American Reacts to Things ONLY Canadians Understand About Canada 

Love this! 😆❤

Sorry eh lol

Sorry eh, in a non legally binding way

"Sor-ee"

I absolutely love watching a new RU-vidr or streamer and subconsciously recognize the accent and realize they're Canadian without really knowing why at first.

Are you familiar with the Freedumb Convoy?

That kind of failed during covid. Many refused the solidarity and kept the spread going. It certainly didn't feel like Canada with all the conspiracy people making noise.

Them are bad Canadians. Unfortunately, our civic polity is being eroded by the contemporary media environment too.@@kwharrison6668

@@kwharrison6668are you familiar with the 8 million dollar “barn” he built with our money?

About is only in the maritimes

😂🤣😂🤣

Shoulda showed him a picture of a polar bear ...

Now that's fricken FUNNY!

I think his response was backward. He should have said, "Holy crap!!. If that's the size of a rat, I'd sure hate to see a moose". I guess that would be the take on a different picture though eh?.

Actually, your country is named The United State of America.

Yup! I've had it said to me when someone mistook my facetious sarcasm as me being serious/a dick. Someone else in the game said "He is Canadian, and he has a dry sense of humour." (Paraphrasing, something to that effect. I have a terrible memory!)

or war.

Non Canadians need to realise that sorry can mean many different things. There is a lot of meaning in the intonation of that sorry.

Right ! SORRY!!! Is a veiled threat when someone's out of line.

I can totally hear how it sounds when I'm mad, like "Oh EXCUSE me! Would you like fries with that" (Mr/Mrs King of the world!) I don't say the part in parenthesis but think and mean it in my tone.

Right. Sorry is like aloha. It has many meanings depending on situation and intonation. Often when I say it, I really mean eff you, lol.

Similar to how we use “bless your heart” in the south. My fiend from Toronto’s “sorrr-eeee”, has a much different meaning that my friend’s from Victoria, BC. Eastern Canadians “ArE tHe NiCeSt PeOpLe”, while western Canadians ARE the nicest people…. 😎

We regularly drive out to Southern On from Vancouver. I navigate so we go exploring along the lesser routes, saving the TransCanada for when we need to make tracks although it is very pretty going through the Rockies. Lots to see along the way so more interesting.

Yeah, in first and second world wars, the germans see canadians as barbarians or vikings like. Their is even some story about battle that Germans surrender when they know it's canadian they are fighting. On top of that, on modern age, canadian military are known to really well train.

@@Nyarlathoteps1 Three things drove Canadian savagery on the battlefield during the First World War. First, there was the gas attack on Canadian troops at Ypres in 1915, and this resulted in the loss of many Canadian lives. The Canadians perceived gas as a barbaric weapon - which it was, because of the long-term suffering it inflicted on those who didn't die in the attack. Another cause was the allegation that German troops crucified a captured Canadian soldier, although this story was later proven false. A third driver was that the Canadians felt that by acting with maximum ferocity, the war could be ended sooner, and they would all be able to go home. The Canadian Army also had an unofficial policy of not taking any prisoners, because of the logistical drain they would impose, and the belief they would consume already somewhat constrained supplies of rations. All countries have been guilty, at some time or another, of shooting and killing prisoners of war, and this issue wasn't a solely Canadian problem.

There was a report of Canadian troops killing a civilian in Mogadishu in 1993. This led to an inquiry and then the disbanding of the Canadian Airborne Regiment. It wasn't hidden once word got out but just shows the failure of command.

@captlazer5509 Precisely, a failure of command. The Airborne Regiment also had developed a reputation as a dumping ground for problem soldiers. Then there was the issue of the anti-malarial drug, mefloquine, that the soldiers posted to Somalia were required to take. The drug has been known to cause psychotic breaks and other unusual behaviour. Whether it specifically caused Pte Clayton Matchee to torture and kill a young Somali, is open to debate. The official inquiry concluded that whether mefloquine played a role couldn't be proven.

We had an exchange student from the Ivory Coast who went through the same stages. It was funny. By the end of Winter, mid Spring, he had hardened enough... and he was the first to go out wearing short by 10ºC!

I had a Tanzanian neighbour who wore a jean jacket through the Montreal winter - we kept trying to tell him!

@@hdufort yeah, I've had African roommates complaining about the cold...it's like yeah, cause all you have is a hoodie!

Our liberal policy is not the same as America

I will never forget the African family I saw in the Toronto airport, freshly arrived and staring out the window at a snow storm. I hope their sponsors brought them warm clothes and introduced them to hot chocolate stat. OMG the identical terrified look on their faces.

Well I say "SORRY " like a veiled threat when someone's out of line

That's a good description of how I usually use sorry.

I don't do the passive aggressive crap. If someone is out of line, I say so.

Yes! This!

Québec at the time and still to this day have an awkward relationship with war. There is a taboo when it comes to talking about stuff like that. I would also say that Québécois don't honor and admire military personnel as much as the rest of Canada unless you have family history in the military. So this is in part why he did not mention it. He was also a bit of an introvert not to mention possible mixed feelings afterwards. Trauma and all. (Based on an interview with his son) I was always a history enthusiast and I have never heard of Leo Major until recently. By that I mean these people were not mentioned at all at school. Nor did I ever hear about that war poem that other provinces know by heart until a few months ago.

@@TheAnnez0r I understood that he didn't tell his wife because he didn't think she (or anyone else) would believe his tales, and he didn't want to be thought a liar.

@@jennsmith9478 He did say that in an interview on camera. And to be fair, I do think people wouldn't have believed him that easily. Some historians say that he embellished his exploits... Yet he doesn't seem like the type of guy. We'll never know. And because of the more reserved person he was and the climate in Quebec when it comes to war, we can only speculate because there's no account other than the one written for his medals by a superior. If my memory isn't wrong, his son recounted that his dad never talked about it. But once an old song was playing on a radio and he was shedding tears. He said he remembers hearing this song with his squadron before losing them. 😞

Personnel yes, the military itself not rly for the most part honestly, like the institution itself which is disrespect to the personnel in itself. I think it is important to not be unrealistic about this, we treat our veterans amazingly but we ignore and underappreciate current soldiers for the most part. Most ppl don't even know the Canadian military has a rampant abuse problem with female soldiers :/

Agreed. I have had to provide this very comfort to foreigners many times.

The fact it can get too cold to snow, some people just can't grasp.

I totally get that xD lots of my family is from UK and they are terrified of snow, they actually wanted to cancel their flight and reschedule it because it was like -15 out and they didn't want to get caught in "snow storms" thinking they could just wait a few days for it to get warmer LOL (this was like late December)

"too cold to snow". Lots of Canadians don't even get this. lol

@@callak_9974 it so true . less moisture in the cold .... so less likely that ice crystals will form and precipitate out and form into flakes that fall to earth as snow.

Im 35 min from the rocky mountains and snow is my foe. Drive through the Rockies in a snow storm at night and it feels like your in the millennium falcon doing light speed. It's rather hypnotizing.

Guardian is also a Canadian hero from marvel. He is described as Canada’s Tony stark

On top of that, food at Tim Horton's really get worst than it use to be (like 10 or even 20 years ago). In Montreal, we have a new competitor to Tim Horton's donuts that really explode a couples years ago call Mr. Puffs. They does pastry similar to Timbits but way better and have so many topping flavors.

Wendy's owns Tim Hortons and are from Columbus Ohio

@@idcraw TY, nice to know someone pays attention lol

To get from Toronto to Vancouver without going through the US, take the Trans Canada highway.

​@@idcrawexactly! Which is why you see alot of double buildings with Wendy's on one side and Timmy's on the other and you can just walk through from one side to the other to get things from both places.

Yankee was an insult the British came up with to insult Americans, but they didn't realize or didn't care and started using the name themselves.

I live in eastern Canada sooo I know bro...haha 😂

"Prairie boys" make great snipers because we have a tradition of hunting and varmint rifles and have long sight lines and wary groundhogs.

In 57 years of living in Canada I have only seen 1 snow day ever declared where I live. And some jobs like in health care you have to go to work as people's health are reliant on you being there.

⁠@@kellycornell7510where do you live? In 18 years of life i’ve seen too many to count😂

@loveyourselfbeforelosingit in the Interior of BC.

@@kellycornell7510 I guessed that you were from vancouver, not bad lol. Well you’re one lucky guy, here in montreal it’s an other story😂

@@kellycornell7510 also, i’ve just realized what snow day mean. For the records, i’ve seen way less than I said. I was counting the school one I had, but those don’t count.

true

And also "the ladies from hell"

Canadians are polite because we release our aggression and let it out when the hockey sticks come out.😂

​@idaedwards5718 Canadians are polite so we don't kill each others - courtesy makes a huge difference in the outcomes of interactions

Unless you live in Alberta, where Smith doesn't feel it's necessary or that it's overrated. She needs to go

@@SheilaStewart4354 Her buddy Pierre Polievre has been spewing lies that Trudeau has forbidden prayers during the Remembrance Day ceremonies. It's BS, of course. They're just miffed that the military chaplain has chosen to acknowledge that some people don't pray and - GASP! - include us. I don't see the problem with "spiritual reflection".

But you have to use the song in it!! The song tears me up every time. I live in Southern Ontario and it is a pretty big deal.

I was forced to work for Timmies when our govt privatised the hospital services here back in 2005. They were the WORST company to work for. . Their food and coffee has ALWAYS been terrible (I have inside awareness, from having handled and scrutinized the food packages and coffee) but I swear that there was something added to the coffee or creamers which made people addicted and wanting more. It was so satisfying to finally be able to quit and get employment at a decent organization

And most canadians keep buying their crap over and over. The lines at the Tim's drive-thru are longer than any other fast food place, except maybe McDonalds.

Soon they won't even have real workers for the labour...it will be a fully automated store which has already started to become a thing...its horrendous.

Your called America because nobody could come up with a name for their new country when they won the war against England .That is my theory.

@@dorothykerwin7489 It's named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Maybe they should have called it Vespucciland.

I once saw a meme "Who ever came up with the saying if you do it right the first time you wont have do do it again has never shoveled a Canadian driveway"

It's easier to do it more often so you don't have as much to do each time. That's how I kept the sidewalk clear with a broom, rather than a shovel. I used the ice chipper when I couldn't get it all before it melted and refroze.

Except for the southwestern part of BC…they hardly ever get snow.

Just today Tyler reacted to the Canadian Heritage Minutes!

I would honestly prefer the dry -30 of a Winnipeg winter over a wet -10 of southern Ontario any day and time. These great lakes are killers I tell ya.

Calgary can have extreme temperature swings from Dawn to Noon. One time it was -30 first thing in the morning. Above freezing by Noon.

And it can get hotter in Ontario and Quebec than California .

Yeah, the climate veries significantly from region, to region. I'm from Kelowna BC, born and raised. The Okanagan valley is semi desert, so we don't get huge amounts of snow often. We have pine trees, and sage, and cacti here, while in the same province there are rain forests. Since Kelowna is in the southern interior, we have fairly mild winters, though colder on average than the coast. It rarely drops below -20°, but can pass 40° in summer. A few years back I went out for a walk in shorts, and barefoot on December 1st, it was 20° out! That's not something that's happened before, the average temperature that time of year is -5°, to 5°. Summer of that year it hit 45° for several days, dropping down to a low of 37° at night. There's something no one from other places would ever realize, that there are times you could die of heat stroke in Canada, going out for a walk at 3am!

Not one, Vancouver is literal only yearlong temperate climate in Canada. It rly bothers me ppl don't know that because it is the reason homeless people flock to Vancouver. They don't want to freeze to death... There's no real other reason, if you want to deal with the problem give them housing lol. Even if the government was paying market prices which they wouldn't be it'd be significantly less even with electricity costs, it's only like 120,000,000$. When we pay significantly more than that in just hospital costs treating them and cleaning up after them and it would in reality be significantly less as the government doesn't need to pay market costs nor pay monthly. They build the buildings once and can provide electricity free or cheap. They can also build them anywhere as well and essential services such as grocery stores giving the ppl living there an opportunity to work in a safe environment with ppl who understand and accept them, contribute and readjust to proper society while not being surrounded by a horrible environment hard to get out of. Just like a 10 min drive outside a city is far enough that they are close enough for services, but far enough that ppl in the city would be happy. And tbh 50-200k (on highest possible end) is not that many ppl to deal with and with small studio apartments or shared living spaces would only take a few big buildings. Will.. I mean "a few" at least between 20-100 big buildings/skyscrapers, but that honestly is not a lot it depends how we do it (I have done the math on that). It is also mostly a onetime charge that solves the issue for good and costs significantly less in the long run. Homelessness costs Canada 7 billion$ a year and idk if that even includes the lost potential economic output. Even if housing them with apartments we pay for mnthly with our taxes and if that only reduced the costs associated with homelessness by 10% (which it would obviouuuusly be significantly more) it would actually save tax payers half a billion dollars.... The homelessness situation is a tragedy fueled by ignorance, spite, discrimination and misinformation. It is not an economic one it is a social and political one where all we are doing is shooting ourselves in the foot while needlessly torturing the most helpless of our society :/. Keep that in mind when you hear people talk about homelessness in Vancouver and please do spread the information... It is all factual information not opinion (keeping in mind generalizations and estimates. The 7 billion is exact and from the government itself though).

"SORRY!!!" Is used like a veiled threat out here when someone is out of line .

Omg the trunk of my car seems to have a permanent bag with at lest 3 different season of clothing in it

Yep. In southwestern Ontario we also have highly variable weather. So much so that we say, "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes."

Winnipeg here, hate your chinook’s cause they bring us snow! JK, more like jealousy! 🙂

Chinooks affect the negative/positive ion balance, and even though some may appreciate the warmer temps, overall, they're a detriment to our overall well being.

Wrong a chinook has nothing to do with ions. It's a warm wind that blows in from the pacific ocean. Well I guess the sun heats the ocean so maybe a little ion thing going on but thats not what a chinook is. Its a native name meaning warm wind not a solar storm. @@perryelyod4870

The funniest thing was when Leonardo Dicaprio came to Calgary to film the Revenant and experienced a Chinook during filming. Later he went before the U.N. and told them how he had experienced Climate Change in Calgary.

I remember that and talk about clueless. That was pretty funny all he had to do was akk a local but made me smile. @@michinwaygook3684

Alot of the maritimes has that accent

I'm in Quebec, I was talking with a friend in Dublin, I told him that it was about the same flight time to go see him than it would be to go to Vancouver.

Yes, we all do the time description of travel. If I had to describe in km, chances are, I would have to look it up on my phone 😄

Forgot that we do that. It is normal for us, so it does not seem unusual to us.

@@tarak9412 Highway travel is at (or just over) 100 km/h. So, 7 hours is about 700-770 km.

It’s so you know how many bathroom stops you will need to plan for the person with the weakest bladder traveling with you.

The world needs to meet more quebec-ers (it’s okay, I’m one 🤣)

Its actually 5:05 am to 10:07pm ---not to be technical or anything...lol

@@brodyleew1880what about in winter? Genuinely curious?

​@@nono86753 hardly any sun at all. Rises at like ~8am, sets at ~5pm, lol. It's pretty bad in comparison to our summers.

@@imjody our winters (Montreal) are just as bad. On the winter solstice this year from 7:31 am to 4:13 pm. And in the summer, you get about 1.5 more hours of sunlight than us. Pretty amazing!

You also have to drive through Nipigon if you don't go through the USA, and nobody wants to do that.

Tyler needs to look up Louis Riel. He was one of the most important figures in all Canadian history! I'm biased, though. I'm Metis and was born in Winnipeg.

​@@bucknutz9290Nice, my family has been in Manitoba for about 150 years now. You can actually see the house my great-great-grandfather built, in the Mennonite Village Museum in Steinbach.

Not sure if remember correctly since its been decades from when I was in school, but Louis Riel did participate in the Red River Rebellion?

Bingo!

Wow...talk about names that are close eh..!!! Lol

Haha so true, as a Canadian, I have about 5 or 6 different tones of "excuse me" depending on what I want to passive-aggressively convey. If you hear a strong "Excuse me?!" from a Canadian (I don't even know what punctuation mark accurately conveys the tone), rest assured you've probably committed some unforgiveable social taboo, and it's the equivalent of being told "Hey, asshole!" by an American...

=10 to -10 is pretty common Ottawa weather n the spring.

I checked the route on google.ca and it still gives the same route through Chicago, etc. I guess google doesn’t have much information about the Trans Canada Highway at this time (at least compared to US routes).

That was not an American route. It is typical for many Canadians to cut into the United States to go under the Great Lakes as opposed to over them because it is faster. I have done it many times myself and know many, many Canadians that do the same (and this was well before Google ever existed).

Yeah google simply spits out the fastest route by default. The Canadian route is longer. When I drove from Winnipeg to Toronto google gave me a route through the US also, but I stayed on the Canadian side as I didn't want to deal with the border crossing. Very nice and scenic on our side though.

@@Gofr5My family is originally from Newfoundland, but my parents ended up moving to BC, so we had 7 days of 12 hours in a car driving across the country…let’s just say there was some sibling rivalry - LOL!!🙂 We crossed the country nearly every year, on our trek back to see my extended family in Newfoundland. I am so grateful to my parents for taking us all throughout the provinces and territories! I recommend an “Across Canada” trip for everyone. We have such unique, vast geography from coast to coast to coast! I too have taken the route through the US, but I prefer the Trans Canada as well. I agree - it is a beautiful country we live in! Cheers🇨🇦🙂🇨🇦

I live pretty much the center of the province and I second this comment

Oh yes..."Ottawa lingerie".

When I moved from 3hrs north of Toronto to northwestern Ontario for work. When enrolling my kids in the local school, I was pleased to have the option of OjiCree- Ojibwa and Cree combined- as a second language as well as the standard French. 😀

The only second-language options here in the '70s were either French or German. I always wondered what use the kids ever made of the German classes they took. I would have liked to give Latin a try, but it was never offered.

@@Shan_Dalamani My grade K-6 schools were French immersion, classes were taught in both languages. In high school French was the most popular option because a lot of kids already knew at least some French even just by watching shows like Sesame Street. Latin was always optional but nobody took it, it's far more popular now and there was Cantonese, I lived in Vancouver, half the school had some Chinese ancestry and a lot of them spoke it. In Grade 11 our school did an exchange program with one in Sicily, 6 months from January to June, my step-mom's parents are from there and we'd vacationed there a couple times with them so I immediately signed up, there was 4 months of Italian language classes before that. Unfortunately I was dropped from the program, got two weeklong suspensions before the Festivus break, which also landed me in Summer School that year. Don't bring weed to school and don't follow that up by punching someone for calling you a drug dealer when you get back, that's what I learned, and I can ask "dov'è il bagno?" if I ever get back to Italy.

You can shave a bit of distance crossing Michigan and up through Wisconsin and Minnesota rather than going over Superior but the northern route is prettier. Still interesting though.

I heard an American say he'd driven past Lake Superior many times, taking both the Canadian and American routes. He said the Canadian route is especially beautiful through the Canadian Shield, but you have to drive for hours before you can find a place to buy a sandwich.

Amen. The GOP candidates go from bad to worse

Meh. it's only the US who won't understand metric.

Little known fact to any Canadian under 40 is that Canada didn't use the metric system either until 1977, over a century after Canada became a country. I wish we never had converted, personally.

@@terryomalley1974 actually the formal switch to metric happened on April 1, 1975

​@@gazerule3004they rolled it out in stages.

@@gazerule3004 ok, knew it was the mid-70s.

Also, you're doing the trip on the Interstate highways rather than the Trans-Canada. I'm afraid they're just better.

Winnipeger here, I second those temps!!! Gives us something to complain about all year long!!

We’ve been metric since 1975, you’ve had 49 years to learn the metric system.

Was highest in Lytton that June.

He finally reacted to it today!

Yes! Unbelievable. I never thought it would happen. Proves that he (whoever he is) does read the comments. Took him long enough, I've been watching his channel for over a year.@@Guiboard

We are not the same people or even the same country as we were in the WW2

Why do you keep watching his videos and bashing him? Over 100 shitty comments on this channel, seriously?

Because of how tightly packed everything is in Europe, Europeans also have a warped sense of distance and driving times compared to us. I have family back in Europe and when I tell them that I live close to my folks here and that it's only a 1.5 hour drive down the highway to see them, I get told things like "OMG that is so far! How is that close? I couldn't drive that much all the time." It's rather funny.

They can be nice twice a year ...just like every people in the world . But there's nothing special about canadians . Ask any disposessed , internally displaced, road allowance halfbreed . Genocide goes on in your country everyday still . Yes Canada has refugees , and it has " Nuremberg Laws " also . Nice place , Canada , for some .

According to The Arrogant Worms' song "Canada's Really Big", you can fit 14 Frances into Canada.

Wow genuinely impressed by that one! I never gave Hudson's bay much thought. You can fit the entire 5 Great Lakes "as is" in it

I'm still shocked, according to the Mapfight website, Hudson's Bay is bigger than Ontario !!

Rome at its height and glory held an estimated 5.7m square kilometers. Canada has around 9.9million square kilometers. So canada holds more land than the roman empire ever did. Its crazy to think about sometimes