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10 interesting facts you should know before moving to Canada

by Tosan Olajide
August 17, 2021
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10 interesting facts you should know before moving to Canada – Canada is a country located in the northern part of the North American continent. It is a highly developed country with a strong economy. If you want to visit Canada, you will need a visa and you will have to pay for the visa – Apply for Visa here!

If you are considering moving to Canada you might want to know these 10 interesting facts about the country;

  1. Canada is huge

It’s one of the biggest countries in the world geographically. Don’t think you’ll be able to quickly or cheaply visit most Canadian cities from wherever you live.

  1. Canada is mostly empty

Canada only has about 36.5 million people inhabiting one of the biggest countries in the world, and they are mostly in a handful of cities. Get outside of the cities or southern Ontario and you’ll be going a long way without seeing much except road and empty. There are huge swaths of the country where there are no roads, so all you get is empty. Beautiful empty in lots of places, but empty.

  1. Most of Canada is really cold in the winter

Really cold. You can die from exposure easily, but that is extremely rare. The yearly tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, mudslides, and other natural disasters that occur in the USA are far more dangerous than cold weather. Buy the right clothes. Learn what layering means. You can stay inside if it’s cold, but that won’t help you in a tornado or a flood.

  1. Canada has over-focused on resource extraction for the past decade

Canada has enormous natural resources. For the past decade, the just defeated government bet heavily on oil from the oil sands as the dominant portion of the economy. Which was kind of stupid and has led to several structural problems in the Canadian economy. Oil is in the dumper, the Canadian manufacturing heartland has been ignored and innovation in modern economies has been paid mostly lip service. Financial services companies have been heavily focused on oil extraction and shipping too. So there’s a lot of pain in the economy right now, which should be alleviated over the next four years as diversification strategies with the new Alberta and Canadian governments bear fruit and as oil rebounds a bit.

 

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  1. Canada has two official languages: English and French

Mostly you can get by with just English in the entirety of Canada, but French is useful in Quebec and parts of the Maritimes you might visit. If your French is a lot better than your English, consider Montreal.

  1. The major cities of Canada support every ethnicity in the world, especially Toronto

If you get homesick, you’ll be able to hear the language of your homeland, get the food and listen to the music. Most of the worst stuff will have been left behind and mostly the innocuous cultural stuff will be available. And if you don’t like the culture, language or foods of your homeland, they will be easy to avoid or ignore.

  1. Canada is really boring politically

And that’s a good thing. They have federal elections every four years in which all of the parties and all of their supporters accept the results. No one tries to overthrow the government. They have provincial and municipal elections on a different schedule. And they are peaceful. Canadians get rowdy after hockey games occasionally, but that’s contained and over quickly.

  1. Canada has very strong rights and freedoms for individuals

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms pretty much guarantees that you are free to practice your religion, your innate sexuality and to have close to equal opportunity with people of other ethnicities. It’s not perfect. There’s still discrimination and outright bigotry in Canada, but it’s really subdued compared to most places and if it happens, there are strong legal frameworks enabling you to get justice. And Canadians just voted out a government that was trying to change that because Canadians like it that way.

  1. Canada is pretty polite

Not in the British etiquette-is-a-weapon way, but in the basic niceness way. Among other things, that means that vigorously inciting people to violence against people who aren’t like them is frowned on. By the law. Your right to swing your fist stops at the point where someone else’s nose starts, and your right to utter offensive speech stops when you are inflaming people to swing fists at other people’s noses. This isn’t censorship, just sensible.

  1. You can drink the water and breathe the air

Most of the time in most of the places. Tap water in Canada is almost guaranteed to be as good as bottled water in many or even most countries around the world. And the air quality — outside of forest fire season in a couple of cities — is better than most cities in the world most of the time.

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