Don't you think it's kind of odd that a neighboring country can consider a country that's connected right to it, only separated by the border, to be as far away as a continent across the ocean? Don't you think it's odd that some Americans think that a few miles upwards in Ontario, people are freezing their butts off in the summer? Did they happen to tune in and find out that they were having forest fires all summer long in Ontario because of the heat? And why does everybody think that we Canadians all say "aboot"?

You may think I'm ranting here, but I'm tired of people making fun of a peace-making, loving, caring, second-largest-in-the-world country! Sure, our prime minister may be a litter wacko sometimes ("a proof is a proove, but a proove cannot be a proove, until it is prooven!"), and one of our provinces, the one I come from, just happens to be run under a French government, but American have no right -- even though their dollar is worth more than ours, even though they have lots of songs of how wonderful their country is, and even though they deserve all the sympathy they can get -- they have absolutely no right to tease and make fun of us.

We aren't freezing cold all year round, we don't do special things for people just because they have American money (see the Simpsons), and we don't say aboot, or eh all the time. I'm sick and tired of what Americans think we are. If they came here to see what a wonderful, fun loving, peace-keeping country this is, I think Americans and Canadians could get along a whole lot better.

I'm also asking my fellow Canadians to step forward, wear Canada Flags, paint your house in Canadian colors, buy an ad, and most importantly, shout out to everyone "I AM CANADIAN!!!"