Honestly he's hard to read and he may have been joking, or not, I never bothered to find out since I really had no intention of doing it anyway. I work in international freight and deal with Canadian bound freight exclusively, some of the nicest customers I've dealt with were Canadian. CBSA.... they deal with bastards all day so they get a pass.
Honestly I own the fact that I'm American and then try to show we're not all backwards assholes. I figure I'm stuck here for the foreseeable future so I might as well try to do something to let the world know we're not all nazis.
Apparently the FSB is the opposite of the army since he's still in power.