLaughlin
  • Green garbage bag - Harry Wasylyk
  • Green ink - Thomas Sterry Hunt
  • Hydrofoil boat - Casey Baldwin and Alexander Graham Bell
  • Ice hockey - Members of the Royal Canadian Rifles
  • Imax film format - Grahame Ferguson, Roman Kroitor, and Robert Kerr
  • Instant food - Dr. Edward Asselbergs
  • Insulin - Frederick Banting
  • Java - James Gosling
  • Jolly jumper - Olivia Poole
  • Kayak - Canada's Natives
  • Kerosene - Dr. Abraham Gesner
  • Lacrosse - Canada's Natives
  • Laser sailboat - Bruce Kirby, Ian Bruce, and Hans Fogh
  • Light bulb - Henry Woodward (later sold the patent to Thomas Edison)
  • McIntosh apple - John McIntosh
  • Mobile blood-transfusion service - Norman Bethune
  • Newsprint - Charles Fenerty
  • Pablum - Doctors T.G.H. Drake, Alan Brown, and Frederick F. Tisdall
  • Pacemaker - Wilfred Bigelow
  • Paint roller - Norman Breakey
  • Panoramic camera - John Cannon
  • Pictionary - Rob Angel
  • Retractable beer case handle - Steve Pasjac
  • Robertson Screwdriver - Peter Lymburner Robertson
  • Snow blower - Arthur Sicard
  • Snow shoes - Canada's Natives
  • Snowmobile - Joseph-Armand Bombardier
  • Speed of sound - Dr. George Wong
  • Standard time - Sandford Fleming
  • Stanley Cup - Lord Stanley of Preston
  • Steam foghorn - Robert Foulis
  • Stol aircraft - de Havilland Canada
  • Superman - Joe Shuster
  • Synchronized swimming - The Canadian Royal Lifesaving Society
  • Table hockey - Donald Munro
  • Telegraph - Frederic Newton Gesborne
  • Tipi - Canada's Natives
  • Tobaggan - Canada's Natives
  • Trivial Pursuit - Chris Haney and Scott Abbott
  • Variable pitch propeller - Wallace Rupert Turnbull
  • Velcro - George de Mestral
  • Walkie-Talkie - Donald L. Hings
  • Yachtzee - Edwin S. Lowe
  • Zipper - Gideon Sundback
Enjoy it you ingrates.
 
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