@Baley Ahh, Canadians are generally a good bunch. Though I've found they have some of the same problems in this context. They tend to be very poor at confrontation, and that can often translate over to shyness as well. They just hate to disapoints so can be hard for them to reject someone I guess. All that politeness makes it hard to do the metaphorical wake up call I guess.
That said they arent nearly as disfunctional as Americans overall, that would be hard to do.