[theDentist]

10 years or so ago my employer sent me (reluctantly) to Canada to troubleshoot and resolve a software problem. I flew into Canada and when I was asked why I was there, I told them. They brought me into an interview room and began questioning me as to why I was doing it, and not some good Canadian engineer. I explained they'd been having the issue a while and were unable to resolve. I explained further we were unable to figure it out from across the border, so they sent me. For 3 hours (no exaggeration, THREE HOURS) we went round and round. At one point he said that they should send me back. So I said "Fine by me. I didn't want to come here to start with...". I picked up my bags and asked them which gate is the flight back to Boston. They called my bluff and I was on a plane back 40 minutes later. Boy was my boss angry.

That was the first time I learned that Canadians really had issues with us.

[mdmathis6]

So what ever became of the soft-ware issue...did the Canadians finally find some-one to fix it on their end..or did you have to get sent back again?

[max americana]

> That was the first time I learned that Canadians really had issues with us.

100% yes. I’m from BC originally and it’s the infamous “Canadian inferiority complex”. You see, we have been taught/indoctrinated since grade school to hate Americans. That’s what fuels Canadian patriotism, nothing else.

What’s not surprising is that the CBC, the propaganda piece for this hate-America mentality is reporting this like there’s no other news to report. Heck, I;ve already made bets with FReepers that in 2010, the American anthem will be boo’d incessantly at the Olympics. Canadians are a sorry bunch.