Canadian are anything but polite. One of the rudest people on earth live in Toronto. You are driving no one gives you a way, you have to make it on your own and when you do people start honking. Canadians are the worse when it comes to being a customers. They would yell at you, start making fuss or create a scene just to get a few percent for discounts. You ask them to leash their dogs in a non-leash zone and they start swearing at you and say things like " you don't even live here". How can people of east coast or the Prairies call themselves polite while people of Toronto, where immigrants are such a huge population exist, prove themselves to be such rude, ignorant selfish? I strongly believe that the idea of Canadian politeness is just an urban legend or publicity stunt to lure immigrants to run such a vast land. Canadian are no different than their American counterparts.
Canadians are like other people: they include the good and the bad.
Generally, what you complain of, are not so evil, such things may be trivial.
The most important is when man transgresses on others: stealing their property, or transgresses by reviling or beating, or murdering.
Therefore the violation of God's commandments is the important and serious thing, and although I have not gone to Canada, I think they may not be different from other people elsewhere and may be better (because Canada is colder :smile: )
By the way: I remembered a tale, which
may not be true but it explains something here:
It is told that Imam Ali - salam to him - saw someone coming from a certain city, and he asked him: "How are the people of this city?"
The man said: "They are very good, cooperative and hospitable, etc."
He said: "You are truthful."
Then another man came from the same city, and Imam Ali asked him: "How are the people of this city?"
The man said: "They are very bad, not cooperative, aggressive, cruel ..etc."
Imam Ali said: "You are truthful."
So his companions said: "What is this: both of them are truthful? How can this be? The first man said: they are very good, and the other said: they are very bad, and yet you say to them: both of you are truthful!?
Imam Ali said: "Each one of them told what he met: this one accompanied good people and he said they are good, and the other one accompanied bad people so his impression is that they are bad."