As a fellow canadian, (who has also done significant travel in the states) let me dispell a bit of rosieness.. I agree, Canada's lifestyle is different but maybe not so much in the west. We live in a naive comfortable, freindly enviroment, with more gun crime than the US per capita (actually has risen since the advent of gun control legislation by 25%), our health care system is awful (but still better than that of the states), we have tonnes of green land ( where we aren't using it for sububia such as Richmond (both Toronto and Vancover)) and our citizens are well respected by the rest of the world. Unfortunatly this isn't so with our government....