Originally Posted by [Labret]

Canadians live in a perpetual state of compare and contrast with America. Without this dichotomy they are nothing more than America-lite, a parasitic vassal state. As is evidenced by the incessant whining on this forum, Canadians spend much of their meager intellectual resources defining what it is to be a Canadian by trying to convince the world, and themselves, how much they are unlike their American superiors.