What is Canada
What is Canada?
The top half of North America.

How big is Canada?
Bigger than the United States (approx. 9 970 610 km2).

What is a Canadian?
Someone who lives in Canada. (not American)

What is a Canuck?
Someone who lives in Canada. (not American)

Does Santa Claus live in Canada?
Yes. The North Pole lies within the boundary of Canada. Technically, he is Canadian.

Can you keep beavers as pets in Canada?
If you really, really wanted...

Who is Canada's president?
We don't have a president, we have a PRIME MINISTER.

Do Canadians drive ski-doos?
Yes, when there's snow on the ground.

What do Canadians DO up there?
Shovel driveways, play hockey.

Does it snow all year in Canada?
Only when it's cold.

What are "Newfies"?
These are a mythical tribe of people from "Newfoundland". They feed on cod.

What language do Canadians speak?
Canadian: French-Canadian or English-Canadian. Either way you will find a distinctive "a" sound involved in pronunciation.

Is Canada clean?
Yes.

Why do Canadians say "eh", eh?
That way they can they appear to speak both French and English.

Do Canadians live in igloos?
NO! (not all of us...)

Why are Canadian mosquitoes so big?
We demand only the best. It takes fewer mosquitoes to make a fur coat if they're larger.

Does Canada have summer?
In the southern regions there exists a "humid season" and the snow melts for four months.

Do they turn off Niagara Falls at night?
Only if there's a hydro outage.

Can I walk to Vancouver after dinner in Ottawa, or do I have to take a bus?
I suggest a major airline.

What is Tim Horton's?
The temple in which we worship a hockey player who loved donuts.
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Barmecidal • bar-muh-SYE-dul • (adjective)
: providing only the illusion of abundance

Example sentence:
The cast of the movie is replete with big-name actors, but the feast proves to be a Barmecidal one because the performances are so uninspired.

Did you know?
"Barmecide" is the name of a family of princes in a tale from The Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment). One prince in the family torments a beggar by inviting him to a fabulous feast, at which all the dishes are imaginary. The poor man plays along with his malicious host, pretending to get drunk on the imaginary wine; he then gets even by knocking down the patronizing royal.

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