Oh, Canada!

I was chatting with some Swedes the other day who told me that they have an ongoing rivalry with the Danes.  When I expressed surprise, one asked me, “Don’t Americans feel competitive with Canada?”

I responded that I couldn’t speak for all Americans, but that most of us regard Canadians as intelligent, kind, and respectful people.  Of course, now that we’ve seen fit to destroy a friendship that had been in place for more than 200 years, it’s hard to predict how they will come to see us going forward.