Wednesday's Child, I guess see we two different things. I don't see Canadians as being Anti-American(USA), far from it.
1. We are the USA's NATO ally
2. We fought the last two big wars together
3. Korean War
4. We often support them in the UN
5. NAFTA agreement as well as a G-8 partner
6. We share a mostly undefeanded and more or less open border as borders go.
7. We are trying to stop the USA from making it harder for Canadians and Americans to go to each side. (this shows we actually care)
8. I can only think of a handful of Canadian MP's who have been anti American in the last 50 years, and hundreds 50 years before that who were anti-american, pro-UK.
9. While our ties with the UK have deminnionished we have increased our bond with the USA, going from almost war like, or scared of the USA to friends and allies of the USA.
10. We were a cold war ally, though we didn't always agree on things we still helped each other out. We were much more friendlier to the USA by far then the soviets.
11. the USA is still our largest trading partner and everyone knows we depend on them too much and we really do need to diversify our trade for economic reasons and I don't see any kind of hatred behind such an act, as even the USA tries to be very diversified in there trade.
12. Our big national past times are shared, we are in the NBA and their baseball leagues, while they our in our hockey league (NHL).
13. Our armed forces train on each others lands and function on a daily basis with each other.
14. Our people retire to flordia
15. we take there garbage and imperalism with a grain of salt
16 and they take our garbage a little more literally (Michigan)
If the USA and Canada were people they would be married and on there anniversary. Do married couples complain and bitch about each other. Yeah, so why can't two friendly nations do so?
In 1906 there was much more Anti-Americanism then in 2006, we've done a complete 180 since then and perhaps the hunnymoon is over but I don't think our relations are strained. We just chose to take a seperate vacation then the USA and opted out of going to Iraq.
So yeah Canada's best friend is the USA and I think most Canadians know this and even though we have friends which the USA doesn't like that doesn't mean we put Cuba or any other of our lesser friends infront of them.
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