It probably has more to do with the fact that poking fun at Canadians is something of an American pastime lolz.
Do you guys have a show about that one? Our version of it is called "Talking With Americans" where they go to the States and ask random people or politically important people or Harvard profs questions and make you guys look like idiots.
YouTube - Ric Mercer Talking with Americans
examples of things they've done:
*congratulating the Canadian government on building a dome over its "national igloo" (apparently a downsized version of the United States Capitol made out of ice) to protect it from global warming (one of the interview subjects so fooled was Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee).
*persuading Americans to congratulate Canada on legalizing VCRs or adopting the twenty-four-hour day, (ex-Iowa governor Tom Vilsack was fooled by this one).
*asking Harvard university students and professors to sign a petition against the Saskatchewan seal hunt and the Toronto polar bear hunt.
*congratulating Canadians on classifying Labrador Retrievers as elephants as to prevent them from being used for hard labour.
*tricking Americans into thinking that Canada did not have "high-tech" things such as airplanes, paved roads or FM radio.
* * stating that in the last 30 years Canadians did not have any election recounts because Canadians use birch branches or pine cones as voting tokens.
* congratulating Canadians on offering bilingual tours of Joe Clark's Hole.
* asking if Canada should have a navy even though it is a land-locked country. (Canada is not in fact landlocked, having shores on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans, and has a navy, the Canadian Forces Maritime Command or MARCOM)
The most famous segment, aired in 2000, featured Mercer asking then-presidential candidate George W. Bush – who had previously stated that "you can't stump me on world leaders" – for his reaction to an endorsement by Canadian Prime Minister "Jean Poutine".
Bush said he looked forward to working together with his future counterpart to the north, praising free trade and Canada. That said, Bush never actually used the name of Poutine and only failed to correct Mercer on the name. A few years later, when Bush made his first official visit to Canada, he said during a speech, "There's a prominent citizen who endorsed me in the 2000 election, and I wanted a chance to finally thank him for that endorsement. I was hoping to meet Jean Poutine."[1]
*asking students and professors at Columbia University to sign a petition asking Canadians to discontinue the practice of abandoning the elderly on ice floes.