Carlson has also made polemic remarks about Canada, describing Canadians as being very "brittle." "Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York," he has said. "Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada."
Carlson later appeared on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBC News: The Hour, saying that while he had "nothing against Canada" his description accurately reflected how "a lot of Americans see you."
On Crossfire, Carlson once stated, "Without the United States, Canada would be Honduras."