Just got back from a trip to the Angle this last week and the anti-Canadian (and anti-US) resentment was overwhelming...resentment towards more rules and bueracracy that do little for security and continue to stiffle buisness and a way of life.

 Never underestimate the Ugly American factor while in Canada.
I reminds me of what you see/hear on the nightly news. Foreigners as a whole love American music/clothes/pop culture, but HATE are foreign policy and the power we still yield as the lone super power, at least for now.
 I've sat in silence in restaurants and listened too Canadians rip our country and it's policy and leaders, yet I've NEVER had any remarks directed at me personally.

I don't like what they say, but I bite my tongue, remind myself that I'm in  another country and THEY have the right to speak their mind as we do here.

Living close to Detroit, I know that millions of dollars in commerce flows across the Ambassador Bridge both ways everyday. The Canadians are not too happy with our ever changing security rules. I think many here would agree that coming or going across the border, the AMERICAN customs are the one's who give you the most problems on average. Anyone who travels knows that they screen little old people with artificial hips/joints with the same vigor they screen young males/females of countries that have a track record in terrorism. The latest Nigerian bomber is a perfect example of PC and incompetence going hand in hand.

I understand how people feel when they're made too feel unwanted, especially when your spending your hard earned money. I also know that there probably getting some of the resentment some of our trade policies generate, warranted or not.

Try as we might, I don't believe your ever going to have policies that both bordering countries and trade partners will agree are balanced evenly.

When we had the Mad Cow scare awhile back, we banned imported beef, which western Canada is a major supplier of to the US. Even though the Canadians have a very rigid inspection program and went above and beyond to make sure their beef was safe.

They thought we over-reacted and the decision was driven by the American beef industry lobbyist's who saw a chance to eliminate the competition for awhile.

The Canadians are not to happy with our Lumber trade policy's either.
Not taking sides, but many Americans assume that the Canadians are good with whatever WE decide is fair?

The post about the guy who had to be told he was in CANADA not the US illustrates my point.  Rational or not, many Canadians think/see the US treating them as sort of a American protectorate like Puerto Rico, not the sovereign nation they are.

I don't blame anyone for feeling the way they do, IF they receive poor treatment or service. SD is right, you should treat the big spenders the same as the small ones. I just hope people would remember that you are going to a foreign country, and that you should judge on a individual basis. Give them a chance to do the right thing, if they don't, then it's THEIR loss and the American outfitters gain.