Former Bachelorette Jillian Harris has some advice for The Bachelor Canada contestants.

Don’t be so polite on camera.

“Production-wise, no offense to Canadian TV, but I think we’re a bit of pansies sometimes,” Harris tells Playback.

“The U.S. knows how to get down to the nitty-gritty. Sometimes we sugar-coat and pad things because we really are so polite,” Harris, who appeared on ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, added.

The host of Canada’s Handyman Challenge on HGTV Canada argued TV is a business.

“If you’re not making money, you’re doing something wrong. And I think Canadian television is getting better and I was really impressed that they followed a lot of the same format when I was on the show,” Harris said of the Force Four Entertainment production.

Another difference with The Bachelor Canada that Harris observed were the predictably polite Canadian women included in the cast to reflect the market.

“On this show, they cast the right number of polite Canadian girls.  If they were only polite Canadian girls, no one would watch it because it would be super boring,” she insisted.

“But based on what I saw with the commercial and the first night, it’s going to be entertaining. There’s going to be drama and emotion,” Harris concluded.

The Bachelor Canada bows on Oct. 3 at 9 p.m. on Citytv.

The series will then move to a regular timeslot on Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. from Oct. 10.

Sean De Vries is the supervising producer, Joyce Sawa is the series producer, and John Ritchie serves as executive producer for the series.

Claire Freeland is the director of original programming for Rogers Media and executive producer of The Bachelor Canada.