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I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.

There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come together. But part of that is that there is a national mythology.

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.