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Hit for Hit: Justin Bieber vs. Shawn Mendes

Collaboration coming soon? Who can say. But here's a definitive battle between the Canadian Pop Kings.

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Just up North, there's a pseudo-Utopia, where the money smells of maple syrup, the residents are famed for their niceness, and there's the promise of Universal Healthcare that has US residents threatening to pack their winter coats in escape.

Though their leadership has its own problematic past (it's Blackface), one thing they might do better than us is producing pretty boy pop stars.

Some of the biggest pop music stars are Canadian expats. There's Drake, the sadboy King himself; The Weeknd, posterchild of Aquarius toxicity; relative R&B newcomer and singer-songwriter, Daniel Caesar; and newly minted pop darling Lennon Stella of Nashville fame.

But arguably, two of today's biggest Canadian pop kings are Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes.

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