How should we characterise Canadians?

[pedroh 21]

their socialized healthcare gives you free pot and vicodin and such nice things.. labatt beer is given to children when they become 5 yrs old.. everybody works for the mounted guard.. and they like cheesy rock, as bryan adams..

Not true, no child under 6 is allowed to drink!

LMAO

yea you're right.. Mexico is the one that gives tequila to kids when they turn 5

[Kathryn41 3,205]

hoping that they will be welcomed as Canadians - ever popular travellers overseas.

Perhaps you missed post #23?

I have never heard of a single Yank doing that - I think it's an urban myth!

Nope, not an urban myth. I used to work in an MP's office in Canada (Member of Parliament). One of the nice things that we did is we handed out Canadian flag pins and sticky labels and such for Canadians who were travelling overseas. We REGULARLY (we lived an hour from the Windsor/Detroit border) had Americans stopping in while they were in the area wanting to pick up Canadian lapel pins, flags and other sort of paraphenalia. Their reason? Almost always that they were going overseas and knew that Canadians were better treated than Americans in many countries. Fact.

[pedroh 21]

i want free canadian wacky tobacky

[Kathryn41 3,205]

their socialized healthcare gives you free pot and vicodin and such nice things.. labatt beer is given to children when they become 5 yrs old.. everybody works for the mounted guard.. and they like cheesy rock, as bryan adams..

You have to have a doctor's prescription to get the free pot - and it is grown and supplied by the Canadian government in a great big underground mine to a standardized strength. You can't just get it anywhere, anytime. :-) And I prefer Folk Music to Bryan Adams cheesy rock -Stan Rogers!

[Tinker 0]

i want free canadian wacky tobacky

Health Canada grants access to marihuana for medical use to those who are suffering from grave and debilitating illnesses.

You have to be very bad, I had a quadraplegic for a client and he wasn't granted permission

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Well, time for me to say "Goodnight, eh!" It will be interesting to see what develops with this thread overnight!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I had a quadraplegic for a client and he wasn't granted permission

Damn Nazis....

[no name 1]

hoping that they will be welcomed as Canadians - ever popular travellers overseas.

Perhaps you missed post #23?

I have never heard of a single Yank doing that - I think it's an urban myth!

Nope, not an urban myth. I used to work in an MP's office in Canada (Member of Parliament). One of the nice things that we did is we handed out Canadian flag pins and sticky labels and such for Canadians who were travelling overseas. We REGULARLY (we lived an hour from the Windsor/Detroit border) had Americans stopping in while they were in the area wanting to pick up Canadian lapel pins, flags and other sort of paraphenalia. Their reason? Almost always that they were going overseas and knew that Canadians were better treated than Americans in many countries. Fact.

I guess my (American expat/traveller - many countries) experiences & my friends (American) experiences don't count, eh? Whatevs - you worked for an MP you must know all things Canadian!

Edited August 28, 2007 by devilette

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

devilette,

don't be mean ... it's not like she's mexican, you know.

[no name 1]

devilette,

don't be mean ... it's not like she's mexican, you know.

Close enough, no?

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I have to call bull$hit too on the Americans pretending to be Canadians thing - I jsut don't know anyone who has ever done it. Besides you don't get "treated better" because of your nationality. You get treated better because you are nice and respectful.

Having said that, I think I'm the only American I know who is regularly mistaken for canuck abroad. Dunno why. Maybe growing up 10 miles from the border rubbed off on me.

Edited August 28, 2007 by robinklake

[Jamie76 0]

we say BITE ME

Isn't that: BITE ME you hoser?

[Tinker 0]

Might be abit outdated, but here ya go

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/trav..._tressay26.html

[no name 1]

Might be abit outdated, but here ya go

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/trav..._tressay26.html

One year post 9/11 - you bet your sweet a$$ Americans were afraid to be travelling abroad...

[Jamie76 0]

The writer of that article is a know Canadian sympathizer.