[Mike1973]

You may be right, and I do not dispute your points. But, I just don't see it. This may be a case of a few bad apples, but I see Canada and the USA as having differences in attitudes.

[drtom]

I think you're quite right re some differences in attitudes. We sufer from megalomania while they nurse an inferiority complex. But in the end, I think, we'd come through for each other. In accordance with the inscription on the peace arch in Blaine, WA: Children of a Common Mother (I just drove by there recently). Like siblings, we quarrel and fight but in the end we stand united.

Down here, we simply hear much more of the anti-American sentiments than of pro-American statements. We love to be hated and friendly gestures don't make the news. Most Americans have never heard what the neighbours did for us in Gander in 2001. Or that Americans were so grateful that they started scholarships and school funds for Newfoundland villages.

Just like someone coming onto this thread and reading the anti-Canadian posts would think, geez, those yanks wouldn't move a finger if someone attacked Canada. But we both know it would be the contrary.

[albertabound]

http://www.nationalreview.com/frum/diary040104.asp

You might be interested in this recent article about the U.S minor hockey team. Also,if you count our troops in Afghanistan and our naval ships in the Gulf, I guess we did lift at least one finger. You guys really need to get over this Parrish bitch, She hates us westerners more than she hates you folks. Every time she opens her big yap, us western conservatives gain more popularity.