[BRIEF NOTE] Canada from the Outside

[rfmcdonald]

The Washington Post has an interesting article, told from the American perspective, of how non-Americans view the United States and its actions. Their identification of the Canadian portrayal of the United States is fairly classic:

According to Canadian texts (six are cited), the United States planned to conquer and annex Canada during the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War and at various points in between. During the Cold War, the United States repeatedly bullied Canada into supporting its aggressive military policies. Canadian officials hoped that NATO would evolve into a North Atlantic community that would act as a counterweight to U.S. influence in Canada, but in vain: Canadian governments had to toe the U.S. line or suffer humiliation. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker, concerned that Kennedy's belligerence might lead to a nuclear war, waited three days before announcing that Canadian forces had gone on the alert. In the next election, the Americans used their influence to topple the truculent prime minister. Diefenbaker's successor, Lester Pearson, aligned Canada more closely with the United States, but in 1965 he annoyed Lyndon Johnson by calling for a bombing pause and a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam War. In a meeting after the speech, Johnson grabbed Pearson by the lapels and shouted, "You pissed on my rug."

This makes me rather curious. I know I've got an international readership on my friends list: the United States, Costa Rica, Israel, Russia, Germany, Australia, New Zealand. How, if at all, is Canada described in the history texts of these countries?