Why you should visit Canada

Canada is a Country of such extremes that everybody who likes to travel should visit at least two different extremes of her ecological variations. It is sort of like Mark Messier and those Lays Potato chips commercials; you just can’t visit once. You should visit Canada because her citizens are a very friendly, humorous and fun loving people. We have more lakes and rivers that are just chock full of fish for the sporting enthusiasts, mountains with 16 feet of virgin snow, back-country camping and 5-star spas and resorts.

We are just so darned fan-tittelly-astic that three of our cities makes UNESCO’s World Heritage Places To Visit list every year, in Halifax, N.S., Quebec City, Q.C., and Victoria, B.C. The eco-tourist does not have to go to the other side of the World to Australia or New Zealand, Africa or Switzerland. Just forget about seeing dried-up deserts (well, you could imagine the Oil Sands Projects in the Prairies as a form of a desert), and with a little imagination, Canada has the facilities for everything that anyone would want to do.

Take a look at a topographical map of Canada. Now, if you will focus on Northern Quebec and Central to Northern Ontario, there are more lakes and rivers than most Countries can boast, and that is just 2 of 12 Provinces and Territories. We have more fresh water than some Continents do. Including Glacial and Polar Ice, we have about 22% of the Planets’ fresh water. Animals are free to roam in the vast wilderness, bear, deer, moose and big-foot hunting are bountiful here. Just take a bit of advice from a Canadian who has lived in Toronto for about 10 years.

Stay away from Toronto! There, it had to be stated and it was. Might want to avoid Montreal and Winnipeg too. That is not what Canada is about, that is more of a greed-driven society, people with no time for strangers and eyes on the floor. Lots of crime, gangs running rampant, criminals getting slaps on the wrist for crimes Americans would spend the rest of their lives in jail for. We don’t have the three strikes and your out rule here, and we never will. We have a love-hate relationship with violence – we love to watch it, hate to be victimized by it.

You should visit Canada because, since 9/11, Americans kind of have a bulls-eye on their backs when they travel to foreign Countries. But in Canada, Americans are simply considered as simply North Americans. Most of Canada’s residents wished we had an “open border” with you, our Southern neighbours. We dream of