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Of course it's serious.
Who in their right mind would suggest that because the US and Canada both have cities, and people in those cities who speak English, the countries and peoples are the same?
That's insane!
Canadians are nothing like people in the US.
Obviously Canadians are not politicking about building a wall with the people to the South, but the US people are parading with contradiction about (they are, are not) building the wall with the Mexican. That's 100%US ... Canadians are not like that, eh.
Canada will build the wall to protect against the country to the South and the country to the South will pay for it!
Much of Ontario (Windsor, Sarnia, Toronto, London, Hamilton, Niagara Falls - and these are just places I spent more than a couple of nights at)
Montreal, Quebec City
Ottawa (no offense, but I found it quite boring)
I never made it to the West provinces or Newfoundland / New Brunswick - this is certainly on my list.
However, I still think Canada is too much like the US - sure, it has great beauty, and quaint little towns, and wilderness, but so does the US. I want to go to Vancouver and Halifax, but I also want to go to Yellowstone and Seattle and Rhode Island. It's just not "other world" different if you know what I mean. It's no China or India. I never felt abroad in Canada, except may be during my first trip to Quebec (and even then, by the end of that trip I started to see all those little similarities telling me I was still in North America, just with a slightly different flair - and I am not talking the nature). I mean no offence, I really love Canada - but I just don't have the same feeling I get when visiting Prague or Mexico City. It's like I am visiting with a close, familiar, just a little bit eccentric relative.
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I guess that you missed the fact that quite a few US States are ALSO cold, for a part of each year...
Lets count them shall we .... Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and of course, Alaska.
And for a final point, here in Toronto today, the high temperature will be......28 Celsius or 82 F.
I really don't get why some people think Canada is so cold. Southern Onatrio's weather is pretty much the same as other Northeastern and Great Lake cities, the Maritimes miss a lot of the extreme cold that many Midwestern U.S. cities get due to the oceanic influence and also have some beautiful summers, and Vancouver/Victoria winters are more comparable to Washington D.C. in snowfall than any other city in Canada. The only populated parts of Canada I consider too cold is the Prairies and Quebec City. I don't get how people voluntarily live in Winnipeg and Sask during the winter!
How do you find the Americans' legal system to be different?
Outside of the fact that individual states in the US are in charge of their own criminal law, while in Canada, criminal law is a federal responsibility, what's different?
Both the US and Canada follow a common-law tradition, like the UK, Australia, India, Ireland, and others. Sure, we each have one jurisdiction that follows civil law (Quebec and Louisiana), but legally-speaking, we're more alike than different. An American lawyer has the same education as a Canadian lawyer (Langdellian system of legal education), and like a Canadian lawyer, knows the contra proferentem rule, knows the five elements of contract, knows the Plain View Doctrine, knows the Rule Against Perpetuities, and so on and so on. Courtroom procedures are pretty much the same, arguments are made on the basis of stare decisis, and decisions are made accordingly.
So what's different?
In Canada, similar to the EU, the prosecution can appeal a verdict. In the US, there's something called double jeopardy that prevents the prosecution from appealing a conviction even if new evidence comes to light that confirms guilt. That, in itself, is a significant difference. In Canada and the EU, capital punishment is viewed as barbaric, and prison systems are premised on rehabilitation. In the US, capital punishment is viewed as reasonable, and prison systems are premised on punishment. In Canada, children are not sentenced to life in prison. In the US, children are sentence to life without parole.
Although there may be similar origins for law in the US, Canada and the EU, the US has taken a different road than Canada and the EU.
Main difference is HOW our System does NOT allow informations to be media wise exposed to the Public.. ala "Sunshine Laws" Our system actually silences any comment on evidence or any facts to the public outside of generalizations.. Victim's are NOT re-victimized..and the same for the accused . The media is in affect "Muzzled"..and only during a trial AFTER testimony in trial can any evidence get exposed to the public. This alone describes one HuuuuGE difference
.. But Bru~~ I fail to see how this subtopic has anything to do with American's OP suggest are NOT travelling to Canada..
Course discounting cross boarder travel to shop isn't considered ..LOL then of course Online Pharmaceutical purchases for meds ( since we have controls of pricing on Pharmaceutical Corporations) happening daily+++
So why bother travel to Canada
True. In the US, trial evidence is published and widely discussed prior to a trial. In Canada, as in the UK, evidence is not released until the trial. Additionally, Canadian law prohibits jurors from talking about their deliberations. In the US, it is rare for jurors to not describe the whole experience to television cameras.
Much of Ontario (Windsor, Sarnia, Toronto, London, Hamilton, Niagara Falls - and these are just places I spent more than a couple of nights at)
Montreal, Quebec City
Ottawa (no offense, but I found it quite boring)
I never made it to the West provinces or Newfoundland / New Brunswick - this is certainly on my list.
However, I still think Canada is too much like the US - sure, it has great beauty, and quaint little towns, and wilderness, but so does the US. I want to go to Vancouver and Halifax, but I also want to go to Yellowstone and Seattle and Rhode Island. It's just not "other world" different if you know what I mean. It's no China or India. I never felt abroad in Canada, except may be during my first trip to Quebec (and even then, by the end of that trip I started to see all those little similarities telling me I was still in North America, just with a slightly different flair - and I am not talking the nature). I mean no offence, I really love Canada - but I just don't have the same feeling I get when visiting Prague or Mexico City. It's like I am visiting with a close, familiar, just a little bit eccentric relative.
I get that. I'd rather be on a beach in Mexico than SoCal.
At least you've been to Canada and seem to have an interest to see more. I'd think you would like Vancouver and a lot of B.C.
That said, my travel in Canada is lacking the maritime provinces as well. As people have pointed out, it's cheaper or the same cost for me to get there than it is to get to Europe.
I get that. I'd rather be on a beach in Mexico than SoCal.
At least you've been to Canada and seem to have an interest to see more. I'd think you would like Vancouver and a lot of B.C.
That said, my travel in Canada is lacking the maritime provinces as well. As people have pointed out, it's cheaper or the same cost for me to get there than it is to get to Europe.
I'd most likely like Vancouver. I guess what I wanted to say is, a trip to Vancouver and a trip to Seattle would be on the same level for me. Very interesting, but very familiar territory if you know what I mean. A trip to Vienna, OTOH, a whole different experience.
I mean, in all my visits to Canada, I never really felt abroad. Same language, same customs, same building types, same cars, same road scenery, same food, very similar mentality. Yes there are differences, but they are not the other world differences. In some ways, there's probably more in common between me and someone in London ON, than some dude in deep rural South.
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.. But Bru~~ I fail to see how this subtopic has anything to do with American's OP suggest are NOT travelling to Canada.. 
