Not a Canadian, but Canada is leagues ahead of the US in a lot of important ways. In my opinion, at the level of nations, it's much better to be boringly medioc

Not a Canadian, but Canada is leagues ahead of the US in a lot of important ways. In my opinion, at the level of nations, it's much better to be boringly mediocre than outrageously good or bad in any one way or another. Toronto is a first class city, like you said: what more "exceptionalism" do you need?