Well, well

"Younger Americans are inching closer to their Canadian counterparts in their values, but on the whole Canadians are more idealistic, autonomous and self-confident as individuals than Americans," says Michael Adams, president of the Environics Institute.

His research shows that Canadians and Americans are starkly different, with Canadians having more of a sense of community, coupled with a greater sense of individual freedom than Americans. 

Well, of course.  We have at least five political parties.  Americans have two.  "Canadians seem to have a nice balance between a freedom to do what you want to do, a freedom from the fear of poverty or violence and the freedom to be me," finds the pollster.  "In Canada we have a multicultural diversity, sexual orientation diversity, the abled and disabled, we have a very inclusive attitude that everybody is in the family and we've got to help everybody." (With apologies for Mr. Adams' atrocious grammar.)

Yep, that's about it.  In America the view of the world is that the rich are worthy and the poor are not.

Sad.