Probably because there’s the odd Canuck, like me, coming on here and saying he’s right, in some ways.

Look, it’s about time that we got a discount up here from US prices when we usually pay a premium.

And yes, there’s less choice up here in the great white north because of the idiotic licensing arrangements worked out years ago when someone down south thought we were still a British colony or some southern US congress member who thinks we’re lining up at the border to flee oppression and what not and want a wall built across the border by Homeland security or a bunch of softwood lumber barons down south who can’t compete with us and a whole lot of other nonsense that we are subjected to by incredibly ignorant but,sadly, powerful Americans.

That said, as individuals I’ve found Americans from all parts of the country to range from total ignorance of Canada to fairly well informed and the whole range in between. Equally Canadians range from well informed to those who believe each and every stereotype of Americans that comes down the pike (mostly from American television I need to add).

In chat rooms I’ve found individual Americans to be curious about us and to ask deeper questions as the conversations go on until we all realize that we’re kinda like cousins who don’t pay much attention to each other until one of us bumps too hard into the other. Of course, we’re the 150 pound weakling as the old ads in comic books say but in the end we understand each other better.

Some things we’ll never agree on but many others we do. As it says on the Peace Arch between Washington state and the province of British Columbia as we cross the border we’re children of a common mother with all the sibling silliness that goes on with that.