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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

All of the above and more. I don't think I ever heard a bad song by Gordon Lightfoot.

Maybe just my imagination--or maybe because I grew up so close to the Canadian border--but Canada seems to produce and export more real talent than does America, in just about every area. Gordon Lightfoot is just one; another would be Stan Rogers, who unfortunately died far too young but whose music, impeccably written and performed, will live for decades more. Plus many actors past and present who we possibly just assume are American are, in fact, Canadian: people like Ke William Shatner, Lorne Greene, Amanda Tapping (Canadian by way of England), Michal Fox, John Candy, Hayden Christiansen, many others.

Plus the TV series produced in Canada seem uniformly well produced and acted. Stargate SG-1, Vikings, The Tudors, MacGyver, Hell on Wheels, Frontier (Jason Momoa as Declan Harp was unforgettable), etc. Canadian documentaries seem uniformly excellent as well.

Just my perception, for what it's worth...

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