Eric Peterson: Canadian Famous 

Absolutely Iconic!!

Excellent comment - spot on!

They have better media representation now that the internet lets them bypass the gatekeepers. E.g., I'd say Jordan Peterson is extremely prominent, and there is a slew of other important Canadians whose words matter. Overall, it is in a better situation than e.g. Australia. Canadian universities are quite famous, so are Canadian games, everyone knows a few Canadian musicians in various genres, etc. As a non-US foreigner, I can say that strictly Canadian issues are not very interesting internationally because they lack both the weighty history of Europe and the contemporary intensity of the US. Even something relatively dramatic like Quebec separatism doesn't quite capture the imagination, though the historical Anglo-French confrontation is probably the most interesting Canadian issue (First Nations are just a copy of the same stuff in the US). Canada would also benefit from stressing its major urban centres like Montreal or Toronto a bit more instead of the exaggerated interest in the frontier. That is not to say that Canada is somehow unusually uninteresting. If you take 'Californian' local writers or 'Texan' actors, nobody except the locals would pay much attention to them. They only start to matter when they represent the continent. Likewise, Canada truly shines when it addresses the Western world as a whole, not just Canada. Its orientation isn't really "USian", but "North American".

@Humanophage , I think if Canada were in Europe it would be much more interesting. Probably not Greece, Spain, or Italy interesting but somewhere between Germany and Norway.

Sorry, but you forgot to apologize.