User:SAMK71

I am a proud Canadian and currently live in Australia completing my doctorate. I prefer Canadian spelling, (OUR's, double L's, and RE's), date format of day/month/year, Canadianisms, and just overall protection of my country's culture against the US culture. We are a vastly different culture from the US and despise when Canada is likened them, as we couldn't be further apart!! I don't like it when Americans disrespect my country and it's culture by automatically assuming that just because we are neighbours that we do things the same - we don't. Canada is a highly intelligent country, populated with highly educated, outward looking people. Furthermore, my country is a very international and multicultural country, with strong ethos with regard to preserving the environment, global peace keeping, and preservation of life. Definitely not a "me first" nation, but a more self depricating, polite nation, with proper health care and strict banking and gun control laws!! If I see entries ref a Canadian and they have American spelling or date format, I will change it. We are not Americans, therefore, should not use American ways of doing things.