From my perspective as a child of the 70s in a province not on the US Canada has been flooded with US culture.

At worst in my childhood were maybe a McDonalds and a Dairy Queen. No cable TV and few other cultural influences.

Now we're fat, WalMart shopping, gun toting, rap music/urban culture, even dialects are more US sounding.

My childhood exposure of Canada was through the movie strange brew. Still a favorite of mine.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086373/

I figured all Canadians were hosers who scarfed donuts and drank beer.

Then I watched Kids In the Hall and I figured they were mostly funny gay fellows.

Then I watched South Park . . .

South Park is the most honest portrayal of Canada in the media today.

Well, doughnuts and Timmie's in the am and beer in the evening.