This is accurate

Thanks, NY Mag (I am a subscriber!), for putting it so pithily. To the point of this blog as a whole, you have no idea how furious they are but you also have no idea about any number of other things. When did Canada become a country and what's its relationship with the UK? What is up with Canadian political parties and their leaders? What's big in the discourse here? I'm hoping to share my takes on these and more.

Thankfully the rhetoric aimed in Canada's direction from the south has quieted a little lately, but that's as cold a comfort as anything. It did inspire a wave of elbows-up patriotism here that offered a pretty stark contrast to what is often a fairly retiring and modest national character. Americans may think that Canadians think of themselves as junior Americans, because in the absence of insight will fill in the blanks with our own norm. But this is false. There is a robust national identity here; hockey's on the money, multiculturalism is (largely seen as) good, and the pizza is Boston. Canadians have no interest in being annexed and they don't think the conversation is cute.