come along as we investigate the elusive
often misunderstood serious people of
the great white north
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
stereotypes of Canada before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at the most
popular myths and most widespread
stereotypes about Canada and Canadians
this is all in good fun of course so if
you don’t like it take off hoser
well after you get some free penicillin
compliments of the Socialist Republic of
Canada really number 10 Canadians live
off of Tim Hortons
here I am the most Canadian place in the
universe Tim Hortons around the corner
from the Hockey Hall of Fame jeez you
get one big coffee franchise in your
country and the whole world starts
thinking it’s your primary source of
sustenance it’s true few chains are more
prolific in the great white north than
Tim Hortons as of 2013
Canada’s homegrown coffee franchise had
over 3,000 locations nationwide more
than double the 1400 McDonald’s
franchises in the country in 2014 but
while Tim’s reigned supreme when it
comes to double double ice caps bagels
and doughnuts
Canadians don’t really go there for
their meals even though Timmies is
inextricably linked to Canadiana after
all there’s nothing more Canadian than a
fast food restaurant founded by a hockey
player you’re nuttier than in Tim
Hortons maple log number nine all
Canadians are or dressed like
Lumberjacks
Canada’s lumber industry is a big one
playing a major role in the country’s
economy but they’ve kept up with
technological advancements and therefore
very little actual axe swinging takes
place you’ll likely have many machine
operators and sawmill workers but
outside of lumberjack competitions very
few people employed in the logging
industry would call themselves
Lumberjacks unless they’re trying to get
laid however Lumberjacks fashion is a
bit more of a gray area we’re all for
the plaid shirts cozy scarves and
well-worn jeans
Plus slumber beards are great during
those long Canadian winters bring on the
lumber sexuals a number 8 all Canadian
police officers wear Mountie uniforms Oh
Canadian Madison spokes please have your
passports and declaration forms open
ready on the subject of Canadian fashion
most cops in Canada dress similarly to
their American counterparts they’re the
boys and girls in blue shirt Dudley
do-right was a Mountie and helped
popularize that particular garb but he’s
far from representative of law
enforcement across the nation the baggy
on top straight at the bottom dark blue
pants called jodhpurs bright red jacket
and campaign hat are only worn by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police or
Mounties for short
and even then Mounties only wear this
outfit known as the red Serge on formal
occasions as you can imagine it’s not
the ideal crime-fighting outfit for
day-to-day operations they support much
more conventional police attire many of
you are wondering what’s wrong with my
pants well we started running short of
material right before they got to the
knees so don’t give me shit
number 7 Canadians put maple syrup on
everything
I happen to know everything there is to
know about maple syrup I love maple
syrup I love maple syrup on pancakes I
love it on pizza I will show up and put
a little bit of my hair but I’ve had a
rough week what do you think holds it up
select maple syrup is delicious given
that it comes from maple trees and that
the maple leaf is the symbol of Canada
Canadians have no one to blame but
themselves for the stereotype the
average Canadian probably wouldn’t be
caught dead putting pancake syrup on
their flapjacks or waffles that
artificial stuff is pretty much
sacrilegious syrup country but most
Canadians aren’t taking shots of maple
syrup and whiskey at the bar or mixing
it into their breakfast cereal either
maple syrup is much more of a Quebec
obsession than a Canada wide one but
even in that province tourists visiting
from abroad are much more likely to
abuse the sweet stuff than locals number
6 Canadians have pet polar bears moose
and/or beavers our characters have pet
beavers no contrary to popular belief
Canadians are not master exotic pet
Wranglers keeping a polar bear is like
keeping a pet lion or tiger
as in it’s a terrible idea for the
average individual and the quickest
route to the ER or morgue smooth which
can grow up to five feet tall way up to
1600 pounds and walk away from an
accident with an SUV would make equally
terrible pets beavers are admittedly
kind of cute and sure a few oddball may
keep one as a pet but they’re hardly
common in household and would likely
wreak havoc on hardwood furniture the
average Canadian probably hasn’t even
seen many of these animals outside of a
zoo number five Canadians live in igloos
this stereotype is a pretty outdated one
so hopefully the average non Canadian
person knows it’s false but to any
remaining believers you realize that
Canadians have electricity right and
cars and televisions and like
skyscrapers and stuff they also have a
major lumber industry meaning plenty of
wood to build homes Oh Canada also gets
a little season called summer bringing
with it all the usual summer fun like
warm weather and a distinct lack of snow
the crucial ingredient needed to build
an igloo in short the average Canadian
does not live in an igloo and has likely
never even spent a night in one number
for all Canadians play hockey President
Obama just rightly recognized as being
extraordinary contributors to the
American success story is Jonathan caves
Keith Duncan Keith and Patrick shark of
the Chicago Blackhawks to be fair
Canadians do kind of kill it when it
comes to hockey despite the fact that
American NHL franchises outnumber
Canadian teams by more than three to one
roughly half of the players in the
National Hockey League are Canadian we’d
be lying if we said hockey isn’t
incredibly popular in Canada and it is
inseparably intertwined with the
nation’s cultural identity the world’s
first recorded organized indoor hockey
game took place in Montreal a city that
would go on to form what’s considered
the first official hockey club however
kids in Canada play football more than
hockey for the same reason football so
popular around the world it’s much more
affordable and accessible as there’s
kids playing hockey on the back it’s
like you
warned us to make fun of you number
three Canadians apologize way too much
you apologize too much sure wouldn’t the
world be a better place if this were
true not only in Canada but everywhere
imagine a society where people always
took responsibility for things rather
than passing the buck sadly this overly
apologetic utopia remains a fantasy even
in Canada
yes Canadians do apologize a lot often
saying sorry instead of excuse me if two
canadians bump into one another they’re
both likely to apologize but this
tendency to constantly apologize or the
accompanying myth that all Canadians are
super-nice is only limited to benign
situations we’re gonna put the boots say
yeah
sorry all right we’re gonna get your ass
up and catch your head in sorry
Canadians still argue have road rage get
into fights and stubbornly refuse to
apologize any visitors would do well to
remember that sorry but it’s the truth
take off number two Canada is always
cold because I always got the same
response Canada Wow
must have been cold we already touched
on this when setting the whole igloo
thing straight
but Canada is not an eternally frigid
wasteland of ice and snow
Wow so come on what’s the smoker I’m not
smokin I’m raisin yes the
sparsely-populated far north is quite
cold like it literally reaches into the
Arctic and across-the-board Canadian
winters can result in many feet nor
centimetres of snow as well as months
upon months of sub-zero temperatures
but Canadian summers get plenty hot the
average high during the summer months in
major Canadian cities like Montreal and
Toronto reaches into the high 70s and
low 80s or for you Canadians out there
the high 20s and low 30s no one’s going
to call Canada a tropical paradise but
always cold is an unfair assessment of
its weather number one all Canadians say
a a lot oh I see yeah looks like you got
some water leakage you might need a Jose
Jose Roberta whatever you got some
Latinos up here that can fix cars that’d
be great
no I mean it looks like you need a party
well yeah when it’s fixed we can
celebrate but let’s deal with first
things first some Canadians do say a
quite often but a quick tip for
travelers they don’t find it interesting
when you point it out that’s a great way
to get punched by a Canadian and then
hear him or her not apologize a is often
used in the same context that Americans
say huh or right at the end of a
sentence as a way to invite a
confirmation Stanley Cup game six day
the Rangers are about to be sorry they
ever play shinny with the Canucks it can
also be used to replace pardon in
reality many cultures have an equivalent
interjection in Canada the use of a is
very regional some populations use it
frequently others almost never after all
Canada is a big country a hmm I gonna
build them a start on my cigarette shirt
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
often misunderstood serious people of
the great white north
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
stereotypes of Canada before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at the most
popular myths and most widespread
stereotypes about Canada and Canadians
this is all in good fun of course so if
you don’t like it take off hoser
well after you get some free penicillin
compliments of the Socialist Republic of
Canada really number 10 Canadians live
off of Tim Hortons
here I am the most Canadian place in the
universe Tim Hortons around the corner
from the Hockey Hall of Fame jeez you
get one big coffee franchise in your
country and the whole world starts
thinking it’s your primary source of
sustenance it’s true few chains are more
prolific in the great white north than
Tim Hortons as of 2013
Canada’s homegrown coffee franchise had
over 3,000 locations nationwide more
than double the 1400 McDonald’s
franchises in the country in 2014 but
while Tim’s reigned supreme when it
comes to double double ice caps bagels
and doughnuts
Canadians don’t really go there for
their meals even though Timmies is
inextricably linked to Canadiana after
all there’s nothing more Canadian than a
fast food restaurant founded by a hockey
player you’re nuttier than in Tim
Hortons maple log number nine all
Canadians are or dressed like
Lumberjacks
Canada’s lumber industry is a big one
playing a major role in the country’s
economy but they’ve kept up with
technological advancements and therefore
very little actual axe swinging takes
place you’ll likely have many machine
operators and sawmill workers but
outside of lumberjack competitions very
few people employed in the logging
industry would call themselves
Lumberjacks unless they’re trying to get
laid however Lumberjacks fashion is a
bit more of a gray area we’re all for
the plaid shirts cozy scarves and
well-worn jeans
Plus slumber beards are great during
those long Canadian winters bring on the
lumber sexuals a number 8 all Canadian
police officers wear Mountie uniforms Oh
Canadian Madison spokes please have your
passports and declaration forms open
ready on the subject of Canadian fashion
most cops in Canada dress similarly to
their American counterparts they’re the
boys and girls in blue shirt Dudley
do-right was a Mountie and helped
popularize that particular garb but he’s
far from representative of law
enforcement across the nation the baggy
on top straight at the bottom dark blue
pants called jodhpurs bright red jacket
and campaign hat are only worn by the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police or
Mounties for short
and even then Mounties only wear this
outfit known as the red Serge on formal
occasions as you can imagine it’s not
the ideal crime-fighting outfit for
day-to-day operations they support much
more conventional police attire many of
you are wondering what’s wrong with my
pants well we started running short of
material right before they got to the
knees so don’t give me shit
number 7 Canadians put maple syrup on
everything
I happen to know everything there is to
know about maple syrup I love maple
syrup I love maple syrup on pancakes I
love it on pizza I will show up and put
a little bit of my hair but I’ve had a
rough week what do you think holds it up
select maple syrup is delicious given
that it comes from maple trees and that
the maple leaf is the symbol of Canada
Canadians have no one to blame but
themselves for the stereotype the
average Canadian probably wouldn’t be
caught dead putting pancake syrup on
their flapjacks or waffles that
artificial stuff is pretty much
sacrilegious syrup country but most
Canadians aren’t taking shots of maple
syrup and whiskey at the bar or mixing
it into their breakfast cereal either
maple syrup is much more of a Quebec
obsession than a Canada wide one but
even in that province tourists visiting
from abroad are much more likely to
abuse the sweet stuff than locals number
6 Canadians have pet polar bears moose
and/or beavers our characters have pet
beavers no contrary to popular belief
Canadians are not master exotic pet
Wranglers keeping a polar bear is like
keeping a pet lion or tiger
as in it’s a terrible idea for the
average individual and the quickest
route to the ER or morgue smooth which
can grow up to five feet tall way up to
1600 pounds and walk away from an
accident with an SUV would make equally
terrible pets beavers are admittedly
kind of cute and sure a few oddball may
keep one as a pet but they’re hardly
common in household and would likely
wreak havoc on hardwood furniture the
average Canadian probably hasn’t even
seen many of these animals outside of a
zoo number five Canadians live in igloos
this stereotype is a pretty outdated one
so hopefully the average non Canadian
person knows it’s false but to any
remaining believers you realize that
Canadians have electricity right and
cars and televisions and like
skyscrapers and stuff they also have a
major lumber industry meaning plenty of
wood to build homes Oh Canada also gets
a little season called summer bringing
with it all the usual summer fun like
warm weather and a distinct lack of snow
the crucial ingredient needed to build
an igloo in short the average Canadian
does not live in an igloo and has likely
never even spent a night in one number
for all Canadians play hockey President
Obama just rightly recognized as being
extraordinary contributors to the
American success story is Jonathan caves
Keith Duncan Keith and Patrick shark of
the Chicago Blackhawks to be fair
Canadians do kind of kill it when it
comes to hockey despite the fact that
American NHL franchises outnumber
Canadian teams by more than three to one
roughly half of the players in the
National Hockey League are Canadian we’d
be lying if we said hockey isn’t
incredibly popular in Canada and it is
inseparably intertwined with the
nation’s cultural identity the world’s
first recorded organized indoor hockey
game took place in Montreal a city that
would go on to form what’s considered
the first official hockey club however
kids in Canada play football more than
hockey for the same reason football so
popular around the world it’s much more
affordable and accessible as there’s
kids playing hockey on the back it’s
like you
warned us to make fun of you number
three Canadians apologize way too much
you apologize too much sure wouldn’t the
world be a better place if this were
true not only in Canada but everywhere
imagine a society where people always
took responsibility for things rather
than passing the buck sadly this overly
apologetic utopia remains a fantasy even
in Canada
yes Canadians do apologize a lot often
saying sorry instead of excuse me if two
canadians bump into one another they’re
both likely to apologize but this
tendency to constantly apologize or the
accompanying myth that all Canadians are
super-nice is only limited to benign
situations we’re gonna put the boots say
yeah
sorry all right we’re gonna get your ass
up and catch your head in sorry
Canadians still argue have road rage get
into fights and stubbornly refuse to
apologize any visitors would do well to
remember that sorry but it’s the truth
take off number two Canada is always
cold because I always got the same
response Canada Wow
must have been cold we already touched
on this when setting the whole igloo
thing straight
but Canada is not an eternally frigid
wasteland of ice and snow
Wow so come on what’s the smoker I’m not
smokin I’m raisin yes the
sparsely-populated far north is quite
cold like it literally reaches into the
Arctic and across-the-board Canadian
winters can result in many feet nor
centimetres of snow as well as months
upon months of sub-zero temperatures
but Canadian summers get plenty hot the
average high during the summer months in
major Canadian cities like Montreal and
Toronto reaches into the high 70s and
low 80s or for you Canadians out there
the high 20s and low 30s no one’s going
to call Canada a tropical paradise but
always cold is an unfair assessment of
its weather number one all Canadians say
a a lot oh I see yeah looks like you got
some water leakage you might need a Jose
Jose Roberta whatever you got some
Latinos up here that can fix cars that’d
be great
no I mean it looks like you need a party
well yeah when it’s fixed we can
celebrate but let’s deal with first
things first some Canadians do say a
quite often but a quick tip for
travelers they don’t find it interesting
when you point it out that’s a great way
to get punched by a Canadian and then
hear him or her not apologize a is often
used in the same context that Americans
say huh or right at the end of a
sentence as a way to invite a
confirmation Stanley Cup game six day
the Rangers are about to be sorry they
ever play shinny with the Canucks it can
also be used to replace pardon in
reality many cultures have an equivalent
interjection in Canada the use of a is
very regional some populations use it
frequently others almost never after all
Canada is a big country a hmm I gonna
build them a start on my cigarette shirt
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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