Ratings10
Average rating3.8
This delighted me. It's honest and culture (as well as cultural differences) interest me. I especially enjoyed a part towards the end when he meets another Canadian and they talk of “Canada's only national issue: cultural identity” and Delisle says:
“The problem with Canada is that it's missing a cardinal point. The South is ok, everyone's glued to the border. East and West are fine too... but the North, no one really knows where it ends! Hudson Bay? The Northwest Territories? The Arctic Circle? Baffin Island? After that it's all ice. You can't even tell if there's ground underfoot! How can anyone expect to know where they're going in a country that has no North? The problem doesn't exist anywhere else... France even has an administration called ‘The North'. If you ask me Canada needs to redraw its Northern border so people can situate themselves, psychologically speaking.”
I also liked his general observations about the Chinese cities he saw.