Your post is evidence that some Canadians have no sense of humor. And maybe a little inferiority complex.
So, Yanks are attempting to be “funny” when they repeat ad nauseum this meme about Canada’s population hugging the border with the USA? Could have fooled me. I’ve read that so many times I long ago lost count, and it seems to be a sincerely held belief that for some reason we have chosen to settle as close as possible to American territory.
The population distribution has nothing to do with a country that didn’t even exist at the time many of the settlements were established. But it does have everything to do with the location of rivers and arable land.