http://www.nationbrandindex.com/nbi_...-release.phtml

Take a bow Canadians, you're number one in the world's eyes! The findings relating to Brand Canada from the NBI Q2 2006 report include:

1. Canadians won the People Brand category when panelists were asked “I would like to have a person from this country as a close friend” and “If I visited this country, the people would make me feel very welcome”

Canada ranked first
Australia ranked second
Sweden ranked third
The European Union ranked fourth
Switzerland ranked fifth
2. Canada achieved second place, beating the United States, within the Investment Ranking category, when panelists were asked “This country is a good place to study for educational qualifications” and “Which country would you choose to live and work in for a substantial period?”

The UK ranked first
Canada ranked second
The United States ranked third
The European Union ranked fourth
Switzerland ranked fifth
3. In the Governance category, Canada achieved third place when panelists around the world were asked "This country is competently, honestly and fairly governed" and “This country respects the human rights of its citizens and treats them with fairness”

Switzerland ranked first
Sweden ranked second
Canada ranked third
Norway ranked fourth
Denmark ranked fifth
4. Canadian respondents also thought Canada was best in four sub-categories, when asked to rank each of the 35 countries:

What places they were likely to visit if money were no object (67% chose Canada)
Which country is rich is natural beauty (59% chose Canada)
Which country is a good place to study for educational qualifications (49.6% chose Canada)
Which country are you most willing to work in for a substantial period (71.2% chose Canada)
In the Exports category, Canada achieved 8 th position when it came to Canada’s contribution towards innovation and science

If people are ignorant, what does that make of polls that survey their opinions?

Indeed, popularity contests don't prove anything.

And if the world has a good opinion of Canada and Canadians, methinks they obviously don't hang around USPO.

Would like to see the whole list

....and your point is?????????

....then click on the link that I posted.

bfd...

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I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008

Actually Alex if you wanted to be accurate your siggy would have the hezzie standing behind the baby carraige and the israeli dropping bombs on it.

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The universe grows smaller every day and the threat of aggression by any group anywhere can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure... - Klaatu

Canada is better than ... oh .. another bailey thread .. nevermind. **Yawn **

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Pretty slow on the uptake eh GORT? My signature has not changed in over 6 weeks...

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I think at this point there needs to be a focus on an immediate increase in spending and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second seat . . . I believe later on there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of the money."
-- Barney Frank, October 20, 2008

No not really slow just don't find you interesting enough to pay attention to your posts unless I am bored.

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The universe grows smaller every day and the threat of aggression by any group anywhere can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all or no one is secure... - Klaatu

I believe his point is that no one disputes that Canada is a great country.

It's just that when some Canadians gloat about it, and rub it in other peoples' faces, they look like total jackasses.

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One day, I will sneak across the border into Canada and be an illegal alien. It will be fun.

Oh c'mon now MM, I have more Candian friends that you would imagine. I lived in Detroit for 25 years and spent a good deal of recreational time there.
You guys just get slammed here becuse of the way things are laid out.........suppose the site was www.canadianpoliticsonline.com and several Americans logged on daily to tell you how fucked up your country is?

It's like a guy who drinks too much.......he knows he does, but it still pisses him off when someone else tells him he does.......

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Since Americans are known far and wide for gloating about their superiority and rubbing other peoples' faces in it, I think it is no suprise that Canadians come out on top as per the survey. Your comments, in fact, are a good indicator of why that is the case. Well done. Jackass.

For once I agree with you. You're totally correct. However, Canada and the US have an asymetrical relationship (to be expected when one country dominates the other) therefore the US will always be slagged, rightly or wrongly, as a result.

Actually it isn't Canadians as a whole that get slammed. Zed and MM post frequently without getting slammed. It is only bailey that regularly gets slammed on this board for his incessant canada good US bad routine.

When he first did it there was a modicum of information that came through. Then it became comical, and now it is just monotonously repetative

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