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German living in Canada since 2018. Couple of things:
Look into bidets. There's cheap seat addons you can buy but there are also portable bottle-like ones. I've got one of these: https://happypo.com/products/xl-bidet
Bread: you are right. It's universally terrible. In larger cities there are European bakeries that are better.
Bland food: Yep. It's a mix of the worst of American northwestern food with bland British food. It's getting better though, especially in BC.
No comment on health care.
Toilet paper is this way in Canada due to so many people living with septic tanks or lagoons, I believe.
Lol as a Canadian these are all 100% accurate, with the exception of maybe bread culture being only 80% accurate. Our grocery store bread generally sucks ass, but in most areas you can find a bakery selling some pretty solid breads, at least in Ontario. I'm in the Waterloo region which has a large Mennonite population, so there's even some decent German options.
Our healthcare is a fucking national embarrassment stuck between a government that wants to slowly privatize it and another that wants to ignore it entirely. It's what Americans point to when they need to show that public healthcare sucks.
That's why I mentioned the French breads. Here in Montreal there are more French bakeries than I can shake a stick at and good ones. But they mostly have baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolat/chocolatine, depending on your faction and several variations of miches. We found an Austrian supermarket that partnered with a bakery that specialised in international breads. But they were skimping on salt again and didn't seem to know bread spice.
True, I've lived in many Canadian cities, and Montreal is second most European city after Quebec city.
While I'm not into bread culture, the city I live in has quite a few European-style grocery stores that have bread and baking selections more similar to what I've seen in Europe. As well as lots of fun snacks like the wall of Haribo and Milka.
Wash your asshole like a man.
One of our biggest problems in Canada is its too easy to look south and think we're doing well.
Comparing to american health care is such a dramatically low bar yet many don't see how we could have it better.