Are Canadians too Polite?

By: Lauren B. and Naomi

When is Polite too Polite?

•When someone bumps into us, we apologize

•When someone does something for us we thank them a lot.

•When we win a sports game we sympathize to the team who lost

• You see as Canadians we are just to polite.

• We also just let people in from foreign countries without background information.

• We also help other countries that are involved in war because we “owe” them and then we become involved.

• We help people that we don’t even know with difficult problems.

Canadians worry too much about violating peoples’ rights

• Canadians consider life in prison as 20 years because we think that keeping a person in captivity is violating their rights of freedom.

• We also like to give people the benefit of the doubt in non-legal situations, and even in legal ones, the term “innocent until proven guilty” is used in many more places than just the courtroom

Canadians worry about violating peoples rights cont.

• We think that even if a person commits a serious crime not violating their rights is more important.

• If someone from a different country comes to Canada and breaks a law we give them the benefit of the doubt and send them to their country to be punished because we don’t want to risk the possibility of violating their rights.

Canada vs. America

• Americans/American Gov’t are rude and snobby they couldn’t care less about peoples rights or well being.

• America hasn’t gone more than 20 years without having a major war, while Canada usually (unless helping the helpless USA) doesn’t go to war.

• A good thing about Americans though is that they have a very harsh Gov’t/justice system.

USA vs. Canada cont.• Other than their justice system there is

nothing good about America, right now their economy is spiralling downward all because the government would allow people to buy a house without a down payment and now they need Canada’s help to pay car manufacturers and people are losing their homes because of this spiral.

• On the other hand Canada is stuck helping the US gov’t get out of debt.

• WE ARE TO POLITE, HELPFUL AND NICE!!

How Canada can improve:

• We can improve by invoking harsher punishments for crimes.

• Keeping suspects in jail for 24 hours when we have evidence, but not concrete evidence, so they can’t try and flee the country.

• We can be a little less polite (not apologize for absolutely everything and not feel as sorry for other people/countries.

Things Canadians say too much

• Eh!• Thank you• Please• Would you like some help with that?• Sure I’ll lend you money• Do you need anything?• Do you want me to come with you?• How else can I help• Would you like us to bomb Switzerland for you?