Sorry to break it to you but Canada has a different culture than the US as well, starting with politics. Almost all Canadian politicians of any stripe are further left than comparable US politicians. We believe in gun control. We're against capital punishment. We support the UN. We support the effort against terrorism in Afghanistan (we are in control of that effort at the moment) but we think Iraq was a stupid mistake that had nothing to do with terrorism and we were correct. We believe in an International Court (currently headed by Louise Arbour, a Canadian). We believe in a landmine ban. We believe in peace-keeping. We don't believe in the weaponization of space or Star Wars. We believe in the Kyoto Protocol even though we are one of the largest users and producers of fossil fuels on the planet and it will cost us billions to comply. We use British spelling. We use metric. We're humble and don't believe in aggressive patriotism. We belive in the world and what it has to offer - we don't think it's a scary place we have to impose our "superior" values upon like the US often does, intentionally or otherwise. We believe in international cooperation, not selfish and short-sighted unilateralism. We believe in multi-culturalism and are much more welcoming to immigrants, as opposed to your assimilationist melting pot. We don't believe being rich, famous and selfish is a virtue to be celebrated a la The Apprentice, entertaining as that show may be. We believe in decriminalizing pot and other drugs because the "war on drugs" is a failure. We don't believe it's wise to fill up our prisons with 1% of our population and use it as a last resort - subsequently we have a murder rate that is one-third of yours per capita (even though we have a more racially diverse population, especially in our large cities).
We believe in a critical free press. We don't fawn over our leaders - if they are full of crap they are skewered mercilessly. Your politicians wouldn't last a minute in Parliament's blisteringly critical Question Period. We don't automatically sue someone when we have a disagreement. In general we're a much more compassionate society and we belive that government should address inequities and that the marketplace doesn't offer all the solutions. We believe in universal medical insurance and strong social programs. We don't believe we are a "divine" nation and have a healthy seperation of chuch and state. We believe in gay marriage (it became legal a couple of years ago) and we couldn't care less about gays in the military. We take holidays in Cuba, smoke their cigars and can drink legally when we're 19; 18 in Quebec. We have two official languages.

Granted we have many similarities but Canadians don't want to be Americans because we know we live in the best country, with the best cities in the world according to the UN, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Mercer Consulting, et. al.

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