Canada is a country of contradictions found by two different very different groups of people. Canada is a compromise and only exists because of will and tolerance and compromise.

Everything makes logical sense with details. Native populations through treaties have the right to hunt. Canada wanting to manage populations sets limits. This creates a lotto system. Winners sell them to big game US hunters and the tribe gets the profit.

The asbesto mines are in the French part of Canada which makes shutting them down politically difficult.

Canada is a collectiom of different people who figured out how to get along.

That's unfair.

Everyone is polite, and "bloodthirsty" at different times.

The Swiss, the French, the Kenyans, the Mauritians, the Indonesians, the Chileans, literally everyone on earth. Every nation and every human is faced with that dichotomous state of being.

British are no more polite, or bloodthirsty than Americans. Japanese are no more polite, or bloodthirsty than Canadians or Koreans. What you allude to is a very human failure, and is present in every society on earth.

It's a response to not provoking an assault in my experience. Most Commonwealth countries are like this in the anecdotes I've witnessed, where brawling is common and laws lax on manslaughter. If you don't say anything you will find yourself getting beat up in broad daylight whereas other countries you can be as rude as you want without physical repercussions. Try walking into some guy in Winnipeg and brush his response off it's a provocation you want to fight where in other cultures this would be absurd.

I think the "sorry" thing comes from the the fact that many Canadians pronounce the first vowel of "sorry" differently from the rest of North America. So it becomes a default "quaint Canadianism" joke.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.