I'm a Canadian who has been teaching overseas for many years. To those of us Canadians with intelligence and a true understanding of what our country is, Canadians such as the ones you've mentioned are a true embarrassment. In the past, many of us have been annoyed by the excessive nationalist posturing of some (not all) Americans. As a result, a lot of idiots have turned it around and in the act of opposing such an attitude, have become worse than the very people they denounce. They have taken too many pucks in the head to realize they have become just what they think they hate...only worse.