Misinterpreting  don't think so. Maybe people get offended when some one tells us to cut out or flag and stick someone else's flag on my bag. where polite people  but we don't let anyone step on us. This article is in very bad taste. and if you are going to write something like this you must know you are going to get a bad reaction . so i don't know why you are so surprise with the comments. They probably said  they where SORRY after they gave him a piece of there mind we are canadians after all  aren't we.   ;)