Americans Answer Basic Questions About Canada

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🇨🇦sydney

[ChristinaDonnelly]

Oh man, this was quite embarrassing 😅 Realizing that I forgot a lot about my neighboring country being away for so long 😭 Thanks Sydney for helping me out! -Christina 🇺🇸

[jackpatterson]

As a Canadian, I do wish Americans learned more about us. I live in B.C., and heard from a friend that someone just over the border asked if we live in igloos. Pretty much all of this stuff is fairly basic knowledge here lol

[realjamesbowned]

I bet the Canadian girl would get 80% right with the US quiz

[chevand]

Just a note, from an American who lived in Canada for several years: I find it helpful to remember that the maple leaf on the flag has thirteen corners (eleven points and two corners on the stem), which aligns with the ten provinces + three territories. The current leaf dates back to the 1960s, long before Nunavut was its own territory, so this was obviously not an intended symbolism; it's just a happy coincidence.

[henri]

This channel has helped me a lot about languages and countrys, oh and by the way, Canada is my favorite country of American Continent 🇨🇦

[zacTFC]

Actually, technically the head of State of Canada is Queen Elizabeth II - so that Thankfully it’s not a King comment is eye opening.

[rameeshapadmatilaka]

It's surprising to see Christina not knowing stuff 😂 but as always it's a fun video. Glad to see the addition of Canada. Hoping to see more collabs with UK and Australia!

[noopynoob]

"What's the capital of Canada?"
"Is it Quebec?"
no hun, Quebec is a province, unless you’re referring to Quebec City (yes that's the full name) which is quite far from Ottawa.

[mavx]

always great to see Christina
she is so sweet😀

[kevanmcdougallmph]

Christina saying "It's all coming back to me" at 6:41 without realizing that she basically said the title of one of Celine Dion's most famous songs (It's All Coming Back to Me Now)!

[robinviden]

Do you have a king?
No, thankfully not.

Her Majesty the Queen: *nods approvingly*

We have a prime minister.

Her Majesty: Oh, it’s just a head of government thing. Then carry on …

[Verbalaesthet]

At first I thought why cant you draw your neighbours flag. It's only one country to the north. Then I thought about how the Danish flag looks like and I couldnt get a picture in my head at all.

[pwbmd]

I will say that she probably did (slightly) below average to what I'd expect from the average educated American to know about Canada. Especially with the flag. Yikes. But none of this information is stuff that Americans are exposed to on a regular basis. We learn all aboot Canada in middle school. But, like the quadratic formula, it's information that's promptly forgotten unless you have a reason to remember it.

[nativetexan]

The national bird is the eagle. the American bison recently became the United States' first national mammal (animal)

[Ranger]

Always fascinated by Canada's national anthem. Such an interesting anthem that incorporate 2 different languages into an anthem.

[mtraveler]

Here’s our current population and it’s distribution across the provinces and territories (as of Dec 21, 2022)

Canada: 39, 371, 859

Newfoundland and Labrador: 528, 826
Prince Edward Island: 172, 846
Nova Scotia: 1, 033, 620
New Brunswick: 822, 909
Québec: 8, 757, 894
Ontario: 15, 297, 644
Manitoba: 1, 423, 128
Saskatchewan: 1, 207, 598
Alberta: 4, 622, 901
British Columbia: 5, 374, 313
Yukon: 43, 972
Northwest Territories: 45, 590
Nunavut: 40, 615


So basically over half the country is distributed in the Southern halves of AB, BC, ON and QC.

So, Americans, next time you ask us if we “know your cousin in Toronto”… no. We probably don’t (but hey, we’re smaller in population than the state of California, USA, so maybe we do know them, eh? 🤣

[dorisasuna]

@2:03 Well Sydney was incorrect here, Canada does have a Queen and she's Elizabeth II

[kontiuka]

You don't necessarily need to be able to speak French and English to work for the government of Canada. Depends very much on the position.

[carlandjennifersilva]

Apparently I’m unusual as I would have easily been able to answer all these questions. But I’ve also been to Canada before and have taken an interest in my neighbor.

[gordonparker]

Toronto is the capitol of the province of Ontario. Justin Trudeau's father was a previous PM. There are several dialects of French across Canada. Our national animal is an oversized hard working rodent. Canada has the longest total coastline in the world. Canada's first flag was known as the red ensign. It had the union jack in the top left corner and the country's coat of arms in the middle.