Any good coffee in Canada?

Not according to Australians. Recently I saw these comments on The Age, on a forum where readers were asked what they were homesick for when travelling abroad:

 Coffee! After living in Canada for years, all I know is they don’t do coffee well. Being from Melbourne you are spoilt for choice. The amount of times people say “Oh I love Starbucks” I would rather drink toilet water!

Here’s another:

 Good Coffee - Unfortunately the local coffee shop with a Melbourne influence shut down about 9 months ago. Now it is a struggle to find a good local coffee shop/cafe among the 100’s (not joking) of starbucks outlets in Vancouver….if I here a order for a non-fat soy latte extra hot with a dash of cold water and splash of caramel spirit one more time I could go insane!

Sounds awful to me. In my time in Melbourne, it was hard to find coffee worse than Starbucks. The thought of being stuck in a Starbucks-only wasteland makes me shudder.

I will say one thing about Starbucks though: they’ve never threatened me with an idiotic lawsuit for my criticism.