Sweet F.A.
Canada actually has pretty great music. People like to give Canada flack for having a terrible music scene just because “durr hurr, they have Nickelback and Bieber!” but really, our country has crap music artists too.
But for people who still think Canada is nothing but a cesspool of crap music, I refute with: The Tragically Hip, Rush, The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, the Barenaked Ladies, Steppenwolf, Tegan and Sara, Metric, Alexisonfire, Crash Test Dummies, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Alanis Morissette, Sarah McLaughlan, Bruce Cockburn, The Weeknd, Red Rider/Tom Cochrane, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Daniel Lanois, and several others I’m forgetting.
(And if we’re counting comedy musicians, Jon Lajoie is pretty great.)