I was very disappointed, I mean the few things I found were really funny like Canadian comedians making jokes but in general not a lot on Canada. Then after the 2008 elections this year with Canadians having an all time low turnout I starting to think. I thought about rick mercers "talking to americans" In this segment he would ask the american public as well as important american politicians simple questions about Canada to demonstrate they didn't know anything.
I started to wonder if we were to ask a lot of the same questions that rick mercer asked americans would Canadians be just as bad? Rick mercer asked "would you ever visit the capital of Canada Toronto? This is crazy of course because its Ottawa. He asked this to the public as well as politicians and both proved ignorance. I bet if we were to ask similar questions Canadians would be just as bad or close.
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In fairness, he asked those questions in Arkansas. The further south you go in the U.S., the more ignorant of Canada they're going to be. I live in a border state, people here are not that ignorant of Canada.
First and foremost, remember that Rick Mercer is a comedian. If everyone there was an encyclopedia of Canadian knowledge, it would have been a disaster and a complete waste of his time. Making fun of Americans is part of his bread & butter, so obviously he is going to go where the material "writes itself".
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