Your cold weather keeps out the riff-raff to a large extent plus you never had slavery. Canada has no 3rd world nation (Mexico) on its borders. You manage to be isolated (in good ways) same as Australia surrounded by water. Due to the benign United States you get to function as a island/continent nation same as Australia
Geography and geology has been very, very kind to Canada. Plus, the neighbors have been fairly friendly for the last 200 years or so.
Gee, I miss Joe Pine.