Some observations of Canada from my 10 day house-swap with a Canadian family in Toronto:
Native Canadian people are helpful, but Canadian immigrants don't talk to strangers. Most things are more expensive than in the US, like $6.50 Canadian for a Hagen Daas ice cream bar in Toronto Island park. The Lindt chocolates are all forgeries, just crap in elite wrappers. Canadians are unaware of the fraud, since they've never had good chocolate. Via Rail beats Amtrak by a long shot. Via Rail is clean, on-time, and cheap. Tap water tastes pretty good. There are two sales taxes instead of just one: provincial and federal. Beer and wine in Ontario are sold only by the provincial liquor monopoly, at twice the cost as in the US. BYOB/W Public pools are free, though run-down. Immigrants in Toronto are the largest percentage of any city in the world. The subway system in Toronto is efficient and inexpensive. Milk comes in a bag rather than in a gallon jug. Prostitution advertising is brazen and cheap. There are many Muslim women, some completely covered in Burqas. Women have more tattoos than in the US. Marijuana can be smelled in the air on many major Toronto streets. There is a visible gay population in Toronto. There are a surprising number of Canadian flags on cars and houses. The Canadian accent becomes more noticeable the more you hear it.
Natives on the crime, Indians I guess. Not Canadians but the people before it was settled. They drink Scope mouthwash to get drunk. Not a joke. I haven't been in a while but parts of Canada are sketchy.
If you've been to Wisconsin you know that people in cold and flat climates drink a ton. Canada is heavy on the booze.
I drink and refuse to fight unless it's a family member that's being harassed. So I could see violent crime being high in Canada. You go to a bar and you're indoors with others a lot or you go crazy. Fights and assaults happen. That's why I avoid bars that are primarily for drinking and not the food.
Back about 25 years ago, you could get really high quality combed cotton products from Canada. I had underwear that lasted 10 years - no linting or tearing.
Not to mention that French Canadian whores and strippers that loved American $ when the loonie was 60 cents to the dollar (that was earlier, like around 1990.
They're mostly French Canadian which explains a lot because Europeans are entitled ass holes. They're not flying to CA or the west most the time so it would be rare to meet one. 3 hour flight or 18 hour drive you're in the Panhandle of FL. That's the hot spot Jan to mid March for Canadians directly north... the French kind. Ass holes.
If you know a Canadian you know they'll do nothing. They're the white blacks of the North. They just do nothing, not sure how else to describe it. Average Canadians just do what they're told.
Native Canadian people are helpful, but Canadian immigrants don't talk to strangers.
Most things are more expensive than in the US, like $6.50 Canadian for a Hagen Daas ice cream bar in Toronto Island park.
The Lindt chocolates are all forgeries, just crap in elite wrappers. Canadians are unaware of the fraud, since they've never had good chocolate.
Via Rail beats Amtrak by a long shot. Via Rail is clean, on-time, and cheap.
Tap water tastes pretty good.
There are two sales taxes instead of just one: provincial and federal.
Beer and wine in Ontario are sold only by the provincial liquor monopoly, at twice the cost as in the US. BYOB/W
Public pools are free, though run-down.
Immigrants in Toronto are the largest percentage of any city in the world.
The subway system in Toronto is efficient and inexpensive.
Milk comes in a bag rather than in a gallon jug.
Prostitution advertising is brazen and cheap.
There are many Muslim women, some completely covered in Burqas.
Women have more tattoos than in the US.
Marijuana can be smelled in the air on many major Toronto streets.
There is a visible gay population in Toronto.
There are a surprising number of Canadian flags on cars and houses.
The Canadian accent becomes more noticeable the more you hear it.