Reaction To Things About Canada the Rest of the World Finds Weird

Reaction To Things About Canada the Rest of the World Finds Weird

This is my reaction to Things About Canada the Rest of the World Finds Weird

In this video I react to interesting facts about Canada and Canadian culture.

[Cap]

You are one of the best reactors. You listen, don't constantly interrupt and don't ask stupid questions.
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[Aughtel]

Something i've heard from some people who move to Canada is we say "thank you" to our bus drivers and cab drivers, cashiers.They say things like "why are you thanking someone for doing their job?". Still polite to thank for the ride, or transacting your stuff, i guess. Habit. Sorry.

[TransHuman_Tia]

As a Canadian in Ontario like the example said you do need to be polite because you never know who the next person coming down the road is and we do rely on each other to survive

[GWNorth-dbvn]

Some of this is simple. We constantly apologize to avoid killing each other. "Eh" is a chance for the other person to agree with you and show he's friendly, so you don't kill him. Canadians are polite wolverines at heart.

[starpetalarts]

Canada knows it's weird... we like it that way.

[aprilehler]

You cannot speak ill of The Hip, I heard it said that Rush is the Canadian band we gave to the world, The Hip is the band we kept for ourselves…..still miss not seeing The Hip concerts anymore….RIP Gord

[pamelawilson]

The Stanley Cup, the NHL trophy, was created in Canada by Lord Stanley for the Canadian Amateur Hockey Champions in 1892. The Montreal Canadians, The Toronto Maple Leafs, The Ottawa Senators, The Winnipeg Jets, The Calgary Flames, The Edmonton Oilers, and The Vancouver Canucks are all part of the NHL. We do have professional hockey teams.

[belldandypleb]

‘WE GOT STRONGER BEER!’ Is the song he referenced, you really should check it out! SORRY: There’s actually a law in Canada to protect Canadians from liability for saying ‘Sorry’… in America, saying ‘Sorry’ is considered an admission of guilt (unless you’re a doctor), but Canadians are protected from that because it is such an integral part of our society that it is not considered an admission to anything, according to the law.

[rschrader]

Check out Stompin Tom Connors. He was one of our best Canadian folk and country singers. He wrote over 300 songs and sold over 4 million albums. A few of his best-known songs are "Sudbury Saturday Night", "Bud the Spud" and "The Hockey Song".

[philpaine]

Years ago, I was at wit's end, broke, and had just got a job that would save my bacon. The job required me to buy a monthly transit pass. This used up the last of my cash. On the first day on the job, I lost the pass, not being used to the habits necessary to protect it. I was devastated, and returned home, wondering from whom I could borrow a hefty sum to replace it. Anyone who found the pass could easily use it themselves ---- a month's worth of free transit for them. But before the evening was done, I received a phone call. Someone had found the pass and phoned up everyone with my name in the phone book (about a dozen people) to find the owner. I had only to show up at their door and pick up the pass. Many Canadians grow up assuming this is normal, and I, always reminded by that incident, try my best to live up to the stereotype.

[Lakeshore]

Two days ago, I saw one of city buses with the sign “ Sorry. Out of service”.

[andrewdonatelli]

All dressed chips are amazing! It's hard to describe the flavour. So many flavours mixed together, with none of them being overpowering and just making them taste great.

[SamIamIam]

We even say Thank You to the Bus drivers when we exit the bus

[fellknight]

I'm totally here for Mert's Tragically Hip arc!

There are so many great songs, but I'd start with Wheat Kings, Hundredth Meridian, Courage, Fifty Mission Cap, and Bobcaygeon in some order

[coneheadjill]

As a Canadian who loves curling, it is interesting that the granite from all curling stones comes from 2 quarries, one in Scotland, the other in Wales. Every small town in Canada has a hockey rink (usually more than one) and a curling rink. Most international curlers spend a good part of their year in Canada as they can't access good rinks anywhere else.

[klondikechris]

Breaking down on the road in the Yukon can literally be a matter of life and death. If we see someone parked on the side of the road, we virtually always stop to make sure they are okay It is usually just someone going for a pee, but once in a while, it isn't. As for sport, curling is hugely popular in Canada. Something over two million people curl here. And my niece is on the world championship team! I am not a fan of hockey, but I do like curling. :) Where the teams are often introduced with bagpipes, as we have more bagpipers here than in Scotland.

[TRaceTK]

I really do think we are more polite. We say please and thank you more then in the USA. A common response to when I say “Thank you”, they respond umhum instead of “your welcome”. We talk to strangers more, well I do 🤪 Love your videos!

[peterzimmer]

Salt and vinegar chips are one of the most common flavoured chips in Canada.

[ninemoonplanet]

At -40 ° and your neighbour needs your help, you do what you can and bring hot coffee, mitts and toque then get whatever needs doing done.
Annoy or infuriate your neighbours, when you need some help, you may not get it, or get the help grudgingly.
Like Gander after 9/11 doing and getting what needs to be done is just being a decent human being.
It does take immigrants quite a bit of time to understand the quirks, but one ugly situational experience will help.

[belongtotoday]

I wish he mentioned the Governor General / Lieutenant Governor positions in the section about the British monarch. To say that the reigning monarch has *no* power is...a little misleading. Or at least feels like it lacks a lot of context. Canada has **11** representatives of the reigning monarch pretty much at all times. It has a federal (country-wide) representative called the Governor General and each of the 10 provinces have a Lieutenant Governor. While they technically *are* ceremonial positions, ceremony counts for a lot.

The Gov General can:
- Summon, prorogue and dissolve parliament.
- swears-in the Prime Minister and his cabinet (Ministers)
- Must give royal assent to turn a bill into a law.
- is appointed at the approval of the monarch with help/nomination by the Prime Minister. Usually someone from their political party.
- appoints members of the Privy Council, lieutenant governors and certain judges, on the advice of the prime minister.

So it's not nothing is it? Could Canada skip all of those legally and pretend the Gov General / Lt Govs didn't exist? Or not appoint any? Yeah probably but it feels very strange to think about doing so.

Technically Charles could dissolve Canada's parliament via the Gov General. Would he ever? No but it's legally a power he has through the Gov General so again, to say that the reigning monarch has *no* power whatsoever simply isn't true. It's just that there's sort of a silent understanding that they'd never actually use it.

If anyone cares, here's a few recent examples of the Gov Gen or Lt Govs being used in Canada...

* In 2015 the Gov General was asked to clarify a 150 year old definition of the word "resident" as a requirement for being part of Canada's [unelected] Senate.
* In 2021, Jagmeet Singh, leader of the federal NDP party (one of the Big 3 main parties) wrote to the Gov General and asked her to deny going to a snap election if Prime Minister Trudeau asked for one...because the NDP are broke and unpopular and not ready for an election.
* In 2022 when the "convoy" protests were going on in Ottawa protesting Trudeau and various COVID mandates, there was a lot of [incorrect] furor from protesters trying to reach out to the Gov General to basically demand she dissolve parliament. This was never going to happen but it was a pretty big narrative thing going on during the protests.
* If you saw what just happened in the French election....in 2017 that happened on the provincial level in British Columbia when the incumbent BC Liberal party looked to have won the election but fell short of having a majority. The BC NDP and BC Green Party quickly formed an agreement and together they had enough seats to overtake the Liberals but it was contentious. The incumbent Liberal Premier actually asked the Lt Gov to form government anyway and then to dissolve parliament (and potentially kick off ANOTHER election days after having one). Lt Gov refused and gave assent to the NDP-Greens to form the new provincial gov. Like I say...basically what France just did but it was the Lt Gov who had to mediate and give assent and sort out the entire mess as two different people pretty much declared that THEY had won the election and would/should form the gov.
* A virtually identical situation to the above happened in New Brunswick in 2018 and again, it was the Lt Gov who had to sort it out and declare a winner.

So again, not exactly "nothing" or "no power" or a position that never does or says anything. These were important political events that the monarch's representative had final say in.