Here at Cheapflights.ca we’ve compiled a list of our favourite things about being a Canadian traveller.
- We can benefit from the goodwill that generations of well-mannered Canadian travellers have built up around the world. We’ve even heard that our neighbours to the south sometimes sew maple leaf decals on their backpacks in an attempt to harness that goodwill.
- We know good beer. Canada measures the percent alcohol by volume, not by weight, so when we get to the U.S. or Europe, we can sample all their fine brews without ending up on the floor.
- With our Canadian passports (held by 70 per cent of the population) we don’t need visas to travel to about 155 countries including the U.S., European Union countries, parts of Africa and South America and the South Pacific.
- We have a higher tolerance for extreme weather. Therefore it doesn’t get us down when we run across bad weather elsewhere.
- Distances don’t phase us. Barcelona-Belgrade? Who cares that’s halfway across Europe?! It’s no further than Vancouver-Saskatoon in kilometers.
- Many Canadians already speak French. The list of countries that has French as a national language runs from Belgium to Vanuatu so many of us will feel right at home.
- We can play Find the Canadian in the pages of celebrity gossip magazines. William Shatner? Bryan Adams? Ryan Reynolds? Michael J. Fox? Kim Cattrall? Pamela Anderson? American? No. All Canadian.
- Canada is well served by domestic and international airlines and air services are being added all the time.
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