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* On the Nobody's Listening Podcast, there are frequent jokes about the Canadian host, Trevor.
* Gleefully played with in the Vancouver 2010 Closing Ceremony. Canadians apologizing excessively? Check. Giant bobblehead mounties? Check. Guys in canoes and girls wearing maple leaf kites? Check. Giant floating moose and beavers? Check. Even the organizer threw in a gratuitous "Now you know us, eh?" for the crowd. The whole thing could be summed up as an exercise in squeezing as many Canadian stereotypes as possible into 15 minutes of show.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140218101150/http://www.bustedtees.com/canadaamericashat Canada: America's Hat] eh?
* "[[Robin Williams|Canada]] is like [[Unusual Euphemism|having a loft apartment over a great party.]]"
* An old joke is that Canada was originally spelled Cnd. However, Sir John A. MacDonald had an American secretary when Cnd first became a country. He asked her to write up the documents on the new country, and she asked him how is was spelled. The Prime Minister replied "C, eh. N, eh. D, eh."
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