What is Canada's biggest influence to USA?

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Becky F

OMG the list goes on and on!!! Tons of inventions, comics, musicians. Here's a link http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/things/
BTW, I'm an American married to a Canadian...so proud of my country but Canada has added many things to make life in the USA easier.

P L

Entertainment. Many "American" entertainers are actually Canadian.

Alanis Morissette
Celine Dion
Avril Levine
Nelly Furtado
Nickelback
Dan Aykroyd
John Candy
Jim Carrey
Michael J. Fox
Tom Green
Norm MacDonald
Howie Mandel
Lorne Michaels
Rick Moranis
Mike Myers
Leslie Nielsen
Martin Short
Kids in the Hall

Ajidamoon

Do we not supply most of north-eastern america with their Hydro??? We let them in on the great sports of Hockey, Basketball and Lacrosse.....those are some big contributions, economical and cultural. I would hope they would be influenced by our tolerance, and acceptance of those different, our liberal views, our gun control laws, and love of diversity, but I haven't really seen any evidence of that yet.........................

tomjc43

Because I am a hockey nut and have many American friends who are the same I would say Hockey is biggest influence. But to knowing and educated Americans we are thought of as a moderating and milder influence.
A number of the influential minds in American mainstream are Canadian. The average Canadian is further left politically than the average American. So we do soften their opinion on many world events.

Enrique

Equal rights? no segegration ? maybe.

Bob D

Oil and natural gas easily comes to mind as Canada is the U.S.'s biggest supplier of both and in the future fresh water will be our biggest contribution.

Silly World

America is an eternal teenager, you can't tell it anything.
They know everything, ask them?

kenoplayer

I agree with tomjc43. It's hockey. Up until the late 1970s, the USA was totally obsessed with baseball. Hockey at that time only had eight or 10 teams in the league. But, then the USA really started to notice the game of hockey. Especially when then young Gretzky(sp) started to play for the Oilers.

HeathySurprise

Canada is showing USA what is freedom, liberty and democracy.
- When USA was building itself with black slaves, Canada was welcoming them as complete citizens.
- Monopoly of press seen today in the USA is something that could not pass in Canada.
- For the people, by the people. There is a lot more power for the people when authorities have to respond to a good healthcare.
- Democracy : While the United States of America use hackabled voting machines (mainly by Diebold), who were proven to be rigged, it is time to ask ourselves why canÂ´t USA fix its democracy by looking how Canada work... The main difference in Canada is that the elections will never have staff hired by the prime minister... Same should apply to the USA.

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