well like i said previously, madman here doesnt speak for most of the candians on this site, but I had to say that bashing all of us because of one guys statements is a little ludicrous. Actually a canadian did invent the electric lightbulb. His name was Henry Woodward, and he sold the patent to Edison in 1874. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, but he was neither American NOR canadian, he was born in scotland. moved to Canada and than a year later to america. The Pacemaker was invented Dr. John A. Hopps in 1950. Insulin was discovered by Dr. Fredrick Banting in 1922. The programming language JAVA was in invented by James Gosling in 1994. Odometer was invented in 1854 by Samuel McKeen. Plexiglass was invented in 1931 by William Chalmers. Portable Film Developing was patented first by Arthur Williams McCurdy in 1890 but sold the patent to George Eastman in 1903. The first Quartz clock was developed by Warren Marrison. My point is canada has contributed alot of wonderful things, the list goes on, all i did was google "canadian Inventions" Im also sure america has contributed alot of amazing things too. I think its pointless to debate wether my country is better than yours, its a biased argument on both sides and nothing would ever be solved. I will also say again that if the US/Canadian border were closed both countries would suffer as each other are the opposites number one trading partner. And as for the germans or english ruling us if it wasnt for america? I find that funny because Canada became its own country on its own, we didnt need any other countries help.
