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Canada hates us, but it's not all Trump's fault.

Canada hates us, but it's not all Trump's fault.

It's Been a Minute vor 1 Jahr

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The stereotype is that Canadians are kind, but they by and large do
not take kindly to President Trump's idea of making Canada our 51st
state. As of April, two-thirds of Canadians considered the U.S. to
be "unfriendly" or an "enemy," and 61% say they have started
boycotting American companies. However, Canadian dislike and
distrust of the U.S. is not new. Canadian views of the U.S. have
trended down for decades, from a high of 81% of Canadians holding
favorable views of the U.S. under Clinton in the '90's, to hovering
in the 50-60% range in the aughts, to only 24% favorable as of
March. Meanwhile, 87% of Americans view Canada favorably. There's a
huge mismatch there.

So what's behind these decades of resentment? How does culture play
into it? And what does it mean for our politics that our nations
have fundamentally different ideas about our relationship to one
another? Brittany discusses with Scaachi Koul, senior writer at
Slate, and Jon Parmenter, associate professor of history at
Cornell.

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