Canadian parents

I wonder if Canadian parents have particularly high expectations for their kids or something. I'm listening to my iPod and Alanis Morissette's "Perfect" came on ("we'll love you..just the way you are..if you're perfect") which reminded me of Barenaked Ladies' "What a Good Boy" ("We've got these chains that hang around our necks. People want to strangle us with them before we take our first breath."). Parental pressure, eh?