Canadians’ attitude toward U.S. shifts from envy to sympathy, poll shows

[babsbunny]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadians-attitude-toward-us-shifts-from-envy-to-sympathy-poll-shows/article2152751/

les perreaux
MONTREAL— From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Sep. 02, 2011 8:32PM EDT

When Canadians look at their American neighbours, they no longer gaze with envy at a powerful greenback, a low unemployment rate or deep pools of capital sloshing around an entrepreneurial paradise.

Canadians now look south with something closer to pity.

A poll conducted for The Globe and Mail by Nanos Research on attitudes toward the United States reveals that Canadians see an economy in tatters, a paralyzed political system and a volatile American Dream trumped by a stable Canadian version.

[Kennah]

1. I'm glad they take pity on us. Only way I'd get my meds.

[Walk away]

4. It's my dream that the North East will secede and join up with Canada

That would make my town the West Palm Beach of CanAmerica. Getting health care and becoming a destination at the same time!

[Zanzoobar]

2. Thus, the circle is round...

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gordonsinclairtheamericans.htm

[cwydro]

3. Lmao...when was there ever envy?

I have both relatives and friends in Canada...I have only ever heard pity, sadness, bewilderment, confusion, and even amusement...

Americans think everyone wants to be one.

I have friends in several countries and no, nobody really does.

[mmonk]

5. Some Canadians used to have an inferiority complex, not envy.

But they don't have that anymore.

[polly7]

6. None that I know ever felt inferior. I never heard any envy either. Just good-neighbourly

relations.

[mmonk]

9. Some folks from Edmonton told me that.

I didn't come up with that on my own. But I envy Canadians.

[polly7]

11. Folks in Edmonton can be weird though (j/k!) .......... I lived there for a long time.

It was a pretty good city with a lot to do. Ok, I figured it out - they lost Gretzky! That pissed me off too.

[mmonk]

12. LOL. Well they did make it to the Stanley Cup Finals again in 2006.

It was at those finals after game 7 in the parking lot of the RBC Center we had the conversation I mentioned.

[Quantess]

7. There is a handful of DUers who get so bent out of shape

over articles like this. I wonder how long it will take for them to get here?

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. unrec. I don't know why just unrec .

[totodeinhere]

10. By the time Harper gets through with them they will probably also be pitying themselves. n/t