1. Ice Cream and Cake. No choice if you wanted iceceam and/or cake, or what type of cake you wanted. We think that usually in the States you'd get the choice. Not that the caterers value the choice more, but because they are compensating for the expected complaints and dissatisfaction.
2. Less Formal, More Polite. Two aspects of Canadian culture that come together to a unqiue combination: Lumberjacks and the Commonwealth. Lumberjacks: informal, hard working normal guys; Commonwealth, connected to England and the "Miss Manners" politeness.
3. American jokes. We constantly heard American jokes from our relatives. It's quite funny. On the one hand, it's not a big deal - we're still Canadian, we're still family, we don't act differently, with the exception of my father's political arguments he kept starting with extended relatives he'd never met before...
On a political side it is kind of funny - the Canadian government recently took a huge turn to the right - the liberal party that has been in charge for years and years was voted out and the conservatives voted in. Now my relatives are beginning to question the country's leadership under the liberal party. Makes me wonder if this will be a long term change.
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