To visit Canada you must be healthy and may need a doctor’s examination. You’ll also be expected to respect Canadian laws and may not be permitted to enter Canada if you have a criminal conviction.
Canada does not pay for hospital or medical services for visitors so make sure you have adequate health insurance before you leave the UK for Canada.
Contrast with USA and UK
Canada defines itself as quite different to the United States and Britain. In contrast to strongly regionalised USA, Canada has a strong national identity.
Living in the traditional South of the USA is also vastly different from living in Europe-looking New England, and the frontier states of the Pacific North West lead different lives, too. Quebec forms a distinct society, but links itself strongly to the US economy.
Canada is less centralised than London-focused Britain, so each Province runs many of the activities that in Europe are usually co-ordinated at a national level, most notably health-care and education. In other ways Canada seems similar to Britain; with the exception of Newfoundland, as the English-Canadian accent sounds the same from Halifax to Victoria (the latter town as British as a Canadian town could be).
Canada is proud to see itself as a bilingual, multi-ethnic country.
Canadians’ attitude to work is much removed from their southerly United States neighbours and tends to fit in their framework of life rather than directing it.
Canadians will bristle with indignation when people assume they are American (as judged by their accent).
