1/3 of the country's entire population is in the GTA. That brief moment is the most contact that Canadians will have with each other on any given day.

And they treat everyone worse than garbage. I've been in busier commuter zones that have been far more civil than that.

Even the drunks going home on the LIRR are better than that.

I won't disagree with you that Canadians are great people -- I spent a lot of time living there for a reason -- but you have to judge people by when their hair is down, not their Sunday best.

So the most annoyed 1% of Canadians go through there every day.

Not the world’s most rigorous basis for a sweeping statement about an entire culture.

The funniest thing about the responses here to me is that not a single person has disputed the characterization I presented -- what I'm describing seems to be clear enough to everyone.

It’s just a whole bunch of stressed people in a hurry.

I do understand where you're getting at though, and trust me, if you go to Berlin and you only speak English, you'll get far worse than you would from the Québécois for doing the same.

It's almost like those Americans who give people shit for not speaking English, except we have even less entitlement to that.