Canadian "thank you's"...or not?

Question:
Dear Sir or Madam-My husband and I are U.S. citizens, living in Texas. We attended the wedding of his niece in Montreal last summer. It was a casual, Jewish based wedding. At the wedding, we gave the bride's mother a wedding card with a considerable amount of cash inside for their gift. We had never received an acknowledgment or thank you from the newlyweds for the gift. We finally got the courage up to ask if they had received the envelope, and the niece's reply was, "It is not customary in Canada to send 'thank you's' for wedding gifts." I have never heard of ANY country whose custom it is NOT to acknowledge a gift, especially a generous wedding gift. Please set me straight on this and tell me why such polite and proper people as Canadians would have such a custom.Thanks so much for your time and input with this inquiry.
Sincerely,
Frannie Volinsky
Answer:
That's a lot of crap--she's just too lazy to send you a note. Every English-speaking country sends thank you notes for wedding gifts. Obviously she was not raised properly, feel free to remark to her mother that you never got a thank you note and give her mother your address in case she 'lost' it. If the mother has any modicum of propriety, your note should arrive forthwith. Of course if she's French Canadian, then you will die of old age before receiving a note as in my experience, French Canadians are every bit as rude as their Gallic counterparts in Europe.