You seem to be implying that conservatives don't slag Americans. The only time relations have been at a lower ebb with the US than now under a conservative government---Keystone, trade, GOP candidates wanting razor wire on our "longest undefended border"---was when Tory blue Diefenbaker was running the show more than 50 years ago. Dief and Kennedy couldn't stand each other. From all reports it's the same with Obama and Harper although Americans are coming around to gay marriage and abandoning capital punishment.