About Canada

Don't want to live there, just visit.

1. All three of those countries are hundred if not thousands of years older than Canada

2. Our population is only around 35 million, we roughly have about the same population as the state of New York.

A lot of countries have a higher English speaking population.

edit: just looked it up, Canada has around 28.5 million English speaking citizens while the English speaking populations of Denmark(4.7m) Norway(4.5m) and Sweden(8.2m) only come up to 15.4m. Even combined that's not even close. Did you mean percent?

source: Wiki

A lot of misconception about Canada(or misconceptions in general).

Yes.

Canada is a cultural melting pot that constantly sees migrants from every kind of culture and area of the world, so that doesn't really surprise me. Plus it's not like English is our only official language, you could get along just as well in our society only knowing French if you lived in Quebec.

You people put mayo on everything right?

That true of most wasp people. I eat that shit on fries and sopa(tomato soup with pasta).

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia would be liveable, too. They have significant French communities, and are largely bilingual.

Good number of Quebecers in Edmonton too, to my surprise.

To be able to live in those places without knowing a bit of English? I severely doubt it.

I think one could handle NB.

British Columbia all the way!

Provincial pride?

Really?


Geographic location does not warrant pride. One might as well say "I'm in the living room. Fuck yeah."

I know, just something that I've realised upon my travels. Doesn't where you are- you're still you.

Without a bit of English? Montreal(possibly the most diverse city in Canada) is a pretty good example, there are times when English is fine but every once in a while you come across someone who doesn't speak the language, good luck trying to order a specific meal or ask for directions. I just don't see how it could be fine, even if the province has like a 90% French competency rate.

I guess it is a little difficult for me to make assertions, being bilingual and having a smattering of a few other languages; never had much trouble communicating across the globe.

Except China and Taiwan. Never got the hang of Mandarin.

I have a good understanding of French but I cant imagine how anyone could get by without it in some places, and it would probably be the same for English. No place is 100% bilingual.

Pretty sure a lot of Europe is. So many different interconnected countries means that a great many citizens are bilingual, trilingual, or more. French, English, German, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Danish, Finnish, etc.

And I can guarantee that the house I grew up in is fully bilingual.

Naw, Ive been to Europe and you'll always run into people that don't speak what you need them to. While in France there's lots of English and German but not everyone, my point is no where on earth is a secondary language 100% accepted/known.

British Columbia aka Northern Washington lol especially Vancouver.

The funny thing is, Washington state also has a Vancouver.