The Elephant and the Mouse: Canada & the United States

F or many Americans, Canada is not avery interesting country. We may link Canada with some familiar signposts-- the Mounties, the Eskimos, the Quebec separa-tist movement, the Trudeaus, the 1985 Toronto Blue Jays. We probably look upon Canada as some vague place to the north of us, cold and snowy, the source of the Montreal Express that makes our winters bitter, but a place that is basically like our own in most other regards, and so not worthy of much regard. Sondra Gotlieb, the wife of the present Canadian ambassador to the United States, has said that "for some reason, a glaze passes over people's faces when you say ·Canada. ' &quot