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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2020
- A viral video made by the Canadian government to promote tourism presents a very flattering view of the country. But how accurate is it?
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I am not Canadian and do not live there. And I like to travel, so I guess I am supposedly in the target audience. This ad gives me 0 reason to visit Canada. Maybe if I had strongly agreed with the "Canadian official ideology", that would have given me a warm feeling about Canada, making it more likely I'd visit. It seems to me the people who made this ad described what they themselves like about Canada, rather than seeing through the eyes of a foreign potential tourist.
In my opinion, whoever done this video made a much better job about Montreal.
It feels more genuine, more "down to earth" without force-feeding any ideology.
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Well; to be honest a Canadian pub for tourism is hard to do. Imagine doing one for USA at large. Canada is so big, The province of Quebec offers a totally different experience compare to British Columbia. You are more than welcome to come and visite Quebec City : czcams.com/video/XXhmblzSAeU/video.html&ab_channel=Expedia or Montreal : czcams.com/video/poe2cLKw9ko/video.html&ab_channel=Expedia
Yeah, if you want to get Americans to visit Canada, advertise places and events, not abstractions like how nice Canada is or random objects like types of chairs a tourist just passing tbrough wouldn't care about.
Yeah I think if they showed some of the natural destinations it would've worked out better.
@@filipmontgomery2710 "...you're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything..." -David Byrne
"Honey, we should go to Canada for vacation because they made insulin" said no one ever.
They should have pushed the "cheap insulin" angle if the want American tourists.
@@nedsanchez3501 Especially since our leader just signed off on deregulating insulin prices. Canada really dropped the ball on that opportunity.
@@thegrim418 meanwhile trump gave insulin a price cap
Honey we should go to canada for free health care... said...
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
This ad makes Canada look like a really cold version of California
@red leader's fav dude yeah pretty much
And in the cold version all the guns are already banned
You only get that shit in places like Vancouver or Toronto, I’d liken anyplace that’s not a large city to Texas or navada
@red leader's fav dude ok, edgelord
@red leader's fav dude "I disagree with you, therefore you are effeminate and therefore bad." Yeah i don't get it either
Acknowledging land is so strange to me, it’s like stealing someone’s house and looking out the window saying “hey, thanks for the house!” while the people you stole the house from are completely ignored after you make your phoney ass acknowledgement
its because its the easiest of the 94 calls to action
@@sire_beandondamn there's 94 of them??
EVERY DAY in Canadian schools we start the announcements acknowledging their land and I just ignore it cuz the school staff don’t mean it lol
As far as I can tell, land acknowledgements are little more than a kind of symbolic self flagellation -- basically an official admission of white guilt towards indigenous people. It's a way of saying, "We're sorry! You were here first and we forced our way in anyway!" which is meaningless since very little in the way of reparations has been given.
Like Bill Maher said about this: "Either give the land back or shut the f** up!"
@@danielali8372 every day...wow
You know it’s bad when a dude from California is like “damn that’s woke.”
When you're embarrassed about the state of California and Washington state just remember that at least neither is as bad a Canadian.
In the words of my favorite Canadians "Get lost hosers!"😂
At least we aren’t Florida
@@alpacaofthemountain8760 what’s bad about Florida
@@kreaped What isn't lmao?
@@colinberg3342 we probably have different views on what is and isn't bad
"Kids, we've decided that instead of Disneyland, we're going to visit the home country of the scientist who discovered insulin!"
"Oh boy! I can't wait to try... poutine..."
Dont forget that the guy who "discovered" it stole the invention from some romanian sciencist
wasnt insulin discovered by Nicolae Constantin Paulescu?
@@SefuSpringy yep, thats what I said
I mean, my parents never took us to Disney land but we have been to Canada.
They could have made an ad that just said "Weed is legal here" and more people would have been interested in visiting...
Oklahoma has legal weed too...
@@paisleepunk and south africa
@@ockertoustesizem1234 pack your bags boys we going to south Africa
except many states are legalizing it, so what's the point again?
@@humansvd3269 bear claws?
As an American, Canada seems like the embodiment of the "we got that at home" meme.
That is a lie and you know it
@@user-cb6vq9qm4t lies? Oh we got those at home already.
Still better than your insane country 😂
canada even has their own southern staters or dixies whatever you call them in the form of quebec people
i fucking hate canada (Im a true bred canadian)
My favorite category of Canadian propaganda is "Things invented in America, but the inventor was Canadian, so we're going to pretend it's ours."
Looking at you Basketball and Telephones.
Just like when an American hockey team wins the Stanley cup we look up to see how many Canadians are on the team... its just Canada winning...lol
Alexander Graham Bell was also born and grew up in Scotland.
That's an interesting idea, is an invention credited to where it was invented or by the nationality of the inventor? I recently had a Scottish person tell me that Frankenstein was Scottish, but the author is English so I told him it doesn't count (as a half joke). But he also has a point, as it was written and inspired by Scotland
Bell didn't invent the telephone. Antonio Meucci, an Italian man living in Staten Island, NY did. Bell simply stole the idea and patented it. Meucci sued him, but died before the case could be concluded.
@@theulmitter5725The argument that where the book was set or inspired to be set is ridiculous, that would make Romeo and Juliet Italian. Perhaps if it drew heavily from that culture of place but neither Romeo or Juliet/ Frankenstein are about the location. Most of Frankenstein was set in Geneva and inspired by places the author visited in Switzerland anyway, Scotland has little to do with it
Really it is partially who made it but also partially anyone who helped as well as what country’s resources were used. For example with Basketball the (American) university had a big part in the game, not just the inventor
More like an ad for immigrants, rather than tourists. But it actually comes over more like a cringy self-celebration of their wokeness.
We're constantly self congratulating in the state run media while also self flagellating for our problematic past. It's dizzying and vomit inducing.
the woke circlejerk
Trust me, this video would make most Canadians want to puke.
@@ta2joe13 hard to believe
Agreed. Virtue signaling to the lgbt movement in french was pretty cringey
Oh boy! I can't wait to go to Canada for *Pacemakers* and *wooden chairs*
can't speak for the Pacemakers but the wooden chairs have wood worms! XD
At least we have gorgeous teeth. 😉
those chairs are called Adirondack chairs in the U.S. I don't think they're unique to Canada and I'm willing to bet it's only Canadians who call them "Muskoka" chairs.
@@s.s.athome7982 I thought the same thing and I looked it up they were patented in new York and Canada started calling them that in the 1980's
they didn't even invent the first pacemaker. They simply made a different version.
This video is basically "what if San Francisco was a country?"
Yes, but without the tech and business 😂
Except that's just ignorant and wrong lol@@bobfearnley5724
with*@@bobfearnley5724
Well hopefully we don't have quite as much literal human feces everywhere as san fran.. but i see your point.
You are so funny!
I was raised in Nova Scotia and had to google the term "Muskoka Chair"; term I have never heard until this video. I have always called them "Adirondack Chairs" --- and yes they do exist in the US under that name.
So, Canada is so insecure that it has to remove any American label and replace it with a cozy sounding Canadian name.
I think most Americans, and several Canadians, know what an Adirondack Chair is, but are puzzled when hearing the term Muskoka Chair.
That "generic tech company" artstyle tho..
I know, right?
Honestly not really. It's tad bit too detailed to be that
@@vilukisu still gay
@@cheese5331 I eill agree that it has the same vibe of faux representation that the tech company artstyle and the companies utilize. Probably somewhat true for Canada as well: places that have a reputation of equality, happiness and what-not use that reputation to hide from fixing the issues that *are* present.
@@vilukisu If you were politician, what would you do? Addressing the often ugly, messy and complicated deep-seated underlying issues of society that may cost you your career, reputation and legacy?...OR shilling out for some feel-good propaganda that's guaranteed to get you more sheeple votes?
The high views / low engagement thing usually means the video's an advert - each time it's played as an ad before a CZcams video, it counts as a view. So Canada are actively paying to promote it
cool
Half asleep Chris? Didn't expect you to be here!
@@EphraimJK he even read a segment for one of jj's videos
Wtf Half Asleep Cris is here
Hi Chris I love your videos !
I am Canadian and I hate this. It makes me cringe inside out.
That video doesn't represent all of you i can see
As someone who immigrated to Canada in 2005 after living in America for 5 years prior to that (in California) I can say the difference between the cultural mosaic and melting pot is very real. You have to experience it to understand it. The reason for this is mainly the concentration of Canadian immigrant communities in our very few major cities over the decades, while in America the communities are sporadically spread out throughout the country. I find it very disengenous whenever the Canadian government praises itself for building this cultural mosaic/global village, when it came as a result of immigrant communities being shunned and feeling unwelcome in broader communities. The only reason Canadian diaspora communities are the way they are is because of work we did to build ourselves up, not because of support or acceptance from the government to get us to where we are. To celebrate this mosaic as a part of Canadas identity implies that this was a mission of the Canadian immigration project when it was not, it was purely to address skilled labour shortages in the nation. This discredits all the work our communities have done over the decades and continue to do so in order to build communities for ourselves and our future generations.
Americans have the exact same thing but with their native minority group, the Black Americans. They often live in very different places than the rest of the population. But it's not really a good thing, these places are ghettos and filled with gangs and crime. Not some paradise and exotic destination you'd want to visit to see the "beautiful mosaic".
Actually you're wrong about it being a skilled labor problem, that's propaganda. Canada could have built up their population, but instead did everything possible to reduce a certain kind of Canadian, while promoting immigration. Those same Canadians that the government wants to get rid of are taught to hate themselves and anyone of the same skin color...
immigration got out of hand fast
They're essentially leaning on American stereotypes of Canada: nice and progressive
“Internalized jingoism”
It's probably about as realistic as South Park's depiction of Canada
If a Canadian actually acted like this 80% of the time they would get sucker punched
I hate nice and progressive, life can be hard and nothing is free. The government loves to make people think the country is a utopia
@@HenryHoolington I think it's better to be kind than nice. We New Yorkers are not nice people. We're blunt about shit. We'll tell folks if they fuck up.
1: Let’s go to Spain! It’s warm and has great beaches
2: Naw, let’s go to Canada, they have wooden chairs and discovered insulin
"discovered"
Discovered insulin 😭
Joke aside. canada should had accepted the offer from uk to buy cayman islands. It would have been our very own hawaii. Where we can go live there for a couple years without worrying about complicated visa application
Governement love to not spend money on things most citizens would have been very happy about. But they do love to spend insane money on stuff that most citizen dont really care about 😆
*claim to have discovered insulin*
@@mathewvanostin7118 Here on Oahu the government's buying us a $3Billion (now $10 Billion+) elevated RR. Makes the system/Machine happy though. Overcame at least thirty years of opposition.
i would have been more convinced to go to canada if they just showed pretty pictures of the area
Yes. The nature is what we got. Canada needs to stop trying hard with the identity stuff. We have a weak identity. Our nature is outstanding. Our weed is good. Our beer is good. Come to Canada. Swim in clean water, get stoned. Drink beer. Chill out. That's all.
I live in the most touristy, pretty area and literally thats all we have going here. I'm trying to claw my way out of here and the only thing I'll miss are the gorgeous buildings I grew up around.
@@timlucasentertainment You made visiting Canada sound so nice lol They should hire you to make the next tourism video.
Also I would've mentioned Canada's monarchy which is pretty unique (very different from the British Royal Family)
@@timlucasentertainment I live In Colorado, and we already have all of that here... why do i need to go to Canada to experience all that?
It's good to see Minnesota is doing well for themself!
you mean michigan 2
@@circleinforthecube5170As a Michigander, we don’t want them either.
This isn't nationalistic, this strikes me as some weird globalist/immigration ad than tourism.
no, it's definitely nationalistic, Canada just does nationalism a bit different than other places.the video clearly tries to prop Canada up as a cohesive, unique, special nation in contrast to places like america. it just preaches other things as well, because we have deemed those our unofficial national qualities. just like American propaganda emphasizes "liberty" and "opportunity" as their national qualities, we preach "diversity" "acceptance" and "niceness" in ours
@@jeffer746 We can be stepped on and we will apologize, eh?
@@jeffer746 and you are a fool
Anyone that wants to immigrate here hasn't done research on how many jobs there aren't & how much rent is; if there are even any apartments xD
@@ambeegaming76 Kelergi Plan
Canada answers the question: "What if Luigi was a country?"
Never has something made less sense yet be so understandable
honestly as a candian thats concerningly accurate LOL
I literally laughed out loud at this because, god damn, it's perfect!
Luigi wins by doing nothing
So who would be Wario/Waluigi?
3:20 I like how they specifically chose "the Handmaiden's Tail," it shows that they really know their audience lol
True. Canada only appeals to Americans who hate America, but still like American culture and language.
You're correct. Take me as an example. Born, raised here. Never left. I hate it so fucking much, I'm ESCAPING to America and denouncing my slimey, disgusting, abhorrent past of being a Canadian. I'll pretend it never happened.
I'm a fucking American.
Being nice is not the same as being kind. I'm Chinese- Irish, gay and born in Canada. I've always felt like a foreigner, been treated like a foreigner and been told many times through my life to "go back to my country" or "go back to the reserve"when I'm mistaken for a native person. My best friend had his head beat in with a bat in front of me for 'looking gay'. The worst part is when I share my experience as a Canadian with other white Canadians, they deny my experience ever happened. They tell me it never happened, or that I'm lying, or that if I don't like Canada I can leave. Even driving through quebec I was treated as a foreigner again and people insulted me openly in French, calling me names they thought i couldn't understand. Yeah Canada is nice, but the people can be very unkind.
sorry that's your experience. tbh I come from middle lower class and there were barely any white people in my area. Scarborough. and it was great. if there was teasing it was for jokes nonone took anything seriously.. buy I did start to meet more politically driven people (black) and the ruined our dynamic bringing in race.
so you're no wring people are indeed unkind. plenty of white people have been very unkind to me.. as well as Asians.. but I don't see them as real Canadians. the real Canadians are genuinely beyind chill, accepting nice. my bros friend was Muslim and he wasn't (chinese) no problems. Hindu tamils.. gay straight.. it's the people who started getting brain washed that started to break friendships.
urgh Quebec the worst 😂 they straight up hateful
yes go back!
I think the funniest part of the video is it's trying to increase tourism during a pandemic when anybody coming into the border have to isolate for 2 weeks which is pretty much somebody's whole vacation...
Yeah I thought the timing of this was weird. The woman in the cafe with the beaver is wearing a mask but that’s the only acknowledgment of the virus you see in the whole thing.
Well, that's two more weeks in the hotel and two more weeks work of food. Plus they can watch a nice video over and over again.
This is just another Government office blowing their budget so they can justify the same amount next year. A total waste of money
@Simon Eminger I get your point but it is unlikely that anyone is reasonably making international travel plans for at least another year. Also, many dealership commercials ARE trying to persuade customers to buy a car very soon. That’s why so many of them say things like “This week only!” or “Last chance to get this deal!”
but it could appeal to someone who works entirely online & isnt limited to the traditional vacation fortnight
They forgot "Nice is a homeless heroin addict on the streets of Toronto ". Or would that also be too much like the US?
It wouldn't be if they included the safe injection site with open doors, hugs from nurses and free needles for everyone lol
how do you guys feel about jordan Peterson?
@@senorpepper3405 I'm a young female fan. I don't agree with everything he says but no human can 100% agree with someone on everything. I appreciate critical thinking, intelligent debates and evidence based research. I also can appreciate his own personal struggles and imperfections as well as his interest in psychology, as I myself study the subject.
It would be too much like Portland.
Yes it would be, just like the American west coast.
The way Canada feels is like when you make a Paper Mache earth. It looks pretty, and the details are nice, but it's still hollow and fragile.
Coming from a bi-citizen American/Canadian. I hope Canadians can drop the act and start ACTUALLY embracing their relationship with the US. Maybe they'd develop beyond 2005.
The year should read 2015. (2019 and again in 2021)
YES! Canadian here. I agree 100 percent
We already took too many neoliberalistic ideas from that trash heap. No thank you.
I don't really think Canada gets to talk about "respecting those who've always been here."
More accurately, This is Canada CRINGE.
Some of it certainly is.
Sounds like someone’s posting CRINGE
yes
@Rittenhouse is a Hero As a Canadian, that sounds fucked up.
As a Canadian, I'm obligated to apologize for my absolutely embarrassing government. I'm sorry you were subjected to this unique form of torture.
If you want americans to visit canada just make a video about poutine and maple syrup on a stick, boom I'm there
But you could just go to Vermont for that.
@@derpyeh9107 yep
I went to make my own sassy comment only to discover they removed yours. I still made my comment knowing they will remove it, just to waste their time out of sheer spite. I say we rally together and make commenting on that video a new tradition until they figure out how to turn the comments off.
@@Pensive_Scarlet You're awesome haha
They own many mountains in Canada and the distance the american dollar can go in Canada is worth the reason enough to show up. Have a good cheap time
I've been to Canada a couple of times and loved it. But this video just screams "We're sanctimonious!"
The indigenous peoples line is very insincere when you know just a year later they've found over 1000 bodies of children in unmarked graves underneath Canadian residential schools, and most of the deaths were likely due to neglect or outright abuse
(Canadian residential schools were a system where indigenous/native canadians were forced into boarding schools for about 80 years. And these unmarked graves are not counting the estimated 3200-30,000 deaths that were already known about)
Ik this is 2 years old but that story was false
This tourism ad feels more like a government political ad.
Because it is.
Everything our government does is a political ad.
I like to think of myself as someone who knows a lot of this country’s darkest secrets, but even a man as cynical as I had no idea that the Muskoka chair is a perfectly ordinary sight in the US.
JJ, you are just keeping us informed.
Beaver Tails are another thing that aren’t really distinctly Canadian, just the name is. This stretched-out fried dough is pretty common in the US as a food at fairgrounds, boardwalks and such and often goes under the name “elephant ears”. I haven’t seen it available in the US with quite as many topping options as BeaverTails offers so maybe that’s a bit unique.
@jake jones so do we in Canada. Never heard of them being called by the other name.
Never knew they had a name but yeah they are everywhere here in the US
yeah i mean... i didn't know it had a specific name but i have definitely seen them before... lol
Canada’s faux-niceness is the aspect that makes me want to not visit it: if I ever travel to Canada I’m going to the least nice place I can think of, Brantford, and if I don’t meet at least ONE person who’s previously been arrested for getting drunk and punching random cars I will be SOARLY disappointed
I’m from Georgia, and I’ve only know a few Canadians. They’re pretty American in my opinion, but they eat and say a few things that show their Canadian roots. Love your videos! Peace and love from Georgia!🇺🇸🍑
I find the “respecting people’s who have always been here” ironic, as I go to college with a native girl from Canada who vented one day about how the Canadian government is all talk no action when dealing with its native population.
Also, they haven't "always been here." Homo Sapiens evolved in Africa, including the so called First Nations. They migrated to North and South America just like later immigrants. Only difference is they were the first humans to show up.
@Zidzan isn't there a ton of missing native girls? We have a similar problem in the states
And your point is?
@@Kreeos - depend on your original origin of humanity. So what nobody has any claim on land if they lose by combat
Ah yes
I know an native girl and well the gov have burned where her family used to live 😂
“Respecting all those who have always been here”
-Since 2000
*2010
2019*
that part aged very badly lmfao
It has always aged badly, we just didnt know it yet
*2030
Not going to lie, as a Ontario canadian, it really just feels like amarica if some time traveler screwed with the timeline and now people bag their milk and have french labels on food packages.
As a candian I really do appreciate you covering thus kind of stuff. Ive noticed it at school, and wondered just how much different we actually are from the States (We're not). I'm honestly so tired with my government I just cant anymore
"Hey tourists! Come to Canada, we have gays, feminists and immigrants!"
Yeah no thanks Canada, I already have that in my own country.
It’s meant to get some 20 year old white girls
Oh that's funny
True
The funny thing it’s not even true 😂😅 only in the big cities you see it
lmao... that was so much more efficiently to the point, I wish the feds had just paid you to write their stupid propaganda/advert
Muskoka chairs aren't even a exclusively canadian thing. They're called Adirondack chairs in the US, and the only difference between them is the size, in which muskokas are slightly smaller. Romanticizing a wood chair is hilarious
I was looking for this comment.
Omg yea i was gonna say i recognize those chairs just not by name
Yeah, I got 2 I bought at Walmart here in the Midwest lol. They're a big New England thing.
@@Blue_Star_Child They're also everywhere in, not surprisingly, the Adirondacks.
I was literally about to comment dude that's an adirondack chair
“Respecting those who always been here”
Dinosaurs: Am i a joke to you?!
This was fun. 🙂 As an American, I can say the video wouldn't make me want to visit Canada. But then again, we have a lot of those tourism commercials here in the US about visiting different states and they don't make me want to visit either, lol.
That being said, the best advertisement for Canada I've ever seen was a desktop wallpaper of Banff National Park. That place is GORGEOUS! Seeing it in person is definitely on my bucket list.
When your entire national identity is based off of trying to differentiate your identical culture from another country's
Sad
I mean they have hockey, syrup, and french people, that's difrent
@@mediaguyking7045 The US has Hockey, (24 NHL teams), Maple Syrup (4 million gallons per year), and French People (Louisiana)
@@travelsofmunch1476 yeah but not as many French speakers
If you want a piece of secret Canadian history nobody talks about, check out the Duplesis Orphans. They were roughly 20,000 children taken in by the Catholic churches who were falsely diagnosed with mental illness, abused, raped, and experimented on. We may be nice, but we've been pretty shady too.
I don’t trust “nice” people. Kind people? Yes, but nice is sneaky.
Ha! Funny I often describe myself as kind but not nice.
@@justynjonn nice people will avoid telling your there’s toilet paper on your shoe, because it might upset or embarrass you. Kind people will tell you, in spite of potential humiliation.
That’s the example I use to explain the difference between nice and kind
Pretty much OJ Simpson in a nutshell. Nice guy till June 12, 1994
That's imposter among us
In Germany we have a saying, I think it's fairly recent, nice is the little brother of asshole
So, I live in Wisconsin, we call muskokas lawn chairs, also, this video made me cement my already rock hard belief that visiting Canada would just be a not good experience
Hi JJ! I was extremely interested in the presence of The Handmaid’s Tale in this video. It’s clearly there for the reasons you mentioned about Margaret Atwood being a native of Canada, but there also could be more intense subtext from the novel’s story: A corrupt America that oppresses women. It also paints a picture of Canada being a safe haven for the fleeing Americans. (This is especially true in the Hulu show.) I would love to know what your thoughts are about this subtext and whether or not you think it was intentional. Thank you!!
The art style alone just spews diversity at a nauseating level.
Oh sorry for having various art styles of animation. I guess those animated collaborations are garbage
Anytime I see that bubbly art style with all the crazy colors I know it’s gonna be something horrific
@@user-zv8qg1co4z - then may I introduce you to the shows adult animated under from Adult Swim. Getting actual moving animation that is not stilted or the flash models of the education channels is more & more rare these days
For real those colors are weird af
@@Ajourneyofknowing kinda
Bragging about which indigenous people's land you conquered to hold an official function seems like a huge flex.
LMAO, yeah it is funny how often the progressive elites shoot themselves in the food.
Reminds me of the 'but who will scrub our toilets!' remark by Kelly Osborn criticising clampdowns on illegal migration.
@David Wrigley But maybe you also shouldn't force their children into boarding schools which prohibit speaking of native tongue and attempt to convert their religion or defund the social care specifically in those regions.
ca.topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/civil-rights/discrimination-and-abuse-aboriginal-rights-in-canada/
@@HamishDuh2nd I doubt reconciliation will happen, it's far down the road and we keep walking away from it.
We did not conquer our native peoples in Canada. We made treaty’s with the various tribes and bands, that are still around today. Use of land was traded for payment, rights to resources and land of their own.
Respect for those treaties isn’t a flex.
@@AstralS7orm This was the progressive position at the time. Also compared to what has historically happened to conquered people (men put to the sword, and women integrated as second or third wives and bred out) its literally not even on the scale of "atrocities". Ignorant people cling to things like this because they have so little to actually legitimately criticize.
I find it wierd to use a Pride parade as a symbol of tolerance when they only exist as a symbol of a fight agaisnt oppression. I always find what Governments promote as an interesting thing.
My highschool economic teacher only ever call Canada “Canada” once and that one time was him explaining why he only refers to Canada as “America lite.”
He opened his lecture with.
“Have y’all kids ever had a Budweiser? Then you know that bud lite is never as good as Budweiser…”
I remember living in Southern California when I saw a tourist advertisement for California and it featured all the California stereotypes. Surfing, Redwoods, Hollywood Blvd, Skateboarding, and I thought. "that was the lying-ist ad I'd ever seen".....then I realized I was wearing the exact same outfit as one of the edgy skateboarders in the ad and had visited/done all those things in the last month.
My pride was only maintained because they didn't feature getting lost in the woods while on psychedelics.
I can't imagine a whole city block of homeless people being particularly attractive
tbf, psychedelic's provide for a wonderfully authentic CA experience. Especially if really high trees are involved....
Sincerely, with love/hate
A Washingtonian trapped between CA drivers and whatever you want to call motorist from Vancouver, B.C.
Honestly there's more separating California from the rest of the US than Canada.
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 Definitely not attractive, but a lot more exciting than anything you can find in Canada that’s for sure.
This guy in his chair: ⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️
It's so annoying. Is it part of his brand? But he isn't called Bob.
I think he might be sitting on an exercise ball
@@siquod it's a exercise ball that's why he bobs around
Man looks like a human version of Pekora's laughter.
@@michaelnathan4221 how to lose the ill audience
"Instead of going to universal studios, we will be going to the country with WOOD CHAIRS and the HOME of the guy who made the PACEMAKER!!!!!! Who's EX-CITED?????
It looks like an corporate advertisement for Canada which you skip after the mandatory 5 seconds
“Come to Canada because we have a ton of people who are not from Canada...”
Except natives, people are from somewhere else
@Bartholomew Roberts who did the natives colonize. The beavers?
@@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH Yeah but some are more else than others.
@Bartholomew Roberts Natives still exist and didn't "lose". Do you even know what a treaty is? Or how all of the crown land is leased from hundreds of nations? Agreements were made and treaties signed. Natives were never "conquered". Residential school attempted that yet most Natives still retain their culture and identity.
@@brandicunningham7243 Pray tell, how were the terms of the lease negotiated?
In many years, this Canadian ad will be a time-capsule of advertising trends, I am willing to bet on it! Just like those hilarious EXTREME NINETIES commercials which look absolutely ridiculous these days.
It's a by-the-book perfect "Appeal to youths" checklist that captures modern sensibilities perfectly
1) Pastel colors, minimalistic artstyle that is cartoonishly mild and friendly
2) Toting fakely nonchalant diversity - all the backgrounds are chock-full of every imaginable minority with the subtlety of a brick to the face.
3) Upbeat music that tries to both be catchy and coddlingly cute and inoffensive
4) Pride, feminism, anti-racism being given awkward and sudden spotlights to make ABSOLUTELY SURE the youths get that all the hip political trends are in check (Just like a misunderstanding authority figure in a 90s commercial to make SURE youths get that the product is anti-authority, thus cool)
It's kinda fascinating to see something so... corporate and algorithmically fabricated.
More or less what corporate thinks would appeal to youths
Spot on
Trust me as a 15 year old I find the ad cringy
In fact this is almost identical to corporate art
I see absolutely nothing wrong with having real ethnicities in any form of media regardless of intent or quantity??
Land Acknowledgements honestly seem quite strange as an idea. Imagine if you invade a country or someone else's land, win the fight, etc... You do not necessarily give some half-baked attempt of saying "oh we are sorry / acknowledge you exist", but rather, the losing nation gets absorbed into the winning nation. This is how it has always been. Why would we acknowledge land as being someone else's if you have won the land? Doesn't that make the land yours?
Nobody would want to visit Canada in their right mind. It's a country for refugees, not for tourism. It must be boring as hell.
Being from Ohio we used to visit Canada to go drinking as the drinking age in Ontario was 19. I'll never go back to that country now though because I'm unjustly on a terrorist list there.
@@Cincy32Please explain how you're on the Canadian terrorist watch list.
@@connorthompson66 Proud Boys.
Its like the obama meme where obama rewards himself with a medal
oh you mean the one created by a republicon
@@alpearson9158 l34rn h0w t0 5p3ll l0l
@@Sgt_Long_Dong he spelled it right.
@@louieo.blevinsmusic4197 he spelled it republicOn. It is rebublicAn.
@@y0l0e_3 her her her. Good one.
Honestly it just came off as "Canada is very insecure about itself here is a list of our minor accomplishments please listen to us."
Because that's honestly how Canadian nationalism works (˃̣̣̥▽˂̣̣̥)
I think Canada is a fine country but yeah I could do without the clearly insecure bragging.
Don't even get me started on how Canadians think we in the US don't have indoor plumbing or heat
@@donovanlocust1106 Canadians: Americans are so arrogant because they go around claiming to be better than everybody else.
Also Canadians: Here's a list of reasons why we're much better than you.
@@btsnake oh my God , what assholes.
Our inferiority complex is really something
Considering the residential school stuff being revealed this feels like damage control to an extent. Like, they know this has hurt their international image.
I'm an American who lived in Canada for four years - all the kitschy references to ketchup chips, poutine, and so on did make me sentimental and want to go back. :-) Living in Toronto I saw the mosaic concept in action, and I would say my general feeling is that there is more tolerance and acceptance of others, especially new comers (even Americans!)
Most foods from different cultures, you can order the ingredients online, and cook them for cheaper than going to the places. Visiting places is nice, but if you truly miss the food there are options.
Canadians: Respecting those who've always been here
Indigenous people: Umm..
Also, Québec. See October 1970 or October 1995.
It has been getting better, but yeah.
Ukraine's had it just as bad if not worse only difference is the gov actually cares about the natives they don't even talk about Ukraine residential schools
@@Simboiss may my ancestors rest in peace.
Exactly. Like anyone cares about their acknowledgments. People want land.
As a Yankee the “Canada Nice” video did not make me interested in visiting my northern cousins in fact it kinda turned me off a little
Your on indigenous land Yankee... not yours buddy
Canadians would move to Florida and Arizona if it was easier
@@georgehancock2307 Who told you my secret?
@@the6ix72 hardly is a secret Quebecoic would give up French for winters in Florida
@@georgehancock2307 so do people in toronto
all i learned from the ad is that the us has some people that speak french
Here in the south US, we have ketchup chips and beaver tails
Canada: “Muskoka chair”
USA: yeah that’s a lawn chair...
Anything they sell at Harbor Freight isn't exotic
Exactly. I've seen that exact type of cheer in Ohio and Jersey and everywhere else.
I first thought "that's an Adirondack chair". I'm from the Southeastern US.
From cottageteam.com: "There is no real difference in an Adirondack chair or a Muskoka chair - the design fluctuates from carpenter to carpenter. The major difference you will see from a Muskoka chair to an Adirondack chair is in the height of the backrest and the lower seat on Muskoka chairs."
It's just a lawn chair
@@rosem5062 actually 6:53 the photo of one he shows is not a Muskoka chair because the vertical wooden slats on the backrest are all uniform in width. The Muskoka chair shown in the advertisement is a Muskoka chair due to the back slats getting wider as they extend to the head of the chair.
As a Latino immigrant growing up in Canada, I can unequivocally say that Canada's "mosaic" model has created a series of contiguous ethnic ghettos that barely communicate with each other outside of commerce. This has become a country that has progressively lost its identity to gender and identity politics, and social justice pandering. Canada clings to superficial differences and clichés to separate itself from Americans. If I can use one word to sum up modern Canada it is "inauthentic."
I second that - Brilliant
Spot on brother
Pas partout,n’est-ce pas...😉⚜️
I think that's the problem of trying to make it a "mosaic" instead of a "melting pot". Mosaic is segregationist you have each nice color sectioned of to their own little square, but they're not all working together to make a better whole because they don't have a common set of values. In a melting pot, you have several different metals mixed together to make a stronger metal. Steel, for instance, is stronger than the sum of its materials. When you keep the positives from different cultures, but refine out the negatives with a common set of values, you get cultural steel. But that only works if the society operates on a common set of values. But that's just my two Loonies. (A Twoonie if you will.)
Trying to not be like America seems like a terrible foundation to start on. What if America changes for the better? You guys should just focus on your societal issues without looking at what we're doing wrong. Look at what other countries' politics are like. It's much more interesting.
In Australia, similar to what you described, people do the “traditional lands” thing by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land upon which we work/stand, or an indigenous elder will be invited to precede an event with a short “welcome to country” speech. Also, at the end of tv news and other programs you will see (usually at the end of the credits), a paragraph acknowledging the traditional owners of the land - usually the land where the tv studio is located etc.
You can also go online to hire someone to come to your event to “perform” a Welcome to Country”🙂🐿
I was listening to this in the background (peeking at it here and there), and somehow, I missed that this was supposed to be a travel ad. This entire time, I was under the impression it was just an insider video on Canadian pride made by the Canadian government, for Canadians/propaganda.
I thought, "that's odd of them to do, but I'm down with them celebrating their culture, ig; although I don't get it, seeing as how I am not Canadian." And you mean to tell me that this was 1) aimed at me, an American, and 2) A TRAVEL AD?!?!?!?!?!!
I don't know if it's the same in Canada, but most natives I've met in the US find land acknowledgements to be a kinda empty gesture for the most part.
It doesn't change the oft bloody history, in how the land changed hands.
As someone who isn't an American Indian it feels like something that should even be offensive to them, constantly touting how we annexed their homeland and drove them off it. I'm glad we don't do it in the US.
I live in Michigan, and I think I heard one before a theater show at my university. I had never heard one before, so it's interesting to learn that they've been doing them in Canada for what sounds like a while.
@@richardbaldwin4895 I'm from GA and the only time I saw a land acknowledgement was in a diversity conference thing I had to go to in order to keep my club organization at my college.
@@nickmcnugget16 Hm. Maybe my university just picked it up from being so close to Canada!
It floors me how much Canadians cling to the "we invented basketball" thing, considering Naismith died a naturalized US citizen, formulated the game in Springfield, MA, and created it to meet needs particular to the Springfield YMCA.
As someone from the Springfield area I get unreasonably mad whenever that statement is made lol
Just let them have it, I kind of feel bad for them lol.
He is worshipped as a demi-god in Lawrence, Kansas.
Yes I thought the exact thing when I saw basketball there. the man who invented it had immigrated and moved to the US
Many American countries (referring the continents and not exclusively the country) see "the place where you are born" as where you are from.
You missed the bit about the Handmaid's Tale... The book that beaver was reading was AT WOOD the Handmaids TAIL
When the ad said we are the red, white. I expected them to say and blue after that, lol
As a Canadian, the NICE video feels like a crude listing of every stereotype and a mixture of values that only represent a small part of the population.
But that small part of the population happens to include the Canadian tourism bureaucrats that put out this video.
As a Canadian, this just feels like another round of poorly done globalist propaganda.
it really makes my skin crawl. Entirely superficial hackery
@@HamishDuh2nd Guibeault scaled the CN tower in July 2001, that's before 9/11 just FYI.
Also, if you're going to be so smug and condescending at least take a moment to fact check yourself. Destination Canada is under the Ministry of Small Business and Tourism and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Economic Development. Nor is the Cultural Heritage minister (who don't have anything to do with the CRTC who regulate media, and the CRTC is run by non political appointees, no one in the cabinet has control over media standards in Canada without passing legislation) in charge of what is broadcast. The Heritage minister can produce things that promote Canadian heritage, and it manages things like official Canada Day celebrations.
@@HamishDuh2nd Like I said, no one in Parliament can regulate media without legislation. Even Bill C-10 does not directly control the CRTC though, which is still an arms-length brand of the federal government. Even the FRC in the US is politically appointed, Canada has one of the most independent media regulatory bodies in the world, which is part of the reason why it is so heavily protectionist of Canadian media companies.
Edit: As to why Guibeault introduced the bill this is a matter of Parliamentary procedure. There are 3 types of bills, government bills, private-members, and committee bills. Guibeault presenting the bill as a member of cabinet simply signals that the bill is a government bill and it doesn't have to do particularly with his cabinet portfolio since the PM can give bills to whichever cabinet minister he wants to present it to Parliament, but it doesn't mean that Guibeault wrote the bill in the same way the US congressional system works.
"We pass the puck, to be nice"🙍♂
Top tier canadian voice acting
Since you’re talking about stating the treaty and land you’re standing on before each ceremony, I’m going to try and recite mine from memory:
We gather here today to honour all the many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples whose footsteps have marked these lands for centuries. (I forgot the rest)
As a Canadian... I find that video so disturbing. Like, "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" disturbing. The way it keeps repeating and building up to something (possibly... sinister?) makes it very hard to sit through lol.
I got diabeetus from watching. Not exactly terror, but I did want to throw up lol
the video made me unreasonably angry
You described the sensation....incredibly well, definitely uncanny
That would be because this is indeed propaganda that you get from a government leaning hard left. If you have seen Avatar the last airbender, this is about two steps away from the city of ba sing se. Back in the '90s it was the religious right who were the authoritarians, The roles have reversed, now it it the deconstructionist left that are the authoritarians, and while I don't think authoritarianism is good no matter what side of the aisle it's coming from, the type of authoritarianism you get from the political left and it's pro globalism stance is incredibly destructive. The religious authoritarianism of the right and the '90s at least had the merit of sticking to a moral core that had already been in place and was what guided the country for generations, the authoritarianism of the left is just tailored to suit corporate interests more than anything else and attempts to buy people to its side with empty promises of "equity" since the former and equally empty promises of equality stopped working, and they do it by driving up racial division and hatred. At least this is my stance as a political moderate who doesn't buy into either side BS narratives.
the corporate uncanny valley
Cringy and forced. Makes this Canadian living abroad feel LESS homesick
The conquerors no longer believe in right of conquest is so cringe. 11:25 Are they paying rent to the local native bands now? No. They're using natives as a political pawn, myself being native absolutely hate it.
@@leerman22
It certainly comes off as condescending and patronising while attempting to do the opposite.
@@NerdlySquared well, place of birth does not determine ideology. It's why many Albertans find separatism appealing and why I live in America.
“NICE” is a really weird way of spelling “passive aggressive”
Great description!
I am a newcomer and it was very informative!
Thanks 👍
I live in Canada and once when I went to watch a movie one of those pre movie ad things was literally a ad made by the Canadian government calling people traitors if they use .com instead of .ca for their websites
lmfao
Those were made by the CIRA, not the government.
@@parlinmains Were they? Didn't know
"Don't be a .com-mie" - Canada
I would have laughed it off as a joke.
Basically Canada is having an identity crisis because of her more older, papular, wealthier sister: America
Papular. Yes you're right America is a rash.
@@Bismuth00 I disagree but that was too damn good.
@@Bismuth00 LMAO
I would imagine america more as a brother
@@justvibing1601 nations are usually referred to in the female pronoun, much like ships.
I'm Canadian and I'm severely ashamed of our gov and country for the last several years
Yo I love this channel. So much entertainment and insight about so many cultures, This is exactly what I wanted to find when i found this channel.
WOW. As an American, I have NEVER heard that Canada quietly teaches the "melting pot" theory.
Me neither, I've had teachers acknowledge that it's not necessarily the most accurate metaphor depending on how you look at it, but I've always kinda interpreted it as a positive thing
As I Canadian I’ve never heard of a melting pot being used as a negative term. In school we were taught that a melting pot meant that a country embraced other cultures allowing for us to learn about others cultures and share our own. I’m not sure where this idea that Canadians view a cultural melting pot as a bad thing came from but I personally have never sean anyone refer to it like that.
I just learned about the melting pot in geography and I was immediately kind of confused about what it actually was referring to in practice.
I was taught it in grade 9 geography and felt it was a given a negative interpretation by the teacher.
Also in geography I made a chart (I forget what for) with red representing heat, white as even temp, and blue as cold and my teacher came by and said, “What are you, American?” and he was kidding (although it also implied that being American would be a bad thing)...and I actually am a dual citizen but people here just hate Americans so much that I tried to never mention it in school. I was scared stiff when he said that. Even in grade 8 when 9/11 happened and they wheeled the TV in for us to see, I remember a kid running down the hallway celebrating, yelling, “Americans are dying! Americans are dying!” No joke. I imagine his parents weren’t teaching him to literally want Americans dead but nonetheless this is what has resulted from this stupid rivalry and from off coloured comments said around children all the time here in Canada.
I'm born Canadian and have no recollection of these terms even being used in school.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm American so maybe I'm hearing it differently, but the whole "acknowledging those whose land this was" is kinda salt in the wound, isn't it? It's like "Yeah, we know this was yours, but it's ours now, so nyah :P"
Yeah I thought the same thing. "Hey, we conquered your land and aren't giving it back but we'll think about you sometimes"
Just my opinion as an American, but it feels more imperial to acknowledge that you're on someone else's land that you took but are still continuing with whatever event you had planned. But if this is the kind of thing that first nations people want from Canada then I guess it's fair.
@@Cz4rBDV5e8w Americans do that same stuff. People talk about how poorly we treated the natives, but I don't see anyone trying to give the land back xD
@@Jeagan2002 great portions of land are reserved for the natives here in the states, they're called the reservations
@@siyacer great portions of land that literally nobody wanted, which is why they were chosen as reservations.
I’m so happy he put in that first part of the video in
Amazing how much cringe they can pack into one video. In reality, Canada is a majority white country, and place outside major cities is basically 100% white or native. Not a bad thing, just how it is. It kinda reminds me of a corporation trying to rebrand itself.
"Respecting those who’ve always been here"
I paused, took off my headphones and literally could hear the neighbor's radio covering about the hundreds of unmarked tombs and children remnants found on the grounds of Aboriginal boarding schools across Canada.
yup needs to be examined but much better than simply murdering natives by the millions
Oof.
@@alpearson9158 Why even consider something like that at all?
@@OLDSACKS because sadly the bar for native relations has been set so low, that anything that isn't a direct genocide is considered "could have been worse"
@@arnigeir1597 Re-education camps/schools such as this are generally still considered genocide, because the intent behind, as we americans say "kill the indian to save the man", is still to destroy the cultural identity of the group. I think theres even an argument to be made that this is worse than murder, because if it worked the textbooks would just say they "went away" and nobody would feel bad about it.
The best thing that ever happened to American perception of Canada was “Trailer Park Boys”. That show did for Canada what “King of the Hill” did for Texas.
That and rust valley restoration. The love and appreciation some Canadians have towards to classic American cars is beautiful.
How about Schitts Creek?
Im Mexican and I LOVE king of the Hill, is so funny and warmhearted
Propane, cowboys and folks :D
@@iandalton6174 Ehhhhhh
Fuckin eh right buds, get two birds stoned at once
I'm from Canada and I've lived here for almost my whole life, and even I couldn't recognize most of the women they shouted out. The only one I did recognize is Viola Desmond, and that is only because of how much the current government has been pushing the symbolization of her on the bizarre looking vertical ten-dollar bill. Note that this video does not mention any of the important Canadian Prime Ministers, like Sir John A MacDonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King, or any of our other founders. This video takes a stance that is obviously far more left wing than objectively non-political.
How is it more left wing
Why is PMJT in the space ship instead of Col. Chris Hadfield?
"respecting those who have always been here"
That's rich
At least in America we don't pretend to respect them
@@sk00k we need to respect our native counterparts much more than we do right now
@@butcholsen3237 definitely, but at least we're not dishonest about the situation
@@sk00k yeah, I'm sick of all Canadian stereotypes being about how "nice" everyone is, and no one ever giving them shit for anything, the US has a lot of issues but at least they actually get some shit for it.
@@ginogatash4030 Honestly, I feel that. America has a ton of problems, but we, aside from some hardcore conservatives who deny it and radical progressives who exaggerate it, don't try to hide it.
The whole land acknowledgement thing is really weird. Who does this help? It just feels like they’re rubbing it in: «Yeah, we know we are on your land, but you’re not getting it back lmao»
@Hunter Smith i was literally about to say lmao
At my school they play this brain washing video everyday
Just another facet of the cultural Marxist white-guilt game.
@@donaldinho62 what..?
They've done it at the start of every university lecture I've had since 2015 and they often put it as a bonus question on first and second year exams. I find it strange. I am fairly certain that 99.9 percent of the students didn't have any ancestors even in Canada back then. When things are overdone they lose their value and meaning and I see the importance of learning and discussing modern indigenous issues but not land acknowledgement.
Drinking game: Take a shot everytime in the ad they say NICE
yeah, honestly the video seems to describe what's nice about living in Canada way more than about visiting it.
Barely anything from the video was something cool to DO while in Canada, aside from "Niagara Falls" which was literally "hey, we ALSO have that!" and reading canadian books which, I'm sorry to inform, you don't actually need to GO TO CANADA for.
As someone from Brazil, what interested me the most about this video was the feeling of Canada as a colder region, with the cozy cafes and all, but that wasn't even a focus, just background visuals...
Don't get me wrong, I think the video actually paints Canada as a really great place, just maybe not an exciting place TO VISIT.