I mean, sure, it’s not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).
And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not “Canada-aware” for most of my life.
I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.
Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.
I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.
It is absolutely fascinating to visit the ‘circus’ - the staging area for all of the set trucks and equipment trucks, if you can get past the security. I remember one set in downtown Hamilton, Ontario back a few years, where they ‘blew up’ a car after a car chase. On the main street through a few blocks of downtown Hamilton. The thing is, they ‘blew up’ that car several times, in several takes. They also did the car chase in several ‘rehearsal’ takes before the actual ‘take’. Fascinating seeing the same cars weaving through the same traffic time after time, each one exactly the same. Speed through the scene, stop, back up, and do it all over. Each time increasing the speed. Stunt men hanging out the window. All the street signs changed to American streets. Even the background ‘advertising’ billboards were changed to American brands. Strange seeing a billboard for an American brand in downtown Hamilton. That was before SFX. The shoot was at night, no traffic, but the lights they brought in made it as bright as day. They needed their own generators to produce enough power for the huge banks of lights. All for a few seconds of actual movie.