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As CBS and other U.S. networks started picking up more Canadian productions, an unspoken "scale of hidden Canadianness" started to emerge. Night Heat was a pure, level-10 Hidden Canada, bent almost comically out of shape in its attempts to be 100% Yankee Doodle American without ever actually saying so out loud.
'''Note:''' CDNE does not affect plain-vanilla [[Hollywood North]] productions like ''[[The X-Files]], [[Stargate SG-1]], [[Andromeda]]'' and ''[[Battlestar Galactica
Compare with [[California Doubling]], [[We All Live in America]], [[City with No Name]], [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]], [[SoCalization]], [[Big Applesauce]], [[No Communities Were Harmed]], and [[Negative Continuity]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Canada frequently falls victim to the "invisibility effect", or is mistaken for America. Even his polar bear can never remember who his owner is.
== Film ==
* A funny Canada Does Not Exist moment was related about [[David Cronenberg]]'s 1986 remake of ''[[The Fly]]'', shot in Toronto. During production, they hit a crisis moment when the script called for Jeff Goldblum's character to prominently pay someone $50 in cash. Cronenberg, himself a Canadian, couldn't decide whether to use Canadian or American currency. In the end, he opted for U.S. greenbacks, pretty ironic considering that the
* ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]'' was supposed to be set somewhere in the American midwest, with Junction City, Kansas mentioned. The film was entirely shot in Toronto. On the "Making Of" documentary, you can clearly see the stores in the Eaton Centre, blurred out in the background of the finished film.
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