I know you beauties welcome back to most
amazing top ten it is that time of day
where we take ten crazy things pop them
in a list and make a top 10 video for
you I'm Rebecca Phil gates and today we
are doing top ten differences between
Canada and the US as told by a British
girl yes
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get started on our top ten differences
between the USA and Canada who as told
by me a girl from England but living in
Canada at number 10 we have Thanksgiving
so both America and Canada do celebrate
Thanksgiving but they are different
holidays celebrated on different dates
Thanksgiving in Canada happens on the
second Monday of October and the holiday
is to celebrate the harvest and
blessings of the past year now a lot of
Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the
Sunday and use the Monday as a welcome
day off
I celebrated Thanksgiving in Canada this
year and it was incredible in America
Thanksgiving happens on the fourth
Thursday in November the holidays also a
harvest holiday and celebrates peace
between Pilgrims and Native Americans in
America people get two days off work
rather than just the one in Canada they
get Thanksgiving itself and then Black
Friday which is like a crazy shopping
day where everyone like stampedes over
each other in at number nine we have the
drinking age so in Canada is legal to
drink from 819 but in the States you
can't drink to you're 21 it's 18 in
England haha
whilst you are able to drink at 19 in
Canada if you live in Ontario like me
you might struggle to buy liquor from
the liquor store past 10:00 p.m. because
they closed whereas in the USA most
Walmart's will sell you booze in at
number eight we have iced tea now I
learned this lesson the hard way in
Canada like pretty much everywhere else
in the world
iced tea is a lovely sweet drink served
cold flavored with like peach or lemon
in America it's just cold tea cold tea
cold bag brewed tea without the flavors
incidentally they do have what Canadians
call iced tea they just call it sweet
tea in America Americans saying it like
it is ish shoehorning in another
beverage into our list at number 7 we
have coffee Starbucks versus Tim Hortons
now moving to Canada I had no idea that
Tim Hortons was gonna be like a massive
thing but honestly it's a national
institution out here everybody loves it
pretty much every Canadian I know goes
to Tim Hortons once a week if not once a
day they do incredible things called Tim
bits which are like little Donuts
they're really nice everyone loves Tim
Hortons coffee now wash they do have
Starbucks in Canada Tim Hortons is the
preferred coffee of choice in America
however sadar bucks is the biggest
franchise it was started in Seattle and
is quickly taken over the rest of the
USA if not the world Americans love a
good Starbucks if you're walking down
the street in America 30 Street USA you
are likely to spot many Americans
holding that iconic Starbucks mug
incidentally however many people don't
know that Canadians actually per capita
drink more coffee than Americans who
knew in at number 6 we have speech now
in Canada you know the accents are
almost similar to Americans but they do
vary a little bit I for one have noticed
that people say a a lot like it's true
they say a and when they say things like
about it sometimes comes out a boat and
I love that that's really nice also in
Canada whilst there are different
dialects across the different states and
regions they don't sound as wildly
different as American accents for
example in America you can have someone
from the deep south who are sound
completely different to someone from
Boston Texas New York in that number
five we have money now whilst the US and
Canada do use something called the
dollar they are in fact two separate
currencies
the Canadian dollar looks very different
to the US dollar it's very colorful and
the 50 dollar notes
like maple syrup some people have tried
to tell me that this is not true for
honestly get a fresh 50 our first bunch
of 50s why not cuz you know payday smell
them is maple syrup right up who say
Canadian currency has the Queen on it
whereas in the u.s. they have various
government officials there are white
males as well honey you need to get some
black females on there immediately and
need a dollar parlor dollar is what our
need in at number 4 we have spelling now
Americans and Canadians do both speak
and write English one is American
English and one is Canadian English
neither however our English English or
as I call it the correct English just
joking so like the Brits Canadians use
you in words like favorite color and
neighbor but like the Americans they
will use a Zed instead of an S in work
like materialize and visualise Canadians
also use two hours to spell the word
traveler what on the topic Canadians
pronounce letters differently to some in
the US so for example I'll say Zed
Canadians or say Zed but in the u.s.
they will say Z in at number three we
have size and population now Canada is
actually bigger than America Canada is
three million eight hundred and fifty
five square miles whereas the total land
area in America is three million seven
hundred and ninety-four square miles
that says the population in America is
almost ten times the size of that in
Canada Canada has around thirty three
point five million citizens whereas
America has a whopping 307 million so
Canada a lot of space not that many
people ramping up the differences in at
number 2 we have gun laws now the Second
Amendment was written over two hundred
and fifty years ago in 1791
but Americans still very much stick to
that right to bear arms thing presumably
there are a lot less people in the 1700s
but you know whatever it's there right
right between the years of 2001 and 2013
four hundred and six thousand people
died by firearms on US soil in that same
period only three thousand people died
as a result of terrorism and this
includes biggest from the horrifying
9/11 attack so I totally understand the
war on terrorism
sure but there should be a war on guns
like guns killed a hundred times more
people than terrorism like guys now gun
crime in Canada gun related deaths is
around seventy five percent lower that's
because their laws are a lot stricter on
guns Canada certainly does have guns but
their use is way way way more restricted
firearms need to be registered people
who apply for their own guns have to
pass a criminal background check most
people use guns for hunting up in the
north of Canada not for shooting people
ah
so maybe chill out on the guns okay guys
so we have reached that number-one
moment in our top ten differences
between America and Canada I mean we I
feel like we've learned a lot me is a
Brit I've learned a lot I for one can
say that I certainly love both countries
America is incredible there are so many
places to visit Canada is my new home I
love it a lot but what is the number one
difference between these two fabulous
countries I will tell you it is health
care now for me this is the most
important difference between Canada and
America Canadian citizens can receive
free health care meaning if they get
injured if they get hit by a bus they
don't have to sell their house to pay
for the treatment if they're uninsured
now England has been flying the flag for
a free health care for a long time
just saying in Canada large parts of the
health care system are free by free I
mean like you know as I said if you get
hit by bus you won't have to sell your
house however you know you still have to
pay things like prescription drugs home
care and glasses now this is all because
of the Health Care Act of 1984 and this
regulates the quality of service that
people get in the USA however if you get
sick and you're uninsured you are in
trouble
luckily many people do get insurance
cover with their jobs but if they happen
to be out of work or they get sick on
something that's not covered in their
plan they can be in danger now many
people from the USA
at the fact that they have to pave their
healthcare means that they get a better
quality of service that said for me I
like to know that if I fall down in the
street someone's going to pick me up not
check my bank balance first so that is
the end of our top ten differences
between America and Canada did I miss
any out let me know what you think in
the comment section below
are there any differences that I didn't
put in I mean I know we eat a lot of
poutine here in Canada and cheeseburgers
in America but I still like
cheeseburgers hooray I'm Rebecca fel
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