Canada
Impugning Canada's national health-care system. Canadians are fiercely proud of it. In a television contest, viewers voted the founder of the system the greatest Canadian hero.
Remarking how similar Canada is to the United States can be tantamount to calling it the fifty-first state.
Any reliance on a few stereotypes (e.g., making fun of how they say, "Eh?") may unearth the sarcasm beneath their (stereotypical) politeness.
Be careful in discussing Toronto and how wonderful it is; many regional Canadians, especially out west, don't like it.
Don’t mistake politeness for the casual oversharing so common in the United States. Canadians, like Europeans, will bristle if you get too personal too fast.
Diversionary Topics - Hockey- they really do love it as much as we think they do. The runner-up in the Canadian-hero contest was a hockey coach turned sportscaster.
