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I'm from India, and we often joke about Indian immigration to Canada. Most of the people, especially from the state of Punjab want to move there and there is a huge Indian diaspora in Canada. Even some road signs are in Punjabi which I find really funny. And great video as always, Paul!
Yeah, there is a large Indian diaspora in Canada, especially people from Punjab. Punjabi is the fourth most spoken language in Canada after English, French, and Chinese. Though it might be third if Chinese is divided into Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. I’d have to check that.
The cold in the north really isn't that bad! My sister moved to Yellowknife several years ago and I visited in January 2020. In many areas of the north, due to the low humidity and relative lack of wind, even very cold temperatures don't feel so awful. Many major areas in the prairies experience similar levels of cold at times, and Atlantic winters are a different beast altogether with harsh storms and winds. I think the main reason that many Canadians don't want to move up there is because the towns are all small, relatively lacking in services/resources, and have a high cost of food/supplies. Of course these are all problems only solved by having more people move there... A bit of a catch-22.
People discount the effect of humidity on how cold you feel! Even in Vancouver you'd be surprised how much you have to wear in our relatively mild winters.
I've been in northern Alberta, and Whitehorse, both in the winter. I live in Ottawa. If sucky cold winters are something you really hate, then I'd wager Whitehorse will be more enjoyable than Ottawa. The capital gets months of -20 to -30 C, but damp, cloudy, and windy in a way that just makes it awful. Sure, northern Alberta gets colder, but it's dry and less cloudy.
As an indigenous Canadian, I want everyone in the world to know about residential schools and what they did to us. People in Canada already know about it a lot. But it has not reached outside of the country yet. And I want that information to get out of Canada and into the rest of the world.
@@tarektahan7759 lol of course Aljazeera will report on it. But hey Mr Palestinian why are you on indigenous Canadian land this makes you a colonizer if you don't know.
Great video about Canada! I´m from Norway and I´ve always wanted to go to Canada, there´s so much vast nature and beauty from pictures and videos I´ve seen and every Canadian I´ve met in my life so far has been really nice, friendly and sympathetic which made me even more of a fan of Canada. Definitely going there someday when I get the chance! :)
C'est fou tout ce que tu arrive à caser en 11min54 😅 bravo ça fais longtemps que je te suis, hâte de voir tes prochaines vidéos ! Tu n'as pas eu le temps de développer toute la diversité des climats canadien et de l'économie mais bon :)
Thank you, this was a very nice watch! I had no idea Canada is trying to populate it's North, nor about the motives to do so. Here in Finland there doesn't seem to be much interest in keeping all parts of the country populated as people are moving more south and to the bigger cities, but this is of course a very small country compared to Canada so the situation isn't really comparable. Canada and Canadians have a stellar reputation here in Northern Europe! I've never visited unfortunately, but we had many Canadian exchange students back in Uni, and some of my friends studied there. Not much of a culture shock for someone Nordic, I gather. And there's New Finland to make us feel right at home, of course. ;)
It's because, according to international law, if you aren't using your land, it can be taken by anyone that occupies it. We have a huge amount of land up there (though most maps make it look even larger than it is), and protecting it is no easy task. Yet another debt we owe to our indigenous brothers and sisters.
Hi Paul! I sometimes watch your videos with my students in English class. They enjoy learning so much about different countries. Your videos are really entertaining and crammed with information.
Wow, that’s cool. It’s always surprising for me to hear that teachers around the world are showing my videos to their students (whether Langfocus videos or GEOfocus videos).
I visited Canada in 1975 with my parents when I was a seven year old kid (Ontario only). I have nice memories about it and hopefully I will make another trip to there some day.
Hi Paul! I am glad to watch your wonderful videos with such precious informations. I learnt that Ottawa has duel identity and about the territories just from your videos. Looking forward for more
It's the 1st time I watch your videos on your second channel, and I can say that your explanations are extremely simple, clear and I now know a lot about the Canada country, Thank you very much for this very informative video !
I love this video, Canada is wonderful. I have driven from Nova Scotia to BC and Banff, etc. I just love it. I learned the name of a new province. I didn’t remember one of them. I love Canada. Peace park is fun to go to in WA/Canada. I have been there twice and it is very relaxing. Thank you Paul.
@@GEOfocusChannel Oh my goodness Paul. I guess I have seen more then. I have driven off the ferry at Prince Rupert, round trips, twice. I been to the dinosaur museum twice and the stops on the road, where you can see dinosaur eggs in situ. Very fun! On the Montana border there are the Hoodos with the native paintings. I love Canada!
Great video as usual. Who better than Paul to present a video on Canada? I learnt too much to mention, in the details, helping me to relate it to what I already knew.
Canada is a gem of a country! l've always found Canada fascinating, so much that l have a book on Canada's history. Canada's Viking heritage is of major interest to me, as l'm of part-Viking descent. Heck, there should be separate videos about each of the 13 provinces and territories!
Great video, Paul! I didn't know you guys had Newfoundland Time, or that it was one of those silly time zones that is 1/2 way between proper time zones (looks accusingly at South Australia). PS A freakin' quokka is a quokka that has just met a beaver :)
Canada is a very interesting country. Although French is one of the two official languages, along with English, it is hardly heard as in British Columbia or Alberta.
Yeah I agree, I've lived in Metro Vancouver for my entire 17 years on this planet (at the time of commenting), and I never heard much French until I went to Victoria on Vancouver Island last summer. I heard a LOT of French being spoken there in public.
When I first started watching your Langfocus channel, I knew right off the hop that you were Canadian. I happen to be Canadian myself, so your accent gives you away. While many think Canadians and Americans sound the same, they don't. If anything, Canadians tend to have more a clipped accent with precise and measured speech - just as you do. I know that when I'm in social situations, I tend to relax and adopt a southwestern Ontario twang (linguists sometimes call this a rural Canadian accent - which applies to all parts of English Canada, save for the Maritimes). But when I'm in a formal or business situation, where I have to enunciate more clearly, my diction tightens up considerably and my speech has a more clipped sound. Americans generally don't have this ability - to quickly switch from their local dialect to a formal sound.
Thanks, Paul, from a Canadian-born living in (Western) Australia. I decided to keep the numbers fixed and just change their sign, from -40C to +40C. Aussies are aghast when I tell them that the best temperature is therefore the one furthest from the extremes = 0 degrees C (or 32F in the ancient, primitive scale). Chuckle: Aussies feel that anything below +20C is “bloody freezing, mate”. As for bloody +40C it’s “beauuuuuutiful”. I do miss real winters!…
you just have to love the Canadians... it's like you bump into them on the streets, pour their coffee and they apologize to you and buy you a coffee :D I have a feeling they learn the word "sorry" as their first word :) I love these people :)
My state also loves ice hockey and we even have some places that serve poutine (sorry, don't get the appeal of it personally). We share a vast watery landscape in Voyageurs National Park and Quetico Provincial Park. The Great Lakes are astounding. Love Canada!
Poutine used to be just a Quebec thing; at least from the perspective of a Torontonian. We only knew about it from our awesome road trips to Ottawa/Gatineau (Hull back then) and Montreal. It’s only in the last 20 years or so that we’re all pretending it was always a typical Canadian phenomenon.
I’ve always loved Canada. I am fascinated by its wonderful landscapes and the fact that it is bilingual English-French. I’ve always seen it as a modern and open-minded country. When I tried to move there I didn’t succeed unfortunately, but I definitely want to visit the country some day, hopefully more than once 🤞🇨🇦🍁
Yes, but mainly when I was too little to remember now. But I went to Victoria for a couple days when I was in college. It was a nice little city with a bit of British flavor.
Thanks Paul, I had no idea LaCrosse was so popular in Canada. Hockey no question. I loved watching the great Canadian export SCTV in my teenage years and how iconic Bob and Doug McKenzie became, eh hoser?
@@GEOfocusChannel oh how I love Ed Grimley I must say! SCTV came on NBC after Saturday Night Live in the 80s and you had to be devoted because that was from 1-2 am Sunday. And many of us were. My high school years I don't think Martin Short was yet on but he eventually ended up on SNL doing Ed Grimley there. I watched SCTV when it was John Candy, Moranis, Dave Thomas. Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and Andrea Martin. SCTV is on the air (TV's flying out the windows lmao!)
My step father worked in Toronto in the 70s while the CN tower was being built. He was front page news when he messed up and blew all the electrics out of the building site. He returned to England with his tail between his legs and a loaded hand gun in his luggage that I took to show my schoolmates. It was a different world.
My great-great-grandparents were among Mennonite immigrants from Ukraine who were invited to come settle in Canada in the 1800s, making me a fifth-generation Canadian. I'm so thankful to call this lovely country home. ❤️🤍🇨🇦
at 6:40 you say -70 C in Nunavut. never heard of that record..when was ìt and where? or was it with the wind chill? if it's with the wind chill it's understandable..but I think you should mention it
I learned about the big BIG water reserves, I have watched the country on a map a lot of times but I never thought about that, its kinda like the amazon in terms of vegetation and trees I guess. I would love to take the canadian train to visit the country from east to west, in size Canada is an universe inself, but not in winter, I am too weak to face the canadian winter 🤧😅 Btw, from which city are you from Paul? 🤔
Oh, there was some issue with the licensing. I bought the image from a stock image service, but then it was withdrawn and they told me I had to retract all uses of it. On TH-cam I can’t just delete and re-upload videos without losing all the views, comments, and performance history, so I just blurred the image instead.
Yeah, I get it when people say it like “New Found Land”, but I’ve heard it the naturally pronounced way since I was a kid. I remember they taught us the etymology of the name at school when I was about 7 years old, and I remember being surprised that the place name could actually be broken down into separate words. To me it was just Newfinland. 😊
Great video, as always. I'm embarrassed that for all the countries I've traveled to, I've never visited our neighbors to the north in Canada! I'd love to go sometime. Just FYI, "cordillera" = cord-ee-YAIR-uh. It's Spanish.
Yes, I know. But there is an Anglicized pronunciation. When narrating in English I always have the dilemma of whether to use etymological pronunciations (and endonyms), or Anglicized pronunciations.
The stock image provider told me they had a legal issue with the image (after I had already used it) and that I needed to remove it. It could be that a "photographer" was selling an image they didn't own the rights to, and the real rights holder complained. I'm not sure.
Canada is in fact pretty much Canada-lite for most of it. Québec has a richer history and its own culture, as do the Acadians. The rest is just the US with universal healthcare lol.
Great video Paul. However the 1995 Québec referendum wasn't on independence: it was "Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership" bla bla bla. Many interpreted the "new economic and political partnership" as the focus, and that sovereignty was a precursor to independence. Otherwise the vote might not have been as close.
I learnt in this video where is located Toronto and why they choice Ottawa like capital and where is it. I never thought Toronto and Ottawa was close each other, near Quebec and very close of the usa borders. And i discover this expression Canada is the hat of the America. I dont know if they use this often, if it's famous as expression and if it's Canadian accept it but i discover that ^^.
As an Australian 🇦🇺 who lived in Canada for 10 months (and before you make the assumption, no, I did not live in Whistler doing a working-holiday at Banff ski resort, I went to school there…) I can honestly say that Canada is an absolutely beautiful, amazing and very safe country with very friendly and genuine people (for the most part) and I would absolutely love to visit it again, because I only really stayed in one place, I didn’t have the opportunity to travel a lot. However my point is that despite still not being able to tell Canadian accents apart from American ones (depending on where in Canada the person is from and I know a lot of you can, but I’m sorry, I still cannot, despite having lived there for almost a year 😢) I will NEVER, EVER view Canada as just “the country that lives in America’s shadow” or the “boring version of America” as Paul stated. No… They are chalk and cheese. While America has all these f*cked up problems, pardon my French, down south of the border which for the most part they do not and a lot of the time sadly even cannot address, Canada is very peaceful and liveable. I’m not saying that Canada doesn’t have any issues, of course no country is perfect, but to say that Canada is like “America’s 51st state” is just like saying a car and a wagon are the same thing
Do you still live in Canada, Paul? If so, what province? Country so big I still haven't managed to visit every province. Haven't yet made it to Quebec, NF&L, or NS. Or the territories. I'm in Saskatchewan, for my sins, and a not-so fun fact about here is because we're so far from any large body of water, we have one of the biggest seasonal temperature swings anywhere in the world. Everybody knows how cold it gets, and yeah, for about 5 months of the year it's frigid and miserable. But for about 3 months in summer it's SWELTERING and miserable! Another unfun fact: We've got probably the most overvalued housing market in the world, too, and if you want to ever buy a house in one of the small parts of the country with a nice climate, good luck; enjoy paying a million bucks for a crap-shack! I swear, I do actually love this country. I just also love complaining about it.
I can't say where I currently live because of some privacy issues (there are some scary yahoos online), but I'm originally from the Vancouver area. You're right about home prices in Vancouver. A million dollars buys you a small 100 year old detached home in Vancouver city. In the suburbs maybe you can buy a townhouse for that much. Lots of houses just sit there empty as a way for foreign buyers to park money, meanwhile most young people can't afford to buy a home unless their parents help them. That's the one bad thing I have to say about Vancouver.
@@erikhooper9406 I'm afraid to say that Montreal, where I am, is rapidly heading in the same direction as Vancouver and Toronto, even if still at least just a little behind.
@@erikhooper9406 even the prairies are stupid expensive now, at least in the cities. I'm sure smaller prairie towns aren't as bad, but yea, finding work then becomes an issue.
- 0:27 Some people say it's America Jr., all tucked away down there. - 1:37 And that's only going to get more and more common. Grocery stores are already catering to the changing demographics with specialty foods and constantly celebrating their holidays in the flyers. Canada will soon be Mauritius… - 2:25 Canada ran some "Heritage Moments" spots (go watch it) whichshowed how Cartier thought Kanata means the country instead of just "village" and completely ignored someone who tried to correct him. Gee, how smart to glorify ignorance. 🤦 - 11:11 The cold? Canada gets hot as hell in the summer. Really, Paul? Playing into the stereotype? 🤨 What's next, are you going to play into the false stereotype that there's such thing as a Canadian accent too? 🤦
I’m from there, but that doesn’t mean I’ve explored all the places visitors explore. I’ve hardly been outside of my home province. When I travel, I prefer to travel abroad.
so we're just gonna ignore Newfoundland and Labrador is also a distinct society and was even its own self governing country until 1949? where the vote to join canada was rigged and only won 51 to 49 ?
In a ten minute video about an entire country, a lot of things are left out. But new videos on more specific topics can always be added. Since you’re obviously passionate and knowledgable about the subject, you could even make one.
I can’t make customized content for each individual. The music increases watch time, which means on average people enjoy videos more when there’s music.
I have traveled to Canada several times from the USA and found it to be a beautiful interesting country. I don't recommend visiting right now because Canada is currently being run by a cruel and repressive government that will extend its repressive rules and arbitrary enforcement to visitors as well as to its own citizens.
Nobody listen to this crazy person. Canada's current government is a very bland and ineffectual left-of-centre party. There are of course some Covid restrictions still in effect, as in most other places in the world.
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Have you always listed The administrative regions of each country or am I tripping?
Must've been nice for you to create a video about your native country Paul, really nice video!
Thanks! Yes, it was quite interesting. I had to review a few things about my country’s history 😊🇨🇦
I'm from India, and we often joke about Indian immigration to Canada. Most of the people, especially from the state of Punjab want to move there and there is a huge Indian diaspora in Canada. Even some road signs are in Punjabi which I find really funny. And great video as always, Paul!
Yeah, there is a large Indian diaspora in Canada, especially people from Punjab. Punjabi is the fourth most spoken language in Canada after English, French, and Chinese. Though it might be third if Chinese is divided into Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. I’d have to check that.
You can even watch NHL Hockey games on TV in Punjabi here!
The cold in the north really isn't that bad! My sister moved to Yellowknife several years ago and I visited in January 2020. In many areas of the north, due to the low humidity and relative lack of wind, even very cold temperatures don't feel so awful. Many major areas in the prairies experience similar levels of cold at times, and Atlantic winters are a different beast altogether with harsh storms and winds.
I think the main reason that many Canadians don't want to move up there is because the towns are all small, relatively lacking in services/resources, and have a high cost of food/supplies. Of course these are all problems only solved by having more people move there... A bit of a catch-22.
People discount the effect of humidity on how cold you feel! Even in Vancouver you'd be surprised how much you have to wear in our relatively mild winters.
After experiencing -40° winter temperatures while living in Northern Finland I have to disagree with you there, it feels just awful!
... Obviously humidity plays a part, but I'll take windy and humid -1 C° any day instead of that.
I've been in northern Alberta, and Whitehorse, both in the winter. I live in Ottawa. If sucky cold winters are something you really hate, then I'd wager Whitehorse will be more enjoyable than Ottawa. The capital gets months of -20 to -30 C, but damp, cloudy, and windy in a way that just makes it awful. Sure, northern Alberta gets colder, but it's dry and less cloudy.
Very true. I've been told Siberia is much worse. You know, -50 and lower, and wind chills as well.
As a teacher I love this video! Summarizes so much information in one spot!
Thanks! I’m glad you like it. 👍🏻
As an indigenous Canadian, I want everyone in the world to know about residential schools and what they did to us. People in Canada already know about it a lot. But it has not reached outside of the country yet. And I want that information to get out of Canada and into the rest of the world.
Yes, that's a terrible stain on Canadian history.
Yes I've seen a few stories about it here in the US. Not that we were any better of course.
Al Jazeera (Qatari channel) has a documentary on it. Im Palestinian and I know indigenous ethnic groups history very well
@@tarektahan7759 lol of course Aljazeera will report on it.
But hey Mr Palestinian why are you on indigenous Canadian land this makes you a colonizer if you don't know.
@@tarektahan7759 yet you're claiming to be Palestinian?
Jews were there long before the Arabs mate.
Great video about Canada! I´m from Norway and I´ve always wanted to go to Canada, there´s so much vast nature and beauty from pictures and videos I´ve seen and every Canadian I´ve met in my life so far has been really nice, friendly and sympathetic which made me even more of a fan of Canada. Definitely going there someday when I get the chance! :)
C'est fou tout ce que tu arrive à caser en 11min54 😅 bravo ça fais longtemps que je te suis, hâte de voir tes prochaines vidéos !
Tu n'as pas eu le temps de développer toute la diversité des climats canadien et de l'économie mais bon :)
C'est mieux que la vidéo que Geography Now a créé!
Thank you, this was a very nice watch! I had no idea Canada is trying to populate it's North, nor about the motives to do so. Here in Finland there doesn't seem to be much interest in keeping all parts of the country populated as people are moving more south and to the bigger cities, but this is of course a very small country compared to Canada so the situation isn't really comparable.
Canada and Canadians have a stellar reputation here in Northern Europe! I've never visited unfortunately, but we had many Canadian exchange students back in Uni, and some of my friends studied there. Not much of a culture shock for someone Nordic, I gather. And there's New Finland to make us feel right at home, of course. ;)
It's because, according to international law, if you aren't using your land, it can be taken by anyone that occupies it. We have a huge amount of land up there (though most maps make it look even larger than it is), and protecting it is no easy task. Yet another debt we owe to our indigenous brothers and sisters.
Hi Paul! I sometimes watch your videos with my students in English class. They enjoy learning so much about different countries. Your videos are really entertaining and crammed with information.
Thank you! Can I ask what country you’re in?
Hi Paul! I'm in Germany.
Wow, that’s cool. It’s always surprising for me to hear that teachers around the world are showing my videos to their students (whether Langfocus videos or GEOfocus videos).
I visited Canada in 1975 with my parents when I was a seven year old kid (Ontario only). I have nice memories about it and hopefully I will make another trip to there some day.
Hi Paul! I am glad to watch your wonderful videos with such precious informations. I learnt that Ottawa has duel identity and about the territories just from your videos. Looking forward for more
You didn't mention Canada's trains. They are a big part of the nation's history. Cheers!
The Canadian, such a beautiful trip!
It's the 1st time I watch your videos on your second channel, and I can say that your explanations are extremely simple, clear and I now know a lot about the Canada country, Thank you very much for this very informative video !
You’re very welcome! I’m glad you like the channel. 👍🏻🙂
Gracias nuevamente por estos vídeos, que nos aportan muchas curiosidades desconocidas. 👍
I love this video, Canada is wonderful. I have driven from Nova Scotia to BC and Banff, etc. I just love it. I learned the name of a new province. I didn’t remember one of them. I love Canada. Peace park is fun to go to in WA/Canada. I have been there twice and it is very relaxing.
Thank you Paul.
It’s my pleasure. 😊 It sounds like you’ve seen a lot more of Canada than I have. I’ve never been east of Alberta, believe it or not.
@@GEOfocusChannel Oh my goodness Paul. I guess I have seen more then. I have driven off the ferry at Prince Rupert, round trips, twice. I been to the dinosaur museum twice and the stops on the road, where you can see dinosaur eggs in situ. Very fun! On the Montana border there are the Hoodos with the native paintings. I love Canada!
Magnífico, como siempre 😀👏
Thank you, Cristina! 😊
Great video as usual. Who better than Paul to present a video on Canada? I learnt too much to mention, in the details, helping me to relate it to what I already knew.
Canada is a gem of a country! l've always found Canada fascinating, so much that l have a book on Canada's history. Canada's Viking heritage is of major interest to me, as l'm of part-Viking descent. Heck, there should be separate videos about each of the 13 provinces and territories!
Lake Superior has almost exactly the same surface area as Austria, btw (82.103 km² and 83.882 km², respectively).
Wow, that's an eye-opening comparison.
Great video, Paul! I didn't know you guys had Newfoundland Time, or that it was one of those silly time zones that is 1/2 way between proper time zones (looks accusingly at South Australia).
PS A freakin' quokka is a quokka that has just met a beaver :)
Canada is a very interesting country. Although French is one of the two official languages, along with English, it is hardly heard as in British Columbia or Alberta.
Yes, French isn’t used much in the provjnces far away from Quebec. There are some French speaking communities here and there, though.
Yeah I agree, I've lived in Metro Vancouver for my entire 17 years on this planet (at the time of commenting), and I never heard much French until I went to Victoria on Vancouver Island last summer. I heard a LOT of French being spoken there in public.
Well done, Paul. Canada is really great country.
When I first started watching your Langfocus channel, I knew right off the hop that you were Canadian. I happen to be Canadian myself, so your accent gives you away. While many think Canadians and Americans sound the same, they don't. If anything, Canadians tend to have more a clipped accent with precise and measured speech - just as you do. I know that when I'm in social situations, I tend to relax and adopt a southwestern Ontario twang (linguists sometimes call this a rural Canadian accent - which applies to all parts of English Canada, save for the Maritimes). But when I'm in a formal or business situation, where I have to enunciate more clearly, my diction tightens up considerably and my speech has a more clipped sound.
Americans generally don't have this ability - to quickly switch from their local dialect to a formal sound.
I grew up in Canada and haven't been back in 30 years. I'd love to see it again as I still have friends there.
Thanks, Paul, from a Canadian-born living in (Western) Australia. I decided to keep the numbers fixed and just change their sign, from -40C to +40C. Aussies are aghast when I tell them that the best temperature is therefore the one furthest from the extremes = 0 degrees C (or 32F in the ancient, primitive scale). Chuckle: Aussies feel that anything below +20C is “bloody freezing, mate”. As for bloody +40C it’s “beauuuuuutiful”. I do miss real winters!…
Great video! I like Canada and its culture, I would love to visit it at some point, or maybe even live there😏
Sounds good! I hope you can 👍🏻🙂
Thank you, compatriot!
My pleasure, brother! 👍🏻
you just have to love the Canadians... it's like you bump into them on the streets, pour their coffee and they apologize to you and buy you a coffee :D I have a feeling they learn the word "sorry" as their first word :)
I love these people :)
lol, there's some truth to the stereotype.
Great video!
Holding a Canadian nickel Heads side up.
How do you make the Queen laugh?
Flip her over and rub her beaver😂
My state also loves ice hockey and we even have some places that serve poutine (sorry, don't get the appeal of it personally). We share a vast watery landscape in Voyageurs National Park and Quetico Provincial Park. The Great Lakes are astounding. Love Canada!
The poutine served in the states would not pass for poutine in Canada. The best ones are in Quebec cottage country!
Poutine used to be just a Quebec thing; at least from the perspective of a Torontonian. We only knew about it from our awesome road trips to Ottawa/Gatineau (Hull back then) and Montreal. It’s only in the last 20 years or so that we’re all pretending it was always a typical Canadian phenomenon.
I’ve always loved Canada. I am fascinated by its wonderful landscapes and the fact that it is bilingual English-French. I’ve always seen it as a modern and open-minded country. When I tried to move there I didn’t succeed unfortunately, but I definitely want to visit the country some day, hopefully more than once 🤞🇨🇦🍁
Yes of course you won't succeed. They only take Africans Indians and middle easterners
Hi Paul! Have you ever visited Vancouver Island? If so, what was your opinion about it? (Thank you for the interesting contents!)
Yes, but mainly when I was too little to remember now. But I went to Victoria for a couple days when I was in college. It was a nice little city with a bit of British flavor.
I wish to visit that place. I hope I will see those soon.
I think Canada’s a nice place to visit!
I am both Francophone, Anglophone and Arab. I like Canada.
Thanks Paul, I had no idea LaCrosse was so popular in Canada. Hockey no question. I loved watching the great Canadian export SCTV in my teenage years and how iconic Bob and Doug McKenzie became, eh hoser?
Oh, you got SCTV? I thought it was only shown in Canada. Ed Grimley forever!
@@GEOfocusChannel oh how I love Ed Grimley I must say! SCTV came on NBC after Saturday Night Live in the 80s and you had to be devoted because that was from 1-2 am Sunday. And many of us were. My high school years I don't think Martin Short was yet on but he eventually ended up on SNL doing Ed Grimley there. I watched SCTV when it was John Candy, Moranis, Dave Thomas. Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, and Andrea Martin. SCTV is on the air (TV's flying out the windows lmao!)
British but lived in and around Toronto for a few years in early 00’s. Loved it but home is home🇬🇧🇨🇦
Which province are you from, Paul?
I'm in Chinese descent. What I like best about Canada is the multiculturalism.
My step father worked in Toronto in the 70s while the CN tower was being built. He was front page news when he messed up and blew all the electrics out of the building site. He returned to England with his tail between his legs and a loaded hand gun in his luggage that I took to show my schoolmates. It was a different world.
Wow 😯 Those were different times indeed!
@@GEOfocusChannel I know, right. I was 9 years old wandering about with a loaded hand gun. What a potential mess!
You mix 3/4 U.S. with 1/4 Europe , you get Canada, very fine tasty cocktail.
Why are there so many interesting TH-cam channels from Canada?
I want a video on Ukraine 🇺🇦 from you!
A perfect Elon Musk pitch: Move to Mars. It's warmer than Nunavut.
My great-great-grandparents were among Mennonite immigrants from Ukraine who were invited to come settle in Canada in the 1800s, making me a fifth-generation Canadian. I'm so thankful to call this lovely country home. ❤️🤍🇨🇦
at 6:40 you say -70 C in Nunavut. never heard of that record..when was ìt and where? or was it with the wind chill? if it's with the wind chill it's understandable..but I think you should mention it
I learned about the big BIG water reserves, I have watched the country on a map a lot of times but I never thought about that, its kinda like the amazon in terms of vegetation and trees I guess. I would love to take the canadian train to visit the country from east to west, in size Canada is an universe inself, but not in winter, I am too weak to face the canadian winter 🤧😅
Btw, from which city are you from Paul? 🤔
Canadians don't travel in winter either. Sensible ones anyway.
Thanks for the video! I have a question. Why was the image of the grizzly bear blurred?
Oh, there was some issue with the licensing. I bought the image from a stock image service, but then it was withdrawn and they told me I had to retract all uses of it.
On TH-cam I can’t just delete and re-upload videos without losing all the views, comments, and performance history, so I just blurred the image instead.
@@GEOfocusChannel Ah, I see! The perils of being a TH-camr.
Indeed! There's always something strange like that to deal with.
What part of Canada are you from? I am from the Calgary area.
One of very few youtubers I've ever seen pronounce "Newfoundland" totally right
Well, he is Canadian so that probably helps a bit. 😉
Yeah, I get it when people say it like “New Found Land”, but I’ve heard it the naturally pronounced way since I was a kid. I remember they taught us the etymology of the name at school when I was about 7 years old, and I remember being surprised that the place name could actually be broken down into separate words. To me it was just Newfinland. 😊
For better or worse I learned the term Newfie from South Park, though I promise to not trust their depiction of them as accurate.
I love Boards of Canada
Who are actually Scottish! :)
@@GEOfocusChannel Indeed!!!
I learned that you are Canadian!
Great video, as always. I'm embarrassed that for all the countries I've traveled to, I've never visited our neighbors to the north in Canada! I'd love to go sometime.
Just FYI, "cordillera" = cord-ee-YAIR-uh. It's Spanish.
with yeísmo but without yeísmo, it would've been originally more like cor-dil-ye-ra
Yes, I know. But there is an Anglicized pronunciation. When narrating in English I always have the dilemma of whether to use etymological pronunciations (and endonyms), or Anglicized pronunciations.
In the Rio de la Plata area (e.g. Argentina), it's pronounced more like cord-ee-SHAIR-uh.
What happened to the grizzly bear? It was awfully blurry...
The stock image provider told me they had a legal issue with the image (after I had already used it) and that I needed to remove it.
It could be that a "photographer" was selling an image they didn't own the rights to, and the real rights holder complained. I'm not sure.
Canada is in fact pretty much Canada-lite for most of it. Québec has a richer history and its own culture, as do the Acadians. The rest is just the US with universal healthcare lol.
Great video Paul. However the 1995 Québec referendum wasn't on independence: it was "Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership" bla bla bla. Many interpreted the "new economic and political partnership" as the focus, and that sovereignty was a precursor to independence. Otherwise the vote might not have been as close.
I interpret “sovereign” as “independent”, but yes, it seemed like they loaded the question to misdirect people’s attention away from that.
I love my Canada. is an amazing country ! I love to live here, also I love my country Mexico
4:38 that’s because QEII is still the head of state i.e., the Queen of Canada
Not anymore!
You can tell Paul is Canadian lol
I don't know what you're talkin' aboot
I learnt in this video where is located Toronto and why they choice Ottawa like capital and where is it.
I never thought Toronto and Ottawa was close each other, near Quebec and very close of the usa borders.
And i discover this expression Canada is the hat of the America. I dont know if they use this often, if it's famous as expression and if it's Canadian accept it but i discover that ^^.
As an Australian 🇦🇺 who lived in Canada for 10 months (and before you make the assumption, no, I did not live in Whistler doing a working-holiday at Banff ski resort, I went to school there…) I can honestly say that Canada is an absolutely beautiful, amazing and very safe country with very friendly and genuine people (for the most part) and I would absolutely love to visit it again, because I only really stayed in one place, I didn’t have the opportunity to travel a lot. However my point is that despite still not being able to tell Canadian accents apart from American ones (depending on where in Canada the person is from and I know a lot of you can, but I’m sorry, I still cannot, despite having lived there for almost a year 😢) I will NEVER, EVER view Canada as just “the country that lives in America’s shadow” or the “boring version of America” as Paul stated. No… They are chalk and cheese. While America has all these f*cked up problems, pardon my French, down south of the border which for the most part they do not and a lot of the time sadly even cannot address, Canada is very peaceful and liveable. I’m not saying that Canada doesn’t have any issues, of course no country is perfect, but to say that Canada is like “America’s 51st state” is just like saying a car and a wagon are the same thing
Thanks, Paul! Je suis tres fiere d'etre Canadienne!
I like where you slipped and self identified as Canadian in this 😁
🤔
I was definitely aware of it when making the video. lol. I thought about changing my words a bit, but decided it would be ok. :)
I always forget that Canada has a huge French-speaking population. Here in California, virtually nobody speaks French.
Cricket used to be a national sport of Canada too.
If i have my way, it will be again
Looks quite like uk.
What aspect of it looks like the UK?
@@GEOfocusChannel The Clock tower in Ottawa and the money.
@@use.1 I mean, you’ll find money and clocks like that in a lot of places
@@GEOfocusChannel Miserable, cold and wet just like home
Never heard the word 'cordillera' before.
This turned a crappy day into a good day.
I’m happy to hear that! 😊
I wanna move to Canada
Alberta represent 🤟🏼
West siiiiiide
Do you still live in Canada, Paul? If so, what province? Country so big I still haven't managed to visit every province. Haven't yet made it to Quebec, NF&L, or NS. Or the territories.
I'm in Saskatchewan, for my sins, and a not-so fun fact about here is because we're so far from any large body of water, we have one of the biggest seasonal temperature swings anywhere in the world. Everybody knows how cold it gets, and yeah, for about 5 months of the year it's frigid and miserable. But for about 3 months in summer it's SWELTERING and miserable!
Another unfun fact: We've got probably the most overvalued housing market in the world, too, and if you want to ever buy a house in one of the small parts of the country with a nice climate, good luck; enjoy paying a million bucks for a crap-shack!
I swear, I do actually love this country. I just also love complaining about it.
I can't say where I currently live because of some privacy issues (there are some scary yahoos online), but I'm originally from the Vancouver area.
You're right about home prices in Vancouver. A million dollars buys you a small 100 year old detached home in Vancouver city. In the suburbs maybe you can buy a townhouse for that much. Lots of houses just sit there empty as a way for foreign buyers to park money, meanwhile most young people can't afford to buy a home unless their parents help them. That's the one bad thing I have to say about Vancouver.
@@GEOfocusChannel I can tell you things are not too much better in the greater Toronto area. as a young person it seems hopeless.
@@erikhooper9406 I'm afraid to say that Montreal, where I am, is rapidly heading in the same direction as Vancouver and Toronto, even if still at least just a little behind.
@@yodorob Man, that sucks. seems like the only affordable places are out east or in the prairies, but then have fun finding a job over there.
@@erikhooper9406 even the prairies are stupid expensive now, at least in the cities. I'm sure smaller prairie towns aren't as bad, but yea, finding work then becomes an issue.
I want people to know about Canada: how much the Europeans screwed over the natives , and about Tecumseh
Soviet Canuckistan is a socialist hell.
8:37 that’s not being honest 🤨
That was a joke about how small and weak Canada's military is compared to the USA's.
For Example, Canada is a country (English), Le Canada est un pays (Français).
- 0:27 Some people say it's America Jr., all tucked away down there.
- 1:37 And that's only going to get more and more common. Grocery stores are already catering to the changing demographics with specialty foods and constantly celebrating their holidays in the flyers. Canada will soon be Mauritius…
- 2:25 Canada ran some "Heritage Moments" spots (go watch it) whichshowed how Cartier thought Kanata means the country instead of just "village" and completely ignored someone who tried to correct him. Gee, how smart to glorify ignorance. 🤦
- 11:11 The cold? Canada gets hot as hell in the summer. Really, Paul? Playing into the stereotype? 🤨 What's next, are you going to play into the false stereotype that there's such thing as a Canadian accent too? 🤦
Accent? I don’t know what you’re talkin’ aboot!
From sea to sea to sea. Seanception
Hey dude how did you type your name?
Cana what?
Poland please 🇵🇱
Someday
You are Canadian yourself, why don't you tell yourself to us that what you must explore in Canada!?
I’m from there, but that doesn’t mean I’ve explored all the places visitors explore. I’ve hardly been outside of my home province. When I travel, I prefer to travel abroad.
This video did not do enough justice to the different indigenous ethnic groups cultures languages and tribal territories
10:00 Canada is famous for "Putin"?? LMAO
Toronto? More multicultural than New York City? 🤔 Okay…
Shhh, not so loud! The US can hear you.
You don't have a lot of oil, right? You're joking :D
Funny canadians.
so we're just gonna ignore Newfoundland and Labrador is also a distinct society and was even its own self governing country until 1949? where the vote to join canada was rigged and only won 51 to 49 ?
In a ten minute video about an entire country, a lot of things are left out. But new videos on more specific topics can always be added. Since you’re obviously passionate and knowledgable about the subject, you could even make one.
@@GEOfocusChannel fair enough! And just trying to get that fact more widely know. Have a great day 😃😃
PLEASE can the annoying "music"...sigh.
I can’t make customized content for each individual. The music increases watch time, which means on average people enjoy videos more when there’s music.
I have traveled to Canada several times from the USA and found it to be a beautiful interesting country. I don't recommend visiting right now because Canada is currently being run by a cruel and repressive government that will extend its repressive rules and arbitrary enforcement to visitors as well as to its own citizens.
Eh?
Nobody listen to this crazy person. Canada's current government is a very bland and ineffectual left-of-centre party. There are of course some Covid restrictions still in effect, as in most other places in the world.
@@simonsaysism LOL!
Jesus christ... no. Just no.
@@shelbypierson5118 - Taking the LORD's name in vain is not an argument.
Make Ukraine 🇺🇦 episode pls so that more people would know about today’s aggression
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I am French
Vive le Québec libre 🇲🇶❤️🇨🇵😘
Love French Canadian ❤️
Hate English Canadian 👎
Then you hate ME. 👎🏻 to haters.
@@anti-minorizeranti-shita4249 He means Anglophone Canadian, not British. I'm Anglophone Canadian.
@@GEOfocusChannel He means British Settlers in Canada because most of Quebeckers are french descent.
USA population is more like 375 million at least. Not a good development, just sayin'.