I like Bleeding Red's description.
From the ouside it seems that Canada has an inferiority complex, but I do not believe it. It is more that we believe we are very good, but want to be the best; and if we are not the best best then why not and how are the best doing it. Canada seems to do a lot of soul searching.
In my mind, that is one of the reasons for anti-american sentiment in Canada. The US screams they are the best, and Canada can't help but look and know it is not true; then take a "the emperor has no clothes" point of view. But the fact is Trudeau had it right when he said Canada is in bed with an elephant, and we can't help but feel every tremor.
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