The Seattle Times: Opinion: Think Canada's the place to be? Think again: "One difference between Canadians and Seattlelites is coffee. A Canadian would never choose Starbucks over Tim Horton's. That's one of the few things the Canadian government can't control."

This is a bit of a tirade, but it does show something that a lot of people don't know. Not everyone in Canada is as happy to be Canadian as you might think. I'm an ex-pat Canadian, though not because I have any beef with Canada. Nevertheless, Canada is a country where what would pass for relatively moderate conservative in the US is quite far to the right wing.

On the other hand, I'm reminded of someone I went to grad school with. A staunch conservative and a Canadian, he loudly declared that he would happily abandon Canada and become an American. Tired of his badmouhting of Canada, an American retorted "If you're such a lousy citizen of Candada, what makes you think you'd be a good citizen here."