Or the fact that the daily G&M article on what Trump tweeted last night generates 400+ posts of outrage, but an article on a hostile foreign governments'  supplicants paying to have access to the government (clear corruption) that actually affects the lives of those who post gets 20 posts...
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Canadians by their actions really do acknowledge that the only 'real' news takes place in the USA (or at least outside Canada)  I know a few people who spend their winters outside Canada, and they are far more animated and informed about Trump than they are about the country they return to, to get their healthcare. 

I can't remember who the Quebec politician who said it, but there certainly is something to his statement that Canada 'is not a real country'....just a 2D cardboard representation of one...