I like what Joshua Jackson said on CBC’s Q a couple months ago about being Canadian:

For all of the things that Americans like to make fun of us for, I think are positives.
I think it is good that we’re kind and polite people.
I think that it is good that we have socialized medicine and think it’s important to take care of our neighbors.
I think that it’s good that we have decent public education for our children.
I think it’s good that we care about the health of our air and water and the preservation of our natural resources.
I think it’s good that we think that our country is better for having waves of immigrants who can be wherever they are from and also Canadian at the same time and those two things are not mutually exclusive.
I think that it is good that we want to be good citizens in the world.
I think that it is good that we’re able to admit when we are wrong.
I think that it is good for us to look at the sins of our own past and try to make redress with, say, the First Nations which we are still in the process to do properly.
These are good things. And these make be proud to be Canadian.