What is the point of Canada?

Question

Is it to make the U.S. look cooler, or somthing?

Answer 1

Hmm.

Well I guess you actually proved the point of Canada with your question. The point is that not everything revolves around the U.S or has to be about you.

Answer 2

Well, we were a safe haven for escaped slaves from the US, for one thing.

Answer 3

Better yet, what is the point of you, period!

Answer 4

Does a stupid question like that even need a response?

Answer 5

Aside from the stupid comment below the question this is a very interesting question.  What is the point of Canada?  Why does Canada exist and is it worth keeping?  

Each and every time Quebec has its little referendum(b) the politicians go out and say that Canada is worth keeping but they never say why it is worth keeping.  We understand that the bigots and racists in the PQ party want their own little fiefdom from which to rule the great unwashed and limit the population's ability to move by only speaking French.  

One would guess that the only reason that Canada exists today is that it just does, like the States why does it exist?  

Texas, Louisiana, California and Hawaii would be much better off without the country, but why do they remain?

Thank you for the interesting question.

Answer 6

No, it's to keep the USA humble, lol.

Answer 7

It's a place where foreign medical doctors and engineers can go to drive cabs and clean toilets.

Answer 8

to set alot of good examples.............

Answer 9

No, The USA love treating us like Pawns.

Answer 10

Here's another little "let's get the Canadians all hot and bothered" questions. Kids again, I expect...

Now here's an activity - go and see how many nasty little comments by Canadians there are on the US travel site..

Answer 11

Well, When the thirteen colonies of the United States revolted against England, Canada didn't, so it's a different country.

And, to be honest, I think Canada's much cooler than the US.  About 20 - 30º F on average...;)

Answer 12

Five myths about Canada you need to know about!

1. Free health care.

Canada's health care is not free. It is funded by a heavy tax

regime that takes hard earned money from even the working poor. If

you make $C20,000 a year. You will be taxed. Make more? Like $C75,000

and up? Oh, you can bet you will get hit with taxes. In some

provinces like Alberta, you also get the additional privilege of

paying health care "premiums" on top of your taxes.

The big hospital unions like the Registered Nurses and various

so-called "para-professionals" have taken over the health care

system and destroyed it. This is what happens when you create a

a monopoly, and worse, a government owned monopoly.

2. High standard of living

Huh? Since when? This country has one of North America's biggest

drug ghettos. It's called Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Canadians

have a lower per capita GDP than Americans. They also make less

money than Americans, and ironically many other countries: Ireland,

Germany, Switzerland to name just a few.

3. Peaceful

Nope! There are just as many acts of violent crime, drug gangs,

domestic murders in Canada as in the U.S. It's just never adjusted

for per capita, ie. the actual population of the two countries

and the size of the cities in each country. Canada has serial

killers, drug shootings, pollution, gang violence. How come we don't

hear much about this in the world's media, the way the U.S.'s

problems are constantly brought up?

4. Strong economy

No! Canadians just piggyback off the U.S. economy and they still

can't manage to get their unemployment rate down to anywhere near

to the U.S. rate, which was hovering in the low 5's most recently.

Canada's rate has varied over the last decade or more from 11% to

a low of about 7%. The country just sells off its raw natural

resources rather than having a productive economy through

strong innovation or research. Yet the Canucks complain about

selling those resources to the U.S. Huh?

5. Canadians are polite self effacing and humble

Whoa! Canadians are anything but polite and "European" as they

like to tell the world. Most Canadians I've met are ignorant,

boorish, self absorbed anti-American bigots. Go to a Canadian

workplace: see how they treat you, especially if you are a brown

or black person.

Go to a restaurant or a store. The tone is very cold and "British"

in nature. Look at how they drive. I have driven in Britain, the

U.S. (San Diego, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Seattle area).

Nowhere have I seen such stupid backward drivers as I have seen

in B.C. and Alberta.

Basically Canada needs to have its huge pompous self absorbed ego

deflated. Canadians are hypocrites and they love to be delusional,

and self absorbed about how great they are. The U.S. incidentally is the

country where a lot of Canadians, (about 200,000 at last count), go

to live well, retire and of course, for employment. Hypocritical or

what?

Answer 13

the Us is on a downward spiral,many Americans are moving to Canada so what does that tell you?

Answer 14

The point of Canada is that we want it, we love it, and it is the place that many people in the world want to live.  It takes all kinds of countries and people to make up a world.  No other reason needed.

Answer 15

It's a haven for young g*y men like yourself to come, meet that special guy, get married, and settle down.  :)

Answer 16

Canada is a beacon of hope for millions of others around the world who are less fortunate than Canadians.

Answer 17

Canada compared to the US?  You must be joking.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the while your young men are being murdered in the middle east,  people can't go get medical attention, racism and sexism is rampant.  Y'all can't even build back New Orleans after all these many years.

You need to come to Canada to learn how it's done!

Answer 18

Well, think of it this way.  America borders on the magnificent - Canada.

Answer 19

NO ! but the USA makes Canada look cooler especially with obnoxious people like yourself

I agree with Mel C...I doubt you have ever travelled out of the USA in your life

Answer 20

Have you ever been to Canada? We don't live in igloos, and polar bears do not roam about everywhere. OH and we don't climb in  poles to use the phone. I saw that once in a television show, and was VERY insulted. So really, it's a lot like the U.S. but we are a little more discreet about our love for ourselves.

Answer 21

The point of Canada is to daily remind you Americans how a country should act on the global stage.  Learn some manners.