1. See, for example, Editorial, “The war Canada missed,”National Post, March 20, 2003; Michael Walker, “Fifty years of pride in Canada disappears,”National Post, March 22, 2003; Shawn McCarthy, “Mulroney rakes Liberals for war stand,”Globe and Mail, March 24, 2003; Steven Chase and Peter Kennedy, “Business groups warn of big Canada-U.S. rift,”Globe and Mail, March 26, 2003; Gloria Galloway, “U.S. envoy scolds Canada,”Globe and Mail, March 26, 2003; Diane Francis, “Expect severe consequences from anti-U.S. stance,”National Post. April 8, 2003.
2. Confidential source.
3. Christopher Waddell, “Deep Freeze,”CBC News Online, April 30, 2003,http://www.cbc.ca/canadaus/waddell.html; David T. Jones, “Washington Memo: Waiting for Regime Change in Ottawa,”Policy Options(May 2003): 25–28; John Herd Thompson, “Playing by the New Washington Rules: The U.S.Canada Relationship, 1994–2003,”The American Review of Canadian Studies33, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 5–26.
4. Michael Adams,Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values(Toronto: Penguin, 2003). (The Pew Research Center notes, however, that on some issues “it may be more geography than nationality that divides Canadians and Americans.” The outlooks of Americans in northern border states are more like those of their Canadian counterparts than those of Americans who live in the southwest. Conversely, Albertans' outlooks tend to be more like those of people in neighboring U.S. states than those of other Canadians. See Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, “Americans and Canadians: The North American Not-so-odd Couple,”Commentary, January 14. 2004,http://people-press-org/commentary/print.php3?AnalysisID-80.)
5. These, of course, are classic middle and super-power views. However, some observers argue that they have become more pronounced in recent years. See, for example, Michael Ignatieff, “Time to walk the walk,”National Post, February 14, 2003.