So you bought into the insidious Canadian disinformation campaign claiming that Canada is too nice to do propaganda? 
Mission Accomplished, eh?
Back bacon is not bacon.
No, it’s actually the opposite: Maple syrup is so amazingly good, you won’t be able to accept anything else once you’ve had it. You’ll find yourself patronizing diners based solely on whether they have the real deal, or worse yet, you’ll start taking in your own maple syrup to otherwise acceptable places that cheap out with the colored corn syrup.
We have Tim Horton’s around here. It’s just a donut shop, not particularly different from Dunkin Donuts or any number of indie places. Why is this place considered an icon of Canadian culture?
(ETA: Dunkin Donuts has better coffee anyway 
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I doubt that poutine is all that great, really. It sounds kinda gross.
That’s a good question. I think they marketed themselves very well as an iconic Canadian business. The had commercials with dads taking kids to hockey practice, and stuff like that. They sponsor hockey teams and curling bonspiels. And they have a store strategically located just about anywhere in Canada, and are opening 500 more.
I’m not a huge fan, but I don’t really eat fast food and I’d rather make a coffee at home for 15 cents than spend almost two bucks for one at the drive through.
Tim Hortons coffee is awful.
That is all.
Does “Strange Brew” count as propaganda?
Take off!
ETA: Eh.
I used to doubt. Oh my god, good poutine is awesome. We went to La Belle Patate for dinner the other night. Yes, we had poutine as our main meal: Mr. Mallard had the vegetarian and I had the ground-beef-and-onion. So delicious.
McDonald’s serves poutine here, though their version is not worth writing home about. The fact that I’ve even tried it probably says something, though.
Ridiculous Canadian propaganda? That Canadian beer is better. Not even comparing mega brews.
I sound like a traitor, but I’m from Montreal, the poutine heartland, and… I find it gross too.
Because they keep telling us so in their advertisements.
Yes, we ratified Kyoto … and then didn’t even pretend to try to meet the targets.
It’s also not something that fits the OP, in that I am unaware of the government making any effort to convince us it is anything of the sort.
In terms of silly things the government wants us to believe about ourselves that are not true, the list is pretty short:
- That was have a world class health care system. It is not. It’s better than the USA, but inferior to many other First World systems.
- That Canada’s UN peacekeeping efforts a major force for world peace; they are really of little positive consequence.
Most other Canadian self-delusions, like the beer being stronger or better (it is not better, and that’s not a matter of opinion) are cultural ones help by Canadians themselves, not really government “propaganda.”
No, it counts as a documentary.
Every time I visit Canada, I know I’ve arrived when I see my first Tim Hortons. It usually happens within a few minutes of the plane landing.
Given that many Canadian airports have a Tim Hortons in them, I’m surprised if you cannot find one within a few minutes of landing. 
I’ll agree that our federal governments (of all political stripes) have, over the past 30 or 40 years, stressed that “Canadians are peacekeepers.” This makes it sound like our troops are social workers, trying to get both belligerents to sit down and sing “Kum Ba Ya” while holding hands.
This is not the case. Canada’s armed forces that are dispatched to the UN in a peacekeeping capacity, are well-armed, well-trained, and ready to insert themselves between two belligerents without taking either side. Further, they have no qualms about defending themselves, and local civilians, from either side militarily, should it become necessary. See for example, Canadian Forces’ Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, who commanded UN troops in Rwanda at the time of the Rwandan genocide. From Wikipedia:
It appears that “peacekeeping” is a lot more involved than social work, and in spite of what Canadians have been told, “peacekeepers” must be combat-ready soldiers, ready to react as such. That being said, I will agree with RickJay when he infers that there have been times when “UN peacekeepers,” including Canadian troops, cannot do much to keep the peace.
I have not seen any comments on sports. Are Americans ceding the high ground on ice Hockey and curling to Canada ? 
I must confess - I am bilssfully unaware of whatever “propaganda pieces” the Canadian government is attempting to sell its citizens.*
*other than the “Canada is utter paradise and the U.S. is a hellhole” rants from Canadian letter writers to U.S. newspapers.