Could be.
First, I said vise, not vice.
Yeah I meant "vise", the clamping doohickey. I thought it looked funny when I read it.
Second, who won each time the US invaded Canada?
Who lost more soldiers in the Civil War? Invading is hard, but it doesn't mean the country being invaded is stronger than the country invading. The South found that out in Pennsylvania.
Third, Freedom Fighters based in Canada launched at least one Southern raid against Union territory during the war.
Did they burn Washington DC?
The CSA never had territorial ambitions in the Phillipines.
They didn't have time to worry about foriegn entanglements.
No, they weren't even particularly effective in attempts to burn St. Albans, Vermont
Invading is hard, but it doesn't mean the country being invaded is stronger than the country invading
But sometimes it is. Consider the 1866 invasion of Canada by about 3500 Kennedy types.
After camping out on the village green, they marched north until they were about six miles over the border, having crossed into Frelighsburg, Quebec from Franklin, Vermont. The Canadians declared Martial Law and President Johnson ordered munitions and supplies left in St. Albans seized under the Neutrality Act of 1818. When the Fenians retreated to St. Albans, where they found the park occupied by U.S. troops sent there by President Johnson to enforce neutrality. Defeated without so much as a single shot fired, the Irishmen were escorted to the depot and shipped back to Boston while locals were entertained by an Army band concert.