Canadians have an identity of being the nice version of Americans because they have lived off of our largesse for decades. We gave them incredible trade deals and paid for their defense and essentially subsidized their healthcare and prescription drugs. Now all that is disappearing and they are faced with the reality of their situation that they have to actually earn their keep and it's making them lose their minds. They have loved their smarmy superior attitude and tut tutting and the US as they had their little socialist world protected by us. They never tangled with the lion and always knew when to fade in the background.
Now they are being shown to be just a bunch of petty losers with a bankrupt country. They have very little of real value outside of some natural resources that aren't really that unique for us. We are playing hardball with them and treating them as the junior partners that they are and it's hard for them to handle. The future for Canada is very bleak and the lifestyle they have lived is over, they have to change and either accept being our fief or become a 3rd world country and it has deeply hurt their pride.
The funniest thing is they have their "elbows up" and other campaigns trying to show how tough they are and Americans are somewhere between being completely oblivious to laughing at them. The more they antagonize the US the worse it will be for them, it is a war they can't remotely win. We literally dominate them in every category and have zero reason to fear them.
Sucks that they are acting like such children towards a hockey player for having the audacity to represent his country and win but at least it is showing that deep down they were little children all along and have no business at the big kids table.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
