We Canadians love to compare ourselves to the United States. Whether its mocking their cable news networks, celebrating our health-care system or just generally feeling high and mighty during the age of Donald Trump, saying at least were not like the U.S. is basically a part of our national identity by now.

But sometimes when you build your entire national identity based on comparing yourself favourably to you southern neighbours, the tables take a turn and you find yourself on the negative side of the evaluation.

Most recently, Canadians fed up with the glacial pace of our national COVID-19 vaccination campaign have had to watch the American campaign continue to ramp up and expand.