Canadian vowel shift -- strictly Canadian?

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Avril Lavigne has [A] and not [Q] as her merged [cot/caught] merger:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kwjw4DCxP9s

I think [Q] is Manitoba/Ottawa thing, and old-women-want-to-sound-British
thing...

<<Avril Lavigne has [A] and not [Q] as her merged [cot/caught] merger: >>

She's from Napanee, which is only about an hour and half drive from Ottawa, so I don't expect the accent is that different. I've never noticed it when I've passed through there.