Canada is fake | The Outline

What Americans think of as their friendly neighbor to the north, if they think of it at all, is a scam.

Alex V Green Feb—19—2020 10:15AM EST I just returned home from a trip to New York, where everyone I met was very excited to meet a Canadian in real life. “What’s Canada like?” they asked, looking at me with eager, puppy eyes. “I think about moving there sometimes. What’s it like? What do you guys do there? Is it cold? Tell me everything.” Americans don’t know much about Canada, and I don’t blame them. They live in the greatest country in the universe, apparently. The rest of the world is meant to plan itself around the U.S.,

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