WikiLeaks: Canadians Sanctimonious, Have Chip On Their Shoulder

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Canadians sanctimonious, have chip on shoulder: WikiLeaks


by Robert Koehler on December 2, 2010



Some pretty shocking revelations via WikiLeaks:



“The degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed longstanding negative images of the U.S. — and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast — is noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada,” the cable said.



A trove of diplomatic cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of publications, disclose a perception by American diplomats that Canadians “always carry a chip on their shoulder” in part because of a feeling that their country “is condemned to always play ‘Robin’ to the U.S. ‘Batman.’ ”



It gets better. From Canada’s own intelligence director:



In July 2008, Canada’s intelligence service director, James Judd, discussed a video showing a crying Omar Khadr, then a teenager and a Canadian detainee at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Mr. Judd “observed that the images would no doubt trigger ‘knee-jerk anti-Americanism’ and ‘paroxysms of moral outrage, a Canadian specialty.’ ”



A Canadian specialty!



Oh, and Canada is apparently nervous about being the wangdda of the Anglosphere. So if you’re a Yank, Brit or Aussie, next time you see a Canadian, please, give them a hug and tell him or her that you still love them.