Canada

There are about 200-250 countries. I doubt most of us could name 1 fact about half of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

@biofaust Ok, the gig is up, which one of us Canadians wrote this. /s

As a second-generation Italian immigrant to Canada, Canada is pretty great. (Italy is pretty great too).

It’s hard to be aware when most everything in Canada has basically been sold to the US by the greedy. I mean the last shred of our heritage is the French on the packaging. If it weren’t for that, you could never tell between products from either nation.

Hockey? We have like 3 teams left in the NHL. Superman? He’s American now. Alaska, which is the landing point for a staggering amount of goods coming into Canada, American now too. Tim Hortons? American.

We sold our heritage long ago. You can say whatever you want to farm karma but the sad reality is we basically are the 51st state. And as mad as Canadians get hearing that, especially now (I loath Trump and have always had a tenuous opinion of the US), it’s the sad truth.

And if you’re hoping for Carney to make this place great, he won’t. The whole “we are building a better world” is the biggest lie told because people have long realized you die. Legacy or not. No one wants to spends their lives in agony so three generations down will get it easy. That’s a hackneyed trope for a sci fi movie, nothing more.