This is a very sad article, when we get a reporter to waste his time writing this crap  and making me  read  this awful  post and spend time replying  . canadiens are loved all over the world and not just in a few countries  like you say. i wear my canadian flag because i love my country and i'm proud to be a canadian, and i would never ever want to be mistaken for an american, or any other  nationality.  we are know to be kind, polite, friendly, and none violent.so when i travel that's what i want people to know when they see my canadian flag that what it stands for. i'm not going to wear another nations flag on my back pack because i represent canada not usa, not uk, not iraq, or iran, you want to wear those flags go ahead friend but dot tell canadiens to cut out there flag from there knapsack. your a sad representative of a canadian  by saying  what you do in this article. you must be very bored or not have much to write about to slump down to the point to write this. 
ORLANDO