# I don't get the "hate" for Canada **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191 "2026-10-27T14:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/41 "2026-10-28T10:35:31Z")
Ha! That’s great 😆 I don’t know why I’m still astounded by how gullible and easily led people can be - - I’ve lived in the South for a long time now. My town is pretty purple, a lot of transplants ‘from away’ which keeps it bearable, but things like the Canada snark and that the current war was Biden’s fault (heard that too the other day) just boggles me. I swear I wish I could be a hermit and just enjoy my cats, tea, friends, and wine in peace. It’s disheartening to realize how willfully _stupid_ people can be. ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/42 "2026-10-28T10:56:27Z")
What surprises me is that anyone, anywhere would give credence to _anything_ posted on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/43 "2026-10-28T11:27:11Z")
You need a very strong sense of skepticism, true, but as much as I detest Meta and Zuckerberg I find FB pretty useful for keeping tabs on local stuff and faraway friends. For myself I’ve morphed the saying “trust but verify” into “mistrust AND verify”. Works for me \>shrug\< ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2026, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/44 "2026-10-28T11:44:07Z")
My favorite sitcom is Corner Gas, which is Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/45 "2026-10-29T08:31:59Z")
Maybe they are still embarrassed by the whole Fort Blunder thing > **[Fort Montgomery (Lake Champlain)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Montgomery_(Lake_Champlain))** > > Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain is the second of two United States forts built at the northernmost point of the United States part of the lake: a first, unnamed fort had been built on the same site in 1816 but had been disassembled after engineers realised they were building on Canadian territory. Following the realignment of the border in 1842, a second fortification named Fort Montgomery was built on the same site in 1844. The current stone fortification, the second fort, was built between ... ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/46 "2026-10-29T16:10:12Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > And William Shatner, the classiest actor ever, who recently lent the first syllable of his last name to the attempted sale of Raisin Bran, i.e. “Will Shat.” I was gonna say, for the non-singing side there are an awful lot of [Canadian actors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_actors), including - Ryan Reynolds - Rachael McAdams - Jim Carrey - Michael J Adams - Sandra Oh - Catherine O’Hara - The Sutherlands, Donald and Kiefer - Dan Akroid - Anna Paquin - Carrie-Ann Moss - Raymond Burr - Margot Kidder ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/47 "2026-10-29T16:13:06Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > My favorite sitcom is Corner Gas, which is Canadian. I prefer Letterkenny. But that’s mostly because of Michelle Mylett. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/48 "2026-10-29T16:21:38Z")
In the southeast US, what I’ve noticed that it’s all MAGA/team based. Of the actual people who’ve I’ve overheard/observed Canada/Trudeau/Carny bashing, that they’ve never followed any issues before, before them being spoon fed to them on RW media on that specific day, and so they’re basically parroters, who, not so much “hate” Canada as such, as much as they love hating Canada, in being part of some tag-teaming troll brigade of sorts. Just as they don’t so much love Trump as much as they love being Trump fans. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/49 "2026-10-29T18:23:31Z")
I have three “Halloween” movies. Two of them have Rick Moranis. They are Ghostbusters and Little Shop of Horrors (doesn’t having Horrors in the title make it a Halloween movie?). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/50 "2026-10-29T23:44:15Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Step 2 is easy. Yo yo on the tariff – “I’m gonna do it. No I’ve changed my mind. Now I’m mad at them again.” – and take a long or short position, depending, a half hour before you say it. And here I always thought that he’d issue a tariff and wait to see if anyone would turn over a big enough bribe to kill it. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/51 "2026-10-30T04:45:20Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > - Michael J Adams I loved him in _Back to the Adams_. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/52 "2026-10-30T06:57:18Z")
I thought he was in _Hazmat Suits_. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/53 "2026-10-30T07:47:56Z")
Second City started in Canada too, didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/54 "2026-10-30T09:35:32Z")
The improv show started in Chicago and then expanded to Toronto which begat SCTV ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/55 "2026-10-31T20:06:59Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > The improv show started in Chicago Which is why the groups were called “Second City,” as that’s a nickname for Chicago (though it’s rarely used these days); the nickname refers to Chicago being often seen as second-best, behind New York City. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/56 "2026-10-31T21:23:20Z")
There’s a new SCTV documentary on Netflix. Joe Flaherty was the advance guy for Second City that was sent up here to scope Toronto out as a possible location. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191/57 "2026-11-03T13:10:49Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > I have three “Halloween” movies. Two of them have Rick Moranis. They are Ghostbusters and Little Shop of Horrors (doesn’t having Horrors in the title make it a Halloween movie?). NO! Being set during Halloween season (particularly at the climax) makes a movie a Halloween movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-the-hate-for-canada/1034191.md?page=2)