It's a violation of Canada's survival mechanism of keeping negative news out of the international media. 
It's one of the issues that makes Canada more of a cult than a democracy. 
On the G&M not only do well known Americans write negative articles about the U.S. but the G&M actually has Americans on its payroll for the purpose of writing negative articles on the U.S.
Canadians take themselves so seriously and claim to have such pride in their country is silly  and juvenile  to people on the outside.

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