There are Québécois, and there are North Americans, and then there are a handful mining, oil, and gas companies that created a fake country for tax benefits. Canadians? what even is that? It's a fake identity based around a mediocre coffee chain. They couldn't even get the name right: There is no "i" in Canada, but they're Canadians, like people from America are Americians? That's how fake they are.
A country full of people who can name half a dozen US senators but can't remember the name of their own MP. What's the point of Canada?
As a "Canadian" I can confirm that we don't exist.
Large segments of the high school curriculum is the attempt (and failure) to define a "Canadian identity", in particular more than just being a north american that's not american.
We should embrace our status as "second-rate America" because the only plausible alternative is "second-rate Britain" and that's so, so much worse.
There are North Americans, some of whom speak French.
Canada is basically like if someone asked "What if a whole country was New England?"
I have literally never met a Canadian.
Closest I've seen were two boomer American tourists who wore a Canadian flag pin on their jackets because they thought they would get attacked for being yanks.
Its like when in ancient times they would draw cynocephalus people at the edge of the map. So what is there in the far north? Can- adians.
There is a jim butcher series called codex allera about a roman legion that got isekaied to a fantasy world. The story takes place after they several generations and they have built an empire .
In books 2-5 they are figthing a race of antropomorphic dogs, homo canis if you will. And they come from the other side of the sea in a northwest direction. Rigth were canada would be. It always craks me up.
I thought this but I lived in Detroit for a while and the number of A) wh*te Ontarian frat boys slapping themselves on the back for "toughing out the city" and B) yuppie couples on day trips was HUGE! I have a specific memory of this one canuck family at a well-respected bookstore letting their kids run all over and then the man TALKING ON HIS PHONE ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE AT THE STORE WHILE AT THE REGISTER!
DO NOT BELIEVE the hype about them being polite, obsequious pissants. IT IS NOT TRUE! They just have a laughably nasal accent to accompany their :cracker: self-indulgence.
So :france-cool: but not Quebec?
I could excuse this if you said Metis, but Quebecois?
Canadians don't exist.
Tired. Pedantic.
Canadians shouldn't exist.
Worthy. Ordained.
