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In accordance with Canada's official policy of bilingualism, this page is also available in French.

En accord avec la politique officielle du bilinguisme canadien, cette page est également disponible en français.

Robin Scherbatsky, note and you can't actually do it in Moose Jaw, since Saskatchewan has more restrictive laws ) How I Met Your Mother (Worth noting: you can do this in one spot in Vegas or anywhere in Oregon "In Canada, you can go to an all-nude strip club and order alcohol. Thats right. From Moose Jaw to the Bay of Fundy, you can suck down a 20-ounce Pilsner while watching some coal miners daughter strip down to her pelt. Jealous?"

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In American media, Canada is a sweet, quirky and slightly backwards version of America. It's as if you took everyone from Minnesota, gave them an obsession with hockey note Anyone who thinks this should be clarified to Ice Hockey will be stiffly beaten by the RCMP, with a hockey stick. (OK, it's practically an unofficial religion), and made that an entire country. Everybody's white (except the First Nations), and everyone who isn't French has a Scottish note or otherwise British last name.

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Canada basically consists of six distinct parts:

Keep in mind that Canada, Eh? has no West Coast (besides ALL of British Columbia) and no mild winters (except for Vancouver). The warm weather stops right about at the border (unless it presents a passport).

For more simple-minded types, Canada consists of two parts:

Toronto : Icy hellhole. Full of maple syrup, French people, moose, beavers, Mounties (who are Paul Gross clones) and people who say "eh."

: Icy hellhole. Full of maple syrup, French people, moose, beavers, Mounties (who are Paul Gross clones) and people who say "eh." Not Toronto: Icier hellhole. More syrup, French people, moose, beavers, Mounties (again, clones) and people who say "eh." And frequently called Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, Flin Flon, Dildo, Swastika, Asbestos, and so on.

Eeeeeh, Canadians eat nothing but Kraft Dinner even if they didn't HAVE to eat Kraft Dinner (which is Canadian for "macaroni and cheese"), Tim Hortons, doughnuts, poutinenote French fries with cheese curds, and enough gravy to partially melt the cheese, and Canadian... er... peameal bacon. Anglophone Canadians all speak with a stereotyped West/Central Canadian English accent, putting "eh" at the end of questions or affirmations, and prominently raising the "ou" in aboot every word containing it. Also, as per the page image, Canadians are famed for shamelessly holding their maple syrup jugs on the non-handle side.

The army consists of a guy with a BB gun mounted on a moose, the air force a paper airplanenote And the Avro Arrow, the coast guard a guy with a pair of binoculars and a rope, and the navy a guy in a canoe with a slingshot.note Americans military personnel who have served with Canadians throw this trope around for jokes, but in reality, tend to see Canadians as a professional force. In fact, the Canadian army has brutally defied this trope with its aggression in certain wars.

All policemen are Mounties, and they wear their red serge dress tunics and broad-brimmed Montana Peak hats constantly, even while on regular duty.

Canadian technology is always behind American tech.note Except of course, Canadarm, ATI, Corel Wordperfect, the telephone and Alexander Graham Bell himself, the Blackberry, the Learjet, and the aforementioned Arrow... In fact, if it wasn't for the Americans they'd have no culture at all.

Feel free to whack me over the head with a hockey stick. And doon't feel soarry aboot it, eh! I'll just apologize to you for possibly damaging your hockey stick, because that's the Canadian way, eh?

Oh, but remember: No matter how polite and well-mannered Canada, Eh seems to be, there are always SOME exceptions...

Useful Notes about non-fictional Canada now has its own page.

Also see Canada Does Not Exist, and Minnesota Nice for the American equivalent.

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The Yukon Ho storyline from Calvin and Hobbes has Calvin seceding from his family to go live as a mountain man in northern Canada. He doesn't get very far, obviously, as he seems to assume that walking from his unspecified hometown (generally assumed to be Chagrin Falls, Ohio) to the Yukon will only take an afternoon, but he says that once he gets there he'll be able to hunt walruses.

In a story line in Peanuts, Charlie Brown runs away, but Sally finds him camping out on his pitcher's mound. When she asks him why he didn't go someplace farther from home, such as Canada, he tells her he was afraid of getting hit by a hockey puck.

A lengthy storyline in Mark Trail was set in Canada and featured a Mountie named Sergeant McQueen who not only wore his red serge tunic at all times, but was clearly shown to have another red serge tunic hanging on his door, presumably in case the first one was damaged.

Hong Kong comic The World of Lily Wong featured a Story Arc where Lily's no-good brother Rudy and his mates were thinking of holding up a store and wanted to get guns without paying a fee to the local Triads. The obvious answer? Ask an American! Rudy approaches his gwailo ("Ghost Man", aka Caucasian) brother-in-law, Stuart. Rudy: Hey, gwailo, can I borrow your gun?

Stuart: What makes you think I have a gun?

Rudy: Aw, c'mon, all Americans have guns!

Stuart: Well I don't.

(Rudy returns disappointedly to his friends.)

Rudy: Bad news, lads. I think this one must be Canadian.

Fan Works, Eh?

Film — Animation, Eh?

Toy Story 4 features Duke Caboom, a toy of "Canada's Greatest Daredevil". He has maple leaves all over his outfit and bike, his Leitmotif is O Canada, his previous owner was francophone, and his catchphrase is "Yes I Can-a-da". His commercial shows a hockey rink playset in the background.

Brother Bear has Rutt and Tuke, two Canadian moose who speak 'eh?' most of the time, eh? Moreover, they are reminiscent of Bob and Doug McKenzie, who are portrayed by their voice actors Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, both of them actual Canadians.

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Podcasts, Eh?

It's Just a Show: The hosts are unabashedly Canadian, and it shows. Early on it's relatively subtle, with some "aboots" here and there, but as the show goes on they really lean into the Canada-ness, with one segment in the episode "Don't Eat the Good Bug" being a speech about a construction project in Canada with "O Canada" playing in the background.

Pro Wrestling, Eh?

Tabletop Games, Eh?

Subverted by the Champions 4th edition supplement Champions of the North, which for all that it did bring up the various cliches also invested a fair bit of page count into describing the actual real life Canada of its time and a surprisingly accurate and informative historical overview (in addition to the usual writeups of local superheroes, -villains, and scenario ideas, of course).

Pallidum Games is based in the state of Michigan and thus close to Canada. As such, their games like Rifts display a better grasp of Canada than most American RPGs. For instance, the writers are aware of Canadian politics at least in the broad strokes such the basic Rifts world description has the Free States of Quebec and the major Big Good city of Lazlo is a rebuilt Toronto. That does not include the dedicated supplement book focusing that game world's version of Canada.

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