The Importance of Defining Ourselves as 'Us'

Published October 22, 2008

WASHINGTON—Presidential debate watchers were treated to a brief case study of Canada-U.S. relations during the final Obama/McCain contest at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, on Oct. 15 when John McCain managed to describe Canada as both friend and foe in the space of a few minutes.

On the subject of oil, John McCain expressed a typical American sentiment when he said, "I think we can,...