We aren’t Americans?

Canada’s View on Social Issues Is Opening Rifts With the U.S. (note: NYT reg. required)
“Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull,” Rick Mercer, Canada’s leading political satirist, said at a recent show in Toronto. “Between the pot smoking and the gay marriage, quite frankly it’s a wonder there is not a giant deck of cards out there with all our faces on it.”
There are people out there who think Canada should be attacked like the US was, so that we could know how it feels. But that’s sort-of impossible. Nobody hates us.