Anti-Americanism is an American term bandered about like a flag. It is not anti anything, it is criticism of American Policy NOT THE PEOPLE. Canadians have been disappointed with US Gov. reations to what we have done for them several times. For instance our Ambassador put himself and his staff in great danger when he helped Americans get out of Iran, but there was not very much public thanks. Planes landing during the 9/11 crises, Bush never even mentioned Canada in his thanks. At a later date he said the we don't need to thank good friends, well I have some news for him you thank your good friends first. We were accused of causing a power outage that covered parts of Ontario and the US, however later it was found that the problem was with old power line in the US. No one said sorry we were wrong.
Instead we should ask what has the US Gov. done for us? We were chastised for not sending troops to Iraq, the best decision made in light of the protests of their own population. They jumped into NAFTA but violated the rules in the softwood lumber portfolio but of course it is our fault because we subsidize our lumber.
Here is a site to US Farm Subsidy Database:
http://www.ewg.org/
We could have put a special tax on these good, but our gov. went to the NAFTA for a decision where we got judgements in our favor but the US Gov. refused the decisions. Is the NAFTA agreement only supposed to work one way? All this and others that I cannot think of have attributed to the attitude of the Canadian when it comes to the US Gov. Just in case some one does not understand this message as it is intended please note that I mention th US Gov. and not the people.
