Commentary
Canadians tend to please themselves by feeling superior to the Americans: Americans are violent; we are peaceful. Americans demand anarchical freedom; Canadians want “peace, order, and good government.” Americans go to extremes, e.g., by electing the awful President Donald Trump; we are moderate, e.g., by electing a young, good-looking, well-spoken prime minister. Americans are braggarts; we are modest. Of course, Canadians often add that American people are nice and kind; it’s only American culture that’s the problem and the reason that American society has gone wrong.
The Canadian impression of America is only reinforced by the current state of the American economy, its galloping inflation, and by its urban crime, its flood of illegal immigrants, and the tens of thousands of poisoning deaths from smuggled fentanyl. Increasingly, Canadians see America as mad, bad, and dangerous to know. So Canadians are thankful that we live here in Canada….