# Canadians “Best People” In Int’l Survey **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072 "2020-10-27T23:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/1 "2020-10-27T23:12:23Z")
A survey of 50,000 people in 50 countries gave best overall marks in 6 categories to Germany. But surprisingly, Canada finished third overall and won several categories - including “best people”, “best governance” and “ You could read it here. [https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/Germany-Retains-Top-Nation-Brand-Ranking-the-United-Kingdom-emerges-ahead-of-Canada-to-Round-Out-the-Top-Three-US-and-China-Experience-Significant-Decline](https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/Germany-Retains-Top-Nation-Brand-Ranking-the-United-Kingdom-emerges-ahead-of-Canada-to-Round-Out-the-Top-Three-US-and-China-Experience-Significant-Decline) Of course, this measures reputation and not results, and the results are similar to previous years. Canada always gets slammed in the “culture” category. But this is only because the excitement of walking around Costco or Crappy Tire is hard to replicate on YouTube. Maybe Schitt’s Creek will turn things around for us. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/2 "2020-10-27T23:45:50Z")
We also led “best immigration”. I presume they did not talk to the 34% of Canucks feeling claustrophobic now that the density is _fast approaching_ 4 hosers per square km. People also seem to prefer German and Japanese products to Canadian ones. Maybe they are too focused on the car. Aren’t they ignoring the great success of Canadian car manufacturers from 1915 to 1924 (2nd worldwide)? Who says the Stanley Steamer just has to be a disgusting porno move, or that a car can’t run entirely on a mixture of spruce beer, Cheezies and maple syrup? ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/3 "2020-10-28T13:56:35Z")
Where’d you find spruce beer? Asking for a friend… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/4 "2020-10-28T15:32:21Z")
I’ve only seen it at Quebec grocery stores. _Metro_ used to have it. Now they are in Ontario, I’ve no idea. Metro also used to make store-made sausage with white wine and shallots, which sadly did not travel west. You know, Quebecois honestly have higher standards for food than many other Canadians, or at least they used to get better groceries. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/5 "2020-10-28T15:54:03Z")
Canada. Eh. 😐 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/6 "2020-10-28T16:05:56Z")
In fairness, over the last 20 years grocery stores everywhere have improved immensely and consumers have access to a much better, spicier and wider variety of products. But without looking, I’d be willing to bet Quebec eats less frozen food and more veggies per capita than any other province in Canada My Ontario city has a bunch of _Farm Boy_ stores which _are_ really good. They only stock limited items, but have a lot of local and freshly made goods of medium to high quality. Prices are reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/7 "2020-10-28T19:47:24Z")
Don’t forget, Canadians are also the Nicest People. > **[Chainsaw-wielding men covered in blood arrested on Toronto beach](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/men-arrested-chainsaws-blood-canada-beach-coronavirus-protest-toronto-a9671426.html)** > > Men arrive wielding power tools after reports of altercation at gathering of anti-lockdown protesters ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/8 "2020-10-29T13:55:22Z")
Yeah. In the hinterlands of Alberia, the produce and options are worlds better than when I first moved here, but it still has a long long way to go. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/9 "2020-10-29T15:36:38Z")
Yah sory aboat that eh? ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/10 "2020-10-29T16:31:01Z")
I had to check the date (year) of this thread, and the linked article a number of times. How the HELL has the UK moved to second place, when we’ve got the worst government in history (well, maybe second to Trump), we’re about to crash out of the EU without a deal because our government is so inept, we’ve got one of the worst Covid death rates in the world (worse than the US). We’re an international joke! Who took this survey? Ann Coulter? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/11 "2020-10-29T16:59:28Z")
Support for Trump in Canada has consistently been 10-15%. Much of this is “one-issue” people: gun enthusiasts, tax haters, Internet addicts, attention seekers, social conservatives, the intolerant, those who crave dictatorship, shyte disturbers, trolls, malcontents, those who despise politics, the chronically unhappy and religious people who lack a better alternative. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/12 "2020-10-29T17:10:37Z")
That’s a lot of words just to say, “Albertans”. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/13 "2020-10-29T20:58:24Z")
Hey @ QuickSilver ! 😛 Just because it’s true doesn’t mean I have to like it. Although, despite living here nearly 30 years I still consider myself a transplant. I own nary a pick-up, gun, C’boy hat, nor dinner sized belt buckle. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/14 "2020-10-29T22:27:47Z")
They tend to be the same groups in the States, but you might have to add: militia, skinheads, the economically connected, fake media junkies, those who feel forgotten by major parties but feel Trump cares for people like them, slow learners, masochists, those who get their news from Twitter or tea leaves and those whose great-grandfather also voted Republican, dagnabbit. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/15 "2020-10-29T22:37:38Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > In fairness, over the last 20 years grocery stores everywhere have improved immensely and consumers have access to a much better, spicier and wider variety of products. But without looking, I’d be willing to bet Quebec eats less frozen food and more veggies per capita than any other province in Canada I’ve never thought of Quebec as having _healthier_ food than the rest of Canada – it is, after all, the home of poutine, AKA “heart attack on a plate”. But it does have the French sense of great food – at least, Montreal certainly does, with the added benefit of amazing ethnic additions from Jewish, Slavic, and other communities that have thrived and melded over generations. To this day things like Montreal smoked meat and kielbasa, as obtained from any of the better ethnic delis, is unmatched anywhere else in Canada or, indeed, in the world, AFAIK. But that aside, Montreal has some of the best restaurants anywhere, at all levels from humble diners to the fanciest high-end places. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/16 "2020-10-29T23:02:12Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Support for Trump in Canada has consistently been 10-15%. But what is the percentage if you eliminate Alberta? It’s true that some years ago anthropologists sighted a white supremacist in the wild in Saskatchewan, but I think the most likely explanation is he just got lost and accidentally staggered across the border from Alberta. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/17 "2020-10-29T23:06:00Z")
Many Quebeckers like their steamies (hot dogs), cretons, delis, fast food and a million unhealthy snacks… this is generally true of Canadians in every province. Quebec had much more of a food culture and when I lived there ages ago, with _far_ superior grocery stores and markets. But Ontario has almost caught up? Even Loblaws makes a passable Montreal style bagel, though it ain’t St. Viateur. Costco sold Schwartz brisket for a while - I didn’t cry when they stopped, but I might have considered it. They still sell Moishie’s pickles and slaw. I know several Quebecois who would not buy frozen food and shopped almost every day. In Ontario, M&M sells quality frozen food, but I usually make my own food. Quebeckers tend to like to hold “cooking parties” more than some. Don’t know how many M&M outlets there are there. The grocery stores in BC (from my limited experience), also a health conscious province, often have surprising prices and less selection - and almost compel you join their stupid grocery club (or pay through the nose). ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/18 "2020-10-30T15:02:38Z")
Depending on where you are in BC (and S.Ontario to a lesser extent) their wider availability of locally grown produce is much higher and you’re as likely to pick up your fruit and veg direct from the farm or market as opposed to the grocery store. Every time my Dad goes to Thomas Bros near London,On I cry a little. Fresh asparagus, new potatoes, and fresh pressed cider? Yes please. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/19 "2020-10-30T21:41:42Z")
Yeah, it’s heaven around here, on the way to and from the beach it’s farm fresh fruits and veg all the way. Most farms have an honour stall by the road. It’s usually their kids stocking it. Basically they pick out the finest, freshest goods each day, bundle and price them, leave them at the stall. You just stop, get what you want and put cash in the locked box bolted to the counter. The best part is that farm kids REALLY know good produce, you truly cannot get better. And the cherry orchard also bakes pies! Summer is indeed sweet in these parts. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072/20 "2020-10-31T00:14:45Z")
Southern Ontario does well for vegetables with Alliston potatoes, Kent county corn and everything in between. British Columbia has beautiful fruit and wine in an unmatched setting. The farm fresh foods are very good. But I spent my student days in Montreal, which had a thousand holes-in-the-wall serving _steak frites_, shawarma and smoked meat poutine, many of which _encouraged_ you to bring your own bottle of wine. I loved it at the time, with little money but living on _l’amour et l’eau fraiche_, as they say. I just didn’t appreciate at the time quite how special it was - kind of the story of my life. I do miss the days of drinking on the Main then waiting in line for _Frites Alors!_ or a medium fatty sandwich or bagels still hot from the wood-fired oven. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadians-best-people-in-int-l-survey/924072.md?page=2)